Dating Rules And Pretty Fools Ch. 13 - Sex Stories

Dating Rules And Pretty Fools Ch. 13

... me. I was onboard with getting Jasper to that bus like instantly. You didn't drag me into it or anything."

"Yeah, but you've been with the boss far longer than me. I don't want him to think that I have too much initiative," Hudson explained.

"It was very good initiative, though," Jackie praised him. "All right, we'll do it as you say. But, you know, he might not think me capable of thinking on my feet like that."

"How so? It seems to me like he's counting on you."

Jackie pursed his lips and looked out the window. "For the small stuff, yeah."

"Jasper wasn't small stuff," Hudson reminded him.

"I blew that one, though. Anyway, the boss thinks I'm pretty stupid. He must be keeping me around just because he has that duty to my momma, although she's been dead for some time now."

"Hey, why are you beating yourself up all of a sudden? Cheer up. You did well tonight."

The last thing he had expected was to have Jackie turn toward him with stars in his eyes. "For real, Vegas? You mean it, man?"

"Yeah. Hey, don't tell me that demotion to being a bouncer at the club really got to you."

"A little," Jackie admitted. "You know what, man? You're really cool. I mean, here I am, telling you all these embarrassing things about me, and you don't bat an eye. Anyone else working for the boss would either laugh at me or, you know, look down on me."

Jackie looked like someone who could use a friend. But he was barking up the wrong tree. Hudson had no room in his life ...

... -- especially under the circumstances -- for a friendship.

He didn't have room for playing with his neighbor, either, but there he was, anyway. However, Jackie was a different matter. For all he knew, all this kicked puppy act could be just that, an act, and the guy could be up to his eyeballs in the nefarious business his boss was running.

More than ever, he needed to keep his eyes wide open.

***

Hudson pretended to have all his attention trained on the road while Jackie made the call.

"Yeah, boss," Jackie confirmed a few more times. "Yeah, they're okay now. Nothing happened. I mean, I don't know what went down at the club, and frankly, I don't think my man Hudson and I should go back there just now. The pigs might still be there. No, we don't have anything to hide, but those assholes, they might want to haul our asses off just to have a laugh. Yeah, thanks, boss."

"So, how did it go?" Hudson asked once Jackie finished his conversation.

"He didn't say it, but he's pretty damn happy that we took the boys to safety."

"Was he worried? You said everything is above board, right? And it's not like any of them look underage to me."

"They're not," Jackie confirmed. "The boss keeps saying the boys, but it's Angel he must have been worried about."

Hudson had a hard time picturing Watkins truly worried about anyone. He seemed like the kind of man who'd believe everyone to be expendable. Nonetheless, the big boss's preference for the attractive asshole who ...