This didn’t make me feel better either though I was getting a suspicion president of a motorcycle club Tack was not like any of the bikers I’d met in my mother’s trailer.
“Tequila, hon, now,” Elvira ordered softly and my eyes went to her.
“I’m already drunk, I don’t need more. I need my wits about me,” I explained.
“Tequila, Mara, now,” Elvira kind of repeated.
“But –” I started.
“Don’t know how long it’s gonna last but you’re on a bumpy ride. You got your girls but you need more. Listen to Elvira. Smooth the edges. Tequila. Now,” she demanded.
I swallowed. Then I nodded. Then the girl gang bellied up the bar. I took my shot glass from Elvira. The other girls grabbed one and in unison we belted them back.
I put my shot glass on the bar while wincing.
LaTanya, who didn’t let go of my hand, squeezed it.
We heard a door open just then and we also heard a man’s angry voice barking, “You got this f**ked up shit, you tell the f**kin’ cops about it.”
I knew that voice.
Brock.
I pulled my hand from LaTanya’s and raced around the bar to see Brock striding in using an angry gait and he was just behind Tack.
“We don’t roll that way, man, and you know it,” Tack growled.
I stopped, eyes on Brock and asked, “What’s going on?”
His eyes cut to me and his face changed.
It was not a good change.
It was the worst change of all.
My legs trembled.
Oh God, no.
“No,” I whispered, my gaze darting to Tack who was wearing the same expression. “No,” I repeated and I felt an arm slide around my waist but didn’t tear my gaze from the two men.
Brock moved swiftly to me, stopped in front of me and ordered gently, “Need you to sit down, Mara.”
“Tell me,” I returned quietly.
“Mara, honey, I need you to –”
I knew it, I could read it on his face and I couldn’t hold it back.
Therefore I lost it.
“Tell me!” I shrieked.
“They got the kids,” he replied quickly and I stared at him, my lungs hollowing out but other than that nothing, just numbness invading every inch of me.
“Penny and Evan?” I forced between my lips.
“Evan’s roughed up but he’s okay. They didn’t touch their kids,” Brock answered.