Page 83 of Taken By the Biker Daddies

As I peeked in, I saw a man trying to escape, stumbling over pots and pans. I managed to grab him before he made it through the back door. His face was covered in cuts and bruises, but I recognized him, my forehead bunching up as I tried to make sense of his presence.

“What are you doing here, Randy?” I asked him. “And what happened to you?”

He shook his head as he struggled to come up with an explanation. “I…I…”

I frowned as I let him go. Since he couldn’t give me an answer, I had to go with the only one I could come up with.

“You’re the traitor, aren’t you? You’ve been working with the Devils all this time?”

Randy put his shaking hands up. “I only did it for the money. You know Gina’s pregnant, and she’s having a difficult pregnancy.”

“So you sold out your family instead of asking us for help?”

“You guys have already helped me enough.”

“So you decided to repay us by telling the Devils about Lauren?” My hands clenched into fists as my anger simmered. “By giving them the keys to Billie’s so they could destroy the place?”

Randy waved his hands in front of his face. “I swear I had no idea they were going to hurt Lauren. Or trash Billie’s. I tried to stop them, but I couldn’t, so I just tried to clean up as soon as it was over.”

“And what else have you done?” I demanded to know, thinking my next course of action would depend on his words. “Did you help Clyde Roarke kidnap Lauren?”

“He didn’t kidnap her,” Randy answered. “She came to him on her own because she wanted to protect you and Wade and Max. At least, that’s what I heard.”

So she decided to sacrifice her happiness for our safety? That thought made me even angrier, but I tried to calm down. I would talk to her later, but first, I had to find her.

“Where is she? Where’s Lauren?”

“I don’t know,” Randy answered.

I didn’t believe him, so I grabbed his collar, glaring at him. “Where is she?”

“I swear I don’t know,” Randy said. “She was here. The bike she stole is in the back. But by the time we got here with Clyde, she was gone. He was so furious he trashed the place and took his anger out on me. I passed out, and when I came to, they were gone and you guys were here.”

So what? I was supposed to feel sorry for him now?

“Jake.” Max barged in through the back door. “We found…”

He stopped as soon as he saw Randy.

“What happened to Randy?”

“He betrayed Black Storm and was punished for it,” I gave the short and straight answer. “What did you find?”

“There are tracks leading to the woods in the back,” Max told me. “Some strands of dark hair caught in a branch, too. We think Lauren must have escaped to the woods, then when Clyde got here, they chased after her.”

Then we had to go after her. Now.

I had already gone out the back door when Randy called after me.

“Wait.”

I threw him a frown over my shoulder. “What?”

“Clyde Roarke is scared of spiders,” Randy said. “I heard some of those guys he hired making fun of it. And he had an accident a few days ago, crashed into a glass table when he was drunk, and had to get some stitches on his right arm.”

I narrowed my eyes at him. “And you’re telling me this because?”

“I never wanted anyone to get hurt,” he said solemnly. “I never should have trusted him.”

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