Total pages in book: 69
Estimated words: 65872 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 329(@200wpm)___ 263(@250wpm)___ 220(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 65872 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 329(@200wpm)___ 263(@250wpm)___ 220(@300wpm)
We are our father’s sons.
I push my thoughts out of my head as T and I make it to the vehicle. Mom will be okay. She’ll survive this. There cannot be any other outcome.
There just can’t.
Chapter 10
Dragon
The surrounding tension is so thick that you cut it with a knife. We don’t speak. There’s a lot we need to say, but I’d rather do it when Skull isn’t here and when we’re not hiding from the sloppy-ass foot soldiers that the Feral Kings MC have guarding this trail. It’s remarkably easy to get by them. I’ll be killing them on the way back down.
After I get my woman back.
Fuck, I’m nervous. I’m trying not to think about it as we go about getting to the top of the mountain, but I can’t help it. Nicole is still pissed at me. She has every right. I shouldn’t have hidden what I thought was true about King. I should have told her, especially after we completed the file on him. Allowing her to be blindsided was a mistake I should have never made. I know all that. I’m not a man who runs from things—not normally. I panicked. Fuck, it hurts to admit that, but I did. I know the topic hurts Nicole, and the reason is my fault. I was worried that this might make her leave me again. When she went to Tennessee all those years ago, I lost it. I was a shell of a man, and I knew that if she didn’t come back to me, that if I didn’t have her and my kids, I’d rather swallow a bullet than go on living. I know how weak that makes me sound, but fuck. Once you’ve had heaven, there’s no way to go back. Nicole is part of my soul. Without her, there’s no me. My world begins and ends with her. It has been that way since the day I carried her across the weeds of that old rental she and Dani lived in for a bit and tasted her lips. Fuck, I think it began when I saw her pumping gas barefoot the first time we met. Other women ceased to appeal to me from that day forward.
I love that woman with every fiber of my being.
“You’ll need to stay here. I’ll go around, so it looks like I’m coming in from the parking lot and through the main entrance. I’ll make up some shit about my bike breaking down and then share beers with the assholes.” He pulls out three bottles. I can tell even in the dark with just the moonlight shining down that they all look the same and I frown.
“How do you know which ones have the drugs?” I ask, my voice hoarse.
“They all three do,” he says, and I look at him like he’s insane.
“How the fuck are you supposed to drink, then? We can’t afford for them to get paranoid here.”
“Fuck, Eyeball and Demon are already paranoid about every-fucking-thing. That’s why the seals aren’t broken on the beers.”
“How did you get the drugs in?” Skull asks.
“Injected with a syringe into the cap.”
“Has to be a hell of a syringe for it to penetrate a metal cap,” Skull mutters in response.
“Special made,” King answers.
“I guess it helps to have an old lady who is a nurse,” I respond. As soon as I say it, I know I’ve made a mistake. It reflects in the look he’s casting in my direction. I’m suddenly glad that most of his face is hidden in the darkness.
“Nice to know you’re keepin’ tabs on me,” he mutters. “I’m out of here.”
“If you need us—”
“I have Skull’s cell,” King mutters under his breath. He stomps off and I watch him go.
“Shit,” I mutter.
“He’s yours,” Skull says, and I shrug. “I donated the sperm, I guess. His mother was a club hanger-on. She was a cousin to Lips, and all tits and ass, had a good mouth. Back then, I was young, dumb—”
“And full of cum. I’m familiar with the saying, hermano.”
I nod my head sadly. “I was a stupid fuck. That’s only becoming more and more clear through the years. Still, I knew she was a good woman for the most part and a club lifer. Living and being part of the club was all she wanted. We spent time together. I always gloved up, except for one night. I was high and drunk on top of that. It was a big party …,” I shrug, hating the memory. “When she told me she wasn’t on birth control because I was the only one she was sleeping with, I got pissed. I walked away after that. Told her to let me know if there were consequences. She was pissed but agreed. I promised if she was pregnant, I’d take care of the child, but made sure she knew I wasn’t in the market for an old lady. We had words, but that’s to be expected. For a month, I kept in contact through Lips. I wanted to make sure Mavis—that was the woman’s name—didn’t end up pregnant. I was on edge. I didn’t want to be tied to a woman and I sure as fuck didn’t want a kid. Mavis came back to another party, made sure to tell me that we were in the clear. She had started her period. I felt like a weight had been lifted from me. Mavis made it apparent that she was disappointed. She wanted to be an old lady. Fuck, I don’t think she even cared if it was me that she was tied to. She just wanted what the position would bring her inside a club.”