Wanted to thank you guys for all the reviews, faves, follows yet again. Also wanna give a shout out to ericzmic (loyal reader/reviewer) who gave me one of the ideas for this chapter. And also Brooklyn Knight (my beta, my bestie, my soulmate :D) who gave me quite a few other ideas for this chapter. Love y'all to pieces! And all my readers. This story has made it longer than I thought it would when I first started.
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It was the first day Lana had returned to work since Kozik had woken up. The ER had been overstaffed so she'd been sent to help in the outpatient clinic. The receptionist handed her a new chart and she flipped through it quickly to see what she was dealing with, not bothering with any of the basic patient information such as name and age.
She stepped out into the waiting room and looked at the patient name to call them back. She froze for a moment and then looked up spotting him immediately.
She slammed the chart closed and glared at him. "Happy Lowman." She tried to keep the anger out of her voice.
He hesitated, before getting up and reluctantly following her. They were both silent as Lana led him down the hall to a room. She closed the door after him and tossed the chart down on the counter.
"Are you fucking kidding me?!" She blew up as soon as the door was closed.
"Why aren't you in the ER?" He asked, trying to avoid the inevitable argument.
"Gonorrhea?!" She sighed when he didn't answer. "Sit." She motioned to a chair. "How many of them have you fucked?" She asked, opening drawers.
"Probably all of them." He said irritably.
"How many of them have you fucked without a condom?" She asked more specifically.
"Just the one."
"The bitch in Tacoma?" She asked.
Happy sighed. "Yes. I got drunk, fucked some whore without even thinking about wrapping up first, and now I'm regretting it." He was getting pissed with all the questions.
"Hey don't get pissed at me. The questions are routine. It's highly recommended any recent… partners get tested." She was quiet for a moment before continuing. "Was there anyone else before Tacoma?"
"No." He said firmly, looking her directly in the eye.
She narrowed her eyes at him. "Are you lying to me?"
"NO." Lana held eye contact with him for moment before deciding she believed him. "Why do I even have to be here? Why can't they just give me pills?" He complained.
"Dr.'s orders say injectable antibiotics." Lana said as she gathered all the supplies she would need on a tray. "Burns like a motherfucker." She said as she turned back around with a very satisfied smile on her face.
Lana pulled his arm out so it was resting on the little table attached to the chair and wrapped a tourniquet around his upper arm, tying it and tightening it way more than necessary.
Happy watched her as she cleaned his arm with an alcohol swab and felt for the vein. She went about placing an IV catheter in his arm before releasing the tourniquet. As she reached up to hang the IV bag from the hook next to the chair, her scrub top slipped up, exposing her stomach and Happy caught a glimpse of his crow. He wanted so badly to reach out and run his hand over her soft skin, or even his tongue, knowing the effect it would have on her. He could just imagine the way she would shiver under his touch.
After bleeding the fluid line of air, Lana connected it to the catheter in his arm and unclamped the line, letting the fluid in the bag flow.
"Son of a bitch!" Happy said as he felt the burn. He felt like his arm was on fire.
Lana said nothing, simply smirked at him, getting a tremendous amount of satisfaction from his pain.
A moment went by before Happy spoke again. "I know you're enjoying this, but can't you just give it to me all at once?"
"Sorry. IV antibiotics have to go slow. Now sit still."
They sat there in silence for a while longer. Lana tried to ignore him, keeping her eyes on the fluid bag and just praying the time would go by fast. Happy watched her, hoping she would talk to him. Most of what she'd said to him the past couple months had been 'fuck you.'
"Lana, what do you want me to say?" Happy asked after a moment.
"I don't want you to say anything." She mumbled, still avoiding his gaze.
"What do you want me to do then?"
"You've done enough, Happy." She said, finally looking at him.
She saw the look of frustration in his eyes and was surprised he didn't just rip the IV out of his arm and leave. He was trying to control his temper for once.
She watched him for a minute, knowing he was waiting for her to make the next move. "I am not gonna come crawling back to you. You fucked up, not me. What I did was just to show you how it feels." She lowered her eyes, trying to rein in her emotions. Then she looked back up at him. "I don't like this any more than you do, but if one guy making a comment about you having an old lady is enough to get to you, I don't give a fuck how drunk you were, maybe you and me just isn't a good idea anymore."
