We stepped outside and I let out a quiet squeak. “What…?”
“Sidecar,” Orion explained.
“Oh, my god,” I whispered. “Seriously?”
Sundance grinned, giving my hand a squeeze. “Ori and I have been workin’ on it for a couple of weeks. We added a harness strap, so if he wants to put his hands up, he can. Ratchet painted it.”
The sidecar was gun metal gray with ‘Shotgun’ painted across the side with flames shooting out of the letters.
“So, this is your bike, buddy, but you can’t ride it alone, that’s the deal,” Sundance said. “If you want to go for a ride, you let one of the officers know and either one of us or someone we assign’ll take you out, got it?”
“Okay, Sunny. Look, Riot, it’s my bike,” Teddy said, excitedly. “I’m a Howler.” He let out a wolf howl and I settled my hand over my heart.
“I see that, honey,” I said, blinking back tears as the men gathered around Teddy and showered attention on him.
Sundance made his way over to me and smiled. “I’ve got a cut for you as well.”
“You do?”
He nodded and handed it to me. The name patch read ‘Dimples,’ and there was another one on the back that said, ‘Property of Sundance.’
“Oh my god.”
Sundance leaned down to kiss me gently. “You gonna put that on?”
“No way in hell,” I whispered, and he laughed.
“Let’s just see if it fits.”
I narrowed my eyes at him as his biker brethren watched on in interest.
I handed him my purse and slid the vest on, which made the men hoot and holler with celebration.
“It looks great,” Sundance said, kissing me again.
“You’re a bitch now!” Teddy yelled, and I groaned.
The men laughed, slapping Teddy on the back.
“I’ll wear it here. On special club occasions. Maybe,” I said.
“I’m good with that,” Sundance said.
“We need to figure out Teddy being here more often, though, honey. He’ll need a special room—”
“Got that sorted.”
“You do?”
He nodded and turned to the group. “Teddy, you wanna see your room?”
“Yeah!” he said.
“Come on.”
Sundance handed me my purse, took my hand, then led us back inside and upstairs. Unlocking and pushing open the door next to his, he stepped aside so Teddy and I could walk in first. The room was set up exactly like Teddy’s room at Meteor house, complete with cameras on the outside of his door and just inside it.
“There are sensors so that we’ll know when he comes and goes,” Sundance said as Teddy explored. “There’s also an adjoining door through the closet, in case there’s an emergency and we need to get to him quickly.”
