By Peter B. and Art Intelli
Chapter 8: Baldy Biker Initiation
I stood in the firelight, my breath still uneven. I wiped the sweat and blood from my brow and chin.
“So, even though you tried to run, and even though I really don’t trust you, for some reason, I like you, Rabbit, so I’m gonna give you a second chance. You beat the strongman and thus won the right to make a choice. Either you pledge to join us, or I skin your strongman buddy alive. And make you watch every minute of it. So I’m thinking the choice would be kinda easy.”
I knew I had to play along for now. Give us time to get out of this somehow.
“OK. You got me. I’m with you.”
Q-Ball paced in front of me, arms crossed, his grin sharp as a knife. “But see, Rabbit, you don’t just join the Baldies. You have to earn your place.”
The other bikers murmured in agreement, seemingly to tighten the circle around us. Their leather vests gleamed in the flickering firelight, the studs and chains reflecting like a thousand sharp teeth.