Holly's Christmas Biker by Darlene Tallman

Author:Darlene Tallman [Tallman, Darlene]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-12-07T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER

SIX

Rebel

“I’m Jonah Sherman, sir, but most folks call me Rebel,” I tell him, holding out my hand. “As far as who I am, I’m a former police officer and when I retired, several of my other first responder friends and I started the Steel Raiders Motorcycle Club. I’m the club president. I met Holly back in October at the grocery store, saw she had two little girls and invited her to the Halloween festival that our club puts on every year, then found out she’s bartending part-time at the bar the club owns.”

“Paul Atchison,” her grandfather says in introduction, shaking my hand with a firm grip. He then looks at Holly and says, “If you’d let me pay that hellhound heifer, you wouldn’t be burning the candle at both ends, Holly.”

“Pappy, you know why I feel I need to do it,” she replies. “It’s not forever, it’s just for a minute.”

He chuckles then says, “Gonna use my own teachings against me, I see.”

She grins while nodding. “Absolutely. And I can see you have questions, Rebel, about why I didn’t leave then and there. Grammy and Pappy wanted me to, but I didn’t want to invade their lives with a newborn and a toddler.”

“Wouldn’t have been an invasion, sweetheart, and you know it,” Paul retorts.

“Pappy,” she drawls out, “you took me in as a toddler and you guys had to raise me. How could I ask either of you to do that again? You deserve to have your own lives after all you’ve done for me.”

“And like I told you back then, it’s what family does when they love you,” he rebuts. “But I suspect you’ve got more than a little of your grandmother’s stubbornness, and things have a way of working out the way they’re supposed to.” His amendment has me snickering.

“Well, in the interest of being above board about things, I’ve told Holly I’d like to get to know her better. I know her ex hasn’t been gone all that long, but I learned a long time ago not to pass up something good,” I tell him. “With her having two little ones, we aren’t gonna be rushing into anything by any means, and even though I don’t know you well, I suspect you’re not going to let Holly and the girls ever be hurt again.”

“Got that straight,” Paul growls out. “Wish my Esther woulda let me take my shotgun to that asshole when he damn near killed our Holly. But she reminded me that prison food isn’t all that tolerable, and to let the law handle things.”

My interest now piqued, I ask, “What happened?”

Paul snorts in disgust. “It was thrown out for lack of evidence. The family has money and I think his mother paid someone off. Samuel, his father knew, and he was horrified that the man he helped raise would ever put his hands on a woman in anger. But that bitch, Myra, made Devin into a mama’s boy, and she bulldozed shit until she got her way.

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