Page 55 of Cole (Dirty Misfits MC 4)
My eyes fell to her stomach before she cleared her throat. “Look at me, Cole.”
I did as she asked. “Yeah?”
She shook her head. “You’re as stubborn as they come and even more bull-headed than you seem, but I get it. I understand, okay?”
I blinked. “You do?”
Her smile grew brighter as she stepped closer, her stomach pressing against my abs. “To be fair, I knew you were involved in some shady stuff. I just didn’t understand how shady and what kind of stuff it was.”
I grinned. “I guess I’ve always been a bit of a bad boy.”
She giggled with me before she turned to the side and came close enough so that she could lay her head against my chest.
And I welcomed her presence thoroughly as I embraced her as tightly as I could.
“I’m not leaving. Not again, okay?” I murmured.
She sighed with relief. “Good. That’s all I ask.”
“I’ll always protect you, and you and our child will never want for anything. I swear it.”
“Really?”
I kissed the top of her head. “Really, really. It’s just what happens when you love someone.”
Her gaze slowly made its way up to mine. “You—you love me?”
I nodded. “More than anything—or any person—that has ever been in my life. I love you, Molly. I love both of you. And now? You’re stuck with me, so I hope you can deal with that.”
She stood on her toes and kissed my lips softly. “I love you too, Cole.”
I captured her lips in a searing kiss that left the guys clapping for me as the girls shook their heads and tried to get them to shut up. I didn’t care, though. All I cared about was the fact that they were safe. That Molly and our child were safe.
And after we cleaned up the mess that had been made, we all headed back to the clubhouse so we could rest and get some food.
But I should’ve known the fun wouldn’t stop there.
“Hey, you guys. Come look at this,” Archer said.
I kissed Molly’s forehead and showed her to my room before I met the guys out at the kitchen table. Archer held a piece of paper up for the guys to read, and the way their faces grew stoic told me it wasn’t good. We had just gotten back in from an abduction clean-up, and there was more shit for us to experience?
When would the chaos end?
“That fucking bastard,” Brooks growled.
I rushed behind Archer before I read the note, and when I did my eyes bulged from my head.
“Is he fucking kidding? He’s got to be fucking kidding,” I murmured.
But when we all turned to face Tanner, the man looked like he was about to pass out.
“Tanner!” Brooks exclaimed.
Scratch that, the man did pass out.
“Is it true?” Brooks asked as he caught the man. “Is what Chops saying in that note true?”
I scooped up the note and took it to Tanner, but not before I read it again. Not before I attempted to digest the information for myself before I crouched down and handed it to Tan.
Did you really think we’d leave your girl out of it, Tanner? Even if you don’t know about your daughter? How clumsy of you guys.
I’ll be watching.
- Chops
“Did you know you had a daughter?” Porter asked.
And as Tanner’s eyes met mine, his lower lip quivered.
“No,” I said as I stood back to my feet. “No, you guys. He didn’t know he had a daughter.”
