“Will do,” Rocky murmured, lifting his chin at the men around the table before turning toward the door and letting himself out.
“Not gonna end well,” my dad said after the door had closed.
“We’ll make it end well,” Dragon answered, something passing between him and my dad as they made eye contact.
“Now that that shit’s over, I wanna know about Moose’s new woman,” Cam joked, lightening the mood at the table.
“Shut the fuck up.” I flipped him off as he grinned.
“She’s cute—timid as a rabbit, though,” my dad said with a smile, relaxing into his chair.
“Not up for discussion,” I ground out.
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“No way in hell is my boy getting that,” my dad choked out, laughing his ass off. “That girl is sweet as sugar.”
The muscles in my arms and back locked as I tried to calm my shit. They were just messing with me. They always fucking messed with me. If I let on that it bothered me, it would make them worse.
“I don’t know, man,” Cam said, laughing. “Homer said she seemed up for anything—”
“Enough,” I roared, flying out of my seat. My skin felt too tight for my body. I wanted to hop over the table and beat the words out of Cam’s mouth.
“Calm down, son,” my dad growled.
“You let some fuck talk about Mom like that?” I asked, knowing the answer.
“Just givin’ you shit, Moose,” Dragon said calmly, looking bored with the whole thing.
His words made me even angrier. I fucking hated when they acted like I was a kid. Like I overreacted to shit. Yeah, I’d fucked up before, screwing around with steroids that made me fucking crazy. Everyone knew it. But that didn’t mean that I wasn’t a brother just like the rest of them. I’d paid my dues for my fuckups. I pulled my goddamn weight. I took the fall when I had to, did the runs no one wanted, and I was a fucking genius of a mechanic.
“We done?” I asked, refusing to sit back down.
Dragon stared at me for a full minute, probably to remind me who the fuck was in charge, then lifted his hand and slammed the gavel down.
I was out the door before anyone else had even risen from the table.
“Moose, man, wait up,” Cam called behind me as I stormed completely out of the clubhouse. “We were just givin’ you shit.”
They were. I knew that. It still made my skin crawl.
“Fuck man, we’ve fucked with you worse than that before.”
“If someone said that shit about Trix, you’d lose it,” I pointed out, coming to a stop.
“Different and you know it,” Cam mumbled.
“Not really.”
“You that far gone?”
“Pretty much.” I gripped the back of my neck in frustration.
Things were fine with Molly. Good. But the woman had fucking blinders on, and I knew the moment they came off, I was going to be in a whole heap of shit. After she’d freaked out about my dad, I was dreading the day I that had to pull her farther in to the life. And it would happen. At some point, we’d be at that place where she needed to know shit, and the minute she did, she was going to bail and I wouldn’t be able to protect her.
I knew it, yet that didn’t keep me from stopping by her house every fucking night.
“Make the announcement, then,” Cam said, getting my attention again. “Bring her around.”
“Won’t work,” I replied, shaking my head.
“Boys’ll lay off, man. You know they will.”
“Molly’s fuckin’ clueless,” I informed him, watching his face drop in shock. “Her dad must’ve fuckin’ sheltered her from shit, because she’s got no fuckin’ clue.”
“Duncan’s kid? Seriously?”
“She’s afraid of my dad. Thinks I’m different.”
Cam laughed incredulously. “You need to work that shit out.”
“I know that.”
“Cut her loose,” Cam said seriously. “Will, she’s that fuckin’ clueless, she could cause major fuckin’ problems.”
“Fuck that.” I walked toward my bike and pulled my helmet off the gas tank.
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“Women like that,” Cam called out, shaking his head. “They don’t keep their mouths shut.”
“I’m not tellin’ her shit.”
“Doesn’t matter,” Cam said in frustration as I climbed on my bike. “She’ll know shit anyway.”
I didn’t reply as I fired up my bike. Molly didn’t know anything. Most old ladies didn’t know much, but Molly knew close to nothing. She saw my cut, knew I was an Ace, but that was the extent of it. She didn’t want to hear about the club, had no interest in going anywhere near it.