“Ridge is just like his dad. He always had to be a show-off,” Shade said wryly as they watched him performing wheelies in the parking lot.
His eyes were caught by a movement at one of the picnic tables. His face went ice cold, and he started to get up from the bench. However, Lily’s hand caught his, preventing him from going to the couple sitting at the picnic table.
“Shade, leave them alone.”
“Hell, no, that shit’s not going to happen!”
Lily shook her head at him. “She loves him. Don’t spoil it for them.”
Shade watched his granddaughter sitting with the president of The Last Riders. He wasn’t embarrassed to admit that Violet held a special place in his heart. She was almost an exact replica of Lily. If he had ever wondered what Lily would have been like nurtured in a healthy and loving environment, Violet had answered those questions. John and his wife had done an excellent job raising their daughter. No one could resist her loving and sweet personality. Evidently, not even the man who had taken over as president.
Looking at the succeeding president, Shade reminisced to that night, so many, many years ago, when Viper, Gavin, Razer, Rider, Knox, Cash, Levi, and himself had sat in that motorcycle bar, planning their own motorcycle club. It had been the birth of The Last Riders and the start of so many memories, both good and bad…
Shade wrapped his arm around the stripper’s shoulder, leading her off the dance floor to the table the others were sitting at.
Taking a chair next to Viper, he sat down and pulled the stripper onto his lap.
The men spread around the table stared at him balefully.
“You trying to get our asses maimed so we can’t go back on duty?” Levi shook his head at Shade.
“What?” Shade asked, lifting the beer the stripper handed him to his mouth.
“You know what,” Viper said sarcastically. “She belongs to those bikers over by the bar. We’re already on their shit list for being in here, anyway.”
Shade shrugged. “It’s a biker bar, and we’re bikers, aren’t we?”
“Occasionally, when we’re not getting munitions thrown at us.” Gavin grinned.
Viper shot his brother a glance. “In a few months, we’ll be riding all the time. I never want to ride in another DPV again. Every time I get out, I feel like my balls are going to fall off.”
“I kinda of like it,” Gavin said, hitting his brother on the back. “Calm down. If Shade starts a fight, we’ll deal. I’m bored, anyway, since he managed to grab the only woman in this dump with a decent pair of tits.
“We ever live to see the end of our tour, we’ll have our own bar and beat the shit out of assholes like us.” Gavin winked at Viper.
“You’re planning on starting a biker club?” Rider grinned, his hand going under the table to the thigh of the stripper.
Shade shifted her closer to Rider. He didn’t want to take the chance he would grab anything that was attached to him.
“Hell yes. Want to join when you get out?” Gavin asked.
Shade hid his smile when Viper rolled his eyes.
“Fuck yeah. Just let me know where, and I’ll be there as soon as I get out,” Rider told him.
The stripper’s head fell back on Shade’s shoulder.
“You in, Levi?” Gavin turned to him next.
Levi watched Rider and Shade with the stripper, shaking his head. “No, Evie and I are getting married when we get out. She’d kick my ass if I tried to join a biker club.”
Gavin frowned. “What about you, Cash?”
“Count me in. I have no place I want to go back to.”
“Train?” Gavin asked, motioning for the waitress to bring them another round.
“I’m with Cash. I haven’t got anything waiting for me, either. Sounds better than what I had planned.”
“What did you have planned?” Shade asked, his hand going to the stripper’s waist and sliding under her see-through top. The men could easily see him playing with her nipple.
“Re-enlisting.”
The men at the table laughed.
“Knox?”
“No thanks. Me and Sunshine are going to buy a house and start having kids when we get out.”
“Shit, you and Sunshine are getting married?” Rider asked.
The stripper was moaning loudly now. Several of the men at the table were forced to shift in their chairs to adjust themselves.
“Shit, quiet her down, Shade,” Viper hissed.
Shade saw the angry glares focused on their table.
Bending down, he whispered in her ear, “Make another sound, and Rider will stop.”
She immediately shut up.
“I wish I knew how you did that,” Levi said.
“What about you, Shade? You going to join us?” Gavin asked.
“I’ll think about it.”
“What’s to think about? Bikes, bitches, and fighting all the time.” Gavin leaned back in his chair. “Viper can be the president; I’ll be his vice; Cash can be his lieutenant; and you can be his enforcer.”
“That does sound tempting.” Shade gave Gavin a half smile. “What about you Reid? You in?”
“Yeah, he had me at the bitches,” Reid laughed.
“Well?” Gavin prodded.
“I’ll give it a try. If I like it, I’ll stay,” Shade told him.
“I’m glad you’re in, Shade,” Viper snapped. “Your first duty as our enforcer is to get us out of here alive.” He stood up as four of the bikers who had been glaring at them started coming at them as the stripper began shaking with her climax.
Shade sighed, standing up to set the woman on his chair.
“Sorry, that’s all you’ll be getting tonight,” Shade said regretfully. He had been looking forward to fucking her. It was his own fault. He should have taken her to the back ten minutes ago and fucked her in the bathroom.
He waited until the bikers were almost on top of them before picking up Viper’s empty chair. Spotting the biggest one, Shade left him to Knox. The one in front was the leader, so that was the one he needed to take out.
Before the biker could open his mouth, Shade crashed the chair down on his head.
“Fuck! Next time, give us some warning,” Viper snarled as the bar broke into a brawl that left the bikers with bloody injuries and the furniture broken. They didn’t stop until the cops arrived, pulling them off the unconscious bikers.
“They started it!” Levi yelled as he was getting cuffed. “You’re explaining this to Evie, Shade.”
Shade grunted as two officers threw him to the ground, handcuffing him before lifting him to his feet and dragging him outside.
“If anybody gets a phone call, call Lucky and tell him to come bail us out.” Viper groaned when the cop slammed him against the patrol car.
They were all driven to the local police station and placed in a holding cell.
“Damn, the bikers didn’t touch me. The cops did more damage with that fucking taser,” Knox groaned.
Gavin started chuckling.
“What the fuck is so funny?” Viper glared at him, pissed.
Gavin placed his arm around Viper’s shoulders. “We were the last ones standing. We were outnumbered three to one, and we still kicked their asses.”
“That’s what we should call our club,” Shade said, shifting to try to make himself more comfortable. They hadn’t taken his cuffs off.
“What?” Gavin asked.
“The Last Riders.”
“Remember when King had the same reaction to you?” Lily reminded him, bringing Shade back to the present.
“I don’t give a fuck. Brick makes me look like a saint,” Shade snarled.
“I wouldn’t go that far.” She laughed.
Shade gritted his teeth, staring at the man who had stolen his granddaughter while he had been recovering in the hospital.
“Where’s Lucky? I may not be able to kick Brick’s ass, but I can his grandfather.”
“The men would laugh at
two old men fighting in the backyard.” Lily shook her head at him.
“They won’t laugh long,” Shade threatened.
“Shade, look at her. She loves him.”