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

by Carly White

  Kristy answered it and when she heard his boss’ voice, she remembered that she was supposed to be at work. “Are you coming in today Kristy?”

  “Yes, sorry Sir. I will be in, in a few minutes. I don’t know what I was thinking.”

  He made a disparaging remark and told her that she needed to hurry. “Maggie can only cover for you for so long Kristy.”

  “Yes Sir.”

  She hung up and sighed over at the tattooed man beckoning her back to bed. “You aren’t leaving are you?”

  “I have to go to work. Something happened there last week and I need to get back to reality, but thanks for helping me forget everything.” Kristy wanted to move forward and give him a kiss, yet she knew that it would be too hard to stop at just a kiss. He had been instrumental in helping her feel better about it all. A nice romp in the bed with a man that she would never be able to have full time was just what she needed. She had needed that release more than anything and she was starting to feel like herself again.

  “I want to see you again.” Kristy stopped and looked back at the man in the bed. It was not what she had expected. He was one of those guys that a woman had once. He was like chocolate, a guilty secret that women weren’t supposed to want, but did. It was day time though and the reality was that they were from two very different worlds.

  “I don’t think that would be a good idea Zed, but thanks for the great time. I don’t think I will be able to walk right for a couple of days.”

  He grinned at her for a moment, but then started to get up and put his pants on. “Well at least let me take you to the bar to get your car.”

  “No need Zed. I rode to the bar with my friend Maggie and I don’t think it would look good for me to come in late riding on the back of a motorcycle.” She didn’t want to say straight out that she didn’t want to be seen with him, but her propriety was already on the down slide. The cops were watching her, treating her like she was a suspect and the last thing she needed was them seeing her with a member of a motorcycle gang.

  “You don’t want to be seen with me?” Zed was feeling some sort of déjà vu. He had done it to many women in the past, but he had never had the brush off done to him. As he sat on the edge of the bed, watching her hop into her heels, he had a strange feeling come over him.

  Kristy was at a loss for words. “No, I mean, though look at you. You would give my boss a heart attack. I didn’t think a guy like you would to see me again. I know that I was just a fling to you and it was fun. But really, what more can we be?”

  ***

  After Kristy left, Zed kind of sat on the bed stunned. There was nothing that he could have said to have make her stay or to her reasons of why she didn’t want to see him again. It was harsh and he wondered then if that was how the women felt that he had just left to the side. Why was Kristy so different? Why didn’t she want him?

  It messed with the man’s ego and though he was supposed to be getting her out of his mind, it was all he could think about. He couldn’t understand what it was that he had done to offend her so. It was the first time that Zed had questioned his decisions that got him where he was. He had always loved his life and the ease of it. He should have been on top of the world. He had enough money to not have to worry about it again for a very long time. His life was wide open ahead of him, but all he could think about was the woman that wouldn’t have him. One taste of Kristy was just not going to be enough.

  Sammy called him a little later. He was anxious to get down to Florida with the rest of the gang. He wanted to come by and Zed knew that he was going to try to talk him out of staying in the city any longer. The robbery had been on the front page of the paper for days, still over a week later. The amount was skewed and almost twice as much as what they had gotten, but there was nothing he could do. It wasn’t like he was going to go to them and tell them that they had it wrong, him and his guys hadn’t gotten that much.

  Zed got dressed while he was waiting for Sammy. He could still smell her in the room and in his sheets. Lying back down for a moment, he was looking up at the ceiling when he heard Sammy at the door. “Come in!” He hollered out through the house.

  The door opened and then he heard his name called out. Not Zed, but his full name in a voice that he didn’t recognize. By the time that he got up and was walking towards the door to see who it was, they had identified themselves.

  He looked back at the police he had just invited into his house and groaned. It was bad enough that they were there, but there were there and looking around. Zed hoped that he didn’t have anything out that would incriminate him, but he refused to look paranoid. “Hey, sorry I thought you were someone else. What can I do for you?”

  “Are you Zed McClennon?”

  He nodded that he was. There was no way that he wanted to be Zed all of a sudden, but they were there, more than likely had a picture of him on their computers, so there was really no point in lying. While his eyes didn’t dart around, his mind was whirling with what to do and the possibilities of how much they knew. They had to be there for the robbery and Zed hoped that Sammy saw the cars and kept going all the way down to Florida.

  “Yes officer. What can I do for you?”

  “Well we have a few questions about someone that we are interested in.”

  He was surprised. It was not usual to have them there for anyone else but him. “Who may that be?”

  “Kristy Dade.”

  That was a shock and he was sure that it showed before he straightened his face up. What in the world was the cop asking about Kristy for?

  “Yeah, I know her. What about her?”

  “We have reason to believe that she was involved in a robbery nine days ago. It has been all over the papers. Maybe you have seen something about it?”

  Zed just shook his head. “No, I don’t really read papers, all of that negativity and all.”

