Page 46 of Lick

Lick

Iglance at my watch and wonder what the holdup is. I thought she’d have been here by now.

I glance at the food cooling on the table and pull out my phone to call the prospect. Walking over to the windows, I stare down at the rapidly filling club and wait for him to answer. I speak before he does. “Where’s Emma?”

“What do you mean, where’s Emma? I dropped her off at the entrance thirty minutes ago.”

I frown and scan the room. “Alright, I’ve gotta go. Next time, walk her in. I don’t give a fuck if she protests.”

“Sorry, Lick, won’t happen again.”

I hang up. The guy is one of the better prospects and did nothing wrong. I call down to the bouncers, but nobody answers. Knowing how busy they can get, I give up and head down myself. I greet a few people I pass, but don’t stop to chat. I push the doors open and head outside. The queue is wrapped around the block, but I don’t spot Emma. I do spot Paulie, though, so I head over to him.

“You working the door on your own?” I ask him when he ushers a couple inside.

“No, Rob is on too. He’s seeing to someone right now.”

He nods to the side of the building. The hairs on my arms stand on end, and without a reason for it, I find myself jogging over. I hear him before I see him, and his words have me seeing red.

“I tell you what, I’ll make you a deal. You get on your knees and take me down your throat like a good girl, and I’ll let you in.”

“Fuck you. Lick will kill you when he finds out the shit you pulled,” Emma curses. Though she sounds fierce, I can hear the nervous edge in her voice.

“Yeah, and who the fuck is he gonna believe? Me, a man who has worked for him for years, or you, one of the many sluts he⁠—”

My roar shuts him up. My hand around his throat stops him from saying anything else, which is just as well. It’s taking everything in me not to reach down, pull out my knife, and cut this motherfucker’s heart out.

“You dare talk to my woman that way?” I snarl as his face starts to turn blue. I pull my free arm back and punch him in the face, smirking when his nose crunches under the force. Blood coats his face and my knuckles, but that doesn’t stop me from punching him again and again.

“Lick, stop.” Emma’s voice breaks through the red haze. She reaches for me, her hand wrapping around the one still pinning Rob to the wall. “Let him go. I don’t want the next time we get to see each other to be on opposite sides of plexiglass.”

I let him go, and he drops like a rock, groaning as he hits the ground. I reach for Emma, pull her to my chest, and wrap my arms around her. She grips my shirt and holds onto me, not saying a word as I fight to get my temper under control. If I even look at that motherfucker again, I’m going to kill him.

As if sensing where my thoughts are going, she pulls back and looks up at me, a coy smile on her face. “I’m not gonna lie, I’m so wet right now. Wanna head inside and see how much?”

I push her against the wall, my hand cradling her head so it doesn’t hit the brick. “Why wait?”

Her eyes widen a fraction as she takes in the groaning man on the ground. “Well, there’s a bleeding asshole behind you.”

“You care? That motherfucker was gonna⁠—”

“Feel my foot in his nuts. But no, you’re right, I don’t care. Let him see what he’s missing.”

“Atta girl.”

Her breath catches in her throat as I drag the fabric of her long dress up her body, until it reaches her thigh. I slip my hand underneath the material in search of her underwear. I pause, instead finding her bare.

“Oh, honey, you have some explaining to do.”

“I was coming to see you,” is all she says, and I guess that’s explanation enough.

I skim my fingers over her pussy and indeed feel how damp she is. “Fuck, Emma,” I growl into her neck as I slip my fingers inside her. “Give me one good reason why I shouldn’t fuck you right here, right now.”

“Someone might see,” she whimpers.

“I don’t give a flying fuck if people see me fucking you. Let them see what you do to me.”

I slam my mouth over hers as I fuck her with my fingers, swallowing her whimpers as she grinds her pussy on me, making the hustle and bustle of the street fade away. I pull my mouth from hers as I slip my fingers free and slide them into my mouth. She looks at me with wide, caramel eyes as a groan drags her attention just over my shoulder. While she’s focused on that fuck nugget, I free my dick from my jeans and lift Emma into my arms. Her legs wrap around me as I press her back against the wall and guide myself inside her.