She nodded.
“Here’s the ten grand you took from me. Get the fuck out now.”
He walked back to the bike, climbed on, and they were out of there. Several miles from the house, he stopped the bike. His whole body was tense, and Lexie waited for him to speak.
“We will never discuss what just happened, do you understand?” he asked.
“Yes.”
“All Simon needs to know is you’re his mother.”
“Okay.” She wasn’t about to argue with him.
“Do you know what I just did?” He turned on the bike to look at her.
“You let my sister live.”
“No, I let a person who crossed me walk away. All of my life I’ve put people like her in the ground. I went to Fort Wills to settle an old score and put the enemy in the ground. Kayla is the first and last person I let that happen with. No one else will get the same kind of treatment.”
“I understand, and I won’t ask you again.” She rested her head on his back, knowing she needed to keep quiet or he was going to give her a headache with his ranting.
“Good, I want some food, and then I want some sex.”
She laughed, holding onto him tighter. “Then get me home.”
When Kayla had first arrived in Piston County to hand over her newborn son, Lexie had wondered how she was going to survive with a young boy. Now, she was wondering how she was going to last without him.
Holding on tight to her man, she inhaled his masculine scent combined with the leather of his cut. Devil had struck her from the very beginning. There was something about him that she couldn’t deny. He was dangerous, and yet for the first time in her life, she looked forward to the future.
****
Two years later
“You got fucking twins.” Devil smiled down at the ground where Tiny’s two children were playing with his son and daughter. Lexie was already pregnant with his third child, and glancing toward the pool, he got hard from looking at her. Her stomach was nicely rounded but not too large. Come nighttime he was going to spend several hours loving her body, before he fucked her.
“You fucking start with me and I’m going to kick your ass. I promised to come here for the barbeque ‘cause you said you were going to be nice,” Tiny said, sipping a bottle of beer. His backyard was full of Skulls and Chaos Bleeds crew. Smiling, Devil felt like the world was his oyster, and all he needed to do was pluck what he wanted.
Angel and Lash were talking with Judi. She held a boy on her hip, looking beautiful. It was funny. When he’d been in Fort Wills he’d wanted her badly. Now, looking at his woman and then at Angel, he wasn’t interested.
Judi was back from college. She stood beside Ripper, flipping burgers as his man read one of her course books to her. The woman was studying to be a fucking social worker or some shit. He still couldn’t believe it, but he believed in the bills he was paying for.
Every time he signed a check to the school it made him laugh. Nash looked troubled as his daughter sat in the group.
“He got a girl as well?” Devil asked. His life had been chaotic since the last run-in with The Skulls. He didn’t want to fight with Tiny and his crew. Devil wanted both clubs to unite as friends, not join forces but be known as friends.
Jerry and his woman were eating and enjoying the party. Lexie was walking out of the pool with Eva. He stopped talking to admire the full beauty of his woman.
“She’s really something,” Tiny said.
“You better not be looking at my woman.”
“I’m not looking at your woman. I’m more interested in mine.”
Eva walked into Tiny’s arms smiling between the two men. “It makes a change for you two to be in the same place without bashing heads together.”
“I know. It sucks, and it’s boring.”
Lexie picked up their little girl, Elizabeth. “It’s feeding time, sweety.” She went on her toes, kissing his lips. “Keep everyone company. I’ll be back soon.”
He watched her leave, knowing he wasn’t going to miss watching her feed their daughter. Simon was playing nicely with his toys.
“Will you keep an eye on everything?” Devil asked.
“You’re a horn dog. Leave the woman to feed,” Tiny said.
“Go, we’ll take care of your boy. Have fun,” Eva said, nodding at him.
It was rude, and Lexie would give him shit but watching her nurse his daughter would be well worth it. He found her sat in the nursery with a breast feeding pillow around her waist. His daughter was slowly being weaned off the breast as she was only a year old.
Devil found he loved to sit and watch. He found himself loving Lexie even more as she cared for their little girl.