ZACK: Southside Skulls Motorcycle Club (Southside Skulls MC Romance Book 4)

by Jessie Cooke

  He let go of her nipples, and she watched as he unbuttoned and unzipped his jeans and then shimmied out of them and his boots. Nicole could hear her own breathing and she wondered if people in the parking lot could see the way the van windows were fogging up. Once he was completely naked, he reached down and pulled off her panties and then pushed open her legs. Nicole trembled with delight when she felt his face dive down between her legs and his tongue begin to search out her moist lips and the spot between them that was tingling and aching for his touch.

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  Zack took a minute to inhale the sweet fragrance of Nicole’s sex before letting his tongue glide along her slit. When he reached the bottom, he let it slide back up until he found her swollen clit. Taking it between his teeth, he pulled at it slightly, loving the way that brought her hands to his hair and her hips up off the carpeted floor of the van. He tugged on it gently for a few seconds before releasing it and then pressing his tongue against it hard, and moving it back and forth. Nicole’s breaths were coming in quick gasps and she was tugging his hair out of the band he had it wrapped up in at the base of his neck. He sucked her clit all the way into his mouth again, this time sucking on it. That brought her hands to his shoulders and her fingers dug into his flesh as she tossed her head back and forth and muttered his name. He continued to lick and suck, even letting his tongue dive up inside of her and pushing it in and out, fucking her as fast as he could. She was gasping and clawing at him, bouncing her hips up and down off the floorboard, shaking the van. He sucked harder at her clit until he felt her body seize up; she cried out, loudly, and almost doubled into him from the force of her orgasm. Zack could feel and taste her excitement, and he lapped at her sweet pussy until she was finished and she collapsed back down onto the carpet, breathing out his name once more.

  He brought his head up and smiled at her. She gave him a sexy smile back with her eyes half opened and glazed over. Zack got up on his knees and straddled her, working his body up so that his cock was even with her lips. Nicole opened them anxiously and sucked the head in between them. She held him there for a few seconds, letting her tongue roll around the head, before she let it slide down underneath his rigid cock, all the way to the base and back up again. For a few incredible moments, she licked him up and down like that and made sexy noises, like she was enjoying her favorite lollipop, or ice cream cone. Zack had his eyes closed when suddenly he felt her lips open around him again and her hot mouth sucking him in toward her throat. He grunted and adjusted his position so that she could suck him all the way back. He loved the way his cock felt with her throat muscles wrapped around it and he began to move his hips and fuck her mouth gently, getting more and more excited as he heard her sucking and gagging on it. He could feel an orgasm coiling in his core, ready to strike, before at last pulling back out of that sexy, wonderful mouth.

  He repositioned himself so that their hips were even and with his cock pressing into the lower part of her stomach, he leaned down and kissed her. After kissing her lips passionately, and sucking at them, he slid his mouth down along the side of her jaw and kissed across her neck before working his way down to her breasts. He loved her big, hard, round nipples and he spent some time making love to them with his lips and tongue. At last he couldn’t take it any longer, he had to be inside of her, but since she was smaller than him, he grabbed her and rolled them over so that he was on his back and she was sitting up on top of him. She reached down with her soft hand and took his cock into it, squeezing it slightly as she aimed it at her opening. He felt her thighs tighten against him as she raised herself up and let him slip inside of her hot, wet tunnel. He grabbed onto her hips and pulled her in as tightly as he could and they both just sat there for a few seconds, enjoying the feeling of being connected on the deepest level possible.

  Nicole began moving, first just in small, slow circles with him still buried deeply inside of her, and then she reached up and put her hands on the top of the van and began using it as leverage to lift herself up and down, letting his cock slide almost all the way out before impaling herself back down on it again. Zack was grunting and moaning and Nicole was whispering something sexy as they fell into a rhythm of his hips coming up and hers down, meeting in that magical place in the middle. Their lovemaking was slow and leisurely for a while but Nicole was the one that began to speed it up. He could feel her thighs tighten as she began bouncing up and down on top of him, going from fast to frenetic in a matter of minutes. He had his hands on her firm, round ass and he used them to guide her as her breathing became more ragged and she got closer and closer to her second climax. When the orgasm hit her this time, her body was thrown forward onto his, and he held onto her tightly as she wiggled against him until every wave had passed and every drop was spent. Once she stopped shaking he put his lips to her ear and said:

