“I’ll talk to her tonight,” Lucky said, reaching out to pry Willa’s hand away from her face, but Willa jerked away from Lucky’s touch.
“Since you don’t want my help cleaning the paint off, there’s no need for us to be here. Shade, go ahead and call Knox. I’ll talk to him when he comes. Let’s go, kids.” Willa bustled the kids inside her house, the flaming red hand print on her cheek standing out starkly.
Lucky winced at the sound of her front door closing. Any other woman would have slammed it shut, yet the quiet sound of the door closing was a testament to the embarrassment the woman had just suffered.
“Don’t say a fucking thing,” Lucky said between clenched teeth.
Shade simply took out his phone, calling Knox and asking him to come to Jenna’s house.
“On my way,” Knox said, hanging up.
“I have to get back to the hospital.” Shade slid the phone back into his pocket. “You going to send Knox over there?” He nodded at Willa’s house where the two older girls were staring out the curtained windows.
“No, they didn’t see anything. If they had, they would have said something.”
“They didn’t do it. Whoever trashed mine and Razer’s bikes did this.”
“I figured that out too late. I let my temper get away from me when I saw that word,” Lucky confessed.
Shade could understand how it would have struck a sensitive cord in Lucky.
“I’ll stop by in a day or two to apologize, since I don’t think she wants to hear anything I have to say right now.”
“I don’t think that woman wants to ever see you again, much less hear anything you have to say.”
“I won’t be getting a cupcake from her anytime soon; that’s for sure,” Lucky agreed glumly.
“I’ve had Jenna’s pussy and Willa’s cupcakes. I know which one I would’ve chosen, but you were never the smartest brother in the club.”
Chapter 92
Lily sat on the couch, playing with John, while he worked on the laptop next to them.
“Can you watch him while I go upstairs to get changed? He spit-up on me.”
“Of course,” Shade said, closing the computer before taking John from her.#p#分页标题#e#
“It always surprises me how easily you handle him,” Lily said, rising.
“I helped with Penni,” Shade told her as she went up the steps.
Shade bent his leg, placing it on the other one then laying his son on his lap. The baby’s blue eyes stared up at him as he sucked on his fist. Everyone who saw him remarked on how much he looked like Shade but he disagreed, seeing Lily in his cheeks and eyes. The blue was gradually fading, and a purple tint was beginning to appear. His son was going to have Lily’s eyes.
Over the first two months of his son’s life, Shade had become adept at pretending around Lily that he felt all the fatherly feelings he was supposed to have. Instead, when he looked at him, he felt the same void he did with everyone except his wife. However, he had been successful at keeping everyone in the dark about Penni when she was a baby, so he saw no reason he couldn’t do the same with John.
Lily came back downstairs, going into the kitchen and beginning to fix dinner.
“I’m heading into town to go shopping with Beth tomorrow. One of our church members is ill, so we’re going to take some food and a few other things to her. It’s Cal’s mother.”
Shade opened his mouth to protest but at her next words, it snapped closed.
“She’s dying, so I’m going,” Lily stated in a tone of voice which said she was going whether he wanted her to or not. “Besides, Razer’s going with us, so we’ll be perfectly safe.”
“You could have said that from the beginning.”
“I could have, but then I wouldn’t have seen that look on your face,” Lily teased.
Shade smiled wryly. Lily had become adept at teasing him. Motherhood suited her, giving her a confidence he had never seen in her before.
She had also become even closer to Rachel, the two spending large amounts of time together since Rachel had moved into the clubhouse while Cash remodeled their fishing cabin into a home for the two of them.
Lily had even gone to Mag’s house a couple of times. He had dropped her and John off then returned to pick them up when she called. No one would be crazy enough to attack Lily at that old bitch’s house.
No trace had been found of Brooke, and her family hadn’t given Evie any information they could use. To top it off, Pastor Merrick seemed unworried by his wife’s absence when Knox had questioned him several times.