The Biker's Hidden Baby

Friends.

Tanner's P.O.V

"That's what I am still trying to figure out. I told you about the PI I hired. As soon as he tells me anything, I'll let you know."

"You're a good man, Tanner. I wish things could have worked out between you and Lara."

"I hope to make things better when she returns."

"She's a stubborn girl, so good luck with that."

She said with a smile.

"I'll get going now."

I said and stood from my seat. I didn't want to push her about seeing Riley even though I really missed him.

"You can come by anytime. I'm sure Riley would be happy to see you again. What do you think your mother might do something to him?"

That was the reason I came here in the first place. Yes, I was afraid something could happen to him, but I wasn't going to tell her that.

"Don't worry about it, I have someone looking out for both of you."

She didn't look convinced, and I know that when you tell someone not to worry it doesn't erase their worries.

I was tired, I needed sleep, food and a shower, but I was hungry nor did I feel like resting... and as much as I wanted to sit back and wait like the PI told me to do, I couldn't... every day that Lara was gone could mean that she might not even be alive anymore... what if I waited for tomorrow and find out that she was still alive today?

It was as if the PI could hear my thoughts. He called me and told me he had found a few things, so I told him that I was at my hotel and in less than 15 minutes he was here. He showed me a video from the night Lara met my mother at the diner. It was the same night she walked out on me for the second time.

It showed my mother arriving at the diner with Riley, then a few minutes later Lara arrived. After some time, Su arrived as well, just like Riley had told me, then Riley and Su left... Jasmine entered the diner, and again after a while, Lara left, getting into her car and driving off...

I continued to watch the video. My mother leaves the diner alone soon after Lara leaves, but the time on the video glitches by Jasmin never did... Either that video was tampered with and Jasmine left or Lara left with my mother and Jasmine left in Lara's car... the video continues to the next morning and into the day, but Jasmine never came out, and we watched it a couple of times to make sure we didn't miss her.

Then he shows me the video of Lara arriving at her apartment building after leaving the diner. She makes her way to her apartment and stays inside for a couple of hours, leaving even before the sun is out with a suitcase, puts it in the backseat of her car and drives off.

One last video shows Lara leaving New York, then she's just gone like she has fallen off the face of the earth. She doesn't stop at a gas station, doesn't pull any money from any of the ATMs and doesn't even take a break from driving... there was no sign of her. I called Lara's mother and told her everything, and we decided to get the police involved.

We thought they would be on our side. We thought they would do some investigating and try to come to the bottom of this, but we were wrong. They called my mother into the station and asked her why she met up with Lara. She told them she found out about my son and wanted to meet him. She wanted to be a part of his life, which is what the police officers told us.

When she was asked why Riley ended up arriving with her and not his mother, she told them that Lara called her and asked if she could pick Riley up at Lara's friend, Su, because she was running late... She had an answer to every question they asked her, like she thought this all out like she planned for this to happen...

And she already knew what she was going to say if it came down to this, then she pulled out a folder with photos of Lara buying drugs from a dodgy-looking man. He handed her a clear plastic bag with a white substance in it and Lara gave him cash for the drugs... My mother had her naughty little fingers in the cookie jars of police officers.

Lara's P.O.V

I woke up to metal banging against the board only to realize that it was my cot rattling due to my shaking and violent thrashing. I was now convinced that I was a full-blown junkie, I couldn't go a day without drugs... my cot was boarded up on either side with a glass-like plastic cover with holes in it at the top.

It was meant to keep something in, not me, but the crawling, slithering friends I've made. I guess those two idiots grew tired of throwing them back at me every time and got creative. At times when I was lonely, and I craved human contact, I spoke to my crawling, slithering friends...

I told them how much I missed Riley, how afraid I was that he thought I wasn't coming back, or worse, that I had abandoned him just like his father did... I guess now I know how Tanner must have felt... I didn't abandon him. I just couldn't get to him and maybe that's how Tanner felt after I told him to stay away.

I told them about all my fears, but I didn't dare tell them that my biggest fear was being in a box with them. I had hated anything that crawled or slithered for as long as I can remember, and I knew that if I did get out of here some day this would be my torment that would stay with me forever.

The lights flicked on, and I squinted against the light as it hit my eyes... earning me a few bites and stings from my crawling, slithering friends, but by now I was used to the pain. I heard the sound of heels clicking on the floor. Then I heard her voice Monica was here, I remember her saying that she would be by to visit in a week or something like that, but nothing prepared me for what she had to say...

"Oh my, aren't you a sight? I'm so sorry I couldn't come by and visit like I said I would. I think my son is getting suspicious. Can you believe he had me dragged to the station? You should have seen his face when i pulled out those photos of you buying drugs... so you see I had to lie low for a couple of weeks."

A couple of weeks? How f*****g long was a couple of weeks?

I refused to give her the reaction she so desperately came here for, but inside I was shattering and not from withdrawal. My heart was breaking. I missed my son, and she was the reason I couldn't see him, couldn't hold him... tears blared my vision, but I blinked them back...

"I hope you can understand why I had to do this. We are both mothers, and we only want what is best for our sons, and you aren't that Lara, you might have your fancy job, but you will never have my son... I'll take my leave now. I'll be back to visit you soon. Take care now, sweetheart."

As her heels clicking on the floor board grew further and further away, the tears finally broke free. She was a cold-hearted b***h and when I got out of here she would pay.