ROMANCE: MC BIKER ROMANCE: Hooked (MC Biker Pregnancy Romance)(Bad Boy Motorcycle Club Romance) (Contemporary Military Romantic Suspense Thriller)

by Carly White

  His dark hair was slicked back and there was only a few spots were the ink on his skin could be seen. His neck was one of those spots and Zed ended up changing his shirt to a button up. It was the shirt he had worn under his jacket at a funeral. It didn’t fit quite right, he had swollen up some, but it would have to do. Zed didn’t even recognize himself, so he didn’t know how anyone else would be able to.

  Sammy made a comment when he came out that he looked like a church boy.

  Zed kind of shook it off, but he had felt the same thing when he had seen himself in the mirror. He had to look the part though. He was going to be the one getting the teller in the building and making sure that they got what they came in there for. They were there for the money. There was no way that an upstanding woman would just stand there as he walked up to them, not a woman like Kristy anyways. The man knew more about her than he did about most of his ex-girlfriends and it was going to be strange because he felt like he already knew her. He had read the report he was given, as well as heard Leroy talk about her ass for at least five minutes.

  “Are you guys ready?”

  Everyone nodded and they went out front to a couple of cars. They were not used to piling up in the backseat of sedans and it was clear as the big men tried to fit. By the end of it, everyone was almost on top of each other and they were racing off towards Hamilton Bank. It was the biggest in the city, but it had the least amount of security. It didn’t matter though, because in the end they had found the one weak link and that was their teller named Kristy.

  Chapter 2

  When he first saw her, it wasn’t what he was expecting. He had expected her to be pretty, that was a given by the way his friend had talked about her, but he had thought he was just exaggerating. There was none of that though. The man found it hard to breathe suddenly. It was not something that happened to him often, ever really, but it seemed as though his lungs wouldn’t take in anymore oxygen.

  “She is almost to the door boss. Do you want me to go ahead?” Sammy was looking at him with a bit of concern. If she got in the door, then there was a higher chance of them failing and failure was not an option. They needed this win, not just for the money, but for the morale of the gang.

  Something was holding him back though. He didn’t want her to recognize him later. The man didn’t know her, but he knew then that there would be a next time for them and he would never have a chance if she knew what he had done. “Yeah, you go ahead. I don’t want her to see my face.”

  Sammy didn’t need to be told twice. Sammy knew that he was supposed to sweet talk her into the building. Something the man was very good at. He got out of the tinted car and walked quickly towards the woman. He didn’t want to alarm her. He was still a rather large guy and no matter how Sammy was dressed, he looked dangerous.

  “Excuse me Miss?”

  Kristy was surprised and jumped when she heard the man behind her. She took in the hulk of a man, but he had a disarming smile on his face that was hard to not smile back to. “Yes?”

  “Are you guys about to open?”

  She nodded. “Yeah the branch will open in another half an hour.”

  His face dropped. “I was really needing to get some money out of my account before work. I got a big client meeting at lunch and I can’t find my card. It would be embarrassing to have to ask one of them to pay for it.”

  She tried to look sympathetic, but there was no way that Kristy was going to be able to let him in. When she tried to explain it to him, the smiling man was not smiling anymore and he had a look to him that made her even more nervous.

  “I really need to get in there Kristy.”

  The hairs went up in the back of her neck and she took a step back. There was nowhere for her to go though. He was right in front of her and he had this smile on his face. “Why don’t you just let me in and I will help myself?”

  It was then that she realized what was really going on and she couldn’t believe it. “You are trying to rob the bank?”

  He nodded to her. “Not just me and I am not trying Kristy, I am succeeding.”

  He made a motion towards the car and three more men got out in black ski masks. Kristy’s body wanted to flee. It was the first thing that she could think of, but there was quickly a steely hand on her wrist letting her know that it wasn’t an option. “I wouldn’t do that if I were you lady.”

  A larger man than the one holding her came up and knocked the man on the shoulder. “Get your hands off of her. We don’t need any of that kind of violence.” Zed didn’t like the look of fear on the woman’s face. It was not an emotion he was used to receiving from a woman and he really wanted Kristy to react with lust like the rest of them did.

  “Sorry.” Sammy gave him a dirty look, but moved back to give the woman some space.

  “Now this doesn’t have to be unpleasant. My friend here would like to make a withdrawal.”

  She nodded her head, her hands shaking as she tried to fit the key in the door. There was no stopping the trembling in her hands though and his larger one covered hers to calm her done. His touch was soothing somehow in the crazy situation, but there was nothing else that he could do. It wasn’t the man she was afraid of, but the situation unfolding around her that she had no say in.

  Zed finally took the keys from her and had her show him which one it was. “Don’t be afraid, Kristy. I wouldn’t let anything happen to a proper woman like you.”