  “Get up on your knees, baby.” With some effort, she reached for the back of the seat in front of her and pulled herself up into a low crouch, letting his still aching cock slide out of her. The cool air hitting his shaft caused his body to convulse as he watched her move over to the side and lower herself down to her knees on the carpet. Zack rolled over and got onto his knees, positioning himself behind her. He used one hand to press down on her lower back, creating an arch so that his cock would easily slide back up inside of her. Nicole gripped onto the seat tightly as Zack began to drill into her pussy from behind, striking bottom each time and making her cry out his name and other epithets. The van was rocking hard and anyone passing by would know what they were doing. Zack didn’t care. He wished they could watch him fuck her. She was a thing of beauty, and he couldn’t imagine anything sexier than standing back and watching as his cock went in and out of her. He would have to find out how she felt about making videos, he thought, as the force of the orgasm he’d been holding back seized his balls and surged up through his raging erection and into her sweet, warm pussy. He filled her full of his love and desire before rolling out of her and onto his back and pulling her down on top of him. Her head was on his chest and the smell of her hair was almost as intoxicating as being inside of her had been. He loved everything about her and he’d meant what he told her earlier. He hadn’t been afraid of anything in the world until he met her. He finally knew what it was to have a weakness, and Nicole was her name.

  Their highs lasted the drive back to Nicole’s apartment, but the fact that Zack had to take the van back, and he felt like Nicole needed some alone time with Liam before the hearing in the morning, chased his away as soon as he drove into the lot in front of her apartment. They got out of the van and he walked her up to the door. She put her arms around his middle and pressed her face into his chest. “Thank you for tonight, Zack.”

  He brushed his lips across the top of her head. “Thank you. It was the best night I’ve had in…well, maybe ever.” He felt her hug him tighter and nod.

  “Me too. It was so nice to just feel normal for a while and not stress.”

  Zack held her back from his body so that he could look down at her face. “Everything is going to be okay tomorrow.”

  She smiled but he could see in her eyes that she wasn’t so sure she believed that. “I hope so. I’ve agonized over this and I’ve decided that I can live with him having visitation. As a matter of fact, I’m going to ask my lawyer to open with that. I just hope he’s more enthusiastic than he was when I spoke to him in his office. You know how court-appointed attorneys are…family law attorneys are the same way. I know that Spider’s attorney is going to be ready for a fight. I just hope that mine is able to give as good as he gets.”

  “If he doesn’t, I know you will. You’re a fighter and Liam is lucky to have you. You don’t mind if I’m there, do you? I’ll sit in the back and keep my mouth shut, I promise. I won’t even let myself be tempted to make Spider bleed.”

  She giggled. “Wow, I can’t even promise that. But yes, of course I want you there. I feel better just knowing that you will be.”

  “Good.” He
kissed her again and said, “You better go get some rest so you’re bright-eyed tomorrow. Give Liam a kiss for me.”

  “I will. Good night, Zack. I love you.”

  “I love you too, baby. I’ll see you tomorrow.”

  He waited until she was in the house and he heard the lock engage to head back to the van. He drove the forty-five minutes back to Nashville, wrapped up in the thoughts in his head. He was glad to hear Nicole had decided that visitation was acceptable. Not because he thought Spider was a good father or that he could offer Liam anything Nicole couldn’t, but because he was sure she would have been disappointed if she tried to hold out on that. From what Skid told him about Spider’s family connections in Memphis, they ran deeper than he suspected. Spider’s mother was connected by blood or friendship to more than a handful of politicians. She had come from money before his father, who was a trust fund baby himself, opened a Harley Davidson store and made it the biggest parts dealer and customization shop in the south. Michael Johnson II was rumored to be a nice guy, but something about his connection to union bosses and back-alley contractors told Zack that he wasn’t a man to be messed with.

  As he drove up in front of the clubhouse and parked the “grocery van” next to the line of Harleys out front, he wondered if his presence in court was going to hinder. Surely if he just sat in the back and stayed out of what was going on up front, being there as a support for Nicole couldn’t hurt. He hoped so anyways, because he wasn’t sure he would be able to physically keep himself away, even if he tried.

