At a crowded Denny’s, every conversation stopped when a little boy in a dinosaur shirt walked up to a table of bikers and asked:“Can you kill my stepdad for me?”
Fifteen leather-clad veterans froze, staring at the trembling child as if time had stopped. His mother was in the bathroom, unaware her son had approached the scariest-looking table in the diner — and unaware of the secret he was about to reveal.
He pulled out crumpled bills and laid them on the table between coffee cups. His little hands shook, but his eyes didn’t waver.
Big Mike, the club president and a grandfather himself, knelt beside him. “What’s your name, buddy?”“Tyler,” the boy whispered. “Mom’s coming back soon. Will you help or not?”