Page 16 of Vortex

Drawing back, Allegra looks at my table, grabs my beer, takes a mouthful, rinses it around and spits it onto blondie's feet. “You taste of last night's jizz, and there was more than one man. You need to have better hygiene you feelthy beetch. Now be gone so I can enjoy my time with my man.” The blond just stands there. “Go! Begone, before I have to remove you myself, and you do not want that, I assure you!”

The blond squeals, bursts into tears and runs across the bar and out the doors. Her friends slowly look at Allegra, who, having sat next to me, jumps back up and barks, “You should join your friend and be quick about it.” They all squeal, jump up, and run for the exit.

“So. Where were we?” She sits on my lap. “Oh, yes, why are you sitting here alone?” She takes another slug of my beer, and I lean back so I don’t wear it when she spits it out again. “Don’t worry, I don’t need to spit. She tasted minty fresh, but I recognized the sort of woman she was. A skunk, I think you call them.”

“It’s skank, but you’re near enough.”

“Ah, you can smile. You are handsomer when you don’t have that serious face. What caused you to be so serious? Not that woman, surely?” Allegra puts her arms around my neck and waits for me to reply. I can’t freaking speak. I don’t know what to tell her, for starters. ‘Oh, it’s like this, Allegra. I don’t like it when you’re with another man.’ Or ‘I thought you were going in the back of the bar to fuck Fury.’

“Well, what was it? You can tell me anything. I just defended your honor, after all.” She laughs, and it is like bells tinkling.

“I like you. I like you a lot.” What the fuck? Why did you say that, you dumbass motherfucker?

“Good. I like you too, a lot. Now that I am going to be working at the clubhouse, we can work on that better, perhaps. I look forward to it.” Allegra wriggles in my lap, suggestively.

“Wait. What do you mean you're working at the clubhouse? What clubhouse?”

“Your clubhouse. How many clubhouses are there in town?” She frowns at me and swipes a few stray hairs from her face. That looks so sexy.

“No. No, you can’t work there. To do what?” There are no ‘jobs’ at the clubhouse except one, and she’s not doing that on my shift!

“I am the new cleaner. I will be starting tomorrow, spright and early.” She beams at me, and it’s more beautiful than a rainbow.

“I forbid it. You will not start there bright and early, or ever. No. I forbid it.” I jump up, holding her with a hand behind her back and the other under her knees.

“Ooh, I like the forceful Vortex.” She plants her lips on mine and kisses the ever-loving shit out of me, before slipping from my arms and heading for the doors. “See you in the morning, loving boy!”

I stand there as she leaves and mutter, “It’s lover boy.”

Chapter 10

*~* Vortex *~*

I’m still standing at the table in the bar when Pattie, Twang, Mateo, and Fury join me. I drop back into my chair and look at them all, stunned.

“What the fuck…” Pattie starts to ask.

“No. Not those words. They’ve been playing in my head so much, I never want to hear them again.”

“What just happened? Allegra went out of here as if she had just had all her Christmases and birthdays in one. What did you say to her?” Pattie stares intently at me, as do the three men.

“She put the blond in her place and said she had defended my honor. I said I liked her, a lot, and she kissed the shit out of me and left.”

“That has to be the most condensed story I’ve ever heard. Now, start again from the beginning, as I missed it all. She nearly bowled me over as I was walking in and she was three feet off the ground, she was so happy.” Twang settles back and waits for me to retell my story, this time in detail. No one except Pattie interrupts until I’m done.

“You idiot. You thought I was going into the back to fuck someone, with all these guys around that wouldn’t hesitate to rip me apart before they even told Jamie what I’d been up to?” Fury shakes his head.

“She kissed the blond and said what?” Pattie asks for probably the third time.

“She called her a filthy bitch, but it sounded much better in her accent. Told her she could taste more than one man's jizz in her mouth and that she needed better hygiene standards. Can we move on from that now, please?”

“I think that’s awesome. I am so going to use that at the first opportunity. Oh, I hope it’s a man.” Pattie gives an evil laugh that would do the movies proud.

“Don’t fancy kissing a woman?” Asks Twang.

“You halfwit. How would you react if a woman kissed you and then told the world that she could taste a man’s jizz in your mouth?”

“Oh.” We watch the cogs turning slowly in his head. “OH! That’s not funny,” but he’s laughing all the same.