  Kristy believed him for some reason. She had no reason to. No basis for the trust, but she did. Above all though, she didn’t have a choice. The man’s voice was deep and not threatening, but firm. He was a man that was used to people listening to what he said and she didn’t think it would be wise not to.

  She followed the men in and they seemed to know exactly where they were going. “Let me just get my code book from the desk.”

  Zed shook his head. “I don’t think we are going to be hitting that panic button Kristy, now come on and we can make this quick.”

  With no other ideas in her head, but running, she made her way towards the large safe in the back. She was not going with protocol and even as she thought about it, there was no way that she would have been able to. The men were ready to do what was needed and they seemed to have a plan. They knew her by name, so there didn’t seem to be anything that she could do. It was silly of her to be worrying about her job at such a time. She should have been worrying about her life.

  The men were in and the main guy gave her a chair to sit in. She was thankful for it. Her knees were a bit wobbly with everything that was going on. “Thank you.”

  He kind of laughed at her. “Did you just thank your robber?”

  Kristy was still hungover and she was actually more annoyed as the time went on. His comment grated on her nerves and she refused to talk to him for several minutes. When his hand went to her shoulder, she shrugged him off.

  “Stop, that really isn’t proper.”

  “I don’t have time now, but I would love to bang the propriety right out of you. Do you really think I care about being proper?”

  “No, but I do and there are cameras. I am already going to have to explain why the hell I let robbers into the bank. I am going to lose my job over this and all you can worry about is getting your thing wet?”

  She was incredulous and even more so when he looked at her and started to laugh loud. It was so loud that Sammy came back up from the safe to see if everything was okay. “Get the money so we can go. I am watching her.”

  Sammy didn’t argue and moved back down the few steps to walk into the safe. They had their bags almost too full to carry and he walked back up with the rest of them. Zed was standing close to the girl and he cleared his throat to get their attention. Zed moved back and then leaned in for a kiss on her lips.

  “Until we meet again Kristy.”

  He walked out as one man threw him a bag. Kristy was left breathing hard. It had all happened so quickly and the man himself had some nerve to act the way he did.
It was bad enough that he was robbing a bank, but to kiss her and say the things he said was too much.

  She sat there in the chair that he had brought her for several minutes after they had left. Kristy was in a daze and it was more from the conflicting feelings inside of her, then the fact that she had just been in a robbery. Her hands were no longer shaking as she reached for the panic button under the desk next to her. It didn’t seem to be all that effective when there was a guy in front of her that knew it was there. Nothing had went like the book had suggested and she went outside to smoke a cigarette waiting for the police to get there.

  Chapter 3

  “Kristy, what are you doing out here? You know that if Chris sees you out here he will write you up. You can’t afford another write-up and I swear I will quit if you get fired.”

  She took the stub from her hand and hit it a couple of times before putting it out. “Please tell me that you have the drawers made up. I mean, chica I love you, but you look like shit. How much did you drink last night?”

  Kristy shrugged. “As much as you. I can’t help it that you are some freak of nature.”

  Maggie didn’t see the humor at the moment, especially when she got inside and the computers were not even on. The bank was supposed to open in a few minutes and nothing was done for the set up. When she looked over and saw the safe door wide open, she turned back to Kristy and it started to make sense why she was smoking a cigarette after quitting for a month.

  “Did you get robbed?”

  She nodded again. “I was just about to say that I didn’t have time to get those drawers done. I don’t want to go in there because the cops are coming. I actually can’t believe that it is taking so long.”

  As if on cue, several police came in with their guns drawn and pointed at the two women. They put their hands up as they were told and Kristy was more scared then, then the whole time that the robbers were there with guns. It was more of a chance of being shot from the police in her eyes.

  “We are the ones that pushed the button. They are gone.”

  The guns went down and she was able to breathe again. Didn’t they know how hard it was to think with those guns in their faces? Kristy was really starting to think that she should have stayed in bed.

  The next few hours made her idea of going back to bed sound even better. The bank had to be closed for fingerprinting and a lot of other things. She wanted to leave but Kristy was in her third round of questions. They wanted to know why she waited after they left. It didn’t seem to be a reason that she had multiple guns pointed at her. She was in shock, but the police looked at her as if she may be part of it.

  “Like I told you three times before, I have never seen those men before in my life. One of them stopped me at the door and I told him that I couldn’t help him get money out of his account until the bank opened. More men came out of a dark car and ran towards me. What was I going to do?”

  “Not give the robbers the keys for one.”

  She shot a look to the dark-skinned man that had said the last comment. “I am done talking to you. Have you ever had a gun to your head?”

  He nodded that he had. Of course he had, she thought to herself. He was a police officer. “What about the first time? Were you afraid?”

  The cop was getting her new line of questioning. “So if you guys are done, I would really like to go home.”

  He stood up as she did and gave her a card with his name and number on it. “If you can think of anything else that you forgot, we need all of the information you can give us.”

