Ryder: A Wings of Diablo MC Novel by Rae Lake (drm ebook reader .TXT) 📕

She walked in the door of the clubhouse at three in the afternoon and by three oh one, she was crying for LJ. Child services were dragging their feet when it came to releasing the child to his mother. They claimed they had to be absolutely sure that he wouldn’t be in danger.

She stayed in bed all day, only getting up to use the bathroom. I did my best to try and keep her spirits up, but I was a fucking biker. I didn’t know how I was supposed to do any of that, usually with Cherry sex was the answer and this time that wasn't the case. All she wanted was LJ.

“Cherry, time to get the hell up. You need to eat something.”

“I’m not hungry Ryder, go get yourself something, I’ll be fine.” She rolled over in the bed, turning her back to me.

“Fuck that, you are free, we beat the fucks and here you are still in the bed moping like a little girl.”

This got her attention, “Screw you, Ryder, you aren’t the one who is missing a fucking baby. I am. My baby. I want him here. He’s out there in the world all alone and you’re sitting there trying to force me to eat. You’re trying to get me to believe we won? The fuck are you talking about if we won where is my baby?”

“Cherry, you’re right, this is fucked up. I’m doing everything I can, we all are doing everything that we can to get him back to you.”

“It looks to me like you are just sitting around on your asses.”

I shook my head and turned to leave, she had been in a bad mood since she got back and she was more than entitled to be but no one talked to me that way. I’d rather leave than let her talk to me like I was shit beneath her boot.

“Ryder.” She called for me.

“What Cherry?”

She walked over to where I waited and sat down on my lap, “Ryder, I’m sorry. I’m angry and I’m hurting. Not at you, just at the world. LJ was the only truly good in my world and they took it away from me because they could.”

“I know babygirl. I know you miss him.”

She began to cry again, so I did the only thing I could to ease her pain even if it was only for a few minutes. I kissed her. I let my lips linger on hers not wanting to move too fast.

She kissed me back and just as she began to get into it, the outside door to the clubhouse slammed open. I pulled away from her and listened for gunshots or screaming. Cherry held onto my neck, not even breathing but looking towards the door as well. She was doing the same thing, waiting for the next attack.

I heard one of the women in the club scream but not in fear or surprise but in glee. Archer whooped out happily and I could even here Wire laughing in the growing commotion.

Cherry got off my lap and I started to roll towards the door.

The sweetest sound I ever heard echoed through the air when I opened my bedroom door.

“Mama!”

“LJ!” Cherry rushed past me straight toward her son.

Clean smiled as he passed the little tyke towards his mother, his eyes glistening with tears he was too manly to shed. Devin walked in behind him a huge smile on his face as well.

“Oh god, thank you! Thank you!” Cherry told them both, as she kissed the little boy over and over in every spot that she could reach. “I don’t really care but how did this happen? I thought they wanted to make sure that I was safe before they gave him back to me?”

“Technically you’re a hero, we just told the department of Child Services that the press would be very interested to find out that the son of a single mother, a woman who is a hero, was taken from his mother due to false charges and then kept from her because they didn’t want to file the correct paperwork. It took some doing but the last thing that the state wants is a lawsuit on their hands or a public protest.” Devin shrugged as he bent over and rubbed the little boy's head.

“Thank you so much!”

A severe looking man, with clear blue eyes, white blond hair and skin as pale as snow walked in behind Devin, he looked over to Wire and indicated that he should come with him.

“Who the fuck are you?” I asked

The man didn’t say a word but instead tried to walk around me to where Wire was.

“Ryder, it’s cool. Come with.” Wire said as we walked into church. “Clean, Mack, Prez, Archer, we have to talk.”

We all filed in and looked at the man who was busy taking manilla folder after manilla folder out of the bag that he was carrying. He didn’t say a word to any of us.

“Wire, who the fuck is this and what the hell is he doing in church.”

“It’s all good brothers, this is Sven. Marko sent him to help track down the information that we need about the Boys of Djinn.” He looked over towards Clean to see if he was going to give any flak about someone else doing the job that he was supposed to be doing.

“Shit, don’t look at me, I will take all the fucking help I can get with this one.” Clean looked over, “So did you find out anything useful?”

“Da,” Sven answered and continued to take out the folders that he had and then finally a laptop and what looked like a mini electrical box.

“So, get to it. I don’t have time to watch you play secretary, just tell us what we need to know so we can take them out.” Prez spoke up but he was out of order, he looked over to Wire and apologized immediately. “My bad Wire, I was out of place.”