Seduced (Book 2) by Kathryn Thomas

Author:Kathryn Thomas
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: dark mc romance, motorcycle club romance, bad boy contemporary romance, secret baby romance, fake wedding romance, biker romance
Publisher: eBook Publishing World
Published: 2020-04-09T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 5

Slick

Grizzly’s house has been in his family for generations. It’s a large, colonial style mansion with an American flag fluttering in the breeze, tall and proud, with a triangular roof and a huge, dominating porch. It’s one of those houses you see in historical movies about the Civil War, and wouldn’t think twice about: might even think the set guys built the house especially. I stop my bike behind Clint’s and Brat’s cars, in the long, wide stone driveway, and then the five of us approach Grizzly. He sits on the porch, in a rocking chair, rolling a cigarette. By the time we reach him, since the walk across his garden is so long, he’s finished rolling and is smoking, flicking the ash into an ashtray not as old as the house, but still pretty old. It’s shaped like a skull, and was a present to Grizzly from my father.

Finally, the five of us are standing on the porch around Grizzly. We wait as he leisurely smokes his cigarette. He’s taking his sweet time, trying to make me nervous. Well, if that’s the case, he’s succeeding, but only a little. I’m curious more than anything. I’ve been making the club more money since Grizzly gave me my own team, been increasing everybody’s pay, and here he is playing the tension game. Brat takes Charlotte to the other side of the porch, waiting for Grizzly to finish his cigarette, and returns only when he’s stubbed it out in the skull ashtray. All through this, Clint gives me looks like a brother who’s about to see his sibling get a good telling-off, a pathetic, wormy look.

“Slick,” Grizzly says. I notice that he avoids looking at Bri or his granddaughter, maybe because he knows that she’s mine, or maybe because he can’t bear to look at her when he’s doing the tough routine. It’s clear, from the way he glances angrily at Clint, that he doesn’t want her here. But it would ruin his effect if he made a big deal out of it. So he just goes on: “Slick, I need to talk to you about how much time you’re spending with my daughter.”

“What!” Bri snaps, straightaway, voice cutting through the tension like a hot steak knife. “I’m standing right here, Dad, you don’t need to talk about me like that! You’re so solemn and overbearing and—and—this isn’t the fifties, you know! It’s twenty-seventeen!”

Grizzly shifts, ignoring her, and presses on: “You were seen riding with my daughter a couple of weeks ago, into the mountains, and were seen with her at a bar called the Irishman. The man who told me about that encounter was nice enough to leave out the unsavory details. Maybe he knew how I’d react if I found out the truth.”

“Dad—”

“Quiet!” Grizzly snaps, looking at her for the first time, face screwed up in annoyance.

“Oh, real nice,” Bri mutters, as Charlotte begins to whimper. “Make your granddaughter cry!”

Bri moves away from the group, whispering to her daughter—hell, our daughter.

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