“Swinger, if someone is ratting out this club it’s not Gunner.”

“Tammy, you already know more about club business than I think is appropriate. Randall and I have had more than one talk about that. You need to remember your place. I will handle my club’s business.” Tammy almost had to bite her tongue to keep from retorting. How fucking dare he? She hated this shit, and she was letting herself fall for a guy that wanted to suck her into it for life. Before she met Gunner, she was determined to get away from the lifestyle. Now she was just fucking confused. She looked at Mona, who was obviously not going to be any help, before stepping around Swinger, glaring at 8Ball, and heading toward the great room. “Tammy, stay away from him until I tell you otherwise, okay?” Her first impulse had been to go to Gunner but she knew Swinger would have something to say about it, and that pissed her off. Now that he’d said it out loud, it pissed her off even more. She squared her shoulders and continued on her way.

The great room was crowded. Even with all the other places to hang out on the compound it seemed like everyone wanted to be in the common area. Tammy saw Billy sitting up at the bar. One of the club girls named Joy was practically in his lap. She walked over and made eye contact with Joy first.

“Beat it,” she said. Joy sucked in an indignant breath and Tammy suddenly felt bad. Her emotions were all over the place, and it wasn’t this girl’s fault. Mona’s bringing up Zack had something to do with her rudeness. Zack had been her first love and even though he professed to love her too, he’d had a weakness for club girls he couldn’t shake. That wasn’t Joy’s fault either. She was glad Mona had brought him up, however, because it gave her an idea. “I’m sorry, that was rude. I’m just having a bad day.” Joy looked surprised at the apology but she smiled and said:

“It’s okay, Tammy. How’s your brother?”

Tammy forced a smile. Joy’s being gracious only made her feel worse. “He’s stable, thank you. I just need to talk to Billy for a minute and then you can have him back.” That wasn’t exactly true, as long as Billy agreed to do what she was about to ask of him.

Joy smiled at Tammy and then at Billy before heading over toward the pool tables. Tammy knew that most of the club girls did what they did in the hopes that one of these assholes would make them an old lady someday. She also knew that rarely happened. Most of the guys didn’t care who they fucked, but they damned sure cared who had fucked their old lady. It was another ridiculous double standard that she didn’t want to mull over at the moment.

“I’m sorry about that, Billy.”

“It’s okay. What’s up?”

“Step outside with me?”

“Sure.” They got a few looks as they walked outside but nobody said anything. As they started walking, Tammy talked.

“Gunner’s in trouble.” She told Billy what had happened in the hallway. Billy listened with a crease drawn between his eyebrows, and when she finished talking he stopped walking and said:

“He would never rat. I’ve known him most of his life and even if he can’t stand someone, or the asshole has it coming, he won’t rat.”

“I know. I believe that,” she said. “I hate to say this and you can’t repeat it to anyone…but, I think maybe 8Ball already knows who the snitch is and he wants to pin it on Gunner. If that’s the case, then Gunner needs to get the hell out of here before he finds a way to do that.”

“Okay…”

“You have your phone on you?”

“Yeah.” He pulled it out of his pocket and she started walking again as she rattled off an address in Tennessee and her phone number. “You want me to take Gunner there?”

“No. As soon as we get back inside, I want you to get together whatever you can’t live without. I’m going to get some cash.” No one other than Tommy knew Tammy had the combination to the safe in Randall’s office. Tommy had gotten into it in front of her one night years earlier, after having way too much to drink. Tammy had memorized the combination just in case. “I’ll give it to Louie and have him pass it on to Patty. He’s got the serious hots for her, so I know he’ll help me out to keep her safe. Send me a text right now so I have your number, and I will text you when it’s safe to go. When you get the text, go straight to your car and head out the back way. There’s only one guy at that gate because it’s way off the main road and well hidden. Let Patty drive and have her run the security arm. He’s not going to shoot a woman.”

Billy raised an eyebrow. “You’re sure?”

“Not positive, but I don’t think so. Just tell Patty I’m sure.”

He laughed nervously. “They going to come after us?”

