Total pages in book: 61
Estimated words: 56628 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 283(@200wpm)___ 227(@250wpm)___ 189(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 56628 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 283(@200wpm)___ 227(@250wpm)___ 189(@300wpm)
But I knew that was going to be a fucking fight.
I walked into my connected bathroom and got a quick shower so I could go deal with club shit. I knew I needed to get a run organized and get ready to distribute funds at church today. I’d been slacking on my duties while trying to get Adelaide home.
After getting dressed in a pair of black cargo pants, my black steel-toed boots, a black t-shirt, and my cut, I walked out into the bar room, where Jesup was already behind the bar, talking to a couple of club women about cleaning up the mess from the welcoming back party last night.
Jesup arched an eyebrow at me when he noticed me. “You’re up early,” he noted.
I shrugged. “So are you,” I retorted.
Normally after a welcome home party, all of the club members, including myself, slept extremely late. Like well into the afternoon kind of late. But there had been too much shit on my mind to sleep, Addy being pregnant at the top of that list.
Jesup grinned at me. “I was expecting you to be balls deep inside of Adelaide for a while,” he lightly teased. I scowled at him. He shrugged at me. “What? It’s been years since you’ve been with her.”
I shook my head, thinking about Joey’s death, and then the fact that she had just found out that she was pregnant with his kid on top of it all. No fucking way was I about to sleep with her, much less try anything like that. I was a bastard, but I wasn’t that damn cruel. She wasn’t near ready for that kind of intimacy yet.
I nodded my head in the direction of the chapel, signaling for Jesup to follow me into the room. Once we were in the chapel, I shut the doors and locked them. Walking over to one of the windows, I crossed my arms over my broad chest and looked out at two of the prospects working on a car in the garage. “I think she’s pregnant,” I bluntly informed him, cutting straight to the chase.
“Woah, what?” Jesup snapped in surprise. I turned to face him. His face was a mask of absolute shock and disbelief. “You’re fucking serious?” he asked after a moment. “She’s fucking pregnant?”
I shrugged and heaved a deep sigh. “She woke up in the middle of the night last night to throw up. Probably a bit TMI for you, but I asked her when her last period was since she didn’t seem sick to me. No high temperature, not throwing up actual food since she didn’t eat anything yesterday. Her period is late.” Jesup’s eyes widened. “I’m going to take her to Dr. Howard when she wakes up so he can run a pregnancy test. She needs to know for sure.”
“Holy fuck, man,” Jesup breathed as he ran his hand through his hair. “How do you feel about that?” That was the question I was dreading. He shook his head. “On second thought, how the fuck does she feel about this?”
I was dreading that question even more.
I grunted and stuffed my hands into the pockets of my cargo pants. “I’ll step up and do what I need to do for her,” I told him, though I knew Jesup already figured that much. “I love Addy. I always have. If she’s pregnant with Joey’s kid, it’s not going to change how I feel about her.” I swallowed hard, blowing out a harsh breath as I glared at the table in the center of the room that had the club emblem engraved into it. “As for her… well, she fucking cried herself to sleep last night on the bathroom floor,” I told him quietly, pain lancing through my chest as I thought about how fucking heartbroken she had looked last night. “So, I don’t know how the fuck she’s feeling about this shit. She just lost Joey, only to find out she’s probably carrying his kid. It makes his death a double-edged sword straight through her heart.”
Jesup leaned against the wall, crossing his ankles and his arms as he steadily regarded me with that unnerving gaze of his. “What’s the plan if she is?” Jesup asked me.
I let my eyes meet his. “We protect her and that baby at all costs,” I told him. He nodded. “And we keep the Sons of Hell intact as much as we can because in about nineteen years, that club is going to fall into that child’s hands.”
Jesup nodded in understanding. “Charles looks like he might become a problem,” Jesup commented.
I nodded. “Addy has already warned me.” He raised an eyebrow at me. Adelaide had been in a lot deeper than me or him had originally thought, and she knew how that club worked. “When that club does fall apart, we’ll do what we have to do to make sure that the Sons of Hell stays a club.”