The Sin Eater by Lee McIntyre

Author:Lee McIntyre [McIntyre, Lee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781640620896
Publisher: Braveship Books
Published: 2019-08-31T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 34

Thank God for goggles.

Adam knew that he must look like some sort of lunatic Nazi general riding out front, in a homemade sidecar, with a hundred motorcycles roaring behind him. The wind was fierce and somehow it didn’t help that he was down so low, with every bug and bit of gravel nicking him in the face. Tugg had said that a bike run usually traveled at about 80 m.p.h, but at this height it felt like it could have been two hundred.

The bike formation behind him was an impressive sight. Adam had looked back a couple of times and saw the choppers all lined up, riding 18 inches off one another’s tires, with Tugg in the far rear with a couple of other prospects. Since Adam was with Doc, he was out front, the place of honor, but he felt more like a mascot than a celebrity.

And then there was the subject of the leg.

Adam had his socks on, but his shoes were back in Tugg’s saddlebag, so he kept his toes scrunched up and refused to extend his feet all the way into the sidecar. Was the leg wrapped up like a mummy? Just sitting there? He was afraid to ask. Adam hung onto the sides of the mini-coffin and gritted his teeth, trying to smile every time Doc looked down at him.

When he could forget about the leg, the country was beautiful. And the smells were tremendous. Years back, Adam had ridden dirt bikes with Tugg all over Tillamook County the summer before he went to college and Tugg went into the Air Force. After that Kate had happened and – once her multiple sclerosis set in – she’d made Adam promise to give it up. No sense both of them ending up in a wheelchair. Of course he’d agreed, but every now and then he remembered that summer. Riding in a car with the window down, you didn’t get the full effect. On a motorcycle you weren’t looking at a picture you were in the picture. A slight change in temperature. A whiff of whatever crop was growing in the field. He was hurtling down the highway in a wooden box, swimming through the scenery. It was stolen time.

How long was this ride supposed to be? They’d been on the road for hours. Whether they were going somewhere or just making a big loop, Adam couldn’t tell. Surely they’d stop sooner or later, just to take a pee. Adam had to be stoic. This was all necessary, he told himself, to get Emma back. Being accepted by the club had to be good for Tugg, and that had to be good for getting next to Wanda. Maybe they wouldn’t have to wait the full six months now that she was here.

Adam tried not to get his hopes up, but it was impossible. If Wanda was the key to this whole strategy, wasn’t this their best chance to get the information they needed? Damn protocol, wasn’t

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