Happy sat in the chapel letting the words Clay was saying sink in. His face betrayed little emotion but internally he was seething. The only display of the emotions he was feeling were his fingers tapping restlessly against the table. He understood now why Hailey had been so withdrawn. She knew. She had to have. That night when he had told her Clay had been shot he hadn't seen shock on her face but something else, almost like she'd been expecting it. He had heard the apprehension in her voice, but there had been relief too, perhaps that it hadn't been Ope lying in a hospital bed clinging to life. She must have known too that her brother had been the one to shoot Clay in retaliation of what he had done to Piney. He understood also all the hushed conversations with Jax. That smug look on Jax's face told him that his brother and president had known also. He was glad it was all coming out like this without him having to force Clay's hand.
A vote. Jax was saying something about a vote on what to do about Clay. Live with it for a while. Vote on it in a day or two. Gavel down. Chapel over. Without a word Happy rose and left the chapel, his brothers doing the same letting Clay's words sink into their own minds. Happy could tell Tig had taken it especially hard but he had to find Hailey. He hoped that she had listened and come to the lot as he'd asked.
He got his answer as soon as he stepped outside and found her sitting on the picnic table.
He strode towards her placed his arm around her waist and pulled her to him before she could protest. "You knew." Was all he said. He watched as a wash of relief came over her face. "You knew that it was Clay who killed your dad." She nodded. "And that Opie was the one to shoot Clay?" She nodded again.
"I'm sorry Hap. I couldn't tell you. Jax wouldn't let me."
"Shit Princess. He should never have put that on you."
"I'm really sorry Hap. He told me that he had to sort things out first."
"It's okay Princess." He said brushing a lone tear from the corner of her eye. "I'll talk to him. How long have you known?"
"Since the night Clay was shot. Opie confronted Jax with his suspicions at the crematorium that night. I of course heard it all and then when you told me Clay had been shot I knew it had to be Ope. Jax confirmed it all but said I couldn't tell you or anyone else for that matter."
"Shit Princess! Really?"
"Yeah." She answered wrapping her arms around his neck. "I'm so glad you finally know. I don't think I'd have been able to hold it together much longer."
"That's why you've been so distant?"
"Yeah. With so much that I couldn't tell you I didn't know how else to deal with it. I'm sorry Hap."
"Don't be. It's not your fault. You a'right?"
"Yeah." She smiled. For the first time in three weeks she meant it and for the first time in three weeks he believed her.
He pulled her lips to his and kissed her, relishing the taste of her lips upon his once more. He smiled as she drew away, that beautiful seductive little smile upon her face once more.
"Listen baby. I got things to do. We'll talk later 'kay?"
"Okay Hap," She smiled and released her grip on him as he kissed her forehead before heading over to his bike to take care of whatever club business called.
"Clay said it was self defense Princess." Happy said as she lay in his arms later that night.
"I don't believe that for a second Hap."
"Princess …" Happy began but Hailey interrupted him.
"Shit had been brewing between them for weeks Hap. Tara was digging around old secrets and stirring shit up while you were all still inside. Pop got pissed at her for it. I think whatever it was Clay got wind of it and Pop was holding it over him. Whatever shit it was it was big enough to threaten Clay's place at the head of the table. I think he killed Pop so whatever it was he wouldn't tell the club."
"That's a mighty big allegation there Princess." He said raising his eyebrows.
"I think it's the truth Happy. I think Clay is lying."
"Listen Princess, they never saw eye to eye on the cartel. Your dad made no secret of that. Every time something went wrong he drove his point deeper and deeper into Clay. Maybe it wasn't self defense, maybe he did mean to kill him, but whatever it was going on between them it's been going on a long time. They always scraped it aside for the sake of the club. I guess Clay was no longer able to do that."
"I wanna know the truth Hap, not Clay's bullshit explanation."
Happy sighed. "Truth always comes out in the end Princess. Just leave it a'right? Things will sort out."
"But Hap he killed my father. He killed a member of the club. Why is he still breathing?"
"That's for the club to decide Princess. Stay out of it okay?"
"But Tara said …"
"I don't give a shit what Tara knows Princess. Jax tells her too fuckin' much. I don't want you involved like that okay?"
Hailey sighed. "Yeah Hap. I know. I don't wanna know it all like she does. You know that, but I swear whatever crap she was digging around in while you were inside has something to do with it. I want to know the truth about why my father was killed."
"You will Princess. All in good time you will. I'll make sure of it."
She smiled an appreciative smile at him before raising herself up and resting her arms on his chest and gazing into his dark as sin eyes that she loved getting lost in before changing the subject.
