Chapter 34:
Happy lead Liv to a table filled with Sons and the girls that they were able to pick up at the club. She couldn't believe that she hadn't noticed them sooner, they were pretty much directly across the club from where she had been sitting and they were not exactly an inconspicuous group of men. Liv smiled as she spotted Montez who was talking with a man who was heavier set, he had light brown hair and a goatee. Liv noticed his President flash across his right breast pocket of his cut. She would wait until Montez wasn't busy to speak with him, she knew better than to interfere with club business…well unless it came to saving someone she cared about and then it was no-holds-barred.
"I know I told you I would let you buy me a drink but I am getting you one. Count it as me making up for being such an ass." Happy said into Liv's ear. She hadn't even noticed his close proximity and it made her stomach leap wildly. She pulled her lower lip into her mouth and bit the corner of it and nodded at Happy. Was he apologizing to her? Did he miss her as much as she missed him?
"I'll take that as a yes." Happy chuckled as he walked towards the bar leaving Liv with the rest of the club members.
Liv watched Happy at the bar admiring his body but it wasn't long before a muscularly build man with short shaved gray hair and a trimmed beard was in front of Olivia blocking her view. "Well hello there, beautiful." He ran his hand down her arm. She flinched and pulled her arm away from. "Whoa, sweetheart easy. I just wanted to see if you wanted a drink or maybe a dance." His gaze traveled down her body and back up lingering on her chest a little longer than he should have.
"No, thank you. I already have one coming." Liv tried to glance around his large body to see if Happy was coming back but she couldn't see him.
"Oh yeah? And who happens to be doing that?" He asked being more nosy than he needed to be.
"Me." Happy's voice came from behind the man. "Beat it." Happy walked around the man and handed Liv her beer and then put his arm around Liv's waist possessively. Liv tried to hold back her smile but was failing miserably at it. "Let's go sit down." He led Liv to a table located behind the group of men that were standing around.
"Thanks for the beer, Happy." Liv sat down in the half moon booth, Happy sat down next to her, his brown eyes taking every inch of her in. He had missed her.
"No problem. So how is life treating you?" Happy asked.
Well, he wasn't beating around the bush. Liv took a drink of her beer and placed it on the table before answering him. "It's been pretty good. I love it here in Portland and thinking about moving here permanently. School went well over the year, I should be finished next summer if I take another double class load."
Happy noticed there was no mention of Juice. "What are you going to school for?" He had heard Tig talking to Lyla about Liv one day and how she was running herself ragged, with work and classes.
"Counseling, specifically battered women. I want to use my experiences to help others." Liv shuttered a bit thinking about what she had sent through and hoped that no other woman has gone through what she had.
Happy's hand traveled to Liv's. "You okay?" Her reaction did not go unnoticed.
"Oh, yeah, I am fine. I just hope that no other woman has to go through what I did." She gave Happy a small smile. "I mean the best things that came out of it are my dad and you."
Was Happy hearing things? "Even after everything that happened between us?"
Liv snorted, "Yes, even after everything that happened between us, Happy." She had never loved anyone like she had loved him. Happy studied her face, "you may as well ask what you are thinking." Liv knew he was wondering about her and Juice.
"What about the r…Juice?" He wanted to know if he was okay to move forward, although with how his body felt when he was near Olivia he probably wouldn't care if she was still with the rat.
"Things didn't work out between Juice and me. We were just too different and my heart was somewhere else." Liv confessed; at that very moment she had not regretted anything more than every moment she was away from Happy. Her heart was pounding hard in her chest, she swallowed hard as she waited for Happy's response.
She isn't with Juice anymore! Ran rapidly on repetition through Happy's head. He couldn't have felt more delighted. "So things didn't work out." Was all he managed to say in response. 'My heart was somewhere else…' Liv's voice echoed. Where was it? If it was still with him he didn't deserve it. Of course he could hope; he strived to be worthy of her.
Liv let out a quiet laugh, it was almost as if she could see the gears in Happy's head turning. "Happy?" He turned and looked at her, "There isn't anyone else; there has been anyone else for almost a year." Okay well 8 months but still it was long enough. Here she was confessing to Happy that she had missed him and hadn't been with anyone because of him and he just stared at her. "Seriously Happy say something!" Liv shifted nervously under his gaze. What if he didn't feel the same way about her? He did let her leave Charming and never came after her.
He had always been a man of few words but now when he wanted them he didn't have any. Olivia still cared, her heart still belonged to him. He had always been a man of action he thought to himself as he took Liv's face into his hands and gazed into the fathomless icy blue eyes that stared back. Happy took his chance and moved his lips to Liv's. The soft full lips he had dreamt about kissing almost nightly.
Liv's breathing hitched as Happy's lips met hers. She was pretty sure she would melt into a puddle. Happy's tongue moved into Liv's mouth, he tasted like alcohol; her body felt like it was on fire. She moaned quietly against his mouth as she adjusted her body so she could wrap her arms around him. It felt so good to have him so close again, she didn't care how many people were around and who was watching them. She was in Happy's arms once more.