"Dammit, Lana!" He yelled, balling up his fist and hitting the arm of the chair.
Lana was having a hard time keeping her resolve. Her emotions were at war with each other. One part of her wanted to slap him and scream at him for being such an asshole, but she knew he'd meant it when he said he wouldn't stand for it the next time she hit him. The other part of her wanted to just give in and fall into his arms, but she had to show him it wasn't going to be that easy. He had to understand that if she ever did get over this, he would never get another chance if he strayed again.
She ignored him the rest of the time it took to administer the antibiotics. When they were done, she removed the catheter from his arm and wrapped a bandage around it. He stood and looked down at her for a moment and she didn't move away. The proximity to him felt so right and she wanted to soak it in for a just a few more seconds.
Snapping herself out of it all of a sudden, she started cleaning up the supplies she'd used. "You'll have to come back in a month to be retested." She said, not looking at him. "Keep it in your pants till then so you don't go spreading this shit in the meantime."
SOA
"Did you talk to her man?" Happy asked as he sat down next to Kozik at the bar a few days later.
"Yeah, I told you I talked to her right after I got outta the hospital. Told her to get over it. Guess it's just a competition to see which one of you is more stubborn now."
"I told you to talk to her again." Happy knew he sounded like a whiny little child, but even with Kozik backing him on this he felt like he didn't stand a chance.
"What do you want me to say to her, Hap? She doesn't listen to me anymore than she listens to your dumb ass."
Happy sighed. "I saw her the other day."
"When?" Kozik asked, looking up at Happy.
"At the hospital." He paused when Kozik looked at him confused. "That bitch in Tacoma, I was fucked up… Didn't use a condom."
Kozik chuckled to himself. "Dumb ass."
"Yeah, I know." Happy grumbled. "I tried talking to her; she wanted nothing to do with me."
"You know she does. She's just putting up walls to try and make it easier for herself. You gotta break that shit down. She's doing the exact opposite of what I told her. She's trying to make you go to her first."
Lana walked into the clubhouse and saw Happy and Kozik sitting together at the bar. She was about to turn and leave when she saw one of the croweaters go over to them and shove her oversized tits in Happy's face. It was some new girl, the same one Happy had been with at the last party. She should've kicked her ass then.
Her blood boiled like it always did when she saw him around one of the bitches, but this time he didn't take the bait. She couldn't make out everything he was saying from across the room, but she got the gist of it. He was telling the bitch to fuck off.
She slowly got the hint and apparently decided to turn her attention and effort to Kozik. She threw her arm around his shoulders and sat down in his lap before Kozik could even react. That's when Lana lost it.
She quickly crossed the room and pushed the other girl away from Kozik. "Did you miss me beating the shit outta that other whore at the last party or are you just that stupid?"
The girl stood and turned, placing her hands on her hips, showing no fear. It was hard to determine whether she was more ballsy or more stupid. Lana briefly wondered if that was why Happy liked her. She knew plenty of people wondered the same about her.
"Honey, you got no right to tell anyone whether or not they can touch a man that ain't yours anymore."
Lana slowly stepped forward and got in the taller girl's face. "Happy might not be mine anymore, but Kozik still is and it was his lap that your skank ass was sitting in just now, so unless you want your face smashed in just like that other bitch, I highly fucking suggest you walk away right now." She said in a dangerous tone, conveying all her anger and her authority as Kozik's old lady through her words.
Stupid whore still didn't back down. "Are you sure he's your man? You sure he ain't runnin around on you? I might still be new around here, but us whores talk honey. I've heard things." She grinned, letting Lana know the insults weren't getting to her.
Lana suddenly reached over and pulled Kozik's knife from under his cut. Staring at the blade, she flashed a dangerous smirk to the other girl as she lightly ran her finger along the sharp edge. "Touch my man again and I'll cut those fake tits right off."
"Lana, chill." Kozik said, gently taking the knife back.
"Get outta here." Happy ordered the croweater.
"You're a crazy fuckin bitch." Kozik muttered, shaking his head as he put his knife away.
"I got my point across." She grinned.
SOA
The next day Kozik lay on the couch watching TV, when Lana walked into the room and leaned over the back of the couch. She yawned, bored of whatever Harley show he was fixated on now. She ran her fingers up and down his arm, trying to distract him, but his attention was still on the TV.
