Total pages in book: 76
Estimated words: 90721 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 454(@200wpm)___ 363(@250wpm)___ 302(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 90721 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 454(@200wpm)___ 363(@250wpm)___ 302(@300wpm)
“You really pregnant?” My brother rumbled.
A whimper escaped my lips. “I dunno. Maybe. Probably.”
“Why don’t you know?” He asked curiously.
His big arms squeezed me a little tighter before he let me go. His face was soft and open as he looked into my eyes, and I was struck with how very much I loved him.
He’d always been the best big brother. He was so nice. Never complained that I followed him around constantly. He taught me how to drive a standard. Taught me how to change my oil. Took me to and from school. Protected me.
“I’m scared.” I whispered.
“Of what?” He asked concerned.
“What if the baby is like me? What if he or she has the same problems I have?” I mumbled, looking down at my cuticles.
Luke’s blunt finger went underneath my chin and brought my gaze to his. “What if it does? Are you going to love it any less?”
I straightened in indignation. “No, of course not!”
His blonde eyebrows raised at the ferocity of my voice. “Then what’s it matter? Get your head out of your ass and go to him.”
With those eloquent words, Luke disentangled himself from me and left to talk to the Chief of Police.
“I don’t think you need stitches. It just looks bad. The skin was scraped off along your temple, but there is nothing to fix.” Winter explained as I dropped down in the seat beside me.
“What’d Allen have to say?” I asked looking in his direction.
Winter grimaced. “He wasn’t happy that the SWAT team let you go in. He’s pretty upset himself. He told Dillon and Tai to take over the medic duties and told us we were off shift pending investigation.”
I turned in surprise. “But you didn’t go in!”
Winter shrugged my shoulder. “I would have. I was going to until Jack got here and forbid it.”
My insides churned. I hadn’t really thought about it at the time. I’d just reacted. When we’d learned the severity of the injury, not to mention the fact that the teller was pregnant with twins, I hadn’t even considered anything else.
“Sebastian is really mad at me.” I sighed.
A low masculine voice startled me making me jump. “You have no clue.”
Winter and I screeched as we turned to find Loki on the other side of us, leaning casually up against the back doors to the bus.
He was wearing his cut over a black t-shirt, and a faded pair of jeans.
His hair was even messier than the last time I’d seen him, and I could tell that either he’d just woken up, or had just as bad of a day as I had.
“What’re you doing here?” I asked softly.
Loki’s eyes softened at the hitch in my voice. “You scared about ten years off everyone’s life. When Kettle called to tell us what happened, and that Sebastian may need some help, we followed. Caught up to him at the Texas border when your man nearly got himself killed the first time. A car pulled out in front of him and he nearly t-boned it. Then he nearly got sideswiped when he tried to get in front of someone going to slow for his liking. And then he nearly had to lay the bike down when a deer ran out of the woods and crossed the street right in front of him. The man’s lucky as fuck, if you ask me. Driving reckless isn’t the thing to do on a motorcycle.”
My heart stopped in my chest when I thought about all the things that could’ve happened to him on his mad dash over to me.
He could’ve been gone and I never would’ve known it.
“Can you take me to him?” I pleaded.
“Don’t know where he is, darlin’. But there’s no way I’m taking you on the back of my bike. Not after what we heard. He’d probably kill the one that tried. You’ll have to catch a ride home, and then I’ll drive your car if you still want me to. But there’s nowhere I can take you other than the clubhouse or his place. I don’t know where he went. If you want honesty, though, I think you should give him a few days to cool off. Let him come to you.”
Feeling defeated, I nodded my head at him before turning around. “Thank you, Loki. If he asks, I’ll be at home.”
Chapter 20
You flipped the bitch switch, so buckle up and enjoy the ride, asshole!
-text from Baylee to Sebastian
Baylee
“Hey, it’s me. Uhh, I have an appointment in about an hour. It’s in Shreveport. I wanted to make sure it was close to you so you didn’t have to drive so far. It’s at The Women’s Clinic on Center Street. I...” I hesitated. “bye.”
My hand fell heavily against my leg like it weighed a million pounds.
I’d called Sebastian numerous times in the past three days, and he hadn’t answered once.
Deciding I needed to stop denying the truth, I set up an appointment with a doctor that was recommended by Winter for his expertise in high risk pregnancies.
I’d spent the last three days scouring the internet on pregnancies of women who have von Wheelbrand’s disease, and what I’d found scared me to death.
The first time I’d broken down and called Sebastian was after I’d read those articles. When he hadn’t answered, I’d contacted Winter who’d given me the number of Doctor Abrahams.
They’d worked me in the next day, and now it was nearly time for me to go.
I walked into the bedroom and sat on the bed when I contemplated what to wear.
My eyes fell on the leather vest, and the property patch that I’d been so excited to wear the first time I’d laid eyes on it.
I hadn’t worn it in three days, scared shitless that Sebastian might not want me to anymore.
That would certainly explain why he hadn’t even bothered to call me in three days.
Finally, I decided not to wear it, but to take it with me just in case he did decide to show.
I slipped into a pair of yoga pants, a tight black t-shirt that said ‘I <3 a Marine,’ and my oldest pair of tennis shoes, before heading out to the living room.