Irons (Norfolk #1) Read Free Page B

that she didn’t tell him. A month goes by Sally hadn’t been out hunting,” he tipped his glass towards the three girls dancing, “She shows up with a hot stick in her hand that says baby point five is on its way. Fucker almost died.”
    I laughed. “So he’s gonna be a Dad?”
    “Gonna be, he already is, Jax. Has her two kids plus his now one year old daughter. First thing he said to me when we found out you were coming back was, ‘I thought I’d heard the end of the Sally and seven days Layes,’” he said. “You and Sally?”
    “Maybe, who the hell knows…?”
    “I know. She told me everyone she’d been with.” Layes sat down. “You were the first she mentioned.”
    “I don’t know what to say, Layes.”
    “Well get it all out now, ‘cause I don’t wanna hear another word about my wife.”
    “You happy?”
    He nodded and smiled, “Yeah. She’s no different than I was. Just so happens chicks get the scarlet letter A, we get an Atta boy.”
    I nodded. “I get it, man. No ball busting from me, congratulations.”
    “Ask him how he knew she was the one?” Deuce laughed.
    “Fuck you, Deuce!”
    “No, man, it’s the best part of the story, tell him, come on. I promise not another word after that.”
    “She was the first one to say yes? Is that what you’re talking about?”
    Deuce was laughing so hard he couldn’t speak. He nodded and then shook his head no.
    Layes rolled his eyes and serious as shit looked at me and said. “I like to fuck a woman’s ass. Whenever I asked before, I always got what I wanted, fuck, look at me.” He pointed to himself. “But it took persuasion. I asked Sally and she said yes…”
    “Bullshit, that’s not the way you told it before,” Deuce roared.
    “I was pissed before, dick!”
    “He wasn’t here, you gotta tell him.” Deuce wiped the tears from his face.
    “She said, ‘Yes, please, oh yes, fuck my ass, Layes.’ All throaty and shit.” Layes’ face was fire engine red. “We done, here. Conversation over. I don’t want to revisit it.”
    The conversation stopped when the three girls walked over and sat down. The drinks kept flowing and I was wasted. Tally was on my lap dry humping me and Deuce was going from one girl to the other, kissing them each. When Layes’ phone rang, he smiled when he looked at the screen. I looked over at him and he showed it to me. A family picture: him, Sally and three kids.
    I smiled, and picked Tally up off my lap and sat her down in her chair.
    She groaned in protest. “Listen Red, my dick has denim burn. Give me a couple minutes with my boy and I promise I’ll have you screaming my name soon.”
    “Promise?”
    “I promise a good time, not a long time.”
    She laughed. I smiled and turned back to Layes.
    “You happy, man?”
    “Fuck yeah, I’m happy.”
    “I can tell. Good for you, man. Good for you.”
    “I gotta head home, can I give you all a ride?” he asked.
    “That would be perfect.”
    *     *     *
    I jumped and sat up in my bed. Will, every night I had dreams of him. About the crash, about the academy, about the last six fucking years that we had accomplished every goal we set, and how in a split second it was all gone.
    I leaned over the warm body beside me, and grabbed the half empty bottle of Jack sitting on the night stand and took a swig. I looked down at the red head and took a deep breath. What the fuck was her name?
    Her eyes fluttered open and she quickly covered them, shielding them from the sun.
    “What time is it?”
    “No idea.”
    “You don’t have a clock?” she whimpered, holding her head.
    “Not unpacked yet.”
    “My phone.” She sat up and then held her head and moaned.
    “No idea. I don’t even know where mine is.”
    I stood up and looked around. Our clothes were not even in the room.
    “I’ll look.”
    I walked out in the living room and found my jeans and her skirt.
    She walked out wrapped in a sheet. I noticed her looking me up and down.
    “Sorry