Page 42 of Starting Over
Damn, Rain liked that authoritative tone his mate gave. Who knew he would be into that kind of shit?
“I grew up in Maniwaki. It’s about three hours from here, but I had friends that were raised in this town. I hit them upand it’s how I found out about Danny and Daniela. They told me everything. Danny didn’t know he had a son until the boy was twelve, and by then his mom had died in a car accident, and he was living with his grandparents. At first, Danny was all about rushing in and claiming his son as his own, but he saw that the kid’s grandparents, although not well off, doted on that boy as if he were everything. Add to that, Danny was into some dangerous shit, and decided to just watch him from a distance, and even came up with ways to get money to the kid’s grandparents. His plan was to wait until the boy was old enough and then go to him, but then two things happened that stopped him from doing it.”
“Two things? What two things?” Wyatt asked.
“One, by the time the kid hit eighteen, Danny was the leader of The Guardian Angels,” Rob said, then stopped speaking.
Wyatt sat back, calmly asking, “And the second?”
Rob snorted, “He’s as queer as a three dollar bill.”
When a low growl came from just about everyone in the room, Rob must have realized his mistake, because he anxiously said, “Whoa now! I’m not saying there’s shit wrong with taking a dick, but in the biker world that shit will get you killed, and from what I’m told there is no way Danny could hide the fact that his boy is a wannabe girl.”
Wyatt was out of his seat so fast the chair flew behind him. Asod was right there pulling his friend away. “Don’t do it.”
Jude stood up and walked to the table. “Let me tell you something fuckwad. I’ve been listening to your bullshit long enough. Just tell us who the fuck this kid is and where to fuckingfind him, or I swear you’re going to regret every life choice you ever made in your life.”
Rob snorted at the smaller man, but instead of backing down, Jude leaned in, and whispered, “Oh, darling, I’m not the one that’s going to take your ass out. My mate, love of my life and future father to my children will do that for me.”
Jude looked at Casper and blew him a kiss, saying, “Won’t you, baby?”
“There is little I would do for you, my love,” Casper said, then turned to Rob and took a step.
“Noah! His name is Noah St. Pierre,” Rob shouted, then added, “And he lives really close to this place. Just up the river… hell, he’s maybe three houses to the north. You can’t miss it, man. It’s bigger than this place with a boat dock and everything.”
Jude nodded, “Okay, so I’m still not understanding, what makes knowing he has a kid and where he is an insurance policy?”
Rob snorted again, “Are you serious? Do you have any clue how many people would kill for that information. Danny has his hands in a lot of cookie jars… even in fucking jail, and he has a lot of pull with some really top ranking fuckers. Add to that all the people he fucked over? If anyone found out he had a son, they would either kill him or do what I was doing… hold it over the bastard’s head for leverage.”
“And Danny didn’t just kill you when you told him what you had?” Wyatt asked.
“Because I’m not a fucking idiot. I have everything on my computer with a fail safe. If anything happens to me a mass video will be spread throughout the dark web and into certainenemies of his e-mails. His kid will be as dead as he wants this Rain kid to be.”
“And just when is this fail safe set to go off?” Jude asked.
Rob gave a smile that had Rain’s blood running cold. “It was set to go off two hours ago.”
Rain would have gasped if he’d been in human form. If this man was telling the truth, it meant that an innocent guy was about to have his worst nightmare come to life. It meant that he could die just because Danny was a fucker and put a hit out on him. There was no way Rain could let that happen. Rain couldn’t live with himself if someone else got hurt because of him.
Rushing up the stairs, Rain wanted to just take his shrew ass out the door and get to this Noah… but he knew that wouldn’t be smart… well, not as a shrew anyway.
Not because the guy most likely had no idea shifters existed. Rain could just shift back into a human… no, the biggest reason was because he would shift and be buck ass naked… now wouldn’t that be a shocker to Noah… a naked stranger at his door telling him he needed to run and hide because bad men wanted him dead because a father he didn’t know was an asshole a shit ton of people wanted to hurt.
Instead, Rain rushed upstairs, to his room, shifted and grabbed some clothes, pulling on his socks and struggling into pants as he tried to get out of the room. He was already pulling his shirt on as he got to the bottom of the stairs, barely taking the time to shove his feet into his shoes and racing out the back door.
Rain knew he should have waited for Wyatt and the others before going to find No,ah, but he also knew that two hours had passed since whatever Rob was doing was put out there and ifthey waited much longer Noah could die… and in a stupid way it would be Rain’s fault.
At least Rain felt it would be his fault.
Once Rain was to the river he turned north and started running alongside it as fast as he could.
Rain just hoped he got to Noah before someone killed the poor guy.
CHAPTER 16
Wyatt left the basement before he killed that fucker himself.
“Dude, you need to calm down. That guy’s an asshole, but he isn’t our problem. Casper said Pit’s sending a man to come get him and bring him to Drago. The others are to be handed over to the cops. Pit’s already spoken to them and they’re on their way,” Ryan said.