What Does it Mean to Trust

by at8c

What does it mean to Trust? Will Stephanie understands what it means to trust when something happens that makes her question every man in her life including the merry men. NOT CUPCAKE FRIENDLY, NOT MORELLI or HELEN PLUM FRIENDLY.

28. Chapter 27: Girl's Night Out Pt2

These characters belong to Janet I am just borrowing them for my amusement. Although I would love to keep Ranger and the merry men for myself!

This story does contain violence, and touches on dark subject matters. This story is not friendly to Morelli or Helen Plum so for Cupcake fans you have been warned.

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Chapter 27: Girl's Night Out Pt2

SPOV

Fuck! Valerie what the hell is she doing here? Why isn't she home being the perfect mother to her perfect husband in the perfect fucking burg home? Isn't it a cardinal sin or something by the burg bible that a wife and mother isn't allowed to be out of the house alone after midnight? It isn't that I hate my sister I know it sounds like I do but I don't. Actually I love her but she gets under my skin.

She has always been the perfect one. The one that Mom and Dad were always proud of, she brought home the A's while I brought home the C's and D's oh well school was boring as hell what can I say? College well college wasn't a whole lot different for me only it was one big fucking party and I enjoyed the partying more than the studying what can I say I hold that top 98th class placement title with pride. It actually takes work to earn that baby it doesn't come easy. It takes dedication and commitment to partying to do that and I had the dedication and commitment in spades.

Valerie was the one that excelled at home EC classes her brownies were always perfect mine were disastrous hockey pucks and that is if they weren't flaming and not the good kind of flaming who knew brownies could actually catch on fire? Dance classes where I did nothing but disappoint and embarrass my mom. Even though I know Bobby said that dance class was more my teachers fault than mine why did Valerie excel and I well fell flat on my ass both literally and figuratively if it was the teacher's fault then it sounds like Valerie would have faltered as well but no she was perfect, the perfect little ballerina.

I didn't want to do this tonight with her. I knew mom had sent her she wouldn't come out on her own accord it isn't like she ever chose to hang out with me or come to a girl's night out ever. I wanted to have fun, dance and spend time with my real friends and my chosen family that loved me not the ones that claimed to love me and only wanted to change me.

Before she made it to the table I gave my brothers a look they all read it that I didn't want to have this confrontation here. Lester stood up first offering me his hand stating that the song starting was his favorite song and that he just had to dance to it. I graciously and thankfully took his hand and followed him to the dance floor.

When we reached the dance floor we started dancing to Enrique Iglesias "Tonight I am loving you" maybe I could just stay out on the dance floor until Valerie leaves that would be the perfect plan just avoid her. Surely she wouldn't stay long and the last thing I wanted to do is yell at her in here but I knew if I had to hear how I was ruining my life and throwing away my chance at happiness by hanging with my brothers and Carlos I would lose it and it wouldn't be pretty. I am the happiest I have ever been in my life and someone trying to get between me and them wouldn't fair well even my blood relatives wasn't going to tear me from my adopted family.

"Thanks Lester for asking me to dance" I tell him. He smiles at me "anytime Beautiful besides I love seeing that ass of yours gyrating on the dance floor." He tells me. So to thank him I turn around and shake my ass good for him and I hear him chock out a "damn" which I just laugh and turn back around to him. He was laughing too but then I saw the seriousness come into this eyes, fuck he isn't going to let me hide out or go to denial land. Lester doesn't let me get by with that shit I should have asked Woody, Hal, or Cal to dance they would let me hang out in blissful denial land until Valerie left but when I am feeling stress Lester is who I turn to when I don't have Carlos.

"Beautiful why didn't you want to talk to your sister?" he asked me. "Because I didn't want to" I tried to tell him but I could see he wasn't going to let that be the answer. Fuck…double fuck…no triple fuck because now I was dancing on the floor with Lester, no one would cut in on our dancing and he was going to make me talk about this and deal with this and then we would probably go deal with Valerie in the end because he would say it would be better for my emotional health in the end. Sad thing is I knew he was right and I knew this was exactly why I treasured him as my best friend, he made me strong.

I growled at him and not in a "I want to fuck your brains out" kind of way but in a way that said not going to go there but that I knew I had no choice but to give in and tell him what he wanted because we both knew he wasn't going to drop it.

"I wanted to have fun tonight, hang out with my friends, my brother's and have fun talking, laughing, dancing I didn't want to have to deal with the drama of my blood relatives, I didn't want to hear attacks on my brothers and how I am jeopardizing my happiness when I am the happiest I have ever been in my life. I didn't want to have a confrontation with her here. I know how ugly it will get and I didn't want that to be how this night ended. I wanted to have fun." I told him I could feel tears stinging my eyes but I wouldn't let them fall.

He just shook his head. "Stephanie" oh shit he is pulling a Carlos and using my full name to let me know how serious he is right now. I look up at him at this point I don't know if I am dancing or not "You trust me?" he asks me. What the fuck? "Yes Lester I trust you, you are my brother my best friend I trust you with my life, you already know that." I tell him. He just nods and continues "You trust me when I say that I have your back?" He asked me I nod to him "Yes I trust that you will always have my back." Still trying to figure out where he was going with this.

He grabs my hand looking at me he says "then trust me when I say I got this and that I have that beautiful derrière of yours covered." Does he know what the hell he is getting himself into? I mean this is my sister queen of the perfect being sent here by my mother queen of the bitch.

Song changed to Pitbull's "Give Me Everything" started playing and we continued to dance I wasn't sure what Lester had in mind but I wasn't going to worry about it I was going to get lost in the rhythm of this song on the dance floor and forget about Valerie being here to fuck up my fun evening.

LPOV

I am dancing with Beautiful trying to come up with a plan for how to handle this. She has come so far this week. She has found confidence in herself, she has felt successful, her self esteem was getting higher by the day and I was going to be damn if I was going to let anyone break that down again including her sister. I just wasn't sure yet what to do to prevent it. I asked her if she trusted me to handle the situation because one I wanted to make sure she would be okay with me handling it for her and two I wanted her to know that I would always have her back. I know I joke about covering her ass but she knows it is just a joke. Not that I don't think her ass is every bit as sexy as I tell her.

I am debating if we both should go over to the table or if I should get one of the other guys to step in while I go to the table and have a chat with Valerie alone. Hell maybe I can make her so uncomfortable that she will just leave. After all I have heard she is perfect, refined, and from what I have heard a little prudish and let's face it I am none of those things. This might be fun afterall.

The music changes and I know this beat. Prince's "Kiss" oh we are going to burn this dance floor up. "Beautiful follow along with me okay?" as I take her in my arms. I am not sure she knows how to Tango but I am about to teach her. I know odd song to Tango to but trust me it works, and it works good. I start the steps and she follows right along.

She may not think she is a good dancer but she knows how to follow and that makes her a good dancer. You can tell when you are looking good on the dance floor by how many eyes are on you. Right now I would say we are pretty damn fine as most all of the eyes are on us. She looks amazing. I send a few glares to a couple of the guys that are at this point leering at the woman in my arms. We are definitely putting on a show. I would be willing to bet sex for a week that Valerie couldn't hold a candle to my Beautiful out here even with all of her fucking precious dance lessons.

Valerie's POV

I walked into the club, the only way they let me in the club was because I told them my sister was in here and I needed to tell her something that was important and couldn't wait. The security person had me point out my sister to him and when I pointed to Stephanie he opened the barrier for me.

The club is hot, I guess that is what you would say. I saw them all sitting around the table talking and laughing and when Stephanie saw me I saw her body change. I saw her become almost rigid and I saw her mouth something but I wasn't sure what it was.

I know she had always been the one to screw up growing up and I had always been the perfect one but had always wished that I was more like her. I wanted her friends, I wanted her reckless abandonment that she faced the world with, I wanted her carefree nature my life was never going to be that way. Mom drilled it into my head to always be concerned about what other's thought of me and to always act appropriate when there were definitely times in my life when all I wanted to do was something inappropriate. After all who was it that designated me the perfect one? Why was I the one that had to always be perfect? Be the nice one? Why did I have to be the one that is always gracious and always on good behavior with the best manners? Why couldn't I be the one that tells someone to f…fff..,well you know what I mean, off? Why couldn't I be the one that is labeled the bitch, or any other label than the perfect one?

No one knows how hard it is living up to that label always being perfect when all you want to do is be a bad girl for one time in your life. I saw Stephanie and one of the guys at her table get up and head to the dance floor so much for this being an easy conversation with her but I shouldn't expect anything less. She is smart enough to know that mom sent me and being the perfect daughter the dutiful daughter I came even though I really didn't want to.

