Chapter 22: Chapter 22

AVERY

Justin introduced the table to Avery, and she tried hard to remember all their names. Once he was done, the men got up to get food and drinks.

Justin kissed Avery’s temple, promising to be back with food and drinks, and walked away.

“So Avery, you are a teacher?” a woman named Joanna asked. She was a friend of Kiki’s and they’d grown up together. She was the old lady of another member, who was playing pool.

“I am. I teach kindergarten presently,” she started, then explained how she got her job at Middleton Academy. They asked how she enjoyed it and she explained how much she loved it.

They talked some more about what they did, and Avery was impressed. Joanna was the office manager of the shipping business, while several of the other women worked in various areas of the club.

She already knew that Kiki had taken on the job of what the president’s old lady should be doing, planning the monthly parties, like the current one, and the everyday running of the clubhouse.

Justin had told her that the clubhouse housed the very large meeting room when there was business for everyone to hear and a smaller meeting area inside the president’s office for the table members.

There were also forty individual rooms for the members that wanted to live there and pay a fee for them.

Justin was seriously considering adding on since there were members who wanted rooms and they were all full. He had an architect putting together plans and price projections for him.

The men brought back the food and drinks and Avery was surprised that the conversation was going so well. She was laughing at the stories they were telling and really enjoyed the time they had together.

Justin kept his hand on her the whole time they sat there, letting her know that he was right by her side, and she really relaxed.

She had stopped overtly staring at the couples having sex, but would sneak peeks every once in a while. Not that she would admit it, but she was getting turned on and aroused.

Justin and the guys excused themselves to go off and play pool.

“So Avery,” another woman named Lisa started, “you know about the road clause?”

Avery nodded. “I do.”

“And what are your thoughts?” Lisa inquired.

“Well, I won’t tell you what Justin and I have discussed, but we have an understanding,” Avery replied, feeling a little annoyed that the woman was either trying to piss her off or pry into her personal life.

“What about you and David? What is your agreement?”

Dana smirked. “Oh, the teacher does have a little bit of bite! Good! You will need it if you have any chance of making it with Justin.

“Some of these club whores will do anything to snag Justin. So you have to play with a little fire.”

Avery nodded, and before she could say anything else, Dana added, “And Dave knows he can get head on the road, but the only pussy his cock goes in is mine.”

The other ladies chuckled and told Avery what their agreements were. Three of them had the same agreements as Dana, one other was like Kiki, and there was no touching other women.

Much to Avery’s surprise, two women didn’t care and let their old men do what they wanted as long as they wrapped up. Avery didn’t understand it, but it was their relationship.

She also learned only three of the women were married. Being an old lady meant more to them than getting married.

Avery watched as Justin kept bending over the pool table, and it was driving her crazy to watch that perfect butt move around.

She was glad that the conversation lagged for a few minutes so she could watch him be around his friends. He really was so damn sexy and charismatic, and both men and women flocked to him.

It did piss her off when women would come up and put their hands on him, but her temper cooled when he would push them off right away.

There was one woman—Kiki said her name was Heather—who wasn’t taking the hint, and Dana and Kiki told her what she needed to do.

“You need to go over and stake your claim, Avery. If you want the women to back off Justin, you have to show them that he is with you.”

Avery bit her lip and watched as the woman ran her red-painted nails up his cut. She stood up, making her decision.

She walked over to Justin’s other side and placed her hand on his. He turned and looked at her, grinning when he saw she was next to him.

“Hey, baby,” he purred, smirking at her.

Avery didn’t answer verbally but pulled him down for a passionate kiss, making the others around them whistle and cheer—except for Heather, who glared and almost bit off her tongue in anger.

JUSTIN

Justin figured out what she was doing and let her do it. He knew that she needed to stake her claim to get the club whores to back off.

And Heather was the worst of the whores, trying to make her presence known, especially to him. Granted, part of it was his fault; he did tend to pull her in for sex more than the others.

She tended to get a little wild when he needed it, and she was almost always agreeable with whatever he came up with.

But that lust really seemed to halt when he met Avery, and all the other whores really just faded away from his mind and vision.

Justin heard the yelling and clapping and let her guide the kiss, knowing that she was easily embarrassed and shy, especially about things like this.

He was enjoying her display and was a little sad when she pulled back, breathing hard. But shit, did she look beautiful!

Her cheeks were pink from the heat and a little bit of a blush, and her chest was moving up and down quickly from the lack of air.

“Hell of a greeting, baby,” he grinned.

She shrugged. “Just wanted a kiss.”

He chuckled and pulled her close to his chest. “And that was a kiss!”

Justin saw Heather stomp away as the others around them went back to their previous activities. He pulled her face up to look at his.

“You didn’t have to do that, you know. I would have kept pushing her away.”

Avery looked up at him. “Yes, I did. Everyone I was sitting with was telling me how they got together with their significant other and the process they went through.

“Kiki said something about they had to stake their claim on their man so the whores would stop coming after them. And I knew that woman wasn’t going to stop until I did.”

Justin grinned. “So are you staking your claim, baby?”

Avery smiled. “You bet your ass I am.”

Justin laughed deeply. “Well, we should have one more kiss to make it official,” he said and started to pull her in for another kiss.

Avery turned her cheek at the last second, so his lips met her cheek, and she whispered in his ear, “Let’s go to your office to cement the deal.”

Justin pulled back and looked at her. “Are you serious?”

Avery nodded, then leaned in and gently bit his earlobe.

Justin instantly went hard, picked her up so she could wrap her legs around his waist, and all but ran back to his office, leaving the others laughing and yelling in their wake. H

e slammed the door and pushed her against it, kissing her hard as his hands kneaded her ass, the ass he loved to grab and feel in his hands.

Avery unwrapped her legs and slid down his body. Justin watched and waited to see what she was going to do.

This was her idea, and while he hadn’t wanted their first time back together to be at a club party, he wasn’t going to deny her anything.