Resurrection (The Lone Riders MC Series Book 3) by Michelle Betham Page A

‘He’s back as a Dark Angel. Shit! I don’t envy him that task. Man, if they find out he’s double-crossing them… Hector Almeda ain’t that stupid, surely.’
    ‘He’ll be fine.’ Coby wished he could feel as confident as he sounded. But Luca was right – Hector Almeda wasn’t a stupid man. The game they were playing was a dangerous one, and Coby couldn’t be sure if Hector had taken Ben back because he believed the story he’d spun him, or because he had a feeling he was being played. And Coby’s gut was telling him it was the latter. Either way, it put Ben in a position no brother wanted to be in. But this was the nature of the life – sometimes bad shit happened to men who tried to become good.
    ‘Coby?’
    Luca’s voice pulled him back to reality, and he looked at them all, these men he had a duty to protect; the club he was desperate to save. ‘Sorry… Ozzie had a bad night last night. I guess the lack of sleep’s getting to me, huh?’
    ‘And he’s gonna let us know, is he? Ben, I mean. When there’s something he needs to tell us, he’ll let us know?’
    Coby sighed, sitting back in his chair. ‘He’s got this. OK?’
    ‘Mia aware of how everything’s moved on, is she?’
    Coby’s glance over at Kip was full of warning. ‘We’ll look after Mia. She’ll be fine.’
    ‘So, what do we now?’ Luca asked.
    ‘We wait,’ Coby replied. ‘Until Ben gets in touch. Meanwhile, there’s work to be done down at the boxing club, and Kel needs some things taking over to the Candy Cave .’
    ‘I’ll do that.’ Luca grinned.
    Kip smirked. ‘So fucking shallow.’
    ‘Says the man who’s boning one of the studio’s most agile actresses.’
    ‘And don’t you fucking wish you were me.’
    ‘Hey, come on, kids. Grow up, the pair of you.’ Coby pushed his chair back, standing up and making his way over to the door. ‘Eyes and ears open, remember? This is happening now, and we can’t afford to be caught napping.’
    Kip watched him leave, and then stood up himself, checking his watch.
    ‘You not coming with me to the Candy Cave ?’ Luca asked.
    ‘Got somewhere else I have to be,’ Kip replied, quickly checking his phone.
    ‘You’re giving up an afternoon of watching your freakin’ hot-as-hell girlfriend finger-fuck another woman to do, what?’
    ‘Like I said, Luc, there’s somewhere else I have to be. And besides…’ He grinned, perching his cap back over his messed-up dirty-blonde hair. ‘If I want to watch Cat finger-fuck anyone, all I have to do is ask.’
    ‘I fucking hate you, brother,’ Luca laughed, slapping him hard on the shoulder before following everyone else out of the chapel.
    Kip waited until they were gone before making the call. ‘You got anything for me?’ He listened to the person on the other end of the line speak, a smile spreading slowly across his face. ‘Yeah. I’m on my way.’

Thirteen
     
     
    ‘Mia, baby, this isn’t the way I wanted things to be…’
    ‘They’re gonna kill you, Ben.’
    ‘I’ve got this, I promise…’
    ‘No!’ Mia backed away from him, shaking her head. ‘No. Don’t you dare say that. Don’t. You can’t promise me shit , Ben.’
    ‘I know what I’m doing.’
    ‘You could have said no.’
    It was Ben’s turn to shake his head, that numb realization once more sweeping over him. ‘No, Mia, I couldn’t. This thing with my dad, with Sol; it has to be sorted. And somewhere, deep inside me, I’ve always known it would never go away until I faced it head on. Maybe that’s why I really came back here, huh? Because, subconsciously, I always knew it was never gonna go away until it was finished.’
    ‘He made you take the blame for something you didn’t do.’ Mia’s voice was little more than a whisper, her head still spinning with the shock of what Ben had just told her. But she had to know, that’s what he’d said. She had to know. Now. She had to know it all, so she could play her part, too. ‘You know all