  She said that she would try to remember something more. Kristy just wanted to go home. She didn’t want to talk to her boss, the plump man that kept shooting daggers her way. She didn’t understand why they were looking at her as if she had something to do with any of it. Kristy didn’t think that they could possibly think that she had anything to do with it, but tried to blame her feelings on her own paranoia.

  Getting up and getting ready to leave the bank, Officer Palon offered her a ride home. She felt shaken and thanked him for the offer. It was what she needed and if it got her home faster, that was okay with Kristy. “I will be over there in a minute Officer. My boss is flagging me over.”

  As she walked over to him, there was a feeling of dread in her stomach. He looked at her as if she were the very person that had stolen such a large amount of money. “We are not done here Kristy.”

  She just looked at him for a second. Kristy wasn’t sure why everyone was being so rude. She would have thought that she would have gotten a little sympathy for the ordeal that she had gone through, but that wasn’t the case. The case was that they were looking at her as if she were the one that had masterminded the whole thing. The sinking in her gut was becoming a closing feeling in her throat. “I have had a pretty traumatic experience and I want to go home. I have been sitting here for hours, telling you all the same thing, so I am done.”

  Kristy had never talked to her boss like that and she saw his whole body pulling up, his chest puffing out. The police officer was the one that intervened and told him that she was going to be taken home. It had been traumatic for Kristy in a way, but the aftermath was proving to be much worse. They were all looking at her as if she was one of the men.

  “Thank you for helping me back there. I can’t believe the way he is acting.”

  Officer Palon waved her off. “It’s fine. I see guys like that all of the time. They think that they are the ones in charge, even with us there.”

  “I just don’t understand why they are acting that way. You guys can’t seriously think that I had something to do with all of this!”

  The man opened the door to his car and waited for her to get in. Kristy felt safer with the cop, but as she looked back at the building she had worked at for six years, there were several eyes on her departure and it made her nervous. Kristy waited for the police officer to get into his car.

  “The police think that I am part of this, don’t you?”

  He nodded his head. “You are on the short list of suspects. I am not going to lie to you about it.”

  “Why?”

  “Well you took almost twelve minutes to push the button. That would have given the men time to get long gone by the time we arrived.”

  Kristy just shook her head. She knew that it had been a strange thing to do, but she insisted that she hadn’t been thinking right. Kristy didn’t remember much of what had happened afterwards. She remembered sitting there for a few moments, trying to get her heart to stop pounding, but it had been hard. The hardest part had been getting up and pushing the button, though Kristy still didn’t believe that she had waited that long.

  “It sounds strange I guess, but I had never been so scared and I guess I just went out of it. I assure you that I had never seen those men before. I had a bit of a hangover this morning from a concert, but he could have walked up to anybody and got in. My training told me that I was never to argue with them. Just give them what they asked for so that no one got hurt.”

  “No one wants you to get hurt Kristy, but the police have to look at all of the possibilities.”

  “And me being an accomplice is one of them?” Kristy was incredulous, but if it were true, why was he even telling her about it? She was stuck in the twilight zone and Kristy just wanted to go home and lay down. Her headache was worse than when she had woken up that morning.

  “Yes, there is that possibility.”

  “Well I don’t know what else to do to prove to you guys that I have had nothing to do with this.”

  “Time seems to work itself out and answers come to light.”

  She just shook her head and sat back in the seat. Time would tell, though she was starting to wonder how else she could convince them that she didn’t do it. The ride back to her house was quiet and even Kristy was out of things to say. It was clear to her then that she should use the right to not speak because nothing good was going to come out of it. They weren’t listening to her anyways.

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sp; He stopped in front of her house and looked over at her with a serious look. “Just make sure that you don’t leave the area Kristy. We might have some more questions for you.”

  She nodded, but wished that he hadn’t said that. It made it all seem more real. Kristy didn’t have anywhere to go, but she liked the idea of being able to go somewhere if she wanted to. It was never a good feeling to know that the local cops were gunning for her.

  Chapter 4

  “What was with you and that girl at the bank?”

  Zed shrugged and then smiled. His face was hurting from smiling so much. Back in his old clothes and feeling far more successful than he had in months, the five men were out drinking. Sammy was asking questions that he was asking himself at the same time. He had never been so drawn to someone in his life and though he was sure she had cringed when he touched her, it didn’t matter. There had been a moment, a look in her eyes that had given him hope that it wasn’t completely out of the question.

  “I don’t know. I liked her though, she was feisty. Told me to stop thinking about getting it wet, or something like that. I about died. Can you imagine?”

  Sammy couldn’t, but he could see the look in his friend’s eyes. It was not something he wasn’t used to seeing. Zed caring about a girl was not something he was used to at all. When one of the other men had made a comment about what they would like to do to her, Zed’s face had been clear about what would happen if anyone touched her.

  “No I can’t see you with anyone for more than a night.”

  “Me either Sammy, but I am telling you, there was something about that woman. Kristy. Even her name sounds good.”