often went more than one round a night—I turned the conversation back to the point I’d been trying to make. “Molly is sixteen now. She’s a straight-A student who never gets into trouble. She’s also fierce since you’ve taught her how to defend herself. If we try to keep her away from this boy, under lock and key, at some point she’s going to rebel against the rules and do something crazy like supply the ladder for her own kidnapping.”
“Fuck.” He pressed the back of his head against the pillow and stared up at the ceiling. “What’s the boy’s name?”
Asking about the kid was the first step to getting him to agree, so I had to work hard not to flash him a smug grin and ruin the progress I’d made. “Robert Sutton. He’s sixteen, gets good grades, and plays soccer.”
“Our girl has a crush on a soccer player named Robert?” I nodded, and he chuckled. “Fine, she can go to the dance with him but only if he comes here to pick her up. None of that waiting for her out in the car bullshit, though. He does this right and comes to the door like a fucking gentleman. And one of us needs to sign up to chaperone so we can keep an eye on them while they’re at the dance.”
“I’ll do it,” I quickly volunteered before he decided to do it himself.
“Then I guess our girl is going on her first fucking date.” His fingers dug into my butt cheeks. “Now get up here and give me a kiss before I change my mind.”
Molly was going to be thrilled when she found out that her dad was willing to let her go to the dance with Robert. At least until he actually came to the house to pick her up for the dance and discovered her dad and most of the Silver Saints MC sitting on our front porch ready to intimidate the boy.
Link
Lincoln “Link” Nash was as good at cracking heads together as managing money as the Silver Saints MC Treasurer. The last thing he wanted to do was play babysitter to Harlowe Reed—some kid the club offered to protect.
Then Harlowe arrived with her sassy mouth and sexy body. She may only be a year older than his daughter, but she’s all woman. Link knows he’s too old for her, but it won’t stop him from keeping her.
Prologue
Link
“Link. Prez needs to see you,” Dax, the Silver Saints MC Sergeant at Arms, informed me as he poked his head into my office. I lifted my chin to let him know I’d heard before turning my attention back to my baby girl. Who wasn’t really a baby anymore. Especially now that she had a man.
“I’ve got to run,” I told her, “but I expect regular check-ins from you, Larissa. Now that I know you’ve got a man in your life, none of this a couple of times a week bullshit. Until I get the chance to meet him in person, I want to see your pretty face every day.”
Her boyfriend, Kace, nodded, seeming to easily understand where I was coming from. “You’ve got it.”
I didn’t like the fact that my girl was suddenly serious with a man I’d never met and knew nothing about. However, from the short time we’d spoken on this video call, I’d been impressed. I’d run a full check on him, but something told me I wouldn’t find anything.
Dax made a “hurry up” motion with his hand, and I glared at him.
I winked at my daughter. “Love you, sweetie.”
“I love you, too, Daddy,” Larissa said right before I ended the call.
“What is so fucking important that Mac needs me right this fucking second?” I grumbled as I tucked my phone into the pocket of my jeans. I shut down my computer and pushed my chair back from my desk.
Dax shrugged. “Dunno. They just said to get your ass in there pronto.” He squinted at me, and drawled, “Been embezzling?” Then he chuckled at his own stupid joke.
I rolled my eyes and flipped him the bird before I stalked into the hall. I was treasurer for the Silver Saints MC, and I was damn good at my job. Anything with numbers had always come easily to me, and I’d made the club a shit ton of cash from investments and other opportunities. Seeing as how the club gave me a cut of all the net profits and a salary, I had no need to steal.
When