Chapter 22InkI stormed closer to her. “Say it again.” I ordered.She looked down at the floor, embarrassed. Fuck that.I lifted her chin and looked her in her eye, “if you want me to kiss you, I need you to tell me one more time.” Confidence I had never seen in her before overcame her as she lifted her eyes. Her meekness dissolved under her stare.“Kiss me.”I dove in, kissing her with everything I had. My hands lifted of their own accord and reached round to the back of her neck, locking her in place. This was the best fucking kiss of my life, there was no fucking way she was pulling away from me before I was ready.She sighed, giving me ample opportunity to slip my tongue in her mouth, I could taste the strawberry flavor of her milkshake.I couldn’t take this too far, there was no way she was ready for sex yet, so I reluctantly pulled

Chapter 24Ink“We’ve got something.” Creek informed me as I headed into my office the next morning. I unlocked my door and headed over to my new desk. “Is it about Rider?” I asked, “Yeah, I think we’ve found him.”“Tell me everything.” I ordered.“The Ace’s high called me this morning. One of their brothers was seeing a woman who has recently become an aunt. The sister hadn’t told anyone that they were getting a baby, in fact, they were told they wouldn’t be able to adopt as the husband has a criminal record for petty theft. Anyway, the girlfriend told Mack and when Mack heard we were looking for a baby, he told his Prez, Donovan. The sister gave us the names, Sarah and Carl Ferguson. They have a seven-month-old son called Rider. This is them.”“They live in Jamesville, 16 miles away from here.”“Have

Chapter 26InkI felt Tina stiffen as soon as I mentioned celebrating at home with my girl. I knew why, I had just told the entire club that I was going to take her home and fuck her.I had no intention of doing it, but they didn’t need to know that.“Relax.” I tried to calm her, but she didn’t listen.As soon as we pulled up outside our apartment, she jumped out of the car and ran inside. Shit. I’d messed up.“Tina?” I called as I walked through the front door. “Where are you?” “Bedroom.” She called back. Her tone was different, she sounded flat, disinterested. I walked in and found her lying in bed. “What are you doing?” I looked around the room and noticed the clothes she had been wearing were scattered on the floor. “Are you dressed?” I asked, “You don’t wear clothes for sex.” She told me, using th

Chapter 1Rider“I know son, I get it, but there is something you need to know first…”I was sitting in my dad’s office waiting to hear what he had to tell me.My dad is the president of the Titan Kings Motorcycle club, he had just called me into his office after he had found out I had been looking into my birth father. I had been adopted by Ink and Tina when I was 7 months old after my birth mother died. For the last few years, I had been looking into finding my father.“Sit down, son. You’re not going to like what I’m going to tell you, but I need you to try and keep calm, ok?”I nodded and pulled up the chair in his office.“This is really hard to tell you. We decided we were never going to tell you, and we hoped that you would never be interested in finding your father.” He paused to compose himself, searching for the words to start what

Chapter 3RiderThe first name on the list, a Cal Tierney, lived up in Virginia. We decided it would be easier to drive in the truck, as it would only take around 2 and a half hours. We pulled up in a rundown area. In a street of about 16 houses, every single one looked tired. Overgrown lawns were visible through broken fence posts. Missing paving slabs on pathways leading to houses that where in need of help. Not for the first time, I silently gave thanks to my adopted parents who chose to raise me and keep me safe, loved and protected.We pulled up at the house where we had found Cal. This house looked exactly like the rest on the street, rundown. My dad got out and I followed him to the door, where he knocked, and we waited.We heard the shuffling inside, alerting us that he was on his way. “Yeah?” he said, when he opened the door.“Cal Tierney?” My dad asked.“Yeah, who want