Page 18 of Rider's Claim

“They aren’t having strippers, are they?” I asked, raising my eyebrow at him. “My girl doesn’t need any men taking their clothes off for her but me.”

“Oh, chill the fuck out, they are doing mani/pedis, margaritas and playing games. They are watching Magic Mike one and two. That’s all the stripping they will see. You really think any of us want our women being near any other almost naked men?” Undertaker said as he slapped me on the back.

I went and washed my hands, removed my coveralls and put my cut on so we could go. I knew they were right, and we could have gone to Trixie’s but nothing good could come from having those girls sniffing around the married guys. We drove over to Jakes and ordered dinner. We decided to play some pool, eat and have a couple of beers. It had been a while since we did this. Bear came over to join us. He would be attending the wedding with Caroline and their kids would be at her mothers’ house for the weekend. It would be nice to have him there. He walked in sporting his cut and headed over to the table. They sat us in the back near the pool tables.

“Hey man, Congratulations. You better take care of Kat.” Bear said firmly. The big guy looked at me and then winked. “Thanks for including me. I appreciate it.”

“We miss having your ugly mug around. More ladies for the single guys.” Blade said as he saw a waitress eyeing Bear. Bear flipped him off and sat down.

“So, Fang, I hear you have the hots for the vet.” Axle said as he took a drink of his beer. “Is she coming with you to the wedding?”

I looked at my friend as they teased him. He had a shit eating grin on his face. I knew he had exchanged numbers with her when we got Ripley and Newt. I didn’t know if they had been out or not. There was so much going on with Katherine and myself that I didn’t have a chance to ask him.

“Yes, she will be coming with me to the wedding.” Fang said as he tipped his beer. “Now who is getting their ass kicked in a game of pool?”

Axle got up to play with him and the rest of us sat around talking shit and having a good time. We were taking turns playing when we heard a ruckus from the area near the door. I looked over and saw Katherine, Bethann and Lillian walk in looking a bit drunk. I swear if they drove like that, I would turn her over my knee. There were a couple of guys trying to stop them from coming back here. One of them put his hand on Lillian and Fury started across the room.

“Hey asshole, you touch my wife again and I’ll break off that hand and shove it your ass.” Fury said in a low calm voice. He gently extracted Lillian from the mans grasp and pulled her behind him. “All of these women are taken, fuck off.”

Hawk put his arm around Bethann and Katherine came and put hers around me. We started to walk back toward our table when one of them went to grab Fury’s arm. He moved Lillian out of the way and laid the guy out in one punch. Looking at the others he raised his eyebrow, and they held up their hands in surrender.

“Baby, what are you doing here?” I asked her as I kissed her. She tasted like lime and salt. “Were you having fun?”

“I was but Sophie went to lay down and I wanted to dance with my fiancé. We had Gator drive us over.” Katherine said as she walked to the jukebox. She put in some money and pulled me over to dance. We danced to “Shivers”, Blade started talking to the waitress and the guys sat with their women in their laps. We ordered the girls some nachos to help soak up the alcohol and sat around making plans for a cookout.