Chapter 5: The Demon
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I sigh as I make it to the club. I look out at the bar in front and shake my head slowly. It’s Friday night and the guys and their old ladies are rocking it out tonight. This is a legitimate business and one of the few ways the club earns income in a legal manner. The rest of our income is, well, less than legal…
I push open the door of the bar and nod my head at the old ladies I see walking around and serving drinks. The girls smile and wave back at me as I make my way to the bar. I see Stefanie working the bar and catch the look on her face. I follow her gaze and holy s**t!!!
My eyes widen as I see Sam, of all people, standing in this bar and she… She doesn’t look good at all. She is pinned to the bar by some random guy who is groping her up. She shoves his hand away from her body, but the guy doesn’t seem to be taking no for an answer.
I growl to myself as I make my way over to the two of them. As I get closer, I notice she is off. Not just drunk, but intoxicated and under the influence of something way worse than alcohol.
Did that bastard roofie her!?
I shove my way past other patrons and stand behind the bastard.
“Stop,” I hear her say to him.
“Come on, baby. You know you want me. I can help you feel good… I can help take away that throb you’re feeling now,” he says to her.
I growl and reach out to the fucker. I jerk him around and glare. “What the f**k did you just say to my girl!?”
The guy goes still as he takes me in. I’m not a little fucker by any stretch. I’m also not weak.
The guy takes one look at me and his face falls. “Woah, sorry man, I didn’t realize she was yours… No.”
I grab the guy by the front of his shirt and pull him to my face. “She just told you to stop. It doesn’t matter if she has a boyfriend or not. If a woman says stop, you stop. If she says no, it means no.”
I shove him away from her, and myself, hard. He stumbles back and hits the wall. He glares at me. “Get out… Don’t come back.”
The fucker balls up his fist. “You don’t own this place. You can’t kick me out of this place. I know the owner!”
I scoff and roll my eyes as I step towards him.
“Oh, really?” I grab the fucker again and shove him into the wall. His head hits first and I see the stars form across his eyes. “You know the owner, huh?”
He swallows hard as I call his bluff. He doesn’t know the owner, clearly, since I am the owner.
“Yes… I know the owner. He and I go way back.”
I smirk and c**k my head to the side. “Oh yeah? What’s his name?”
Fear forms over his features and I smirk darkly. Gotcha…
“Uhm, well, he, uh, he doesn’t have a normal name,” he says.
Lies… All of the establishments are owned by my real name, not my road name.
“Uh huh… Well, do me a favor. When you figure out just how f****d up and wrong you are about who the owner is, you can come back and apologize. Until then, get the f**k out of my bar and don’t come back.”
I shove the guy towards the front door of the bar. The music has been cut off and everyone is staring at the two of us. I stand my ground in front of him and put myself between him and Sam. I can hear Sam panting behind me, but I don’t turn my back on the fucker. Not yet.
He swallows hard and stands up to his full height, which is still about three inches shorter than me. I smirk and narrow my eyes.
“Come on, baby,” he calls to Sam. “We are leaving this s**t hole.”
He tries to reach around me and grab her, but I catch his hand. “Do you know this bastard, Sam?”
I hear her gasp as recognition hits her like a ton of bricks. She swallows hard and shakes her head slowly. “No, Austin… I don’t know him.”
I smirk at her familiar response, but I quickly change my features back to hard and stern as I turn back to look at the fucker in front of me. “The lady says she doesn’t know you. Leave… By yourself… Don’t come back to my f*****g bar. Got it?”
He tries to fight out of my grip, but I squeeze his forearm tighter. He winces as he tries to jerk out of my grip. “Let me go you bastard! My father will hear about this! He is the assistant CEO of Blackwood Enterprise and I will have your whole ass! I’ll own this shithole and then shut it down!”
I chuckle darkly and pull the little fucker closer to my face. “Oh, so your father is Benjamin Atwood Sr.?”
The little fucker nods his head firmly with a smug little smirk. I grin almost like a feral demon as I lock eyes with him. “Wonderful, I’ve been needing a damn good reason to get rid of the older fucker. I’ll be sure he knows you’re the reason he was fired.”
