(Dane) Ridge was in the common room with Asher and Knox when I found him. Papers spread across the table. Contracts or something that needed attention. He looked up when I came in. Asher and Knox took one look at my face and found reasons to be somewhere else within thirty seconds. I appreciated that about both of them. Ridge leaned back in his chair. "We went to the adoption agency this morning," I said. He looked at me for a second. "And?" he said. I sat down across from him. "Better than I expected," I said. "The caseworker was good. Melissa. She asked the hard questions but she wasn't looking for reasons to say no." "The MC thing came up," Ridge said. "First thing," I said. "I told her the truth. What the club is. What it's been. Victor founding it. You taking it over. The f

