Chapter 4

Liz

I can’t believe what happened tonight. My shop was completely vandalized, again. I left my crazy job as a political aid to find peace and now the crazy has found me again. I am usually pretty good at dealing with crazy but right now, I am barely hanging on. All I want to do is crawl into my bed, sleep and hide away for a few days. I can’t open Sweetie Pies for a while, at least not until I can get the place back to normal. I think someone is stalking me, I feel the hairs on my neck stand up all the time. The question of who, is what I don’t know. I don’t know who it is or what they want but I wish they would leave me alone. I haven’t been on a date with anyone since I moved into this small town. So, I don’t know who it could be.

Buzz is trying to be a good friend but I don’t want him or his club to be involved in my business, I need to distance myself. I know they aren’t exactly the cleanest MC and I don’t want them to get involved. Buzz insisted on driving me home so now I am sitting in the passenger seat of my car. I tried to resist a little but I am glad he pushed because I don’t think I would have been able to drive myself home. I am nothing, but thankful for all his help, but I need to distance myself from him as I don’t want something to happen to anyone because of me, especially with what I believe is a stalker trying to make my life hell. To make things worse, I am sure he knows I am not telling him something, he can read me like a book and I hate it.

We pull up to my single story southern style home. The house is a fixer upper, the outside isn’t much to look at, the paint is peeling and there are tons of overgrown weeds and a rusty old fence, but the inside- the inside is amazing. It has a vintage flair but with a modern twist. I used all light airy colors and upgraded the kitchen to a chef’s kitchen.

I am reaching for the door handle when Buzz stops me with a hand to the shoulder.

“Liz.” He says.

I lean back and look over to him. “Yes.” I swallow hard. I am nervous, I don’t know why I am nervous.

“You aren’t telling me something, I will respect that for now, but please if you need anything know that I am there for you.”

“Thanks Buzz, I appreciate that, but really everything is okay. It is just some dumb little teenagers. I don’t know anyone but you guys in this town and my customers, and even them I am not close to. I keep to myself most of the time so stupid teens is the only thing it could be.”

“I’m not convinced Liz. I know you better than you think, I know we have only known each other for a few months but I consider you to be a good friend.”

“Thanks, Can I go now? I really want to get into my bed and sleep for a few days.”

“Yeah.” He gets out of the car and runs around to my door and opens it up for me.

“Thank you.” I start walking towards my door, while I rummage through my purse looking for my keys.

“Liz.” I turn back and see Buzz smiling and holding up my keys. This man is gorgeous, his teeth are perfect. I start to walk towards him to grab my keys.

“I forgot that you drove, I am so used to just having them.” I am about to reach for them when he nods his head no.

“No, I am going to make sure you are safe. I need to make sure that no one is in your house.” I am about to open my mouth and argue but I know better. “Nope, no arguing. It is going to happen or I am going to stay outside your door all night.”

“You wouldn’t.”

“Try me little girl.”

“Fine. Can we get this over with? I really want to go to sleep.” God, I have never had him or anyone for that matter in my house. I hope it’s clean. My mind is going nuts thinking about what I may have left out. As long as he doesn’t go into my bedroom and find an underwear or something I am fine.

“Lead the way hun.” He holds his arm out indicating for me to go first.

“Fine, I guess I can give you a tour since you’ve never been here before. It doesn’t look like much on the outside but I did a lot of work on the inside. Sorry about the mess ahead of time.”

“Liz, I don’t care about anything, I just want to make sure that you are safe and no fuckers are in there to hurt you.” He says. We walk up to the front door and Buzz moves ahead of me and opens up the door. He is moving with precision. I never noticed before but he moves like he was trained to do so.

“You stay right there until I can make sure that the room is clear.” He says as he moves across the threshold. “Where is the light switch?”

I move inside and flip on the lights. “Over here.”

“Liz, I told you to stay outside until I made sure it was clear.”

“It is fine, Buzz. No one is in here.”

“Can you just stay there woman? You are driving me nuts.”

“Fine, I will stay and stop talking to me like I am a dog.” I move to my couch and just sit down. At least it is clean. I can’t even feel his presence in the room, it is like he became a ghost. I can’t hear him or see him.

I hear footsteps coming up the front porch. I am frozen on the couch.

“Yo, Buzz, Breaker wants to know where you are?” It was the prospect. I look up and see him come over to the couch.

“Hey Liz, where did he go?” he asks.

“I don’t know. I will go check.” Shoot, I think he went into my room, it is the furthest room in the back of the house. I make my way back to my bedroom.

“I can hear your footsteps Liz.” Buzz says. He is leaning up against my bedroom door frame with his arms across his chest. Lord have mercy, this man is big, and his veins are bulging from his arms.

“And I can’t hear you, you became a ghost, what is up with that? Did you find the intruders you were looking for?” I ask him.

“No, but I found out so much more about you.” He says with a giant smile. Oh gosh, he found something embarrassing, like a dirty panty or something.

“Yeah, and what is that?” I ask as he walks towards the front door.

“I will see you later Liz, let me know if you need anything, you have my number.”

“Buzz, what did you find?” I open up my door and find my vibrator on the bed. Holy shit, my face blanches.

I run towards the front door and look out the window, Buzz is smiling back at me from the inside of the truck he is now in. Buzz is driving and the Prospect is in the passenger seat. I need to find out what his name is, I feel weird calling him the prospect.

I am so embarrassed that he found that. I’ve been really lonely and it is not like people are lining up to date me. Now Buzz, the man that I have been dreaming of, has literally seen the one thing I stick up my vag. He must think I’m a sex freak.

I make my way back over to my couch and just sit down. I close my eyes for a few minutes to just think about what has happened, never mind the fact that I am completely and utterly embarrassed that Buzz saw my vibrator but now that I think about it, I didn’t take it out and the panties that were near it, I haven’t worn those in a few months. I really hope I am just imagining things and I forgot that I had taken it out, but I swear I didn’t.