The color drains from his face and his eyes double in size. “Wait… You’re…”
I shove him towards the door. “Get out of my establishment and don’t ever come back…”
He stumbles towards the door and the others in the bar instantly go back to what they were doing. I turn around with a heavy sigh and move closer to Sam. “Hey, are you okay?”
Before she says anything, she takes a step and stumbles into my arms.
“Oh! Yeah, sorry…” She shakes her head firmly as she seems to sway in my arms. “He put something in my drink,” she pants as she starts to sweat.
I pull her closer to my chest and tilt her face up to mine. She is panting and her cheeks are flushed. God she looks sexy as f**k right now, but that doesn’t matter.
“He put something in your drink?”
She nods her head firmly as her eyes go unfocused.
“f**k,” I curse as I pull her closer to me. I frown and pop my head up as I look around the bar. I lock eyes with my VP, Snake, and motion for him to come over.
He hurries over and takes one look at the situation and curses himself.
“f**k,” he growls. “Another dickhead trying to take advantage of a woman?”
I frown and nod my head firmly. “Yeah… Unluckily for him, I know his father. Lucky for her, I know her.”
Snake raises his eyebrows and looks down at the woman in my arms. He looks back up to me and smirks. “Oh, you know her, huh?”
I glare at him. “Not like that, jackass.”
I sigh and run a hand through my hair. “She is the ER nurse who took care of Shortcut today.”
“Oh f**k!” His face goes from pure shock to uninhibited rage within point zero-two seconds. “I’ll kill the fucker, where is he!?”
I smirk and shake my head. “Don’t worry. He will get what’s coming to him.”
I sigh as Sam goes limp in my arms and I shake my head again. “f**k… I’m taking her to my room. She will be safe there.”
Snake nods his head. “Sounds good. You get some sleep too while you’re at it.”
I smirk and roll my eyes. “Yes, mother. I’ll get some rest too.”
Snake glares at me, but there is no heat behind it as he shoves me towards the stairs. I chuckle and pick Sam up into my arms and carry her unconscious body upstairs to my room above the bar.
Because of how often I have to be here and how often things go sideways with the club, I made sure I would be comfortable. Once I climb the stairs, I kick the door open and then kick it closed behind me as I set Sam down on her feet in the room. She stumbles and I sigh.
“Easy there, Sam.”
She sways softly on her feet as her eyes come back into focus. “Austin?”
I smirk and nod my head at her. It might have been a very brief interaction, but she remembered my name and my face. For some reason, it makes me feel great that she remembered me.
“Austin… Ow… My head hurts.”
I sigh and nod my head. “I know, Sam… Come on, you need to get your shoes off and get undressed. I’ve got something you can borrow.”
She nods her head and starts to strip off her scrubs and her shoes. I turn around and I grab her one of my shirts out of my dresser. When I turn around, she is standing in front of me in just her panties. I see her perfect t**s bounce in front of my face and I swallow hard.
“Here,” I say, handing her the shirt.
She takes it and stumbles into me.
“Oops… Sorry,” she slurs as she stumbles back. Her bare t**s hit my chest and I suck in a sharp breath.
Jesus Christ, this woman is hot.. And really drunk.
I shake my head and help steady her. “Sam… You need to lay down. You’re drunk and on some type of drug.”
She nods her head as she slips my shirt over her head and stumbles around the room. I sigh and pick her up bridal style and carry her to the queen size bed pushed against the wall. It is big enough for just me, but if I have to share it with her tonight, so be it.
“Come on, firecracker, it’s time for you to go to sleep.”
I lay her down on the bed and tuck her under the sheets. As I try to pull away, her hand shoots out and she grabs onto me. “Wait… Stay… Please…”
Her eyes are pleading and I sigh heavily.
“Alright… Fine… You’re going to be super embarrassed in the morning though,” I say as I slide my jeans off my hips and pull my shirt off over my head. I slide into the queen bed next to her and she snuggles into me. She mumbles something incoherently and I smirk.
“Good night, little firecracker. I’ll see you in the morning…”
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