All she wanted was nothing good for her. She peaked over the book her nose was stuck in, and through the smoke wafting across the room to object that held her thoughts. For years watched the multitude of women come and go through the club. As a daughter of the club she was not allowed to prospect or ever wear a kutte. She had two options left to her cut ties to her family and leave charming permanently or become an old lady. Neither was on her list for tonight; tonight she just wanted to be noticed by him, but with the courage of a mouse that wasn't in the cards. She put down her book and headed toward the bar for another drink, but was intercepted by Tig sliding up behind her and putting his arm around her shoulder to direct her to the poker game that was in full swing.

"Boys look who joined the party." Tig said as he sat her down next to a very drunk Chibs.

"Hey! Tig," she said to him as she started walking away, "is this you telling me to lose all your money, or do you just want me to detract them with my wit and charm."

Chibs scoffed "Darling, Tig's going to lose either way."

Jax, Juice and Bobby let out a laugh. "Says the man who hasn't won a hand all night," Juice interjected in between laughs.

"OY, you shut up Juicy Boy or I'll have your balls," Chibs roared.

"Now, Now lady's you're both pretty," Clay said coming up behind everyone "Don't forget there is a lady present."

"Yeah, Bobby shouldn't be hearing this shit, he's a very respectable lady." Jax laughed. Then he was quickly smacked in the head by Bobby. Clay turned his head to look at the only women at the table.

"Daphne, did you finish another book?" Clay sighs.

"You make the sound like a bad thing," she shrugged and smiled at him. The table laughs, clay just put his head in his hands. "But no I got interrupted by Tig when I was on the way to the bar to grab a drink." Daphne half yelled so Tig could hear.

"Hey don't drag me into this." Tig yelled back. She smiled at him then turned back to the poker game. As the night dragged on everyone was about ready for bed. Some were already upstairs with croweaters and sweetbutts. Daphne let out a yawn.

"You too tired to drive home," Clay asked.

"No, I'll be fine. Still knowing you I'm going to have a tail anyway." She sassed.

"Don't you sass me," He pointed his finger in a joking motion. "Happy!" Clay yelled and did a come here motion. Daphne's face was a mixture of horror and embarrassment; she quickly changed her gaze to the floor. As happy was on his way to the table Daphne was packing up her stuff and trying not to make eye contact with him. "I need to you to tail Daph home."

"I'm ready to go when you are," Daphne informed him. He gave no response just turned to walk out the door. She bent down to give clay a kiss on the check and told him "Night Dad."

"Goodnight sweetheart, check in on your ma for me!". She walked out the door only to see Happy sitting on his bike. She got in to her car and took off toward her house. The stereo playing Shake it off by, the ever present on the radio, Taylor Swift* music in the background trying to hold out the silence of the night. She looked out the back window to see Happy's headlight following like a ghost. Keeping her safe but still scaring the shit out of her. It wasn't what he did for the club that's scared her, but his attitude towards her. He never gave anything away to any of the guys but she knew he thought of her as spoiled princess, in truth she is spoiled and the princess of a motorcycle club, she never denied that accusation from her peers. The fact was that she didn't want the club to think that of her, happy in particular.

The trip to her house was short and filled with her thoughts about to explode from her head; she could almost hear the comic boom. She parked her car and kept Happy's bike in the corner of her vision, unlocked the door and gave him a small thank you wave then quickly made her way inside to close the door. The door almost closed when Happy's foot appear in the space left, his hand grabbing the door to pull it back open. He didn't speak just stared her down.

…TBC…

*let us hope she doesn't hear about this. I really don't want to be sued anytime soon.

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