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  Massachusetts

  Tammy had been back at the ranch for a day when Gunner went on a run with some of the guys and she finally had a chance to approach Dax without an audience. She found him in the shop with Tank and Toolie working on one of the classic bikes that Tammy was sure they’d stolen. She didn’t care. In her lifetime, she’d seen her father’s club do a hell of a lot worse. As long as they didn’t ask her to steal anything, she was good.

  “Hey, Dax.”

  He looked up from what he was doing and smiled at her. Tammy loved Gunner with all her heart but a smile from Dax Marshall still did things to her in places deep down in her core. At least she knew her man would grow up fine. “Hey, Tammy, what’s up?”

  “I’m sorry to interrupt. I was hoping you might have a few minutes to talk.”

  He grabbed a grease rag and wiped his hands. “Sure, let’s go in the office. I’ll be right back,” he told the guys. Tammy followed him into the office. He offered her the chair and he leaned up against the filing cabinet next to the wall where Toolie kept photos of all the guys, going back to when the club was first established. “So how was your trip?”

  “Um…good…that’s kind of what I wanted to talk to you about.”

  “You sure I’m the one you want to talk to about it and not Gunner?”

  She felt her forehead begin to sweat. “What do you mean?”

  Dax smiled again. “Gunner thought you were at a nursing conference, right?” She nodded. “But you weren’t. You were in Texas, right?” She nodded again. “With Zack Leoni?”

  “Yes, that’s all true. But I wasn’t ‘with’ Zack, I just asked him to go along because his mother hates me and I thought maybe he could help me convince her and my father to back off Gunner…” She knew she was talking too fast, but Dax was sucking all the oxygen out of the room. Not many men made her nervous. She was used to being surrounded by them and ordering most of them around. But Dax just had a presence like no man she’d ever met. He was smiling at her, gently.

  “I didn’t think you were ‘with’ Zack like that,” he said. “I can see how much you love my brother. But I can’t say that I agree with your going behind his back, no matter what the end goal was.”

  “He wouldn’t have let me go if I had told him. I was trying to save his life and stop you from having to go to war with those assholes.” She realized as soon as she said it that an edge had crept into her voice. Remembering who she was talking to, she said, “I know it was wrong to lie to him and I know you of all people don’t need my help or interference, but Dax, I would die if anything happened to him. I had to try.”

  “And how did it go?”

  She figured if he knew all about the trip, he already knew how it had gone, but she humored him and said, “It went well, actually, thanks to Zack. He figured out that his mother had been taped by his father doing some…unmentionable things, getting men to back Swinger in his quest to get rid of my dad and partner up with Eddie Martini. Anyways, my father looked like an idiot in the end, but I have very little sympathy for him. He’s a coward as far as I’m concerned and I’ve lost all respect. But I’m getting off topic. He kicked Mona out and he promised me that he’d call off this stupid ‘revenge’ against Gunner.”

  Dax nodded. “Good. But I still think you should have talked to Gunner about all of this. Think about how it will make him feel if someone else tells him that his old lady made a 4000-mile round trip to beg for his life, and took her ex with her.”

  Tammy’s stomach began to hurt. “But it wasn’t like that.”

  “I’m sure not in your mind, Tammy. But you know how important respect is to all of us, Gunner included. I’m just afraid that he might see this as a lack of respect, like you thought he wasn’t capable of taking care of himself – and God forbid that any of the other guys find this out. He already has a lot to live up to around here. The guys have been hard on him because they believe I’ve been soft. They would never let him live this down.”

  Her eyes filled with tears. She had honestly thought she was doing the right thing but she didn’t want Gunner to ever think she didn’t respect him, or that she thought he was weak. He’d saved her life more than once, and Zack’s. She let the fact that she couldn’t bear the thought of living without him cloud her judgment. “How did you know where I was? Did Zack tell you?”

  “No. I doubt Zack would ever betray you. You’ll find out after you live here for a while longer that not much happens that I don’t know about. I think your secret is safe, for now. But you never know what’ll happen in the future. I’m not going to tell you what to do, but in my opinion, finding out now, from you, will hurt Gunner a lot less.”

