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you Tiff and he is damned scary when he goes all voodoo on people.  Damn.  I almost pissed my panties when the doctor got smart with him and he started running his finger over that tattoo on his arm, the one with those swirly symbols that look like ghosts.”  VIki shivered.
    Gator was a big sweetheart.  The art on his body was mostly in memorial to family or something from his youth.  It was something he didn’t talk about very much, but they meant something to him.  He didn’t know anymore voodoo that she did, but people liked to believe what their eyes told them.
    “Where did he go?”  She croaked.
    “Church.”
    Jack and Gator weren’t officers yet, but they were often included in minor business and they were often positioned at the doors to keep the meetings safe.
    It was a position of sorts.  One step closer to having a seat at the table.  Choo-Choo and Tommy were in the same boat.  They all seemed pretty ok with it.  Naughty thought she would be too.  The officers handled too much crazy shit for it to be much fun.
    Naughty didn’t know everything about how the club did business, but she knew a few things. 
    Hang arounds wanted to make prospect.  Prospect wanted to make brother.  Brothers wanted to make officer and earn a seat at the table.  Officers made the decisions.
    Naughty didn’t want that for Gator though. She had watched a few of the brothers that sat at that table and they seemed to get harder overnight.  They found out things and were expected to do things that changed them in a way that made them scary, made them cold.
    That wasn’t Gator.
    “Is he mad at me?”  Naughty asked with a lump in her throat.
    “I wouldn’t know about that, but I do know that he was almost out of his mind when I got here.  Out.  Of.  His.  Mind.  He couldn’t understand why you were still sleeping.”
    Naughty hated that she had put him through that.
    “I really need to talk to him.  Any idea when he’ll be back?”
    “Pretty soon honey.  I doubt he’d stay gone too long.  He almost took Jack’s head off for suggesting he leave last night.”  Viki sighed.   She scrunched up her pert little nose causing her freckles to bunch up. 
    “Will you stay with me?”  Naughty asked.  She hadn’t been this afraid in a long time.  “I really don’t want to be on my own right now.”
    “Of course I will honey.”
    Viki settled back into her chair and Naughty tried to rest.
    She had let herself feel too much for Gator, but she hadn’t been able to help herself.  He had slipped into her life and under her guard before she’d been able to see how dangerous he was to her heart. 
    She had thought he was the last man that would thaw her heart.  He had actually annoyed her to the point that she couldn’t help but get angry.
    He had used her anger to make her open up.
    After anger he had made her laugh, then had paid attention to her in a way no one ever had.  He had figured out what she liked and made sure she had it.  He made sure he left her the kind of granola bars she liked and the type of candy that made her eyes roll back in her head.  He always made sure there was a bottle of water waiting for her when she got off stage.
    He wasn’t like the others though.  He just made sure it was there, he didn’t need her to know it was from him.  He didn’t need the show of it all, he just wanted to make sure she was alright.
    It meant more.
    It had happened slowly.  He had taken months of tiny steps to get her attention.
    Then he had touched her and all of her walls had crumbled.  He hadn’t come on strong like the others, no, that can be resisted.  Gator touched her hand, he ran a finger over her cheek to get her hair out of her face.
    Gator treated her like she was a real woman, not a stripper.  He respected her.
    Her only safety was in the fact that he didn’t seem to know how completely she belonged to him, but even that would soon be only dust.  She was carrying his baby and