Shade's Fall (The Last Riders #4)

“I didn’t,” Lily protested.

“At least I got out of there before Shade came after me. Now I have to leave town for a few days. He’s been all over town looking for me today. You need to call that psycho off.”

“I’ll talk to him,” Lily promised.

“You do that, because if he comes after me, when he’s finished I’m going to come after you,” he threatened.

Ripping the tissue with the delicate glass from her hand, he tore the fragile tissue away. “Well, isn’t that pretty.” Turning sideways, he threw the glass at her windshield, breaking both in a shatter of flying glass.

Lily gasped as tears came to her eyes at the wanton destruction of something so beautiful. She didn’t care about the windshield; she was more upset about losing the glass figurine. She hardly ever splurged and bought herself something like that.

He caught her arm in a tight grip when she would have stepped back.

“Now is that any way to treat a woman?” a hard voice came from behind her. From Gaige’s widening eyes, she could tell it wasn’t good. Turning her head, she saw the motorcycle riders that had pulled in after she had arrived coming to her aid.

“I don’t want any trouble with you,” Gaige said. This time it was him taking a step back at the three men coming toward him, releasing his tight hold of her arm.

“I hate it when pussies start crying before I can even get my hands on them,” the biggest one complained. He was huge, almost rivaling Knox in size. While Knox appeared fiercer, this man looked like he would beat the crap out of you while laughing about doing it.

The remaining two, on the other hand, didn’t look like they ever laughed. One was blond with a look of hardness and the other was just plain scary with his dark hair and scar down his cheek.

“Pretty little thing here don’t need to watch me beat the shit out of you, so why don’t we go over here and take care of some business.” The huge man slung a meaty arm around Gaige’s shoulder, turning him toward a group of trees. Gaige’s frightened expression tugged at Lily’s conscience.

“Wait, he just lost his temper.”

“That’s okay, sweet thing, I’m going to help him find it.” He was leading a struggling Gaige away.

Lily took a step forward when she felt an arm slide around her waist. “Let Max deal with him. He can’t look much worse than he does now,” an amused voice said in her ear.

Lily stiffened, beginning to get frightened.

“Lily!” Beth’s yell as she drew closer was cut off when Razer grabbed her arm, preventing her from coming any closer.

Lily turned her head as The Last Riders appeared in mass.

Viper, Cash, Razer, Shade, Train and Rider were covering the parking lot with the rest of their members following behind while the women members kept Beth from running to her sister.

“Want to take a bet on which one she belongs to?” the one with his arm around her waist spoke.

“Don’t have to. I know,” the dark-haired one said in amusement, moving in front of Lily and blocking her from view.

“Let me go.” Lily tried to wiggle from the grasp around her waist.

“Calm down. I’m going to let you go.”

Viper’s harsh voice could be heard over the thrumming of her heart. “Let her go.”

The one with Gaige in a stranglehold turned back, moving closer to his friends.

“I have every intention of letting this sweet thing go. We’re not out for trouble; just passing through.” He nodded his head at Gaige. “Found him giving her some trouble.” Nodding his head at Lily’s car, he then said, “Decided to step in. Seeing she’s yours, we’ll step back.” His arm slid away from Lily, releasing her.

Lily took a step forward toward Razer while none of the men took their eyes off each other. The one with the scar stepped to the side. When Lily passed him, she brushed against him and his jacket moved to the side. Lily saw the gun clipped to his waist. Terror almost took hold of her, yet Lily knew she didn’t want anyone hurt.

“He’s telling the truth, Viper. Gaige was angry that he got fired and they made him leave me alone.”

“Lily, go to your sister,” Shade spoke.

Lily had done what she could, so she went to Beth. Neither group of bikers was interested in her opinion at this point. It was now a standoff between the two groups.

“Are you all right?” Beth asked.

“I’m fine,” Lily answered, turning around to see what was going on.

Seeing the one called Max hand over Gaige to Shade, Lily started to go back.