I walked up to the table I knew Connie and Lula but I didn't know the other guys that were sitting there. They looked rather intimidating and I wasn't sure at first as I approached the table. They were all very handsome men but they looked dangerous. One had on a cowboy hat normally in this club I would say it would be out of place but it worked for him, oh how it worked. One had a tattoo on his forehead of a flaming skull that was a little scary but he screamed bad boy and a part of me was attracted to that even if I didn't want to be and was scared to be. One was handsome and really big but he wasn't scary if anything he seemed a little shy.

"Hi Connie, Hi Lula how are you this evening?" I asked them as I got to the table. They both looked at me for a second as if they couldn't believe I was there standing in front of them. They soon recovered a little. "Hey Valerie" both of them said almost in unison. I motioned to the chair that Stephanie had been sitting in "mind if I join you?" I asked them while taking a seat. I looked at the three men to my right. Introducing myself "Hi my name is Valerie, I am Stephanie's sister." They all nodded their head in acknowledgement of me but didn't offer their names or say anything further.

Lula spoke up first "Girl what brings you here? And can I ask you how in the hell did you get thru the door dressed like that? If you are going to come to a club than you really need to dress differently take a look at skinny ass white girl out there and buy you an outfit like that." I look down at myself I don't see anything wrong with what I am wearing. I had on bubble gum pink skirt with a kelly green pipping along the seams, hem, and waist line the skirt fell about two inches below my knee. My shirt was white background with same color pink flowers and green leaves. I paired that with a pair of Keds shoes that were green. I thought looked perfectly presentable I wasn't sure what Lula was talking about.

I looked over to where Stephanie was dancing and took in her outfit of tight jeans that looked like they had seen better days and needed to be disposed of and a top that had lace on each side that I could see her skin thru across the room. Lula thought that was appropriate? I had to admit it looked good on Stephanie but I just didn't know if I would ever be able to let go of my title to ever be able to wear anything like that ever.

Watching her dance I couldn't help but be a little jealous I had excelled at dance lessons she had fallen flat on her ass and yet out there she look good. I am not certain I could do that, dance like that it was hot to watch. We learned dancing such as waltz, the tango, the cha cha. I didn't know how to just dance. Lula and Connie were talking and the guys were drinking their beer and I just sat there waiting for them to come back to the table.

I could see Stephanie and the guy talking out on the floor and her nodding and them laughing she looked comfortable around him. She looked different than I remembered the last time I saw her. She looked happy, you could see muscles in her arms and shoulders that I never remembered her having, there was something different about her that I couldn't put my finger on what it was but you could see she wasn't the same and the change was for the better. I couldn't help but feel a little jealousy seeing her like that.

I hated being jealous of my sister but she had what I wanted. She was how I wanted to be. She was happy you could see it all over her and I was well holding my title miss perfect. I continued to watch them when the song changed I watch him take her in his arms and they started to tango. When did Stephanie learn how to Tango? They looked great and they were the only couple out there tangoing I had to admit it was a weird song to tango to but it somehow worked. They definitely had the attention of all of the people on the dance floor and most of the other people in the club.

I heard Lula speak up "Damn skinny ass white girl is looking fucking hot tonight. Take a look at her and that fine piece of man candy Lester out there on that dance floor. If Batman was here and saw this he would shit and send Lester's ass to a third world country." The guys swiveled around to look at them on the dance floor.

The guys continued to watch her, their beers lost on the table. When the song was ending Woody stood up and in a country drawl said "Well that's my cue" and he headed to the dance floor. Not that I would have said anything but deep down inside I was hoping one of these handsome men would ask me to dance but they haven't yet.

WoodyPOV

I couldn't take it anymore sitting at that table watching Valerie watch Stephanie out on the dance floor. Like Stephanie you could read every thought that went thru her head. She was Jealous of her sister. She was jealous of her being here with us, she was jealous of her being out on the dance floor looking the way she looked. If you asked me Valerie should take some lessons from Stephanie because she is one rigid bitch.

What is it that she is wearing? I mean it looked something you would see on June Clever in leave it to beaver and even then I am not certain she should have chosen those colors. Talk about someone that is stuck in the fifties hell maybe the forties it was her.

The burg must be a seriously fucked up place if they think that is what perfect is, that she is the picture of a perfect wife, a perfect mother, a perfect person because in my book that is all sorts of fucked up. I couldn't stand to sit there and watch her anymore I was afraid that I would end up saying something to her that would upset Stephanie so when I noticed the song was ending I got up and headed to the dance floor to cut in.

Black Eye Peas "Just Can't Get Enough" came on as I made it up to Lester and Stephanie. Lester placed Steph's hand in mine as he turned to head back to table. I saw the sparkle in his eyes and I knew he had a plan for her sister I was almost sorry that I was going to miss it but at least I got to dance with Stephanie so it was worth missing it. Besides if anything really good happened I would hear about it after all Lula was there and she would tell all.

DougPOV

I saw Woody making his way to Stephanie on the dance floor maybe this was my opportunity. I knew that Lester wouldn't allow me to cut in to dance with her. I could see how protective he was of her. Even though he knew I worked at Rangeman he more than likely wouldn't let me cut in on him. But Woody well Woody would more than likely allow me to cut in on him.

I will wait until this song is ending but I will make my way closer to her. Making my way to the dance floor I noticed Cal saw me. Until now I am not certain they were aware that I was here. I saw Cal's eyes narrow on me as he took me in. I quickly walked up to a woman who was sitting alone and asked if she would like to dance. I didn't want Cal seeing me making my move on Stephanie so I had to improvise.

Of course the woman said yes to me so we made our way to the dance floor. I nodded my head to Cal to say hi, he didn't respond not that I am surprised he hasn't talked to me since his little lesson in the control room where he wrote Dumb Fucker number 1 on my forehead which took forever to wash off.

This might work out better anyway because now I am closer to Stephanie on the dance floor. While dancing I take another look around the room and I see that Cal is still watching me, fuck. Can't that fucker just go back to sucking his beer down?

This is much harder than I expected. I want to dance with her but separating her from the guys is like trying to wash the stink off of shit. I knew my chance would be with Woody or Hal so while he was dancing with her I needed to make my move.

I was dancing with the woman I had just picked up at the table and while I may be dancing with her my attention was on Stephanie. I had scored some GHB and ecstasy so I was ready I just wasn't sure when I was going to use it or which one both had their advantages.

CALPOV

What is that fucker doing here? I saw dumb fucker making his way to the dance floor. I saw him eyeing Stephanie before he saw me. He was going to cut in on Woody and her I knew it but when he saw me he diverted from that plan and walked up to a table with a woman sitting at it and asked her to dance. I knew he wasn't initially heading there because he hadn't even seen her before.

He must think I am stupid I have been reading body language for a long time you don't fool me. He risked her life in our secure building there was no way in fuck I was going to let him dance with her out there on that floor. He is so fucking stupid he would hand her right over to her stalker if the stalker asked to cut in.

I needed to get word to Woody. I looked at the guys at the table and got their attention I didn't want Valerie or the girls to really understand what I was saying but I needed to let them know that we weren't the only Rangeman here tonight. "DF1 possible DF2 on site." Is all I said. Lester's head whipped around and he spotted Doug. He just nodded but I could see the look on his face that basically just said fuck Valerie now Doug. Not that Doug was really a threat to her after all he worked in the building he knew how protective we were of her but he was just dumb enough to let anyone cut in and what's going on in her life right now that could put her in serious danger.

I got up and made my way to Woody and Stephanie on the dance floor. The only way to protect her was to either let Woody know or cut in and dance with her myself telling Woody in the process but I didn't want to alert Stephanie. She was having fun tonight and if I had my way she would continue to have fun for the rest of the evening without having to deal with the shit from Valerie and the dangers Doug could cause.

I eyed Woody and nodded my head toward Dumb Fucker number one and he followed my line of sight. When he saw him he just nodded and I just shook my head letting him know that he isn't to dance with my Angel. Woody nodded again everyone who saw us would think I just asked him to cut in, including my Angel. When the song changed he turned Stephanie to me and I took over. David Guetta's "Where them Girls At" came on oh we were going to have fun with this one. I briefly wondered if she knew the words and if she would play along with me. It may take her mind off what was happening at the table and I don't think she has even noticed the dumb fucker being here.

Taking her into my arms I pulled her body closer to mine still minding not to grind on her after all I didn't want bossman cutting off my dick and sending me to a third world country with the clothes on my back and a fucking tooth pick. You ask why the toothpick? Well the answer is simply he wouldn't leave us without a weapon.

