Dirty Riding (Bad Alphas Book 2) by Skye Darrel

Author:Skye Darrel [Darrel, Skye]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-08-20T16:00:00+00:00

I’m standing at our window watching the parking lot when a police cruiser from Kenedy County arrives. It’s the same cruiser we saw in Boerne.

Piper calls Sheriff Rose, and the cruiser stops in front of our room. It’s almost noon. We’re both dressed.

Bandit’s perched on top of Piper's backpack, upset we're not playing catch. Catch will have to wait.

Sheriff Rose steps out of the car. Stern face, ponytail. A trim uniform that reveals a hard physique. Forty or so, older than me. My eyes fall on the huge gun in her holster, and that’s no regulation firearm. A .50 caliber Desert Eagle, I judge. A fucking hand cannon.

“She’s here,” Piper says.

“Here and armed.”

We open the door for her, and Daisy Rose strolls in without a second look at me. She puts her hand on Piper’s shoulder.

“You okay, sweetheart?”

“Just fine. This is Luke. Um, Lusander is his full name.”

The sheriff turns to me. “The Walmart guy.”

“Yeah,” I say gruffly. Piper gave me the quick version of her conversation with Rose at the diner. “We’re together,” I say, nodding at my girl.

“Where you from?” the sheriff says.

“San Antonio.”

Rose gives me the once-over, not bothering to hide her distrust. “What do you do?”

“I’m a dentist.”

Piper makes a face at me.

“Try again,” Rose says.

“I’m a biker.”

“That’s not a profession, Mr. Alvarez.”

“I got something better than a profession. I got money. I can take care of Piper.”

“Piper Ginn is eighteen. You like young girls, Alvarez?”

“Just one. And I don’t care if she were eighty. I love her.”

Rose frowns. “You love her?”

“With all my heart. It’s one of those things, Sheriff. You just know it.”

Rose looks into my eyes, and I don’t know what she sees there, but her suspicion seems to lessen by a small amount. She still keeps one hand near her belt like a gunslinger about to draw. “I don’t put much stock in ‘one of those things.’ I like facts. Numbers. I like things I can touch. You know she’s a runaway?”

“Yeah. And I know what she ran away from.”

“Young girls who leave home with nothing tend to meet monsters.”

“Not this time,” I say.

Rose looks around the small motel room. It’s clean and tidy, but it’s no Four Seasons. “You fancy yourself a hero?” she asks me.

“I fancy myself her provider.”

Piper nods. “He’s a good man, Daisy. You got no cause to hold us.”

“I reckon I can find some.”

The sheriff paces around the room, peeking behind the bed, nodding at Bandit, checking the bathroom. She runs her finger here and there. Then she speaks with Piper for a while, asking her where she’s gone since leaving Milburn, the details of how she met me, and if I’ve ever hurt her.

I’d rather die than hurt a hair on my girl’s head.

I'm about to add that commentary to the conversation when I catch movement outside the window. Three hulking motorcycles roar into the parking lot. The men riding them I recognize at once.

Johann Schmidt.

Romo and Wesker, vicious sons of bitches who'd follow Johann to the lowest ring of hell.

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