  She nodded and wiped her tears on the back of her hand. She’d felt on top of the world when she got back yesterday and she’d made love to Gunner that night, knowing that no one was out there gunning for him. It had felt so good. Now, she felt like a meddlesome old lady who should have stayed in her place. “Thanks, Dax,” she said as she got up to leave. “I’ll talk to him.” She started for the door, and Dax reached over and opened it for her.

  “Tammy?” He was standing close, and he was so much taller than her she had to tip her neck all the way back to look up at him. “Your heart was in the right place, and I respect you and thank you for wanting to help. Gunner’s lucky to have you.”

  She smiled through her tears. Somehow Dax was one of those kinds of people that always knew exactly what to say and when to say it. She turned impulsively and gave him a hug. “Thank you.” Her heart was heavy, knowing that what she had to tell Gunner was probably going to hurt him, but she knew Dax was right; he had to hear it from her.

  As Tammy was walking back up to the clubhouse she passed Cody and Angel’s brother Kyle in the parking lot. They stopped talking as she walked by and as soon as she was gone Kyle said, “It was supposed to be back today.”

  “I’m not a fucking idiot, I heard the same thing you did. I’m telling you, it’s not back. Harley has been checking her email all day looking for it.”

  “Where’s my son?”

  Cody felt his chest tighten every time Kyle said that. If he honestly wanted to be Ian’s father, he wouldn’t have waited Harley’s entire pregnancy and the first ten months of Ian’s life to say so, in Cody’s opinion. Besides that, Ian was Cody’s son and no DNA test was going to change that. “Ian is upstairs with his mother.”

  “I want to see him.”


  “Go fuck yourself.” Kyle took a step toward him; Cody stood his ground and didn’t flinch. He wasn’t afraid of Kyle Brady. He was, however, afraid of what he might do to him, given the chance. “Back up,” he told him as he looked over Kyle’s shoulder toward the shop. He could see Dax standing out front, watching them.

  “You either go get Ian, or I will.”

  “As of this minute, you have no fucking rights to him.”

  Kyle reached for Cody’s shirt. Cody took a step back and doubled up his fist. The sound of Harley’s voice stopped them both in their tracks. She was yelling down from the upstairs window, “When you two are finished with your pissing contest, I just got the email from the lab. I’ll be down in a minute, and my son better not see the two of you hooked up like a couple of rabid dogs when I get there.”

  Cody looked back toward the shop. Dax was gone. He relaxed his fist and took another step back. Kyle visibly relaxed as well. They waited in awkward silence until Harley and Ian made it downstairs and out to the parking lot. Cody watched Kyle as he looked at them. He had a hunger in his eyes, but it wasn’t for the baby. He was looking at Harley and it made Cody’s blood simmer. “Did you read it?” Kyle asked her.

  “No. I was waiting to do that with you two fools so no one could say I tampered with it.”

  Cody stepped up close and put his mouth down to her ear. Ian reached for him as he did. “What are you pissed at me about?” he whispered. She handed him the baby and said:

  “I’m not pissed at anyone, yet. But, if you two think you’re going to keep brawling over this baby, or me, or whatever has your testosterone levels so high that I can smell them, then I’m going to get pissed. We’re not in middle school and the two of you need to learn to handle your shit more appropriately. Kyle, you’re a professional, for God’s sake, and Cody, how many young men around here, including Ian, look to you as a role model? You work at that teen center three days a week, teaching those boys how to be men. Are you going to teach them to handle every problem they have with their fists? That was your father’s way, not yours. All three of us have a past and have made mistakes, me most especially. But what we are obligated to do now as adults and parents is to put this baby first.” When both men looked properly put in their place she pulled up her email on her phone and handed it to Kyle. “You read it. I’m telling you both right now, though, that what this baby needs in his life are not two men that hate each other and profess to love him. If you truly love him, you’ll both get your shit together.” Cody held Ian a little tighter to his chest as he watched Kyle’s face. Cody did not like the guy at all, so he hadn’t gone out of his way to get to know him. He couldn’t tell by the look on Kyle’s face what the email said. He held onto the phone for a lot longer than it should have taken him to read it. Harley must have been able to read in his eyes what he was looking at. She reached out and gently took the phone from his hand and looked at the email. She looked back at Kyle and said, “It’s probably for the best, don’t you think? Now, when you start your own family, you won’t be dragging another one around your neck.”