“Did you see who did
this?” Lucky heard the accusation in his own voice, but it was too late to
regain his temper as Willa paled. He was having a shit time with women so far
today.

Willa walked toward him,
the five children following behind her.

“Is something wrong …?”
Her words trailed off as her eyes caught sight of his bike.

“We just came outside.
Chrissy and Caroline saw a stray cat when they were playing outside earlier.
They wanted to feed it…”

Lucky’s eyes went to the
tabby cat at the side of Willa’s house that was contentedly eating tuna from a
can. Then he studied the children. “Are you sure you didn’t hear or see
anything?”

“Jenna’s house is closer
to your bike. It would be easily seen from her living room window. If you
didn’t see anything, why would we?” Willa said.

Lucky’s face turned red
in embarrassment and anger at her logic. “Because I’m not the one who’s
constantly looking out the window.”

Once again, Willa was the
one turning bright red. “I’ll go get something to clean the paint off.”

She hurried inside her
house, leaving him alone with five kids staring at him with varying
expressions—from the overtly hostile glares of the two older girls to the three
younger ones scowling at him.

“We didn’t see who
touched your bike,” Leanne stated, staring him directly in the eyes.

Lucky knew the children
fairly well from when he had been undercover as pastor. Leanne and Sissy were
sisters; their mother Georgia had been a member of his congregation who had
recently been killed when she was incarcerated for setting a fire in The Last
Rider’s clubhouse. Shade and his wife Lily could have easily died if not for
the precautions that Viper, the club president, had taken.

“I just asked if anyone
had seen anything, Leanne. Maybe one of you put the other up to doing it?”

A firestorm was unleashed
at his words.

“We don’t put each other
up to doing stuff that will get us in trouble!” Sissy snapped. The oldest girl,
at seventeen, had been hit the hardest by her mother’s death.

Lucky guiltily admitted
to himself that he was wrong. This wasn’t a prank a kid would play.

“What does the word
mean?” Charlie, the eight-year-old, questioned as he held his younger sister
Caroline’s hand while his other sister, Chrissy, stared at him, sucking her
thumb.

The three younger
children Willa was fostering were Lewis’s, Georgia’s brother, who had also been
raising his nieces after her death. Lewis had been determined to marry Willa to
help care for his large family. The sick bastard had gotten his wish; he just wasn’t
around to benefit from it. Willa had shot and killed him when he had come to
her house in a rage and attacked not only her but also Rachel, who had tried to
help her.

“It means that Pastor
Dean isn’t acting like a pastor anymore.” Sissy smirked at him.

Lucky knew her age and
recent difficulties were responsible for her attitude, but it didn’t keep him
from snarling back at her. “You have a problem with me, Sissy?”

“I have a problem with
you treating Willa the way you just did.”

“Willa needs to learn to
take up for herself. She doesn’t need another person taking up for her.
Certainly not a seventeen-year-old.”

Caroline’s foot kicked
out, striking him in the leg.

“Stop it!” Lucky had long
since lost control of the embarrassing situation.