Missed last week?
Last known situation—
Roxy and Buzz have just left the Louisville Low Docks with their bag of “gifted-not-stolen” Ether Bliss, and her father wants to head to the racetrack. Of course he does. Addiction to gambling runs in the family…
BOOK 1- The Viper Kiss
Chapter 3 - Shower Interrupted
Roxie headed toward home, but her father hung back.
“Dad, I seriously need a shower.”
“I really don’t want to miss this race!” Buzz’s face was unnaturally pale, but Roxie attributed that to the near miss with the owner in the Vanity Voyager.
Roxie looked at her watch. “It’s only just past one. Hey Jude is in the ninth right? Plenty of time for me to wash this oil off.”
A strange expression crossed her father’s face. One where he looked like he was having a gas attack.
Roxie headed toward home, but her father hung back.
“The track has sinks,” he said. “Plus, I’d like to play the Pick 3.”
“Those bathrooms are disgusting. The sinks are black!” Roxie frowned at her father. “You never win the Pick 3. You always say trying to hit three winners in a row is the track’s tax on the dumb.”
“Maybe I’ve changed my mind.”
She kept walking toward home. Maybe you can give me five minutes to have a shower.”
The roar from the crowd at Churchill Downs muted out whatever her father mumbled, but he was following her.
At the pace she was setting, she got home in less than ten minutes. Roxie shouldered the screen door open, kicked off her shoes onto the shag carpet, and grabbed the dish detergent from the kitchen sink.
With her father’s limp, she knew he’d be a few minutes behind.
The shower was the one good thing in the house. Buzz had spent real money on it back when he had been having a string of luck at the track, and was one of the Black Hole Sons’ top enforcers. A job you can age out of, he’d found out the hard way. Arthritis and intimidation don’t go together. And there are no pension plans in the biker world.
Roxie peeled off her bra and panties, dropped them in a greasy heap, and stepped in. She applied the detergent liberally and scrubbed her skin pink. The oil ran black down the drain. Then gray. Then almost clear.
She tipped her face up and let it wash away the stress of the pathetic heist. She ignored the tingle in her body when she thought of Vince. Could she imagine being the sidepiece of a rich man? For a moment, she lost herself in a fantasy. She could pilot the Vanity Voyageur, sip champagne, and travel the known galaxies, betting on the stakes graded intergalactic race meets.
Though with the detergent layering her skin, she smelled more like a diner dishwasher than rich bitch arm candy.
That wasn’t the life for her anyway. Roxie wanted to stand on her own two feet. Being raised by Buzz didn’t give her much confidence in a man’s ability to take care of her. She would take care of herself. Hadn’t she just graduated from pilot school? Her commercial license should be in the mail, direct from the Ministry of Universal Transportation. Then she was out of here.
She’d knock on the door of every cargo company from here to Canada…
The front door slammed.
Not the screen. The front door. The one Buzz only locked when he was scared.
Roxie turned off the water.
A voice came up from downstairs. One she recognized, even if she couldn’t make out the words. The low, rough wheeze that identified the president of the Black Hole Sons. Chucky. Her guts roiled. Since Buzz had been booted off the “protection team”, she hadn’t had to tolerate his sly looks and occasional butt pinches. It sucked her Dad was unemployed, but she didn’t miss his dirty old boss.
What was he doing here? She grabbed a towel and wrapped it around her, her heart beating faster. Odds were that this wasn’t a friendly house call.
Tune in next Wednesday and find out how Roxie deals with the biker president.
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Chapter 1- A Teenage Roxie and Viper
Chapter 2 - A Drunk and a Cadillac Trunk
Chapter 3 - The Louisville Low Docks
Chapter 4 - Doubling Down with a Damalian
Chapter 5 - Blast Off & Betrayal
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