“Mind if I tag along?”
Stud stood up, slapping him on his back so hard he nearly knocked him off the stool.
“Not at all. I was going to ask if you wanted to ride. Let’s hit the road!”
The men left the bar with Cade hoping his piece of shit bike made it. He was going to have to do something about it soon because it was becoming more trouble to hang on to than his bike was worth. It had too many miles and repairs needed to make it through another ride across the country.
Cade climbed onto the old Victory and started the reluctant motor.
“Try to keep up,” Rock jibed as they rode out.
Cade’s hands tightened on his handlebars, wanting to reach his booted foot out to kick Rock’s bike. However, he knew the insult would start a fight, and he didn’t want to hold Stud up from being there when his brother was released.
It took over an hour for them to ride to the prison where the bikers parked by the gate.
Cade had done a year himself when he was younger and knew the feelings the man exiting was experiencing.
The two brothers resembled each other in their facial features, but that was where the similarities ended. The hardened features and glacial eyes didn’t mirror Stud’s more laid back attitude, and Calder’s hair was lighter. Stud always kept his face shaved, while Calder had a beard. Stud was taller, but Calder was heavier. He had used his time inside to work out. Cade knew it was to pass the time and keep himself from being a bitch to the other prisoners. It was a dog eat dog world inside prison—a place where the strong survived, and the weak were fucked.
Cade stood as the brothers greeted their friend.
Stud stepped away from his brother after giving him a bear hug that lifted him off his feet.
“Motherfucker, it’s good to see you again,” Calder spoke as he looked at the brothers surrounding him.
“Glad you’re finally out, brother. Let’s go home. Dozer rode your bike down for you.” Stud tossed him the keys as they walked back to the bikes.
“Does that mean I have to ride with the fucker at my back to the clubhouse?”
Cade looked at the pained expression on Dozer’s face.
“Hell no. Had the bitches drop off a car for him to drive back to town.” Stud laughed.
Calder sat on his bike then caught Cade staring at him.
“I see we have some new brothers.” Calder nodded his head at Cade while he talked to Stud as if Cade wasn’t sitting only a few inches away.
“That’s Cade. He’s not brother yet, but he saved one of the bitches. Trying to make him feel at home while he decides if he wants to join or not.”
“He ride with you today?”
“Yeah,” Stud answered.
“He fucking the bitches, drinking our liquor?”
“Yeah,” Stud repeated the same answer.
“He defend the club’s honor?”
“He kicked a local’s ass for calling Bear a fart blossom, so yeah, he’s defended the club’s honor.”
“Sound’s like he’s made his mind up already.” Calder started his bike. “I need a fucking beer and to get laid.”
“I’ll get you the beer; you’ll have to find the other one yourself,” Stud joked.
“Gina still hanging around the club?”
“Yeah, brother, she’s still there.”
“Problem solved.”
“She might be a little tired. I left her sleeping in my bed,” Cade told him, wondering if he had fucked the man’s woman.
Calder gave him a shit-eating grin. “Then I’ll wake her up with a present. Santa’s coming early for her.”
“You sure one bitch is going to be enough?” Stud quipped.
“For now. I want to see my nieces and nephew before I get started with the whores and liquor.”
Cade caught an inexplicable expression cross Stud’s face at Calder’s words.
“We’ll stop by Sex Piston’s parents’ house first. She’s there with the kids.”
“Shit, Sizzle know I’m coming?”
“I told her yesterday.”
“Fuck, she probably made me a cake.”
Cade couldn’t understand why the man looked so upset about someone making a cake for him, but he didn’t have time to question any of the brothers as they drove away from the prison.
He thought the brothers would pull away and head back to the clubhouse when Calder and Stud turned down a side street. When they pulled in front of a house, he remained sitting with the other brothers while Stud and Calder went inside.
Cade’s head turned when he saw movement on the side of the house. Jane was playing with a little girl who was running around the yard. She ran up behind the squealing little girl who laughed when Jane tossed her into the air then deftly caught her. Placing the small girl on her hip, she sat down on a swing with the child on her lap. Jane was talking softly to the little girl while running her hands through her hair. When the little girl tried to wiggle free, Jane reached into her pocket and pulled out a candy bar. Breaking it in two pieces, she gave one to the child. They sat quietly, eating their treat.