I started singing along just to see if she would play along "So many girls in here, where do I begin? I see this one, I'm 'bout to go in. Then she said" I waited for her to fill in and she did not disappoint smiling she said "I'm here with my friends" smiling back I continued "She got me thinking, and that's when I said. Where them girls at, girls at? Where them girls at, girls at? Where them girls at, girls at? Go get them, we can all be friends." She was smiling and laughing god I loved seeing her happy. Lord knows she needed a little happy and fun.

Then when the she started "So many boys in here, where do I begin? I see this one, I'm 'bout to go in. Then he said" I didn't miss a beat "I'm here with my friends" laughing she continued "He got to thinking and that's when he said" again picking up the song "Where them girls at, girls at? Where them girls at, girls at? Where them girls at, girls at? Go get them, we can all be friends."

We finished out the song like this singing the lines back and forth and when it was over we were laughing and dancing and I think we had the attention of everyone on the dance floor. Not that we didn't have their attention already the guys had been just hovering for a chance to dance with her and the women well they had been glaring at her all night.

We had all noticed it but we weren't going to do about it we were here with her she had our attention tonight even if it meant leaving the club alone tonight I could make up for it another night seeing her having a good time was more than enough.

I could tell that she was hot and needed a break but I wasn't certain about taking her back to the table. I briefly wondered if Lester was finished talking to Valerie. Lester had come over to the table when Woody cut in. He was trying to run interference for her we all knew that but we also knew that Valerie wasn't going anywhere until she spoke to Stephanie.

So I continued to dance with her on the floor I would dance one maybe two more before retiring to the table for her to rest for a little bit and get something to drink. Katy Perry's "ET" was currently playing. I took another look around the dance floor as I turned us around dumb fucker was still on the dance floor dancing with the woman that he picked up but I caught him staring at us soon as I saw him he averted his eyes from us and from his posture you could tell he had been staring and that he knew I just caught him.

DougPOV

Fuck Cal just had to spot me and now he is out here dancing with Stephanie. I know he would never let me cut in. I tried to cover it up that I was here to dance with Stephanie by picking up the first woman that I saw but damn this woman can't dance. She has stepped on my feet twice now and she keeps giggling insistently no wonder she was sitting at the table alone. She was driving me fucking crazy but it was giving me the chance of getting a nice look at Stephanie shaking her ass so I was trying my best to deal with the fucking giggling.

I saw them singing the song to each other and laughing I don't think I have ever seen Cal sing and laugh like that I wondered if I could use that as leverage after all surely he wouldn't want the other guys at Rangeman to know he is capable of laughing, and singing. I hadn't been there long but I had learned the hard way that they were relentless in their teasing when they thought there was a weakness to be exploited,

I had to come up with a way to get her isolated from the group so she would talk to me, have a drink with me, and hopefully decide to go home with me. I just wasn't sure how I was going to do it yet.

LPOV

I left Beautiful on the dance floor. Woody had walked over giving me a look that said I need a break. I knew why but I said nothing. When the song ended I passed her to him. Beautiful didn't know she could tango but she did it and she looked damn good. All the women on the dance floor were beyond jealous and well Beautiful was just soaring. I walked back to the table to try to figure out what Valerie wanted and hopefully come up with a way to deal with this that would keep Beautiful's self confidence that she has worked so hard this week to achieve.

I didn't want anything tearing that down and I knew depending on what Valerie said it could very well tear down the self esteem and confidence she had built this week. I was going to do my best to prevent that from happening if I could.

My plan was to be as forthcoming and out there as I could be. I wanted to put her on edge I wanted to make her uncomfortable the more uncomfortable she was the better my plan would work. I knew she was miss perfect or I should say mrs perfect since she is married to that clown yeah yeah I know it is Kloughn but clown works after all he looks like the dough boy frizz his hair dye it red, paint his face white with big red cheeks and lips and put some big as shoes on him and you would have the perfect clown.

I somehow don't get how marrying him made her perfect after all she was knocked up before she got married. Hell them getting married was a feat all in and of its self it wasn't like she really wanted it hell they ran out initially and then Stephanie and Diesel had to practically trick them into getting married. I tell you that was something when the rumors started that Stephanie and Diesel was going to get married I thought Ranger would lose it.

He took all of us to the mats and kicked all of our asses it was one excuse or another that he gave us for why he was kicking our asses but we all knew the truth he thought he had lost her. He thought he would never have what he has now with her and the way he was dealing with those feelings was by literally kicking the shit out of us.

I guess the only other time we got our asses handed to us like that was during the whole slayer thing which was the first time Valerie tried to marry the clown. She was abducted from her shower and let me tell you he practically killed Hal, a lesser of a man he would have killed no doubt. He kicked all of our asses for allowing her to be abducted when it really wasn't completely our fault. Yeah we should have done a lot of things differently looking back but we didn't expect her to react the way she did. After all we barely knew her then she was a thing of mystery to all of us.

When she first thought she was sneaking into the building we had to laugh. She had no idea all the cameras, the security that building had. We watched her sit there at the garage in Rangers truck figuring out the fob then she drove around and parked it where she thought we wouldn't know about it of course with the trackers we knew where she parked it.

We watched her fiddle with the fob until she called the elevator and managed to find her way to the seventh floor and into his apartment. I will never forget making that phone call. Ranger had gone away on business and when we saw her at the gate we called him immediately. We expected him to tell us to intercept her and prevent her from entering but he shocked us when he said do not interfere.

Looking back he knew that she would figure out how to get in his apartment and now looking back he knew her well enough to know that if she sought out his place then she needed protection. He asked us to figure out what was going on in her life and keep her safe. When we found out that she had a hit placed on her by the gang and what they wanted to do Ranger went ballistic on the phone.

He flew home that night. I can't say what business he was away on but he basically told them to shove it and fuck off that he had to get home. Since none of them were man enough to stop him he came home.

That night after they got her I will never forget Ranger had Sally not gunned them down they would have all died anyway he hit the gangs and he hit them hard. He let it be known that she wasn't to be touched that there wasn't going to be retaliation or revenge for the killings that took place. That she was under his protection and if she was touched then all of the mother fuckers would meet their maker.

That was the first night Stark Street saw the beast that lived with Ranger. We also saw it on the mats although he didn't kill any of us I can't say the same for Stark Street that night as some of the gang members decided they didn't want to listen to him initially they quickly decided that they wanted to listen and do what he said.

We all knew he cared for the bombshell bounty hunter before that but that was when we all actually realized the depth of how much he really cared how much he really loved her how much she meant to him.

I sat down at the table watching Valerie at first. I wanted to just get a feel for her. I watched her watching Stephanie on the dance floor with Woody. I ordered me another beer Lula and Connie were waiting for the action to begin. They knew why Valerie was there and they were primed and ready for the confrontation, the same confrontation that I was hoping to prevent.

I could see jealousy in her eyes. Valerie was jealous of Beautiful now that was interesting I thought Valerie always felt like she was better than Beautiful not that it could be possible but she always prided herself on being perfect as it was made well known how imperfect beautiful was.

I looked at Valerie "Hey my name's Lester." I thought I would start out with introduction just in case she didn't remember me. "Hi Valerie" she said reaching her hand out for me to grab. I wasn't sure if she wanted me to shake it or kiss it the way she was holding it so I just shook it.

I was going to play dumb to see if she would tell me anything useful. "So what brings you out to girl's night out?" I asked her. She looks at me like I am annoying her. Good, plan is working. "I need to talk to Stephanie for a moment, our mom sent me to talk to her." She stated. I could see she didn't really want to discuss it with me but that was too fucking bad.

I smiled at her "so your mom sent you? Does she often send you to talk to Stephanie?" I asked her she looked like she wasn't sure what to say but eventually answered "when my mom thinks she isn't getting through to Stephanie she will ask me to talk to her to see if she will listen to me. Stephanie usually listens to me." She told me, yeah not happening this time I thought to myself not with me running interference.

I continued with my questions giving her a smile to hopefully pull her under the Santos spell. "What did your mom want you to discuss with her, if you don't mind me asking?" She shook her head "that is personal between Stephanie, our family and me." She was trying to take the high road, time to make her squirm.

I turned to Lula and Connie I knew where their thoughts had been tonight, this wouldn't be hard "So ladies have you spied any more man candy? Are you taking any of that home with you tonight?" Lula shook her head "All the man candy is right here at the table and while you all look good enough to lick, suck, fuck and hell eat I have my man Tankie who puts you all to shame so I will be going home alone unless he can meet me later." I glance and both Valerie and Hal are blushing. Fuck Hal can't he control that shit I wanted to make Valerie uncomfortable not him.

I look at Connie "What about you?" She shook her head no but I noticed her looking out towards Woody dancing with Stephanie. "Yeah I guess it is just going to be me and my hand tonight because I am also going home alone tonight." I tell them referencing Pink's song "U + UR Hand" Valerie probably wouldn't get it but the others did as they were laughing.

