Viper's Run(27)

“Not at all. Lily is dying to see you. Her friend is dropping her off at noon. We can be here to pick you up at one.”

“Thanks Beth, I can hardly wait.”

“Don’t worry about picking her up. We can meet you in town. I promised Ton that I would take him to the grocery store. We can all meet up at the Buy/Low market.” Viper said, finishing his breakfast.

Viper packed Winter upstairs to get showered and changed. He went to his desk, sorting through scattered paperwork as he waited for her to get dressed. She was going into the bathroom when she stopped.

“Viper, thank you for helping me recover. I also appreciate you hauling my ass up and down the steps.”

Viper gave her a sexy grin. “It is a very sexy ass, I don’t mind at all, now go get changed.”





Beth and Lily met them in the parking lot of the Buy/Low Market. Viper and Winter had stopped on the way to pick up his father, Ton, at his home. When Viper and Winter had been dating, she hadn’t really gotten to know Ton well. Viper had never encouraged any invitations she had wanted to extend. Looking back now, that should have been a big warning for her. She had obviously missed a lot of those signs.

“Ready?” Both sisters were patiently waiting.

“Yes.” Winter answered Beth after Viper had helped her into the wheelchair.

“Let’s roll.” Lily joked taking the wheelchair handle.

“Let’s meet up at the diner in two hours.” Viper suggested.

They all agreed, going their separate ways. The girls hit all the stores, laughing and giggling at some of their choices of gifts for the members of the Last Riders. Beth commissioned a hand crafted long handed razor knife for Razer, boots for Evie, and took the time to get each member a gift. Winter didn’t know the women as well so she picked up several gift cards when Beth assured her the women loved to shop. Winter drew a blank as to what to buy for Viper. Beth fell in love with a hot red leather jacket so Winter purchased it as an early Christmas present despite her protests.

Winter was looking through a tray of bracelets, sliding different ones on and off her wrist; Lily and Beth strolled over to watch. They were so pretty Beth even started trying them on, admiring how they looked on her own wrist. One in particular caught Winter’s eye. It was a beautiful hand crafted, wide bangle bracelet with little dangling charms that had designs engraved into the purplish silver. It was truly a piece of art.

“Lily, this would look fantastic on you with your coloring.” She held it out to the women, unsnapping it so Lily could slide her wrist inside. When she didn’t move, Winter raised her eyes to Lily’s face. A look of pure terror was frozen on her ashen face.

“Are you all right? What’s wrong, Lily?’ Winter didn’t know what to do, looking towards Beth.

Beth looked up at her words, seeing what was in Winter’s hand and quickly took it away.

“She is allergic to silver.”

“I am sorry. I did not realize or I wouldn’t have shown it to her.”

“That is alright. I shouldn’t have been a baby about it.” Lily smiled at her, but the look of terror still lingered in her beautiful eyes.

“It’s time we met Viper and Ton at the diner.” Beth said, changing the subject. The women paid for their purchases before walking down the street to the diner. Ton was walking across the parking lot when several motorbikes came roaring down the street. The women turned thinking it was The Last Riders, only to stare in amazement at another group of five bikers with a lone woman on the back of one. Easily recognizing Sam, Winter was amazed at the woman’s boldness at taking up with another group of bikers.

They parked in the diner’s parking lot with Ton staring them down.

“This is going to be bad.” Beth predicted, hurrying off to reach Ton before the crazy man picked a fight. Winter and Lily took off after her, with Lily pushing the chair as fast as she could. Winter was sure they appeared ridiculous barging towards the group of bikers.

“Move out of my way, old man.” Samantha ordered.

“I want to talk to you and you’re not going to be able to ignore me this time.” Winter saw Beth try to tug Ton away from the group of bikers but he was not budging. Giving up, Beth took a step back while searching in her large purse for a phone. Winter heard her calling someone when the argument between Ton and Sam got even more heated.

“I have nothing to say to you because you don’t want to hear the truth. Whether you want to believe it or not, Gavin is the father of my baby.”

“Gavin wouldn’t have touched an underage girl.”

“Oh he did all right, several times as a matter of fact.” Sam taunted.