have a fuckin smile on my face. Fuckin Rich is right, she's a fuckin good girl and talking clued me the fuck in.
I grab my bag and drag my ass through the Club. In my room, I recheck the family cover then hit the shower. I could find a whore but being with the Club my whole adult life taught me the value of respect and honor. I've never done the dating thing, women just appear and want to fuck so I do. This feels good, like I'm working for it like Rich said. I find my relief and fall into bed. I need to ask Rich what the fuck I'm supposed to be doing with her.
Chapter Four
Amanda
The family dinner is a blast. I always have fun; I don't come to many but Tess always invites me. Cloud and CJ's kids are all active and funny. They swim like fish, play volleyball like a professional team and are always smiling. Everyone is always building the others up, kids and parents. I love it.
Bob plays with the kids and sits with the men. His eyes follow me everywhere but he's not stuck to my side. He makes me laugh, throwing Jessie and Brantley two bucks when I swear. Jessie has tears running down my face when he tells me since I'll be around I should take the flat monthly rate.
"You shake down your parents with that flat rate?" I'm still fuckin laughing.
He smiles, "Been doing it for years. We collect over a fifteen hundred a month just in flat rates. The best part is, since they pay the flat rate, they keep swearing. It's a viscous cycle but profitable for the Little Brothers." When I can breathe and talk again I ask what they do with the money. "Last month we paid a landscaper to do old man Cromwell's yard. His wife used to do it but she died and it got overgrown bad. The landscaper switched plants and put irrigation so it runs on a timer. He's helping Cromwell learn how to take care of it. Now he sits on the bench again and watches the beach like before his wife died."
I think my mouth fell open. Fuckin kids. "What's the fuckin flat rate?" He laughs.
"Hundred a month for you. Make the check out to Little Brothers and Sisters. I'll have Joey send you a reminder so you get the information. It's due on the first." I'm laughing again. Fuckin kids are better than the mafia. Who can resist them?
Bob saves me. "I just give them cash every month, they pretty much leave me alone."
I'm laughing hysterically. "I just agreed to a hundred a month. He told me they'll send a reminder and it's due on the first. Angel faces fuckin shaking everyone down. I love it." He laughs, walking me back up to the tent. The adults are sitting around chatting.
Bob gets me a beer and sits beside me. "Jessie caught her for a hundred a month." They all laugh, I laugh with them and ask how long they've been at it.
"Since Jessie and Little Ben were seven or eight. Fuckin kids." Steve says. I have tears in my eyes again, at least I'm laughing.
The guys get the kids out of the water and start a barn fire. We move closer and sit together talking and laughing. CJ is wicked funny; she fits right in with the women. With so much that happens in their lives it always surprises me that they laugh so much.
The visions that Tess and Christian have must make life hell at times. I've seen a few but they are always smiling. They don't let it affect the happiness they find. It dawns on me that they've found a way to be happy in spite of the horrors they live through in the visions. Looking around I realize they all do, Kate was kidnapped and drugged, CJ was shot twice, Tess was beat and raped by Outlaws and Jess was beat by a gang. I don't have the story on Nancy but they all share horrific things in their past. They've laughed all day, I can do it too. I should stop declining invitations and keep these people close.
Tess slaps my arm. "Took you long enough. I keep telling you it will be good for you but you never listen." She's got a big fuckin