Lula spoke up "well nothing wrong with that of course for us women it helps if you have a Herby Horsecock in addition to your hands. One of those could almost make you forget about having a man." Connie nodded in agreement Valerie's face was bright red. She then looked at Valerie and said "Valerie have you used your Herby Horsecock that I gave you as a wedding gift?" Valerie looked like she wanted to be swallowed whole by the floor it was priceless and I chocked on my beer. "Girls you trying to turn us guys on? We are all thinking about going home alone and you are talking about using sex toys."

Lula started "well you were the one that brought it up." Yeah I did. So I look back at Valerie. Yeah she is uncomfortable as hell plan is working perfectly.

Cal gets up after telling us about dumb fuckers being here tonight at the club as if I needed something else to think about. Not that I was really concerned about them other than the fact that if he was able to dance with Beautiful he may allow someone else other than us to cut in and which case that could be dangerous. I watch him heading to the dance floor to cut in on Woody and I knew he would tell him about the fuckers so he was going to run point on that, and leave me to Valerie.

Now was the time to pounce while she was distracted in her embarrassment of Lula sharing with everyone that she had a herby horsecock viberator hell with the clown as her husband she probably needed it because one look at him and you could tell he didn't have a dick well not one to brag about. Hell he probably hadn't seen it for years with his dough boy belly.

Looking at Valerie again "so what did you come to talk to Stephanie about?" I asked her again. She looked at me but she did tell me more "Our mom wanted me to talk to Stephanie about some concerns she has." Looking at her I asked "what concerns?" I think Valerie was just happy that the conversation wasn't on sex or sex toys so she answered "Mom thinks that Stephanie needs to make better decisions in her life. Mom feels like Stephanie has turned her back on her family and she wants me to talk to her to see if I can get Stephanie to see Mom's perspective of how Stephanie has been behaving lately."

Just what I thought she would say see how easy it is to get information from the enemy when you throw them off of their game plan. "What do you think of Stephanie's decisions and behavior" I asked her. She cleared her throat and said "well I don't know I think she does things without thinking about the consequences. I think she says things without thinking about other's feelings, and I think she needs to at least try to make things up to mom she said some pretty bad things to her the last time she came to the house."

I nodded but then countered "what if Stephanie had perfectly good reasons for saying the things she did and doing the things she did would that make a difference to you?" I asked her she shrugged her shoulders but then said "I don't know mom asked me to talk to her so I am talking to her." Continue to be little mrs perfect and do what you are told. Does she not have a brain of her own? I briefly wondered.

I just nodded. I stood up and headed to the dance floor it was time to bring Stephanie over and get this over with once and for all so we could go back to enjoying our girl's night out. I reached Cal and Stephanie and I cut in finishing dancing the song out. Looking at her I said "come on Beautiful there is someone at the table waiting to talk to you. Just remember I have that beautiful ass of yours covered, I got your back."

She laughed and we made our way back to the table. She grabs my beer and takes a couple of gulps. I know not attractive but you really couldn't call it a sip. She put the bottle back down and I could see Valerie's face of disgust

"Stephanie didn't mom teach you not to drink after others?" She asked her Stephanie just rolled her eyes. "Val this is Lester's beer I drink and eat after him all the time. He's one of my best friends it's cool. Hell I even drank from Cal's beer earlier." She tells her. Just for show she reaches for Cal's beer he pushes it closer to her for to take a gulp from his beer. "Val these guys are my brothers, I would eat or drink after all of them." At that statement both Woody and Hal pushed their beers toward her to let her know they wouldn't mind.

"Stephanie really mom said that you were acting strange this week and had said something that I don't even understand but this is well beyond what I was expecting. Brothers these men aren't your brothers you don't have any brothers."

I saw anger flash thru Beautiful's eyes time for a distraction. "Valerie I think what Stephanie means is that we consider each other family, our chosen family not necessarily blood relatives family but family none he less. We love each other as if we were brothers and sister." I tell her trying to smooth things over.

"Stephanie mom sent me because she is concerned about you. You moving in at Rangeman, you accusing her of cheating on dad, you saying that you wanted nothing to do with them including you no longer wanted your last name, what's up with all of that?" She asked her.

"Val I am not getting into here this is my night out to have fun and I am not discussing this. But I will say this so you can go home because I am certain you being here is breaking some fucking burg cardinal rule and we wouldn't want you going to burg hell now would we because they would revoke your little miss perfect title. And we couldn't have that." I had to laugh even though I didn't want to. The others around the table chuckled a little as well.

"I will tell you this Valerie I am not changing for Mom, Joe, you, or the burg. I have made decisions for my life that I am happy with and I have been working hard this week to achieve those goals. I had the chance to have a life with the man that I love more than my life, more than the air I breathe and I am taking it I don't give a fuck what you, mom, dad, Joe, or the burg says nothing is going to stop me from being his wife, his lover, his partner. You all can think what you want, you can say what you want because I don't give a fuck and for any of the haters out there that aren't happy with my choices and my decisions I have made for my own life they can all go sit with the other haters and wait for me to give a fuck, because I don't."

Holy shit and I was trying to run interference for her. "Stephanie you don't need to use such language, I just came to ask you I am really not passing judgment at least I am trying not." She said. "Val I don't know why you are here other than mom sent you and yes, I did accuse her of cheating on dad that is because it was true when we were little, I don't know if it is still true but I know it was true then. Because I saw it, I witnessed it and she knew it why do you think she has hated me for so long? She was always worried that I would tell. I never did well not until the other night when she came down on me hard demanding that I take Joe back which is never going to happen."

"Val before you leave I will tell you one other thing you can share with Mom." She reaches into her pocket and pulls out a ring and places it on her left hand ring finger. "Ranger asked me to marry him and I said yes." Then she proceeded to show the ring to the table. Lula and Connie were screaming in excitement. Valerie smiled and said "mom won't be happy but congratulations I hope you are happy." Stephanie just said "thanks Valerie that means a lot I am happy. Now I am going back to having fun you can either join us for fun and dancing but no more talking about any of this or you can go home to Albert and the kids."

Valerie stood up "Stephanie I would like to stay but tomorrow the girls have a busy day so I better get going have a good evening" she said as she got up from the table. Connie and Lula said bye and us guys just gave her a nod and she was on her way out. Watching her walk out I noticed Joyce Barnhardt walking in, Fuck now we had to deal with miss walking STD I think I liked dealing with miss perfect more.

SPOV

Things went smoother with Val than I thought. I didn't really want to talk to her but I just laid it out and told her how it was going to be and it went better than I thought much better than times in the past when she was sent to talk to me by our mom.

Watching her leave I saw Joyce walk in, great just fucking great now I had to deal with that bitch. I knew the second she saw us she would be over here within seconds coming on to the guy and throwing insults towards me. I looked at the guys "Guys Joyce is here and I would suggest that you don't let her touch you unless you want your dicks to shrivel up and fall off after all she is the walking poster child for STDs." The look on their faces was priceless and Lester just laughed.

Before she made it to us the music changed another retro song Salt-N-Pepa's "Push it" started playing looking around the table "come on guys let's dance" I tell them. We all stand up heading to the dance floor.

Again these are dance steps that everyone remembered from years ago we got in our lines girls in front guys behind us and started dancing to push it. We started pushing our hips out stepping forward and rocking our hips turning around and back around dropping down on one hand and back up flapping our elbows rotating our hips singing along with the song when we weren't laughing at each other. I was surprised the guys knew the steps damn they looked fine I again found myself hoping I could get video. We were the only ones on the dance floor that knew the steps to the song once again you could see the green daggers of jealousy been shot at us by every woman in the bar.

But one made my smile even bigger Joyce was standing back watching us, she didn't know the steps or she would have joined us she would have loved being able to "push it" with my brothers. She just better not being pushing her diseased ridden body anywhere near my brothers let her have Joe, and Dickie. After all that is what she was good for, my leftovers.

When the song ended I knew she would descend on us like a buzzard on road kill with that evil sneer on her face. She was looking to cause trouble but she better back the fuck up because this wasn't the Stephanie Michelle that she remembered and that she could call names. This was the Stephanie Michelle that would love the opportunity to hand her ass to her and send her ass packing.

She wasn't going to ruin my girl's night out. I ignored her when the song ended, we all did and as we made our way back to our table. She was hot on our trail. We sat down in all the chairs the one the Valerie was sitting in I stretched my legs out in she was not welcomed to join us at our table.

