Free Rescue Me (Demon Riders MC #1) by Evelyn Glass

you blushed just then?” He gives her a lopsided smile. “Just a lucky guess, I suppose.”
     
    “Yeah right.” She punches him playfully on the arm but he catches her wrist and pulls her towards him again, kissing her thoroughly.
     
    “Am I wrong?” He pulls back to look at her, his eyes dark.
     
    Elyse shakes her head, not even trying to pretend that she feels any other way.
     
    “Good. Now that’s settled. You should come tonight, to the bar, meet some of the guys.” He pulls her against him again, settling her against his broad chest.
     
    “The guys?” She feels her heart thump loudly in her chest at the reminder of how she came to be in Dane’s arms at all.
     
    “The guys from the MC, the club I mentioned last night.” His voice is filled with warmth as he talks about them. “I want you to meet them.”
     
    “Is that what Suzi was talking about earlier in the shop? About you having to concentrate on getting into the club?” Elyse is playing dumb but it’s the best way to get Dane to open up.
     
    “Yeah, she knows it’s kind of been an obsession of mine since we were kids. I’m a prospect now so I still have to prove myself to the club, but it shouldn’t be long until I’m a fully patched member of the Riders.” The pride in his voice is easy to hear.
     
    “The Riders?” She pretends complete ignorance.
     
    “Demon Riders, it’s the name of the club,” he explains.
     
    “It doesn’t sound all that friendly. But I guess you can’t really name a motorcycle club Rainbows and Kittens!” She’s grateful that Dane laughs at her lame joke.
     
    “Don’t worry about the guys. Their bark is way worse than their bite…most of the time. Anyway, they’ll love you. How could they not? I want you to meet them.” The excitement in his voice at the prospect makes Elyse feel like even more of a big fat liar, if that were possible.
     
    “They’re important to you.” It’s a statement of fact rather than a question.
     
    “It’s a brotherhood.” Elyse feels Dane shrug behind her. “They’re my family; that’s just how it works.”
     
    Elyse feels her gut clench as she asks the question that she knows she has to, still playing the naïve card. “But…aren’t motorcycle clubs kind of dangerous? Like not totally above board?” She holds her breath for his reaction.
     
    “It’s not as black and white as that. There are a lot of shades of grey.” She feels him shrug again. “It’s not something we really talk about outside of the club.”
     
    Elyse responds without thinking, saying what is in her heart rather than what is in her head. “It’s all right. You can trust me.”
     
    She feels Dane’s arms tighten around her. “That’s not an easy thing for me to do.” There’s a tightness in his voice that wasn’t there before.
     
    “Then we can take things one step at a time.” She relaxes into his arms, feeling warm and safe and protected and like the biggest liar of all time.
     
     

 
     
    CHAPTER TEN
     
    Suzi’s statement that Saturday night at the bar is busy is the biggest understatement of the century. It’s full to bursting and everywhere Elyse looks there are bikers. The look that Dane had given her when he’d arrived to pick her up from the house told her she had made an impression. After the wardrobe malfunction from the night before, Elyse had decided to look more like herself. She’d gone for a natural look with her makeup and in her skinny jeans and figure-hugging tank top; she was comfortable in her own skin. She had expected Jen to be all over her, telling her to be careful, that these bikers were dangerous, but she actually seemed to be relieved that Elyse was going out there and having fun.
     
    As soon as she and Dane walk into the bar, there are shouts of welcome from the guys and some of the women. Dane smiles as he introduces her to members of the club. Elyse is surprised at just how many of them there are and how a lot of them just look