Shade sat back down at the table. “Did you go after her?”
“No, but I used the number she gave Evie to try to talk with her. She refused to see me, though. Fuck it. I had already made up my mind that I wasn’t going to see her again, anyway. Too much of a hassle for some pussy.” While Razer shrugged, Shade could tell from his expression he was more upset than he was pretending.
“She offered me a job, and I was supposed to go see her Monday. I won’t be getting it now,” Evie said.
“Why not?” Shade questioned.
Evie rolled her eyes. “Because she saw me fucking a man she wanted. Just because we share doesn’t mean it doesn’t freak other people out. She probably hates my guts right now.”
“Maybe, but she hates Razer more. Go see her Monday.”
“Nope, I’ll find a job somewhere else.”
“Go see her. She was raised in the church, and they love to have an excuse to forgive. They eat that shit up.”
Evie’s eyes stared directly into his. “What’s going on, Shade? First you want me to be friendly with her, and now you want me to take a job with her. What’s up?”
Razer looked up from his coffee cup. “It’s the sister, isn’t it?”
“Who?” Evie asked, staring back and forth between Razer and him.
“Beth’s sister, Lily. I think Shade’s got a boner for her.”
“Shut up, Razer.” Shade cast Razer a warning look.
“Lily’s a looker, but she’s too young,” Razer told Evie, ignoring Shade’s glare.
Evie turned to him. “I see, you want me to get closer to Beth so I can find out more about Lily.”
“Yes.” Shade saw no reason not to tell the truth.
“But, if she’s too young … you know the club rules,” Evie needlessly reminded him.
Club rules or not, he wouldn’t touch an underage girl.
“She won’t be underage forever.”
Evie grinned at him. “No, she won’t,” she agreed. “What’s it worth to you for me to go suck up to Beth to get the job?”
“What do you want?” Shade’s jaw clenched.
“You have to pull my shift at the factory twice a week. It will be hard to hold down two jobs. If I tell Viper you’ll work two of my shifts, it will make him happy, and I won’t have to listen to the others who will have to pick up the slack.”
“Okay.”
“But you hate working in the factory,” Razer reminded him. “Shade…?”
“Stay out of it, Razer. I don’t need your advice.”
“Wasn’t going to give you any. I was just going to tell you I’m going to Ohio for a few days. Wanted to see if you cared to ride along.”
“What do you think?” Shade said, standing up.
“There’s a few bitches who’ve been waiting on our votes,” Razer laughed.
“Let’s not keep them waiting then. I’ll be ready to ride in an hour.”
Chapter 5
Nine months later…
Shade drank his beer while listening to Knox and Rider argue back and forth about who had made Natasha come the most the previous night. Razer was standing at the bar, talking to Mick, while the other brothers took up two tables. The bar had been almost empty when they had walked in the door.
Bored out of his mind, he decided to go back to the clubhouse to find Natasha and prove to both men he held the record for making a woman come. Then the door opened, and Viper came in looking furious.
Only one person could bring out that level of frustration in the president of The Last Riders, and that was his father, Ton.
“Mick, have you seen Ton? I just got back in town this morning, and when I went home, both he and the truck were gone.” Viper’s angry comment had Shade sighing.
There went his fuck session with Natasha. Viper would probably make them search for his father.
“I haven’t seen him today.” Mick’s answer escalated Viper’s anger.
“Mother fucker! I’m going to strangle him with my bare hands when I find him!”
Viper’s cell phone rang just as Shade was about to offer to go look for Ton. From his expression, he had found his father. As he ended the phone call, all the fury on his face was replaced with concern.
“I found Ton.”
Shade stood up, moving closer to the bar so he could hear.
“He was in an accident. He broadsided Beth Cornett’s car on Ivy Hill. They’ve both been taken to the E.R.”
“How bad is she hurt?” Viper and Mick both looked at Razer, surprised by his reaction.
Shade wasn’t the only brother who knew Razer hadn’t forgotten the blond. He quizzed Evie as often as Shade did about what was happening in the women’s lives.
“Don’t know. That was the only information dispatch would tell me. The sheriff told them to contact me and to have me meet him at the hospital.”