As she walked up to the table she sneered at us "So how is the whore of Rangeman, I have been hearing how you have become their toy that they just pass around." I just looked at her and smiled. "Joyce you know if that was true the only reason you would be here saying anything about it is because you are so damn upset that it isn't you. Because let's face it you are the whore of Trenton. You are the one that can't wait for my leftovers that you need to try to steal them literally out from under me. You are the one that would so happily spread your legs and open your mouth for my brother s and soon to be husband that you would be begging them to fuck you anywhere. Hell if they were so inclined you would have them pulling a train on your ass right here in this bar on this very table. Don't forget I know all about your barnyard ways you are loud enough when you are fucking my cousin that we all hear. So don't come up to me and accuse me of being anyone's whore."

Her mouth was opened when I finished she didn't really have a come back to what I had just said it was all true and she knew it so I thought I would continue "But we also know how disease ridden your body is and my brothers while they do enjoy sex they wouldn't risk catching one of your diseases and having their dicks shrivel up and fall off to have a go with your used up, gaping hole of a pussy they could get better fucking a hole in a fence post. You need to save those diseases for the people that really deserve them like the Dick and Joe that you love fucking so much."

She growled at me and made a step closer to me like she was going to intimidate me. I had spent a week on the mats with the merry men training me trust me if they didn't intimidate me then this red headed, fake boobed, non paid prostitute wasn't going to. She started to say something but I cut her off before she had the chance. "Look Barnyard you need to back the fuck up, and shut the fuck up before your bull dog mouth overrides your humming bird ass and I am forced to kick it. I really don't want to touch you but a few well placed kicks could be sufficient. I am giving you the opportunity to walk away from this table and out of this bar before they are fucking carrying you, and it won't be my brothers touching you. Never threaten me again even if it is just stepping into my personal space. I don't intimidate at least not anymore." Connie and Lula are starring at me with opened mouths and bulging eyes almost not being able to believe what I am saying and how cool I am in saying it. Fuck I can barely believe it myself my heartbeat wasn't even elevated. I am not sure who this person is but I like her.

My brothers well they are just sitting back smiling with looks of pride on their faces. "Besides Joyce even if I was the Rangeman Whore as you so eloquently put it, wouldn't you just be jealous as hell. After all take a look around this table at just a small sample of what I would be able to fuck not to mention you know Ranger right? I know you would just love to be in my shoes because let's face I already fucked the Dick and Joe who I know you are fucking now and let's just say I would be fairly certain that neither of them could let's say measure up to any of the Rangeman men. So you go and have fun with the little boys, be sure to share all of your STDs with them. But leave the big boys, the real men, to me." I tell her. Lester just about lost his beer again when I said leave the big boys to me. Hal was bright red, Cal and Woody were just smiling bright.

Joyce was gapping and stuttering "I…I..do..dont" I stopped her it was pitiful really if you are going to try to come in a bar and get in someone's face then at least be able to talk straight. I cut her off. "You don't what? You don't play with the little boys? You don't have an STD? What ass fuck? Because I know those are lies. Remember you are having my leftovers let's say I know how they don't measure up, and as far as STDs go you are right you don't have one you have about ten I have warned my brothers if they touch you then their dicks will fall off from a disease."

Her mouth flew open and she screeched she started to reach for me big mistake, huge. I grabbed her arm snapped it around behind her effectively turning her away from me where I pushed her as hard as I could away from us. She went flying into the other table before she even knew what hit her. She bounced off one of the chairs and hit the ground. I was on my feet standing beside my table. If she had the nerve to get up and advance on me again I was ready for the ass fucking bitch.

She got to her feet she was wet from the beer that she had knocked off the table I didn't give her a chance to speak "Ass fuck I suggest you leave you aren't needed here and you sure as fuck aren't wanted." I tell her as I turn back around taking my seat at my table effectively dismissing her. I watched her from the corner of my eye slink her sleazy ass out of the bar. She sure as fuck didn't have the same swagger going out as she had coming in, good.

I turned back to the table they all still have looks of shock on their faces. The Merry men had recovered but I could still see shock and humor in their eyes Lula and Connie were like fish out of a pond. Lula recovered "Girl who are you?" she was looking around "and what have you done with skinny as white girl?" She asked me but continued "and we have a new nickname for Joyce, Ass Fuck. It couldn't be better." We all laughed at that but then I said. "Lula trust me I am skinny ass white girl only better. I no longer give a fuck what people say about me. What they call me. I am no longer live my life trying to satisfy them or making them proud of me I live my life making me proud. My family" I looked at the guys at the table "will always be proud of me regardless of what I do or say." They all nodded in agreement. Who said that, where the hell did that come from.

I looked to Lester I really needed to talk to him on the dance floor. He stood up and offered me his hand. We headed to the dance floor as Christina Perri "Jar of Hearts" started playing. He took me into his arms and led the way. These guys really did know how to make me look good on the dance floor.

"Lester, am I acting weird tonight?" I asked him. He looked at me "Well I don't know about weird but I have to say I almost lost it when you told Joyce to leave the real men to you. I don't think Hal will ever recover and I know for certain that Woody and Cal had some pretty intense thoughts going thru their minds as well. It was probably a wet dream come true for all of us." I could feel myself blushing.

"If you haven't noticed I tend to say things in the heat of the moment that I probably would never be able to say any other time. I am sorry if I made you or them uncomfortable but that woman just gets on my last fucking nerve." He smiled "beautiful you didn't make us uncomfortable, you might have made Hal cream his tidy whites and the rest of hard enough to pound nails with all the images you flooded our minds with but it's all good, trust me it was all good." He said wagging his eyebrows up and down I had to laugh leave it up to Lester to know when I needed a little bit of funny.

I swatted his arm and we continued to dance. I noticed that the guys and gals had joined us. Hal was dancing with Lula and that was too funny I don't think he knew what to do with all that booty, Woody was dancing with Connie, and Cal was dancing with Mary Lou. Mary Lou had missed most of the confrontation with Joyce as she had remained out on the dance floor dancing with some guy that she knew.

When the song switched to Jennifer Lopez's "I'm into you" I decided to spare Hal and cut in on him and Lula giving Lula the opportunity to dance with Lester. I knew Lester could handle all of that booty on the dance floor besides I wanted to apologize for my behavior and what I said to Joyce in front of him.

HALPOV

I was a little shocked when I heard Stephanie tell Joyce to leave the real men to her I was also a lot turned on. I know I consider her a friend but I am a guy after all and she is a girl a beautiful sexy as hell girl I couldn't help the reaction I had. I got so hard I could have pounded every nail in that held this bar together.

I know the guys were probably laughing at me because I turned red but I can't help it. I am just not as open as they are when it comes to sex and talking about it. They didn't say anything but I am just waiting for when we are alone the ribbing will start that Stephanie made me blush. Hell Lester probably thought I came in my pants, not that I couldn't do that but I didn't I am not that bad. I am not a teenager with no control.

Lester and Stephanie hit the dance floor and the rest of the girls wanted to dance so we all paired up and I got Lula. I can dance and dance well but I wasn't sure what to do with all of Lula she was all over the dance floor shaking her booty as she said Lula style I am not exactly what that meant but I did my best.

When the song changed I was so damn glad to see Stephanie making her way over to me. Of course it meant that I would probably be hard as brick again with all those images she put in my head and then dancing with her but oh well it is better than booty luscious as Lula called it.

We started dancing when she looked up at me a little sheepishly "Hal I am sorry if I said something that made you uncomfortable. That ass fuck can get me so mad at times I forget what I am saying and I just say the first thing that pops into my head without thinking about who my audience is. I am sorry if I embarrassed you." I just shook my head "Bombshell its fine, you didn't make me uncomfortable" well at least not anywhere but how tight my pants got. "I am not as outright with sex and sex talk as the others and I just react by turning red. At this point I don't know if I could prevent it if I tried it is something that just happens. Growing up with my dad I didn't have a lot of exposure to girls and I didn't and still don't play the field like some of your other brothers." I smiled at her.

She nodded "Hal you are good guy. I am glad you are my brother" She said which made me smile even bigger and we continued to dance. "Bombshell I am honored to call you my sister. I never had a sister but I will say this I couldn't have had a better sister than you had I had one." I tell her.

CalPOV

The music changes to Neon Trees "Animal" as Angel cut in on Mary Lou and I. Mary Lou went to dance with Hal and Angel and I started dancing. I had just recovered from her telling Joyce aka ass fuck, you got to love that name, off. It was so fucking hot and when she said to leave the real men to her and then sent her flying into the table doing a move we had taught her well I won't even go there with what it did to me. Let's just say my pants were no longer fitting me properly and we will leave it at that.

I really don't want to end up dickless in a third world fucking country so I was thankful that I was sitting down at the table and the table was covering the effect she was having on me from the camera just in case Rangeman was watching us.