“Not you and Patty, but Gunner and me, yes.”

“What about your family?”

“My brother’s being taken care of in the hospital and my dad is a master of rolling with the punches. When shit settles out here, I’ll come back. But I’m not going to sit by and watch these assholes railroad Gunner.”

“I’m glad to hear that. He means a lot to me.”

“He means a lot to me too, but don’t tell him I said that.”

* * *

Twelve hours later Gunner pulled his bike into the driveway of a small, out-of-the-way motel in Arkansas. Tammy pulled up next to him on hers. He could see Billy’s car parked a few spaces down. It was after one a.m. and Gunner’s eyes felt like they were on fire, not just from the long drive, but the long-ass day. He stepped off the bike, and while Tammy went in to register he started peeling off his riding gear and thinking back over the events of the day. He’d been accused by 8Ball, and then Swinger, of being some kind of rat. There was no fucking way he was a rat, especially if it involved hurting Tammy in any way, but when he’d gotten back to his room he’d convinced himself they’d never take his word for it.

About an hour had passed when Billy knocked on his door and told him Tammy’s plan. He and Patty were going to take off as soon as they got the go-ahead from Tammy. Everything happened so fast after that, Gunner’s head was still spinning. Tammy knocked on his door less than an hour after Billy had, and told him the executives were all locked up in the meeting and they had to go. She took him out the back way and they ran to the shop. Tammy had Gunner wait by the back door of the shop while she flirted with the mechanics and lured them all into the office with cookies she’d brought with her. They ran out when they heard the bikes start but they couldn’t catch them. The guard at the back gate was waiting for them, and fired his gun. Gunner nearly pissed his pants when Tammy pulled out a gun and started shooting back. The man was aiming for Gunner, so she held him off until Gunner was out on the road. He’d never seen anything like her. He was both awed and afraid.

“Got it,” she said now, holding up the room key. “You ready?”

“Yeah, I’m exhausted.”

She smiled wickedly and said, “Really? All this Bonnie and Clyde shit has kind of made me horny.”

Gunner was shaking his head at her when they got to the room. He didn’t think she was serious until they got inside and she pressed her body up against his and licked her lips. He forgot how tired he was when she wrapped her arms up around his neck and pulled him down to her mouth. The second their lips met his brain scrambled, and nothing was going to penetrate it other than the feel of her body grinding against his. He pulled her in tighter; he felt like he couldn’t get close enough. She lit every nerve ending in his body on fire. They licked and sucked on each other’s mouths and tongues and she rubbed herself even harder against him. He groaned and reached down, cupping her jeans-clad ass in his hands and lifting her up off the floor. She wrapped her legs around him and he turned and pressed her back into the wall. She held on tightly with her thighs as they kissed, and he brought one of his hands up and searched underneath her t-shirt for her breasts. He found a nipple and rolled it between his thumb and forefinger. She moaned against his mouth and he pulled back out of the kiss and said:

“Fuck, baby, you feel so good.”

She moaned into him again and then pulled back so she could look into his eyes. “God, those blue eyes…” she whispered. “We need to talk about this morning, but not now.”

He chuckled. “No, for sure not now.”

“You won’t say it again…tonight, I mean?”

He felt his face go hot. “I’ll do my best.”

She pressed her forehead into his and laughed. “Fuck me, Blue-Eyes.”

“Hell yeah.” He kissed her again, hard, as he carried her over to the bed. He dropped her down and started stripping out of his clothes. She did the same, giving him a sexy little show as she did. She ran her hands from the bottom of her neck down over her tits, and grabbed and pulled on her nipples. Then she ran them down across her flat belly to the top of her mound. He groaned as they disappeared into her little hot pink panties. “What are you doing in there?” he said and grinned.

“Take a look and see.” She licked her lips.

