Axel's Pup by Kim Dare

Author:Kim Dare [Dare, Kim]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-03-06T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nineteen

Curses scrolled through Bayden’s mind as he rode into the car park in front of The Dragon’s Lair. The bikes were still there—including Axel’s modern Triumph. Axel hadn’t given up and started the club run without him.

Leaving his bike at the end of the row, Bayden jumped off it and rushed inside.

Axel looked at him, then at the clock. “Thirteen seconds to spare.”

Bayden remembered how to breathe.

“Everything okay at home?” Axel asked. He always asked. Every time Bayden visited, Axel asked.

Bayden nodded. “Everything’s fine. I’d have been back an hour ago, but they’re doing road works. Not even enough room to overtake on a bike. I was stuck behind a hundred cars.”

“Where does your family live?” Griz asked.

Bayden tensed. That was no one’s business.

“He wants to know what road the works are on,” Axel translated. “We don’t want to run into them on our ride.”

“They’re on the bypass—from the first junction all the way to the old docks, but everyone who’s trying to avoid them has backed up on the little roads too.”

Hale pulled out his smart phone. “He’s telling the truth. All the traffic reports say stay the hell away from that whole side of the city.”

“Why would I lie about it?” Bayden asked.

“Does a wolf need a reason?”

“Do you two want to bicker, or do you want to ride?” Axel cut in. “We can head east, skirt around the edge of the city, come back in, cut through the Holborn estate and stop off in the pub at the far end before circling back.”

“You want to ride through Holborn?” Bayden blurted out.

Axel raised an eyebrow at him.

“Sir,” Bayden added.

“What’s the problem with Holborn?”

I grew up there. They’ll recognise me. They’ll recognise my bike. Bayden dropped his gaze. “It’s a rough area, sir.”

“Scared?” Hale asked.

Bayden ignored him. “It’s not the kind of place you want to ride through, sir.”

“We’ve ridden through there lots of times,” Axel said. “We’ve never had any trouble.”

Yes, but you’re not a wolf. Bayden bit his tongue.

“I promise, your baby will be fine,” Axel said. “If you think the pub’s too rough, I’ll even let you stay outside and babysit it. But seriously, pup, there aren’t that many people who want to pick a fight with twenty men wearing leather.”

Bayden met his gaze for a moment. Pushing it any further would be tantamount to challenging his right to take the club wherever he wanted it to go. Bayden’s alpha had made his decision. Now, it was Bayden’s job to deal with it.

He nodded his acceptance and headed outside with all the others. As he straddled his bike, he took a deep breath. It would be fine. Of course it would. He’d survived nineteen years on that estate. A few more hours weren’t even going to be a challenge. It was four years since he’d left. Everyone had probably forgotten him, or had moved away themselves.

Axel led off. Bayden watched the other riders fall neatly into formation as they followed him. Bayden joined the back of the line.

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