We started dancing "Cal I hope I didn't make you uncomfortable with anything I said to that ass fuck she gets under my skin and as you know I tend to say stuff without thinking and it only gets worse the madder I get." I just shook my head "Angel you didn't make me uncomfortable but I have say that was funny as shit and way to go on that move she didn't know what hit her." She smiled at me and started singing the chorus "oh oh, I want some more, oh oh what are you waiting for? Take a bite of my heart tonight. Oh oh, I want some more, oh oh what you waiting for? What are you waiting for? Say goodbye to my heart tonight" she sang I just smiled and when the chorus came up again I joined her singing along with her. I guess this was going to be our new thing. The guys will give me hell for being able to sing but I don't give a fuck they can suck it. It's not like they wouldn't do whatever she wanted.

WoodyPOV

The song changed to Cee Lo Green's "Fuck You" as Bombshell cut in on Connie and I. Connie went to dance with Cal as Bombshell and I started dancing. We were dancing when she looked up to me "Woody I am sorry if I made you uncomfortable by anything that I said at the table. But that ass fuck can get to me at times and I say things before I think about it. I know I tend to do that but the madder I get the worse I get." I just shook my head and laughed "Darling let me tell you, you didn't make me uncomfortable. I was proud of you standing up for yourself. You cut her too short to shit and you new nickname for her well it couldn't get better." I wasn't going to tell her that she made me so hard that I thought I could pound railroad ties down and I wouldn't have had a problem proving to Lula that I could hold my hat up without hands.

She looked at me "well I just wanted to say I am sorry." I smiled at her "Darling nothing to be sorry for I love you just as much now as I did then hell maybe more. You my Texas sister made me proud." I told her as I spun her out and back to me and dipped her I know the music wasn't right for the moves but I made it work and from the daggers Stephanie was getting I would say I made it work well. She was smiling big and giggling.

The song changed to a retro song Joan Jett's "Do you Want to Touch" and she made her way back to Lester cutting in and sending Lula my way.

LPOV

Beautiful was back dancing with me and it was Joan Jett's song "Do You Want to Touch" and she was singing parts of it well the do you want to touch me parts and dancing and she was hot. I caught myself almost answering her hell yeah. But bit my tongue and kept on dancing. She was having fun. I had watched her talking to each of the guys I assumed it was to apologize for making them uncomfortable with anything she said. I know they all told her that she didn't. Hell I was proud as hell at her. I had even taken a little video and had sent it to Rangeman because I knew he would think one it was funny as shit and two hotter than hell.

I was worried that those two would bring her confidence and self esteem down but I was wrong she handled it better than I expected she didn't allow them control she took it and kept it and even defended herself I couldn't have been more proud of her.

Man her dancing to this song was making me hot. In a way it would be nice to be able to find someone here and take her home to help me with my growing problem but that wasn't going to happen tonight I couldn't risk Beautiful's safety. She would always be first above everything and everyone else. Including me and my growing problem.

SPOV

Man I was getting hot I was going to dance one more song and then I need to go to the table to sit down and get something to drink. I hated being at a bar and asking for water I had bad visions of being sprayed by the water hose as they did the patrons in the movie Coyote Ugly if they asked for water. It just wasn't something someone did but I had been drinking beer from the guy's bottles and really I didn't want any more to drink. I needed to remain sober, even though I really wanted a drink.

But with things in my life right now I didn't need to complicate things make my brothers worry about me anymore than they did by adding getting inebriated to the list. I was already worried enough about me tonight. I needed to prove to him that I take my safety seriously.

Lester and I were having fun with this song it was a girl power song and I was playing it up I knew he wouldn't take it anywhere and he would just have fun and he was. We were laughing and having fun.

The music changed to the new Beyonce' song "Run the World (Girls)" and I quickly got us in line the girls facing the guys I was across from Lester then Mary Lou was beside me across from Woody, Connie was beside Mary Lou with Cal across from her and finally Lula was beside Connie with Hal across from her. I had seen the video for the song while I didn't know all the moves I knew that the girls faced off with the guys so that's what we did.

We danced like that moving back and forth towards and retreating from each other again we were all having fun laughing enjoying the song and the movements of our own bodies. Oh and getting daggers from all the women and being stared at by all the men. We ruled this club. I felt someone step up behind me just as I bumped into them. I turned to see who I had bumped into and it was Doug the contract worker who had come to work at Rangeman the beginning of the week. Where did he come from?

I realized why I "bumped" into him that's because he was trying to grind on me. When I stepped away from him he stepped up closer to me bringing us in contact again. Oh this was so not going to happen, what the fuck was he thinking? I once again stepped forward Lester had stopped dancing at this point taking in what he was doing.

I turned toward Doug stopping dancing myself I asked him "what are you doing?" he looked at me with a face that said what the fuck does it look like I am doing and said "I am trying to dance with you." I looked at Lester and the guys who at this point had all stopped dancing and were standing there glaring at Doug. I turned back to Doug "who says I wanted to dance with you?" I asked him.

I saw something flash in eyes but it was gone to quick to see what it was "You were switching with all the guys I thought you wouldn't mind if I danced with you." He said trying to sound nice. I looked at him accessing him "Doug it is Doug right?" I asked him and he nodded "Doug I came with these guys, these guys are my friends and have been with me and sitting with me all night. Have you seen me dancing with anyone other than these guys tonight?" I asked him. He shook his head no but added "but I figured since I work at Rangeman with you and these guys then you wouldn't mind dancing with me, if I cut in." He stated matter of fact.

I nodded in understanding where he was going and pursing my lips together but then I told him "Doug let me give you a piece of advice and you can use this in all aspects of life not just here on the dance floor. Ask someone first if they want to and don't just assume they do. I saw you earlier eyeing me like you wanted to dance with me and I didn't want to dance with you then no more than I want to dance with you now. I don't care that you work at Rangeman that doesn't matter. I don't know you, you are not one of my brothers and I have no intention of dancing with you tonight maybe never after seeing your idea of dancing is grinding your pitiful excuse of a dick on me. So the next time you see me on the dance floor or anywhere and you feel the need to take liberties with me that aren't yours for the taking you better fucking ask me or you might come back with a bullet in your dick." I told him. Leaving the others howling on the dance floor I made my way to our table.

I went to take a swig of Lester's drink just as Lester put his hand on my arm stopping me. He was trying to recover from laughing at what I had said to the dumb fucker, I think that was the appropriate name for him after all, shaking his head. "What Lester I can't have a drink of your beer?" He shook his head again "No Beautiful you can have all my beer but not this beer. We all left the table unattended with our open bottles and open drinks sitting on the table. We don't know how safe these are to drink." He motioned the waitress over to clear the table and ordered another beer. Did I mention how protective my brother's are of me?

When his beer arrived he handed it to me so I could take the first swig, now that tasted good. I took a seat and Lester sat down beside me. "Beautiful what are you going to do about Doug?" he asked me. I looked at him. I wasn't going to do anything I had done what I was going to do. "What do you mean?" I asked him. "Are you going to tell Rangeman what happened?" he questioned me.

I shook my head "I handled it, I told him where I stood. I don't think he will bother me anymore I think he was just a little confused seeing me dance with you all tonight and I had to set him straight I think it will all be good. Ranger doesn't need to be involved" I told him. I knew he would fire him and while he gave me the cripes grinding on me I didn't want to see him lose his job over a misunderstanding and I also knew how busy we were at Rangeman and knew we needed all hands on deck so to speak so I didn't want to cause a hardship there over a little misunderstanding that I only needed to set him straight.

Lester nodded then said "well I am going to tell him but I am going to tell him how you handled it he will love hearing it anyway. He won't fire him I will tell him what you said." I shrugged my shoulders "Lester I don't see the need but you do what you feel is the best." I told him.

Just as Lester and I had finished off his beer Kesha's "Blow" started to play so I grabbed Lester's arm and we headed back to the dance floor. I quickly looked around the floor but I didn't see Doug hopefully he left and hopefully that would be the end of it.

DougPOV

That bitch. I can't believe she said what she said and then dismissed me on the dance floor. She just walked away from me. No one walks away from me after having said that to me. I thought she would enjoy dancing with me hell all the women enjoyed dancing with me when I grind on them what the fuck is her problem? She thinks she is too good for me.

She doesn't know it yet but she just raised this to a whole new level. Before I just wanted to fuck her because of that sexy little body of hers and I still want to but now I won't be gentle with it I won't be asking I will just be taking. She can give it to all of those other fuckers and she couldn't dance with me on the dance floor for one fucking dance.

As far as asking her goes well I won't be asking her for anything else. I will just take what the fuck I want from her. She can act strong and be a big mouth whore in front of those fuckers but I wondered how she would be alone isolated one on one. Somehow I don't think she would be singing the same tune.

