Raising Riker (Hells Saints MC) by Paula Marinaro

Author:Paula Marinaro [Marinaro, Paula]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-08-18T16:00:00+00:00

“And what?” Reno looked uncomfortable. His eyes volleyed from his mother to Gia, then back again.

“And what else do you know?” Gia snapped at him.

Gia was exhausted, and her ribs were sore. The baby, as if sensing the anxiety of its momma, had been kicking up all afternoon and into the early evening. Gia rubbed her belly automatically in a soothing gesture while she willed the throbbing pain in her temple to ease.

A few moments earlier she had walked into the kitchen to find Reno at the table with his mother. Gia listened on in horror as he explained that Riker had been arrested.

“And?” Gia shot out in exasperation.

“Well…uh…like I said…Riker’s been brought in…” Reno spoke with great hesitance.

At Reno’s obvious reluctance to share, Gia finally lost the battle with her frayed nerves.

“God damn it, Reno! All this hemming and hawing is only making it worse!” Gia called him out on his bullshit evasion of the truth tactics.

Dolly interceded on Gia’s behalf and said to her son, “Full disclosure, honey. She needs to know.”

Reno’s gaze swept over Gia and stalled at her baby-belly for a few seconds before his eyes met hers. “It’s not good.”

“Really? Because I thought the ATF agents crawling like hungry ants all over this place all afternoon meant that everything was going to be just fine.” Gia’s tone bit with sarcasm. Then her shoulders slumped from carrying the weight of the world. “Reno, seriously? You think I don’t get how bad this must be?”

“The club’s on it, Gia.” Reno hastened to reassure her. “Prosper’s putting together a whole team and calling in every marker to get Riker outa this mess.”

“Okay.” Gia struggled to stay calm. “How big of a mess are we talking about?”

More bullshit hesitation from Reno.

With a sigh born out of sheer frustration and anger, Gia led with her belly as she pushed herself to stand. Her back cramped and she gasped with pain. When Reno reached to help her, she swatted his hand away. “The only help I need from you is to hear the truth.” She spat at him. “Do you not understand how much harder this is making it—this not knowing?”

“For the love of god, Reno tell the woman what is happening!” Dolly scolded her son.

“Okay, Ma. But don’t shoot the messenger.”

Then Reno began to talk.

And when he was done, both women sat at the table in stunned silence.

A deep raw panic had settled like a wet, heavy blanket on top of Gia’s chest and she couldn’t breathe. She became dimly aware that the rain that had been threatening all day had now arrived with a vengeance. Without another word, Gia headed for the door and once she got there, she kept walking. It was storm season, so the rain didn’t content itself to pour downward, but instead the torrents hit at such an angle that it crept under her collar and stung her face. Gia only stopped when she came to the edge of the lake. There she stood watching

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