“This morning,” I admitted.
His jaw tightened just a little bit. “That’s not enough, baby.”
I opened my mouth to tell him I was a big girl and knew when I needed to eat when the front door exploded inward with a loud crash.
“Nobody move! Hands where I can see them!”
All the blood in my body turned to ice.
Reggie stormed in with three of his deputies right behind him, and all of them had their weapons drawn and pointed at the table.
The entire room erupted into chaos as every biker at the table jumped to their feet at once, chairs scraping loudly against the floor.
Then Reggie’s eyes landed on me, and I watched his face turn murderous.
“What the fuck are you doing here?” he snarled, his voice dripping with rage.
Odin’s eyes swung between me and my ex before he barked back, “You’re trespassing. Get the fuck out of here.”
“Shut the fuck up!” Reggie shouted, taking a step forward with his gun still raised and pointed at us.
The biker with the black-rimmed glasses—I was pretty sure his name was Dollar—held up both of his hands in front of him. “You got a warrant, Sheriff? Because last time I checked, barging onto private property without one is pretty damn illegal.”
Reggie’s nostrils flared, and I could see a vein pulsing in his temple. “Where the hell are Moody and Pike?”
I glanced around the table.
Now that he’d mentioned it, I hadn’t seen any of the assholes who used to hassle me whenever I went into the diner to drop off eggs. Not that I was about to say that out loud right now.
Odin’s expression didn’t change even a little bit. “Don’t know what you’re talking about.”
“Bullshit!” Reggie took another step forward, his face going even redder. “They disappeared the exact same day you assholes rolled into town. You think I’m stupid?”
Odin snorted. “I’m not answering that.”
Reggie’s face went from bright red to almost purple, and I could see the hand holding his gun starting to shake.
Reid must have noticed it too because he stood up from the table beside his dad. “Dad?—“
Everything happened so damn fast after that.
Reggie swung his gun toward Reid, and I didn’t even think about what I was doing. My body just moved on its own as I positioned myself in front of the boy, my heart pounding so hard in my chest I thought it might actually burst right out.
“Are you crazy?!” I shouted at my ex-husband. “He’s just a kid!”
“Get out of the way, you stupid cunt,” Reggie growled.
My hands curled into fists. He knew how much I hated it when he called me that. “No!” I growled back.
Caroline slowly stood up from where she’d been sitting, her hands raised up in front of her like she was trying to calm down a wild animal. “Please,” she said softly. “Everyone just needs to calm down. There’s no need for anyone to?—”
One of Reggie’s deputies curled his lip as he grabbed Caroline by the arm and slammed her up against the wall.
“Don’t you fucking touch her!” Odin roared, lunging for the deputy who’d grabbed his mother
But it didn’t matter. Reggie saw it coming and swung out his arm, cracking Odin across the face with the butt of his gun, sending him crashing down to the floor.
“Dad!” Reid shouted, his voice cracking.