I will figure out how to get her alone I will have my way with her and these babies in my pocket were definitely going to aid me in my endeavor it is just a matter of time.

RPOV

I have been sitting in my office at Rangeman all evening looking at a contract that needed to be redone for a big customer. The customer owned several very high end retail stores and he was in the process of procuring another location and wanted to have all of security systems for all of his current stores including the new location upgraded and installed.

I was going over what he currently had in place where there were vulnerabilities because when he came to us originally he decided to change our original proposal because of expenses. Because our system has been so good he decided that he wanted the full package of our services which meant everything had to be reevaluated and upgraded.

It meant a lot of additional money for Rangeman but it also meant a lot of additional work that right now I wasn't sure if we had the man power for but I knew like always we would suck it up and get the work done even if it meant working overtime which truthfully none of us minded.

Once Stephanie's training was completed in another week it would get easier on us because we would have the guys back all working full time straight through and Stephanie would be here to take some of the work load off of Tank and I and we could pick up the work load that is needed elsewhere.

I stretched my neck around and stood up I needed a break for a moment so I went out down the hall to the office next to mine. It use to be storage area but when I found out that Stephanie wanted to come here full time I made the necessary changes to convert it to her office.

It was going to be a surprise for her. Opening the door I was pleased with how much had been done. The office was now painted a light blue it would go nicely with the rich brown color of her desk, chairs, couch and table that I ordered which should be in this week. The cabinetry was already installed and it looked great. Behind her desk on the wall was mural I had painted of Wonder Woman and Batman. Wonder Woman was standing holding her lasso of truth and Batman was crouched ready for the attack with his cape flying up in the back looking as if he had wings. I couldn't be more pleased with how it turned out I knew my Babe would love it.

My phone beeped with a text message. Looking at it I saw it was from Santos it said all good having fun and a picture popped up of them on the dance floor with their arms up in the air only one song would you have arms like that thriller. I had to smile at the picture. She didn't know it but pictures had been taken of her all week. I would get different pictures of her in training. I was storing them. I would pick the best ones and ask Ella to frame them for me so I could put them in her office. Pictures of her and the guys, of her by herself with different looks of determination on her face I would even put a few of them in my office. I was so damn proud of her.

I head back to my office after my break time to get down to business. A little while later I get another message on my phone Valerie is there and the guys aren't happy about it. This one is from Cal. Fuck. Can't they just leave my Babe alone?

I turn back to my work frustrated and distracted wondering what Valerie is saying to her. Part of me wanted to race to that bar and deal with it but if she wanted me there she would let me know or if things went downhill the guys would let me know. So I forced myself to focus on the contract and drawing up the proposals. My phone beeps again a picture of Stephanie looking strong and adamant facing Valerie you can tell she just put her in place by the expression on Valerie's face. Santos followed the picture with Steph okay and enemy diffused. I had to smile at his comment.

It wasn't but a few minutes later I get a picture of them on the dance floor again she was smiling big laughing looking at Santos. Good she was happy that is what was important. She had worked so hard I wanted her to be happy. Smiling I sat my phone back down and focused on the design in front of me.

It wasn't but a couple of minutes that I got the text message the whore of Trenton is here. That could only be one person Joyce. Great, my babe can't get a fucking break. Once again I am torn between staying here and going to join her. I want to be by her side but once again I refrain from jumping to my feet and running to my car.

I tried to focus but I couldn't concentrate on the design in front of me so I grabbed my phone and took a walk down the hall to the break room where I grabbed water out of the fridge. My phone beeped and this time it was a video. I opened it to watch the video and it was a video of my Babe confronting Joyce. I watched my Babe and I heard the fire and ice in her voice. I heard Joyce call her a whore and my feet were moving on their way but my Babe stopped me in my tracks when I heard her ice cold voice.

It was strong and cold enough to cut you in two. I stopped listening and watching the video my Babe told her that she was just jealous but I had to laugh when she told her to save her diseases for those that deserved them and she mentioned her x-husband the dick and Joe. Then Joyce made a step toward her screaming and my feet once again started moving but when I heard my Babe respond by telling her to back the fuck up and then she threatened her I have never been more proud of her. She sounded strong, she sounded determined, and she sounded confident in her abilities. I just had to smile.

I had to smile when she said that Joyce was jealous of her and I had to laugh when she said how we measured up but I sobered quickly when she said to leave the big boys the real men to her. It was funny don't get me wrong and I could hear Santos coughing and the video jerked away for a minute or so but she was MINE and she was hot as shit at this moment. God if I was there I would grab her and make a mad dash to my car so I could take her and let her know how much she owned me.

I retreated to my office because my desire was very evident and I didn't need the guys on duty to see me hard as a brick while watching a video on my phone. I watched as Joyce couldn't form a sentence and my Babe just cut her off. Then she caught me off guard when she called Joyce an ass fuck. I just about lost it laughing. Good thing the office was sound proof or my men would think I have lost it.

I watched as Joyce went for her and again I found myself on my feet but continuing to watch the screen I saw my Babe's training kick in as she sent her sailing into the other table. Fuck she was hot. Damn while Joyce was getting to her feet my Babe completely dismissed her telling her she wasn't needed or wanted. Then she sat back down turning her back on her. But even though her back was turned Stephanie was aware of her surroundings she was ready you could see it in her posture. I was so fucking proud of her and so turned on by her it almost painful. She wouldn't get home fast enough for me.

I no more finished watching it when I get another text from Lester that said Holy hot fuck…that was the hottest thing I have seen in a long time. I sent him a reply MINE reminding him that she was mine.

He then sent me pictures of her dancing with Cal they looked like they were singing, her dancing with Hal, and Woody. Cal sent me a picture of her dancing with Lester.

I got a picture of her with the new guy he looked too close for comfort and there was a look on her face that I didn't like seeing. She was surprised and shocked. It was from Cal and all it said was I don't trust him. He was going to be in for a surprise when he got back here. It was going to be another trip to the mats. This time I wasn't going to be easy on him. He would get it thru his dumb fucking head that he was to protect her or I would end up killing that dumb fucker teaching him the lesson one way or the other and I really didn't give a fuck which way it went.

Cal sent another text to me said Angel handed him his ass. I just had to smile. My Babe was getting strong, confident and you could see it in how she carried herself how she stood up for herself. It was amazing and it was hotter than hell.

SPOV

I had been on the dance floor now for a while. I had danced with all of the guys at least once from the time Lester and I had gotten back on the floor. When we danced to Madonna's "Vogue" and SNAP's Power" they were fun I was still amazed that my brothers knew the steps to those songs. I was enjoying the retro songs as much as I was enjoying the latest dance club hits.

Lady Gaga's "The Edge of Glory" was playing and I was dancing with Woody and let me tell you he was right when he said if it had a beat he could dance to it. He could dance. I think he could dance to any song and the whole time he could make me look good even if I wasn't as good of dancer. You would never know it with these guys. No wonder these women were giving me dirty looks. Oh well what can one do? They just need to get over it.

Listening to this song I couldn't help but think of Carlos. I was always on the edge of glory when I was with him. He made me so happy, he made me feel so loved, he made me so crazy with desire for him that I could forget my own name, and he was the only one who could push me to the edge of something else so high that I felt like I would come unglued and shatter to pieces but he always managed to hold me together and even when I fell over the edge he was there holding me and catching me.

When the song changed it was another retro song Duran Duran's "Hungry Like a Wolf" and I changed to dance with Cal for a little bit. Of course he started singing parts and I joined him. Laughing along the way at each other this was something I never thought I would share with him but after doing so I didn't want to stop.

When the song switched to Rihanna's "S&M" you guessed it Lester cut in saying this was his song. Yeah I can only imagine how it was his song. The whole whips and chains exiting him was right up Lester's alley. I just had to laugh at his craziness. We were dancing having fun laughing when I felt him freeze and tense up. I looked around on the floor and I noticed all of my brothers were standing still and the tension I felt rolling off of them was palpable.

I turned in Lester's arms as they had wrapped around me pulling me to him and it was none other than Joe making his way thru the crowd toward us. I felt a wave of panic run thru me. Lester must have felt it to because his arms tightened around me pulling me even closer to him. I am glad I was dancing with him. Not that I didn't trust the others with my life because I did but Lester was my best friend the only other person I would want more would be Carlos.

My brothers stepped closer to me I reached out and grabbed Cal's hand. I needed to feel their strength. I had no idea what Joe was thinking or what he would try to do. I was bracing myself for what I didn't know and that made me nervous as hell. I had one hand holding on to Lester's arm that was wrapped around me and the other clamped down on Cal's hand.