A voice clearing at the table pulled Liv and Happy from their kiss. The kiss that let Liv panting and wanting for more. A grim look passed over Happy's face as he glared over at the person who was standing on the other side of the table.
"Montez!" Liv smiled broadly as she scooted away from Happy and scurried around that table to embrace him. "How are you?" She asked as they parted.
"I'm good but not as good as you two." He smirked as he looked over at an annoyed Happy. "How are you and why are you here?" He asked out of politeness towards Liv and the look that Happy was giving him was telling him to get lost.
Olivia's cheeks flushed slightly, "I'm doing good. I live in Portland now, I go to school here. My roommates are getting married in a few weeks and we're here celebrating their bachelor/bachelorette party."
Montez raised one of his eyebrows, what a stroke of luck on Happy's behalf. "Have any hot friends?" He smirked.
"Um…if you're into guys I do." Liv teased glancing back at Happy who was gazing at her. He had an undertone of lust in his eyes, it was subtle enough that only someone who knew him well enough would catch on. She flashed him a coy smiled and turned back to Montez.
"Well I am not into men so that would be a no." Montez smiled. "I should let you get back to Happy. It's good to see you, Liv. Don't be a stranger, we miss you in Charming." He turned and head back towards another group of bikers.
Liv leaned over the table towards Happy, giving him an eye full of her cleavage. "You want to get out of here?" She questioned.
"Fuck yeah." He said gruffly. He wanted to finally peel Liv out of that dress. He couldn't stop himself from thinking about the first time he had seen Liv in the dress and how it made him feel. He needed to stay sitting for a little longer.
"I have to go get my stuff from where my friends are sitting. I'll be right back." She grabbed her beer from the table and took one long drink from what was left, placed back on the table and walked to the other side of the club.
Liv smiled at Chase, who was snuggled close to Reese on a bench. "Back so soon?" He questioned as Liv leaned over him to grab her clutch she had brought.
"You should have asked if I was leaving so soon." She winked at him. "How did Glen take it?"
Chase smirked, "Glen was okay. He still thinks you're hot so there is that. BTWs…I am glad that I am not the only one who is going to get lucky tonight. The house is going to be bangin' tonight." He poked Reese, who rolled his eyes and shook his head.
"We'll go to my house tonight, Liv…you don't need my nosey boyfriend standing outside your door." Reese gave Chase a grim look.
Chase waved his hand in the air, "This is a momentous occasion Reese. Sister might need some help with her moves."
Liv scoffed at him, "Oh my god, you are acting like I am about to lose my virginity. It has only been eightish months since I have had sex. I had a longer dry spell than that before I met Juice. Not that big of a deal. And don't worry this sister hasn't forgot her moves." A night with Happy was worth the wait but she wasn't going to tell Chase that.
"Well if things don't work out with tall, dark and dangerous…Glen is still available." Liv stuck her tongue out at him. Chase patted her ass as she turned to walk away. "Have fun…don't do anything I wouldn't do!" Chase yelled after her, she flipped her middle finger at him as she shook her head.
Happy was talking to Montez and Monroe when Liv walked up from behind him and ran her hand up his back under his cut. He regarded with a small smile. "Monroe, want you to meet, Liv."
Liv smiled and took the man's hand, he was the same one that Montez had been talking to when she walked up with Happy. "Nice to meet you." She smiled.
"You're Tig's daughter?" He asked. He would have recognized those blue eyes anywhere. He had heard he had a kid with Arya before she fell off the face of Earth.
"I am. It's official and everything." Liv smiled. Happy gave her a confused look. "Oh I thought my dad would have told the whole club, he was so excited…I changed my last name to Trager when I started classes." Tig was thrilled when Olivia had asked if she could take his last name. She wanted to start new and a name change seemed like the perfect way to start. She figured if it was that easy for the clubs enemies to find her; it was easy enough for Marks and Cartwright to find her so why not change her name. She was after all a Trager.
"We'll good thing you don't have your dad's ugly mug." Monroe joked. "Feel free to let us know if you need anything while you are in Oregon."
Liv smiled at him, "I will. Thank you." It was true once you were family of one charter, you became family to them all. Well at least when it came to the mother charter. "You ready to go?" Liv glanced up at Happy who nodded and took her hand into his. What a contrast it was from Glen's clammy nervous hand to Happy's confident grasp. She couldn't wait to get onto the back on Happy's bike, she felt thrilled to the core.
"Where are we going?" Happy asked as they walked out into the quiet of the street.
"My house isn't too far from here, unless you have a better place?" Liv raised her eye brow as if to challenge Happy.
"Woman don't test me because I would fuck you right here in the street but I respect you far too much to do that." If it was anyone else other that Olivia he would have bent her over a car and fucked but this was the woman he dreamed about. "Let's go to your place."
A/N: Thanks everyone for your continued support. You're FABULOUS! I know I tell you that all the time but seriously you are. Be prepared for some smuttiness in the next chapter. Please let me know what you think! 3