Page 11 of Saige (Renegade Vipers MC #1)

Nine

Cotton

Once everyone is situated, we head out to Mel’s Diner. Mel had started the diner up back in the fifties, and he was still going strong. His grandson worked there as well. Loki pulls up beside us, and we all go in to get a booth. “Hey Mel, how’s it going?” I ask as the old man makes his way over.

“Everything is going great, young man. How are you all doing? And how is my little Bethany over there? Are you wanting happy face pancakes?” We all laugh as Bethany claps her hands, bouncing in the high chair.

“I’ll take that as a yes,” he replies, chuckling.

After we all order, Sloane and Saige started talking about the bakery.

So I look at Loki, he just has this big shit eating grin on his face .

“What’s with the look, brother?” He just grins bigger, looks from me to Saige to Bethany.

Yeah, I get what he is saying without him saying a word.

I shake my head no, grinning, but on the inside, I am falling apart.

I want that more than anything. To have Saige as my old lady, watch her grow round with our kids.

But I know that I’m not good enough for her, I need to back off some.

I realize that I have been leading her on, I can’t do that to her.

She deserves someone that is whole, that can love her the way she is meant to be loved.

We get our food and the conversation around the table stops for a bit.

Saige is helping Bethany by cutting up her pancakes. God she is so beautiful.

I feel a shiver down my spine and know someone is watching us.

I straighten up, give Loki a kick under the table, and we both start looking around.

It doesn’t take long for us to see who is staring at us.

I notice her right away. She is watching Saige, Loki, and Bethany.

When she notices that I am staring back at her she smiles.

She looks familiar, but I can’t place her right now.

Short blondish hair, tall, slim. She walks by us with her takeout bag, stops, staring down at Bethany.

She smiles at Saige, stating, “I’m sorry to disturb you, I just saw and heard that precious baby. Is she yours?”

Saige smiles, “No, she is my niece. I’m just babysitting today. ”

“Oh, well she is beautiful. Y’all have a great day.”

I nod at her, as Saige says, “Thank you. You too.”

Waiting until the woman is out the door, I look at Saige asking, “Do you know who that woman was?”

She shakes her head no, replying, “I feel like I should know her though. It’s just an odd feeling I have.”

“Yeah, I felt it too, like I’ve seen her before,” Loki says.

I look to Loki, “Hey, let’s go outside and wait. I know Bethany has to be cleaned up right quick. We really need to be going if we’re going to meet that realtor in time.” Loki and I head outside.

“Who and what was that? Did it not give you the creeps? I mean she stared at us like she knew who Saige and I were. Then to come over and stare at Saige even more. Hell, she acted disappointed when Saige said Bethany was her niece,” Loki says.

Yeah, he is getting worked up. All of us having a feeling like we should know the woman and not being able to place her is getting to him.

“We’ll figure out who she is. Meantime, we keep a close eye on Saige.

I don’t like the fact that we haven’t heard anything about the Ghosts of Darkness.

We know that they’re still around here, but them being quiet like this, I know something big is going to happen.

” Loki nods his agreement as the girls come out of the diner.

I look over at them. Damn Saige looks so beautiful. I can’t help staring at her.

“You girls ready?” Sloane nods. She gets on the back of Loki’s bike, as I put Bethany in her car seat. “Let’s go.”

We’re looking at the second building with this realtor, and she hasn’t left my side, talking to me about the places, not Saige.

I can see that Saige is getting irritated, I kinda like it, but I look at the woman and interrupt her spiel.

“Look, I appreciate you telling us all about this place and the last one. But it isn’t me that you need to butter up. I’m not buying the place. Saige is.”

The woman turns red, but looks to Saige, “I apologize. I knew you were looking, but I thought that you were just going to be baking the stuff, that the club would own the building.”

Saige smiles, but it doesn’t meet her eyes, “No. I’ll be the sole owner and baking. Sloane’ll be working with me. The club has nothing to do with this.”

She nods, and goes back into her spiel, talking to Saige now.

This building is a lot bigger than the other one.

It was a bakery before, is right in the middle of town, and it has everything Saige will need.

We go over to a corner to talk over the buildings.

Really wasn’t much to talk over. The girls knew which one they wanted, and finally Saige is signing papers.

Now to get back to the clubhouse. I need to get to work in the garage.