Gunner reached down and pulled her panties to the side. She was using her fingers to pull her wet lips apart. He slid one of his fingers in between them and slipped it up inside of her hot, sopping-wet pussy. He felt her muscles clamp down around it as soon as he did. “Jesus, you feel so fucking good.” He was moving his finger around and she groaned out,

“You feel me so good.” He leaned down over her while he slid a second finger up inside of her and kissed her again, this time harder and more aggressively. His heart was hammering in his chest as his hard cock slapped against her smooth thigh. He was aching to be inside of her, but he wanted it to last longer than a minute. He fingered her for a while, enjoying the way she moaned and squirmed, and then he let his mouth slide down her chin, across her neck, and he kissed across her collarbone. He brought his free hand up and massaged her tits and pinched her nipples as he kissed and licked across her full mounds. She was writhing and humping against his hand. He could tell she was getting close, but he didn’t want her to come on his hand. He pulled his hand back and she whipped her pretty eyes open and looked at him accusingly. “What are you doing, Blue-Eyes?”

“I need to taste you,” he said as he reached down and pushed her thighs open further. He pulled his fingers out and dipped his head down between them. He brought his hand up to her mouth, and his head nearly exploded when she began licking and sucking her own juices off him wildly. He licked her from top to bottom before finding her swollen clit. As soon as his tongue hit it, she bucked up off the bed. He thought she might hit the roof. He groaned into her wet pussy, and she put her hands in his hair and pressed him in harder and deeper. Gunner almost couldn’t breathe, but he thought if he suffocated…what a fucking way to go. He’d be a folk hero and walk through eternity with the smell and taste of Tamara on his lips. What more could a man want?

Gunner slipped his hands underneath her ass and cupped her cheeks. He held her up off the bed and pressed into his mouth while he continued to explore her sweetness. Her fingers were tangled tightly in his hair as he pushed a finger back up inside of her. He took her clit between his teeth and bit down on it lightly as he slid a second finger inside. She was making loud sexy sounds, and Gunner didn’t even care that everyone in the rooms around them had to be able to hear. He felt her legs wrap around his head, and he banged and sucked her wildly and furiously as she urged him on, until she screamed out in ecstasy and he felt the warm wetness of her orgasm rush over his fingers. He continued to move his fingers for a few seconds and then he licked her again from top to bottom and back up before lifting his head and looking at her face. “Kiss me,” she whispered, without opening her eyes.

Gunner moved back up on the bed next to her and covered her mouth with his. She licked and sucked at his tongue and then at his face like she couldn’t get enough of her own taste. It turned him on like nothing else that she was so uninhibited. “Fuck me now, Blue-Eyes. I need you inside of me.” She opened her eyes then and stared into his as he reached down and lined himself up against her opening.

“Condom?” he squeaked out.

“I’m still clean.” He grinned, then slammed his mouth back down on hers before thrusting inside and filling her up. They moaned into each other’s mouths as he began to move in and out. She wrapped her legs around his back and used her thigh and calf muscles to pull him in tighter and deeper.

“Oh my God, Tammy…fuck, baby…”

“I know,” she breathed out. “I feel like you were made to fit me…fuck.” He closed his eyes as the sensations tore through him. “Open those blue eyes, baby, look at me.” He opened his eyes and looked into hers. “God, I love those eyes.” Gunner leaned down and shoved his tongue into her mouth before he said something stupid again. He’d just never felt anything like the way Tamara made him feel. He wasn’t even sure what love was, or if that was what he was feeling, but he couldn’t imagine it would could feel any better than what this felt like.

He pushed back up and she put her arms around his shoulders. The faster and harder he fucked her, the more excited she got. She dug her fingernails into his skin while he pounded her and then suddenly she pulled up all the way, pressed her breasts into his chest, and pushed her tongue into his mouth. He felt her core tighten and then she let out a long sexy groan against his lips before almost turning into a puddle of hot flesh underneath him. Gunner never wanted to have sex with another woman. There was no way it could ever be this good.

When he pulled out of the kiss and saw the look of pure ecstasy on her face it put him over the edge of the cliff, and he let out a loud grunt before plunging into her as deep as he could go and letting his orgasm wash over him in wave after wave of pleasure. He collapsed down next to her, still holding her tightly while they both shuddered and quaked and came down from their incredible high.