Lana walked around the couch and sat down next to him. She placed her hands on his chest and started kissing his neck, running her hands down and slipping them under his shirt and back up. He tossed the remote down, forgetting about the TV, and wrapped his arms around her. He pulled her over him so she was lying on top of him and rested his hands on her waist as he began grinding against her core.
His phone went off with a text and he sighed as Lana continued to nuzzle his neck. "Who is it?" She asked, taking his ear lobe in between her teeth and hoping he didn't have to leave.
"No one." He said. It was Happy asking if he ordered some parts they needed at the garage, but he didn't want to tell Lana it was him. He was enjoying having her to himself. Yeah, he liked the whole three-way thing they'd had going before, but he'd never really had time with her, just them. Nothing more than a day or two at most. He didn't feel like her connection with Happy was getting in the way of her connection with him. For once she was thinking of just him.
Over the next few minutes, their cuddling session became quite heated. They were both naked now, Kozik had flipped Lana so she was under him and he slid into her heat. His phone went off again, but they both ignored it as he began moving in and out of her.
She wrapped her legs around him and pulled his head down to hers, kissing him. He bent his head down and took her nipple into his mouth while his hand covered her other breast and she drug her nails down his back.
The phone went off again. It was beginning to frustrate him. The asshole knew it was his day off and he could swear he was just trying to cock block him. He ran his other hand up Lana's thigh roughly, slamming into her harder and then sliding his hand in between them, finding her clit. He moved his mouth back up to her neck and bit her gently, making her shiver.
He ran his fingers through her folds and flicked her clit again as he buried himself as deep as he could, making her come at the same time he did.
"Fuck!" He said when his phone went off again.
"Why don't you just turn it off?" Lana asked, grabbing the phone before him this time.
She opened the text to see Happy's name and her face fell. She handed the phone to Kozik and pushed him off of her, getting up and heading back to the bedroom where she pulled on a pair of boy shorts and a tank top.
A minute later he followed her. "Are you still that in love with him?" He asked, already irritated.
"Fuck him." She said.
"That's not what I asked, Lana. Tell me, because for fuck's sake, I'm loving havin you all to myself, but if you're not happy, if it's not enough, then it's not gonna work and you gotta say something."
She looked down at the floor as she sat down on the bed. "I want it to be enough…" She said quietly.
"Lana, I got no issues with you wanting him back. If that's the only way I can have you, I'll take it. He's my brother and there's no one else I'd let near my old lady." He said. "Yeah, he fucked up, but so did I not too long ago."
"That was completely different." Lana stood and glared at him. "At least you didn't fuck your little bitch right there in front of everyone. And you had the decency to wear a damn condom. Not to mention it was before we had actually agreed on no road pussy."
Kozik's phone rang before he could respond. It was Chibs so he knew he had to answer. He looked at Lana. "If you really can't get over this, then we'll go get that blacked out tomorrow." He said, pointing at Happy's crow before he answered the call.
Kozik walked out of the room as he talked to Chibs and Lana looked at herself in the mirror, her eyes going to the crow on her hip. She couldn't imagine it not being there and it made her really sad to even think about getting it covered up. She couldn't keep doing this. She couldn't keep stringing Happy, and herself for that matter, along. She had to make a choice.
"Hey, I gotta run by the clubhouse. You gonna stay here?" Kozik poked his head back in the room after hanging up with Chibs.
Lana shook her head. "No." She said, looking him in the eye.
He knew what she was thinking and nodded his head in understanding. "Then hurry up and get some clothes on."
They pulled into the lot a short while later and Lana saw Happy and Tig working in the garage. She kissed Kozik as he headed for the clubhouse and she made her way into the garage.
"Tig! Out!" She barked. He raised his eyebrows at her order, but complied when he looked back at Happy who nodded at him.
Once he left, Lana walked straight toward Happy, who was now watching her intently. She put her hands on his shoulders and pushed him back into the wall as hard as she could and kissed him. He froze, shocked, before kissing her back. She slipped her hands under his shirt and over his abs, lightly digging her nails into the muscle.
Suddenly, she broke away from him and looked him in the eye. She reached down and grabbed a firm hold of his semi hard cock. "If you EVER fuck another bitch again, I'll cut this off with your own damn knife. Got it?" She asked, squeezing just enough for it to hurt.
He nodded quickly. "Got it."
