Ride Everlasting (Demon Riders MC Book 3) by Evelyn Glass Read Free Book Online Page A

of waiters swoop in and rearrange the table, creating another place setting for Dane and holding out the chair for him.  It looks like there were more than just a few perks of owning the place.
     
    “’Lyse.”  Dane’s voice is low in his throat, as he looks at her, sounding husky in a way that makes all her nerve endings tingle. 
     
    She takes in his nod to the formality of the place—he’s left his leather jacket at the door. Other than that, he’s in black jeans and a black t-shirt along with black biker boots.  But somehow he manages not to look out of place at all.  In fact, to Elyse, he looks absolutely perfect.
     
    Elyse doesn’t trust her voice to say anything, so instead she shakes herself out of her stupor and goes to her seat.  She’s aware of Dane shaking his head at one of the servers as he tries to pull out her chair.  Dane does it for her, and she’s left speechless yet again as he pushes the chair towards the table, acting the perfect gentleman before taking his own seat and smiling easily at Joyce and Nick.  He looks for all the world as if he eats in places like this all the time.
     
    “So, Dane, tell me about yourself.  My daughter has been pretty tight-lipped about you. I was almost starting to wonder if you really existed.”  Elyse’s mother leans forward eagerly, settling in for Dane’s life story.
     
    “Joyce, at least give the guy a drink before you start grilling him!”  Nick laughs good-naturedly.  “What can we get you, Dane?  Wine?”
     
    “A beer would be great, actually.”  Dane smiles his thanks at Nick and, as if by magic a frosty glass appears at Dane’s elbow.  “And, I don’t mind the grilling, Mrs. Powell.  Ask me whatever you like.”  Dane holds open his arms as if to show that he has nothing to hide.
     
    “Please, call me Joyce.  Mrs Powell makes me feel like an old woman.”  Her mother smiles easily, taking another sip of her wine and openly admiring the man that Elyse has brought home.
     
    “Great, Joyce.”  Dane nods, smiling easily at the older woman.
     
    Elyse still hasn’t said anything, and it’s only at this moment that her mother seems to have noticed her silence.  “Lysey, are you alright?  I don’t think I’ve ever known you to be so quiet.”
     
    Elyse shakes herself slightly, as she realizes that everyone is staring at her.  “Yes, I’m fine.  Sorry, I guess I was just…surprised to see you here.”  She looks at Dane with her eyebrow lifted, her question implied.
     
    “Good surprised or bad surprised?”  Dane’s voice is low, his tone playful. However, his eyes are serious, and Elyse knows that this is more than just a flirtatious question.
     
    Elyse doesn’t even have to think about her response; she’d known the minute her brain had processed the fact that he was here, meeting her mother because he knew how important it was for her.  “Good surprised.”  She reaches out and wraps her hand around his on top of the table, and she watches as his shoulders relax a touch.
     
    “Well, that’s a relief.”  Dane jokes, but Joyce’s mother with her maternal radar seems to see that something had just gone on that she didn’t quite understand.
     
    “So how did the two of you meet?”  Joyce looks between them expectantly.
     
    Elyse weighs up whether to lie about Dane’s involvement in a biker gang with the knowledge that it’s too important for him to keep quiet about, but her mother will no doubt worry.  But Dane steps in before she has time to reach a decision.
     
    “Well, I guess it’s not the best story.”  Dane looks a little sheepish.  “But we met in a bar. Elyse walked in, and it was pretty hard to look anywhere else.”
     
    Joyce lets out a contented sigh, as if she’d just heard the most romantic thing ever.
     
    Nick leans over towards Dane, conspiratorially.  “Hey, tone it down. You’re making me look bad.” 
     
    It lightens the mood and gives Elyse time to get