Black Sheep (Rawkfist MC Book 1) Read Free

Justice
is off-limits even if she was flirting something fierce. How do I shake off a
feeling I haven’t enjoyed in years? I lack any resistance to this kind of
desire.
    Years ago,
Jared brought me into the club, and he’s like a father to me. The day after I
meet Justice, I drop by his shop. My plan is to keep the conversation light and
see if the topic of his daughter casually comes up. I’m interested in how close
she is to legal. I'll wait, even without knowing if she’ll want to flirt so
wildly if the chase ends up with me actually catching her.
    “I ran into
your daughters yesterday,” I blurt out when the conversation focuses for too
long on his auto shop.
    “That’ll happen
a lot now that they’re living in the Rock,” Jared says, wiping at his dark
mustache.
    Getting a
feeling he doesn’t want to talk, I only nod. Jared gives me a quick glance and
smiles.
    “What were they
up to?”
    “Justice got
her wallet stolen,” I say and then add quickly when Jared’s expression turns
pissed, “I ran down the kid who took it.”
    “I’m sure she
was happy.”
    I think about
her delicate fingers against my arm. If she were a little older, I’d have
instantly taken up Justice on her flirting.
    “How old are
your girls again?” I ask, aiming for casual, but Jared smells my bullshit.
    “Why?”
    “I thought you
said they were in their twenties, but those girls looked pretty young.”
    Scratching his
chin, Jared frowns. “Justice might have been with her little sister. That one
ain’t mine.”
    Without
reacting to his comment, I replay Justice touching my arm. With her short hair
and fresh face, I could have sworn she was in high school. Now that I know she’s
legal, well, the dilemma turns into a green-lighted opportunity.
    “Let’s be
square,” I say, ready to track down Justice and see what she’s like when in a
less thankful mood. “Are you cool with me asking out your kid?”
    “If you mean Justice,
then why the fuck not?” Jared says, unable to disguise the edge in his voice
despite his otherwise friendly demeanor. “She’s a fun girl who could use a
little entertainment. Now if you mean my older girl, Journey, no fucking way.
She’ll kill you by the second date, and I’ll have to hide your body. I don’t
need that awkward shit in my life.”
    “I’ll be good
to Justice. Scout’s honor.”
    Jared smiles,
knowing he’s the only reason my mom had the money to pay for Boy Scouts. He’d
been keeping an eye on me since his Harley knocked me off my shitty bike. I
went sprawling, and he took pity on a clumsy, fatherless kid.
    “Wouldn’t be
smart to make trouble with Justice,” he warns. “While she can’t fight for shit,
she’s perfectly capable of siccing her sister on you.”
    “Is Journey
that scary?”
    Jared shrugs.
“Maybe not but a father likes to brag.”
    My fingers
return to the spot on my arm, and I feel like a dog in heat.
    “Would it be
too much to ask for pointers on how to get into her good graces?”
    “Yes, it’d be
way too much. Besides, I don’t have an answer anyway. Those girls make as much
sense to me as their mother does. Hell, tonight I’m taking them out for dinner,
and I admit I’m nervous. I never know what they’ll do or say.”
    “They’re still
your girls,” I say, unable to imagine going without seeing my son every few
days.
    “They’re women
now,” Jared says, running a hand through his thick graying hair. “I can’t get
involved in this thing with you and Justice. Whether you date or not, I don’t
want to give advice or help you to hook up. I don’t mean to seem as if I don’t
respect you. You’re a good guy, but I can’t get involved in gossip and taking
sides. No matter how well you behave, things will end up being town
information. I can’t be in the middle of that when I got enough people bugging me
about Christine being back.”
    “Have you seen
her?”
    “No, and she
seems to be working very hard to ensure I don’t. I