Total pages in book: 66
Estimated words: 61929 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 310(@200wpm)___ 248(@250wpm)___ 206(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 61929 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 310(@200wpm)___ 248(@250wpm)___ 206(@300wpm)
“Stay with you?” I questioned him.
Kai nodded.
“You can take our spare bedroom here,” he said as he gestured to a closed door behind me. “If we’re going to look after you, it’ll help if you’re near us. This is a temporary situation. After the baby is born, you’re free to leave and go about your normal life. You can keep in contact with the baby, but we’ll raise them.”
My heart pounded heavily as I looked between all of them, who didn’t say anything or protest this crazy idea. How could all of them think that this was a good idea?
“What if I want to be part of my child’s life more than just being in contact?” I asked. I felt detached from my baby when I first found out I was pregnant because of the shock, but I had been doing a lot of thinking lately. A lot of planning. Now, when I thought of the future, I thought of me and my child. My tiny family.
Kai’s jaw tightened.
“You can be part of your child’s life. We’ll work out something, but you can’t interfere with us raising them to be part of our club. That’s non-negotiable,” he told me in a firm voice that sent a chill down to my core.
“What do you guys even do at this club? How many of there are you?” I asked, not knowing anything about them besides their names.
“There are eight of us in total. We ride our bikes and do things around the community,” Kai replied, giving me the least descriptive details ever.
I narrowed my eyes as I crossed my arms over my chest. If he was going to hide things from me, this wouldn’t work. I wasn’t going to let dishonest people have a role in raising my child.
“What things? I want to know what I’m getting myself into before I agree,” I questioned him. When Kai didn’t say anything, I acted like I was about to leave, being cut off as he stepped in front of me.
An aggravated look filled his face as he stared down at me.
“Not everything we do is in line with the law, but we’re careful. We’re disciplined. We don’t do anything crazy besides transporting jobs and protection detail,” Kai told me.
That didn’t sound so bad on the surface, but what they were doing was still illegal. I stepped back from Kai as a worried frown crossed my face, my hand finding my stomach.
“We don’t hurt anyone,” Auden spoke up, able to see my concern. “We run product from place to place. We look after people that we work with. There’s not much more to it than that. It’s for money to fund our lifestyle.”
“Yeah, bikes are expensive,” Hayden said with a wry chuckle, being silenced by a hard look from Cameron.
“Your child will be heavily protected as they grow up,” Lincoln assured me as they all seemed to slowly gravitate toward me. “They’ll be a good person. We may do what’s considered bad things, but we look after each other. We give back to the community. We’d look after you.”
All of their voices filled and echoed throughout my head, the volume becoming overwhelming.
They wanted me to entrust them with my child, to let them raise a baby in this environment to become one of them.
It was great that they wanted to support me during my pregnancy and not have me do everything alone, but I wasn’t sure if I could trust them enough to agree to this.
This was completely crazy! It felt like I had been dropped in the middle of one of my romance books, facing an impossible situation surrounded by disastrously handsome yet possibly dangerous men. I should’ve been terrified, but something heated and twisted burned inside of me. Something that could get me in trouble.
“I need some air,” I told them before walking past them and out the door, taking a deep breath and wondering what the hell I was going to do.
Chapter 7
Cameron
I found myself immediately following Aisling out of the clubhouse, feeling an ache and a tug in my chest like some sort of magnetic effect took hold of me.
This was a lot for one person to handle, especially when she was surrounded by strangers and newly pregnant. The last thing I wanted was for her to be scared off.
When I stepped out of the front door, I saw her standing off to the side, staring ahead with wide, confused eyes.
I figured she was tired of hearing so many voices trying to convince her of what to do, so I stood next to her in silence, letting her relax. My eyes subtly shifted to her, admiring her full, slightly pouty lips and thoughtful eyes.
Before today, only Auden and Kai had actually seen her, and Kai refused to spill any details about her.