"So I noticed an extra patch on your kutte this morning Killer." She said seductively. "You wanna tell me about it?"
He smiled sexily back at her. "Jax made me his Sergeant at Arms since Opie decided to step away. Chibs stepped up to VP. Maybe you'd have noticed it sooner if you hadn't been so busy being pissed at me."
"I wasn't being pissed at you I just didn't know how to deal with all the shit that was blowing up around me when I couldn't tell you about it. Anyways it kinda turned me on a little." She said with a sexy purr to her voice.
"You know I sometimes forget it's the danger of this little world of ours that turns you on." He answered, lust beginning to dance in his eyes.
"I shacked up with you didn't I Killer?" She purred.
"You sure did Princess." He growled taking in the delicious look in her eyes.
"So did you get your dick sucked while you were on the road this time?" She asked as she traced her fingers across the serpent tattooed on his head.
"Yeah. You said you were okay with that." He answered her with apprehension.
"Yeah I did but I think I may have changed my mind." She said running her hand down his torso as she made her way down to his cock, taking it into her hand and grinning up at him devilishly before taking him into her mouth.
"Fuck Princess, no one else makes me hard like you do." He graveled as he hardened the instant her tongue circled his head. She drew him in and out of her mouth, trailing the tip of her tongue up and down his shaft, around his base and allowing him deep within her throat exactly the way she knew he liked it until she felt him begin to quiver with his impending release. She licked her tongue across his balls as he spilled down her throat.
"Oh Hailey…" he growled as she sucked his head dry and then crawled over him on all fours to hover over him, her steel blue eyes meeting his dark ones that blazed with ecstasy. "No more road whores, okay?"
"You have my word Princess." He said before she engulfed his lips with her own. Her kiss was deep and demanding telling him that she needed him in her. He growled flipping her off him to her back. He kissed her, biting her bottom lip and then kissed a trail down her breasts, circling his tongue around her nipple.
"Oh Christ Hap!" She moaned as he ran his fingers across her opening, sinking them into her before teasingly taking them away. She whimpered in frustration.
"Tell me what you want Princess." His voice rasped in her ear as she pressed her body against his.
"I want you Happy." She murmured.
"Where do you want me?" He growled as her hips writhed against him.
"I want you inside me, Hap."
"Yeah?"
"Yeah." She murmured biting her lip as he ran the tip of his cock across her clit. He ran his thumb down the side of her cheek, gazed into her eyes with that look he knew did her in every time.
"You want it now?" he growled feeling her hips begin to quiver under him. He knew he had her ever so close to coming without even being in her yet.
"Yes Happy. Christ just fuck me already!" She moaned.
"Like this?"
"Yes." She gasped as she finally felt him sink into her, coming before he was even all the way in.
"Oh my god, Happy." She moaned as his slow and deliberate movements in and out of her teased out the last waves of searing bliss, extending her orgasm longer than she thought possible. She scraped her nails down his back.
"Already Princess?" He smirked.
"You knew that was gonna happen with all that teasing." She murmured breathily.
"Yeah I did." He growled burying himself deep within her, watching her eyes roll back in her head as her orgasm simmered away. He dragged his fingers through her hair, pressed his lips hard against hers, and drew her tongue into his mouth as his hips rolled against her.
She pulled her mouth away from his gasping for air, digging her nails into his shoulders as she felt him edging closer to his release. He growled as her walls tightened around him. "Deeper baby." She moaned, tilting her hips, drawing him into her as deep as he could go.
"Come with me Princess." He growled.
She moaned and ran her hand down his back to his ass that she gripped hard pressing him into her as they both blazed toward a simultaneous climax.
"Oh Christ baby." She moaned as he drew out of her, his touch against her hip making her whole body quiver. He trailed his fingers through her hair and gazed upon the awestruck look in her eyes that he loved knowing he'd put there.
"Definitely no more road whores Princess." He said earnestly never losing her gaze.
Her sweet contented smile took over her face as she drew his lips to hers, her body still blazing with pleasure. He rolled off her and pulled her to his side.
"Promise me we'll never fight again Hap." She murmured against his shoulder.
"Not sure that's a promise I can keep if the makeup sex is that good Princess." He smirked.
She moved to rise over him and playfully slapped him before taking his cock in her hand to make him hard again. "Christ Princess. You tryin' to kill me?"
She smiled devilishly before engulfing his lips into a deep possessive kiss, the kind of kiss that only leads to one thing.
A/N: Nothing like a bit of fluff and smut amongst the mayhem! :P ~Rach