  The cop looked at him incredulous. The one that talked next was a short woman with hair that ended abruptly at her chin. The dark hair clashed with her dark eyes. She had the eyes of a shrew and she practically snorted at his answer. “You really expect us to believe that?”

  He shrugged. “I can’t help what you believe. You asked a question and I answered it.”

  She didn’t like that he had stayed calm. After looking at his priors, they had been expecting something more than the huge, yet cordial man in front of them. The smile on his face though, did not reach his eyes and Officer McKey could see the smoldering anger that was hard to hide.

  “Where were you?”

  “When?”

  “On February 18th.”

  “What time?”

  “Around 8:30 to 9:00 o’ clock in the morning.”

  “I was at work.”

  “Where do you work at?” She said it as though she didn’t believe that he would have a job at all.

  He gave her the name of one of the gang’s family members that owned a 24 hour carwash. It was the go-to alibi for the Satan’s Angels and he knew that Raul would say that he had been there for a month if he had to. The severe woman wrote the name and address down that he gave her and wanted to say more, but the older man next to her stopped her.

  “We appreciate you giving us the information that you have on her. Do you know of any accomplices that she has that could be linked to such a crime?”

  Zed just shook his head. There was no way that it was happening he told himself. No way that they could actually think that it was Kristy or that she had anything to do with that. “No, I don’t think you have the right girl. Have you even met her?”

  The woman shook her head. “No, but it seems clear now that you are bias.”

  He wasn’t going to argue with her. He was rightfully bias. After the night he had had with her and then even with the early morning let down, he was still team Kristy. “She would never do something like that. I didn’t know anything about that.” There was also the fact that he had done the deed, not her. He knew that she was innocent.

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sp; “She didn’t tell you?”

  “No, we haven’t known each other long.” Zed wondered how they knew he had seen her at all.

  “You two were seen leaving the bar and coming here. She stayed the night.”

  He shrugged again. “Like I said, we hadn’t known each other long. I wasn’t really looking for a wife.” Zed smiled at the woman suggestively and she looked away in a huff. Zed had to keep them off of thinking it was Kristy. He had not seen that coming and he didn’t like to be taken off guard.

  “Is there anything else you can tell us that you think could be useful?”

  “No. I don’t think there is anything else I can add. She is not that type of person. I don’t know why you would think that of her.”

  “You just said yourself that you didn’t know her that well.”

  “I said I hadn’t known her long. I didn’t say anything about my familiarity.”

  He made the woman blush and she finally looked away. She had been trying to stare him down and did a pretty good job for a while.

  “Was there anything else that you needed Officers?”

  “No that will do it. Once again, thanks for the cooperation.”

  Zed watched them leave and felt a dread in his stomach. He needed to get out of there. The police were too close, but he worried about Kristy. She had been dragged into his mess and he felt responsible for it all. He left his house and tried not to feel the paranoia that he was being watched. Sammy had been right and wrong. Zed had gotten the girl, but the man had been right about the consequences. There always seemed to be consequences to his actions. He just hated the fact that it had affected her more than anything. He made his way to Sammy’s house. It was time for him to make his way to Florida.

  Chapter 8

  Kristy was on cloud nine when she got to work. Not even the smug look on her boss’ face was enough to upset her. She had never been so buzzed feeling after being with a man. There was something about Zed and even though she knew she would probably never see him again, she couldn’t help but feel revitalized. All she had needed was a hard man to take her and make her his, even if only for a night.

  When she saw the police officers come in through the front door, she didn’t have any ill feelings. They were in there all the time, but when she met the gaze of a short woman, she knew that they were there for her. They had questions and insisted that she come down with them to the police station. The boss was smiling bigger when she left with them and Kristy realized then that he thought that she had something to do with it. They all did and she knew it was because of the way she had acted from the kiss and the man in the mask.

  Some of the things that Zed had said made her wonder if he was that man, but it was his goodbye kiss that had sealed the deal for her. She knew that it was him and it was mixed feelings that she went into the meeting with. She didn’t say anything about him though, even as they threatened to arrest her. Kristy was sure that she hadn’t done anything wrong. All she had done was react badly, but Kristy didn’t think that it was a crime. It was hard to pay attention when everything was going on. Protocol didn’t matter when there was a gun and she explained herself more than once.

  In the end, she was let go, but it looked like they wanted to hold her. Kristy was more than a little nervous about it all and she wished that she could talk to Zed about everything that was going on. She was worried, but he was long gone. She had told him that she didn’t want to see him again. She had made herself pretty clear and there was no going back.

  ***

  Kristy was picked up a couple of weeks after the initial robbery. She was charged as an accessory to the crime. The prosecutor dragged out the proceedings as long as he could. He wanted her to give up her collaborators so that the bank could get the money back. It all came down to the money, something that Kristy knew nothing about. What she did know was that Zed had been one of the men, but she couldn’t get him in trouble. Not after what had happened between them. She lost her job at the bank before she was arrested and the bail was too high for her to afford. She tried to get it lowered, but the judge refused.