I thought about the box I had received, I thought about the scenes laid out on my bed, I thought about his words and what he did when he pulled me over. I thought about the words in that letter and my stomach wanted to revolt. I hadn't drank that much in total but I felt my skin get clammy as I started to sweat my forehead getting damp and feeling cool from the sweat that was forming. I could feel my breathing change the closer he came towards me.

Joe reached us and he was leering at me as he began to speak "So I see it is true you are the whore or Rangeman. Ranger has already had enough of you that he has turned you over to his men now. So they can share you and have their way with you."

"Joe I don't want to talk to you. You need to leave you are violating the restraining order." I told him. I thought reminding him about that would be a good idea. He just laughed at me. "Cupcake you think I care about the restraining order? We are in a public place I had no idea you were here until I walked thru the door. I just thought I would walk over and say hi."

Yeah right my ass he didn't know. "Joe I don't care when you saw me you should have turned around and left. As far as saying hi to me if that is how you say hi you can shove it up your ass Joe I never want you speaking to me again." I told him. He just laughed and responded. "If you don't want to be here while I am here why don't you leave? Since you seem to think this bar isn't big enough for the two of us." He asked me. Fuck I was having a good time.

I just nodded and made a step to leave. Stepping out of Lester's arms I still had his arm and Cal's hand soon as I stepped forward Joe grabbed me by my arm and jerked me so hard he took me completely off of my feet. My grasp of their arm and hand was broken as I was thrown across the dance floor I landed hard on my side sliding into a couple of people who proceeded to fall down on top of me.

I heard Lester yell just before one of the guys crashed down on me smashing me further into the dance floor with his body landing completely on top me my head caught between his chest and the floor. Fuck that hurt. My neck was immediately burning from the snap of Joe jerking me forward. I couldn't concentrate on what was happening. It felt like time stood still as the guy was still laying on top of me crushing me to the point that I was gasping for my breath fighting for each breath I took.

Finally the guy gathered his wits about him and rolled off of me he was saying something to me but I couldn't concentrate on him for watching the scene in front of me. Lester was screaming at Joe you could see the rage in him Cal was holding on to him for all he was worth trying his best to hold Lester back. Even though Cal is bigger than Lester he was struggling holding him. You could see the blind rage in Lester.

Hal and Woody were standing guard if Lester broke from Cal's grasp. They knew he would end up either killing Joe or Joe would end up arresting him or me or possibly killing Lester. I continued to lie on the floor taking account of my body. I don't think I was injured but I wasn't really ready to move just yet.

The man who fell on me was on his feet reaching for me but I just shook my head no. I only wanted my brother's touching me. I only wanted them helping me or Carlos. I really wanted Carlos right this moment. Just the thought of him and I could feel the tears stinging my eyes. I needed Carlos.

Lester calmed a little when he saw me sit up. I shook my head I knew he was asking me if I was hurt if I was injured. Hurt a little yes but not injured. Joe was standing between me and my brothers I stood up after a few minutes and stepped to go to them when Joe pushed me back further this time I stayed on my feet my training kicked in.

When I made a another attempt to get around him to get to my brothers Joe grabbed me by the arm and slapped me hard across the cheek bone I tried to block him his hand but his force was strong enough it just took my arm with him. I don't know how I kept from falling under the force of the blow it was a significant blow and I felt my legs want to give out from under me but I gritted thru the pain, the nausea, and the stars I was seeing to stay on my feet.

I heard Lester yell again and all of my brother's growled. Joe spoke up "Cupcake I am not letting you go back to them. You belong to me. I came here tonight to take you home with me. You will not be leaving with them. You will be leaving within the If you stop fighting me now I won't punish you further." Fear shot thru me it was something along the lines of pure terror. Punish wasn't there something in that letter about punishing me?

When Lester heard him make that statement Lester went for his gun. Cal quickly took it away from him. I wanted Lester to kill Joe or at least maim him in a way to prevent Joe from taking me but I also knew that would mean prison for Lester as did Cal, and my other brothers.

Joe still had a bruising grasp on my arm and I was struggling to break free. The other patrons of the bar were just standing there watching the whole thing unfold. No one made a step to help me or assist in anyway. I am sure most all of them knew Joe and knew he was a police detective.

Stall, think Stephanie I had my panic button in my pocket, I had the tracking device on my skin not that I didn't think for a second Joe wouldn't find that first thing. He knew all about the trackers and panic buttons. I slipped my hand in my pocket and activated the panic button while Joe was distracted.

I reached out my other arm pulling myself as far away from Joe as I could manage with the grasp he had until I grabbed Lester hand. It felt like the arm that Joe was holding was going to be dislocated I was pulling against him so hard but I had to try.

I locked my fingers intertwined with Lester's onto Lester's hand trying desperately to hold on for all I was worth. I know my brothers saw and felt my fear how truly terrified I was. Lester calmed the moment my hand touched his and he locked his fingers with mine. Cal's hand let go of him and grabbed my wrist. I could tell by the look in his eyes he wasn't going to let go of me.

Joe jerked me hard and I couldn't help but scream in pain as my arm protested the jerk. But I held on. Woody and Hal had gone around behind Joe once Lester calmed so he was surrounded. I felt better looking at them I could tell they weren't going to just let him take me out of this bar.

I knew Carlos would be there in a matter of minutes after I activated the panic button. It would alert control room and they would alert him. I only needed to hold out for him to get here. I knew there was video of this, Rangeman was the security firm for the bar so we had proof of Joe's attack all of it.

How it was a completely unprovoked attack I only hope there was sound as well but I didn't have much faith in that as the music was pumping the whole time. Joe tried jerking me loose again and once again I couldn't contain the scream of pain. He then went for his gun pointing at Cal and Lester and demanded that they let go. They held fast even though the fear I was feeling catapulted to the point I was seeing stars.

Inner Ranger, where is your inner Ranger I asked myself and just thinking of him gave me more courage. I kicked at his hand making contact with his hand he was holding the gun in his right hand and I made contact right at his wrist. Causing him to effectively drop the gun but not before it discharged. I felt Cal wince and his grasp loosened a little before it tightened back up.

I searched his eyes and I could see pain there. I let my eyes follow down his body and I saw blood on his side. Fuck, Cal had been hit by the bullet but with his shirt on it was no way to tell how bad he was. He was still holding my wrist tightly so that was a good sign but then again he could probably be on his death bed and still would be holding my wrist tightly. He was keeping his promise to never me go.

I wanted to cry I was so scared, I was so afraid I was in such a state of terror that I found it almost impossible to function. It was one thing to spar with my brother's on the mat but this was a whole another level that I had no idea how to function under. I didn't know how to control these feelings to function. How the hell did Carlos and my brother's do it? Don't they ever get this afraid? Maybe not.

Inner Ranger, Inner Ranger I kept chanting to myself at least I hope it was to myself I didn't need Joe to hear me gathering my strength. I was ready to attack again when Joe went limp and fell to the ground he would have taken me with him but his hand went limp letting me go. It was then that the tingle at the base of my neck registered as I felt strong arms grab me and pull me to him. Catching the scent of bulgari it was Carlos. I still had a death grip on Lester's hand and Cal still had my wrist I don't think any of us were capable of letting go at this point.

I wrapped myself around Carlos my arm and legs clinging to him as hard as I could cling to anyone or anything. My hand still hasn't released Lester's hand as Carlos just held me shhssing me it was only hearing him that I realized my tears had broken thru and I was crying, sobbing into his chest ruining his shirt with my tears. All I heard was his soothing voice telling that he had me, that he would never let me go, that he had me, that I was now safe in his arms. But my grip on him wasn't releasing any more than my grip on Lester's hand. Cal had let go of my hand I felt when he released me and I immediately sought out his hand but they were holding his side.

I looked around the bar and Joe was lying unconscious on the floor, Tank was standing over him. Hal, Woody, Zero, Zip, Hector, Manny, Junior, Binkie, Ram, Bobby, and Cal were standing completely around Carlos and me. The only one that wasn't there was Vince, he must be manning the control room at Rangeman. I calmed a little having my brothers surround me I was safe in Carlos' arms with my brothers around me.

Bobby was looking at Cal's wound. I heard him say only a flesh wound would just need a few stitches but nothing major injured. Thank God. I searched his eyes begging for forgiveness had I not kicked his gun he probably wouldn't have been shot. He just nodded his head and smiled at me I reached for him with the hand that still had Lester's hand locked in a death grip. Even though I told my fingers to release him my fingers just didn't seem to want to respond.

Bobby was trying to get to me to see my injuries but Carlos just growled as Bobby tried to remove me from his arms. I also protested in holding on tighter I wasn't ready to let go of him no more than it seemed he was ready to let go of me.

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