Page 41 of Cruel Biker

“So, what is the problem?” her mother asked.

“It wasn’t with Bolt.”

“And?” her mother asked again.

“Doesn’t that make me a cheating slut?”

Willow threw back her head and laughed, and Morwenna didn’t feel happy about this.

“Mom, come on, seriously?”

“I’m so sorry, it’s just that I can’t believe you’re worried about this. Okay, do you plan to get back together with Bolt?”

“Absolutely not. No. Never. He lied, and there’s so much between us now that there is no way I would want to be with him. He lied for too long.”

“And you’re trying to divorce him.”

“Yes, but he still won’t sign the divorce papers.”

“This other guy ... what is—”

“It’s Venom,” Morwenna said, and winced at the surprise on her mother’s face. “Please don’t judge.”

Willow held out her hands. “I’m not judging. Trust me, I do not want to judge, but I don’t know what law there is within the club. I don’t see you as cheating. Others might, but I don’t. You’ve been trying to get a divorce, and there is only so much you can do.”

Morwenna sighed.

“That’s why you’ve been here?” Willow asked.

“Venom’s my friend, and we had sex, and when I woke up, he wasn’t there, and it feels like everything is so complicated and messed up. He is Bolt’s club brother, and I’m not trying to rock that boat.”

“Did you want to have sex with him?” her mother asked.

Morwenna sighed. “Yeah, I did. Does that make me a bad person?”

“Honey, for crying out loud, I had to be with you for a year while you tried to come to terms with all that happened. You were hurt. Bolt broke your heart. I watched you fall to pieces, and then to learn he also had three kids with that woman. They kept you in the dark, and Venom, I can see the appeal.”

She frowned. “Mom, do you have a crush on Venom?”

“What?” Her mother frowned and shook her head. “No, I can see the appeal you have for him, because he’s the only one in the club that hasn’t let you down. I see that. He wasn’t even there, and he’s had your back from the moment he got out. Don’t you get a little nervous, though? He did kill people.”

“Mom, they were hurting dogs.”

“Still, doesn’t that mean something?”

“Yeah, he’s a good person that sometimes has to do bad things, and you know Dad is the same. He’s a good person that has had to do bad things. It’s what you told me.”

“He was in the military.”

“And?” Morwenna asked.

Her mother held her hands up again.

“What should I do?” she asked.

“Perhaps talk to him and see what he wants to do,” Willow said. “You’re not going to get any answers by staying here, and I didn’t for a second think I raised a coward. You’re a woman who fights her battles. You don’t run and hide.”

“Dad is going to be pissed, isn’t he?”