  It was a whole new world for her. It was her fault for getting involved with the man and not telling on him, but she had been raised to never do that. Her faith then lay on the attorney she had hired and the law to sort out the truth. She didn’t have the money and she hadn’t let them rob the bank. She just hadn’t stopped them and that wasn’t a crime. Kristy had to believe that it would all come to light and she would be set free.

  As the months wore on, she was becoming more desperate. She had just went to be arraigned where it stated that the actual trial wouldn’t start for another couple of months. That meant she was going to be left there to rot for longer. The worst part of it was that she was almost four months pregnant by the time she got the court date. Kristy covered her stomach as she was pulled from the courthouse. Things had gone from bad to worse and she was seriously going to have to start considering the very real fact that she was going to be giving birth at the jail.

  Moving back to the cell when they walked her down and unhooked the hand cuffs. “Thanks Bernice. They feel a lot better than when Rex does it.”

  The older woman just smiled back at her while she rubbed her wrists. Life was mundane and her hopes had been high that everyone would see how crazy it all was to think that she could do such a thing and set her free. But that is not what had happened. Instead she was meant to be there even longer. There had been a few thoughts, fleeting thoughts of giving up Zed to the police. It was what they wanted, but how could she give up the father of her unborn child?

  Another week went by before her name was called. She went to the door and waited for them to take her wherever it was she was supposed to go next. She didn’t have a say in where she went, so Kristy had long since gave up trying to figure it all out. Just going with the flow with no expectations was the only way to make it in her current environment. It wasn’t bad or good, it just was what it was at that point.

  “What is this about?” She finally did ask when they were taking her back towards booking. She hadn’t been passed that point since she arrived and even though she told herself to calm down and not hope, she couldn’t help the last flutter that wasn’t squashed by the institution.

  “You are being released on bail. I guess you finally got the money up huh?”

  Kristy didn’t know what to say. She was afraid that they were just messing with her or there was some mistake and they would soon realize the error of their ways. “Are you serious?”

  The guard nodded and looked at her with the same solemn face that he always had. She couldn’t help the smile that broke out on her face. Hope be damned, she was going home. A lot had changed and there was a sense of elation as she made her way out of the concrete building. She hoped to never go back, but with her hand on her stomach, it felt like anything was possible.

  What she didn’t expect was the man standing out by a car in the parking lot. He was looking at her with an intensity and she glanced down as she walked towards him. “You were the one that bailed me out?”

  He nodded. “I didn’t know. As soon as I found out, I came back up here.”

  She was happy to be out, but he had waited quite a while to get her out. “What took you so long?”

  “You told me that you didn’t want me and I went down south to drink you away. You always came back in the morning though, so I had to do it all over again the next night. That was how I spent the first couple of months.”

  “And the last few?”

  “I spent those missing you.”

  She liked the sound of it and her emotions were already trying to stream down her eyes. “Why are you here now?”

  “Because I saw a picture of you in the paper. I saw that you were pregnant and I hoped it was mine. Is it mine?”

  Kristy nodded and she finally let her gaze take him all the way in. He looked different. He wasn’t wearing his leather anymore and there was no bike around. He was standing
in front of a car and she asked him where it was. It was the only thing she could think of.

  “I couldn’t have our baby being put in danger on the back of my bike.”

  “You got rid of your bike?”

  “God no. I just got another car too.”

  “So where are we going.”

  “Away from here. Far away from here.”

  “But I can’t leave.”

  “You can’t stay either.”

  She was fighting the feelings and trying to make a decision. He moved closer to her and pulled her to him gently. His touch was not like before. He held her like she was glass, his hand going to her protruding stomach. “You belong with me Kristy and I am here to take you with me.”

  “Where will we go?”

  “Wherever you want to go, but we need to leave now.”

  She still wasn’t sure. That is, until he leaned down and kissed her on her lips. Kristy had dreamed of that very thing so much it was hard not to lose herself in his arms. He had always had that ability. To make her forget everything and though there was no telling what was ahead for them, it didn’t matter because they were together. “What if I said no?”

  He kissed her again. “I didn’t ask, now get in.”

  The End

  Rationalization

  A Motorcycle Club Romance

  By: Tia Parker

  Chapter 1

  “Lance, we can’t let this stand. If we let them get away with this, there will be nothing to stop another gang from coming in here and taking over.”

  He looked back at his second and though he was thinking the same thing, he didn’t like the way the man was saying it. It was enough to have had one of his shipments confiscated from another gang. It was another to hear Billy talking to him as if he had a right to.

  “I will take care of it. I always do. The Black Riders are not who they are because I sit on the sidelines while other people mess in our spot. The Demons caught me off guard, that’s it.” His tone told Billy that he was about to lose his cool and he didn’t want to be in the line of fire if he did. They had known each other since grade school and Billy backed off.