ZAK SEAL Team Seven(26)

“This is how you do it.” I showed them how to hold her as they all stood around looking at me like I’d suddenly grown an extra head or some fuck.

“Okay Mr. Expert, hand her over.” I let him take her but kept an eagle eye on his ass. No one was saying anything so I had a pretty good idea what was on their minds. I folded my arms and leaned back against the counter. “If you’re here to plead her case you can all get the fuck out.” I glared first at Logan and then Connor.

“Oh yeah that’s gonna work. What say you calm the fuck down and we come at this shit like men? First off, only you and Vanessa know what went down between you two, and knowing you-you didn’t make shit easy on her back then. Whatever happened, and whoever did shit to whom, the reality is there’s a baby involved.

You two obviously still have feelings for each other since and pardon the intrusion, she’s been in your bed since she got here.” Logan as usual took point, but he wasn’t telling me shit I didn’t already know.

“We’re here to make sure you’re thinking of this thing rationally, and that you’re not gonna make any hasty decisions. Whatever her reasoning, you need to at least hear her out, that’s all we’re asking.” I waited to see if he or any of the others had anything else to say but got distracted by Ty for a hot minute; the fuck was he doing? I shook my head and ignored him as I turned back to Logan and the others.

“ I hear everything you’re saying but I don’t give two fucks what happens to her, now if that’s all the door’s that way. Ty bring my fucking daughter back here.” The idiot was heading out the door with my Zakira. Lo sighed long and hard but I was sure he knew it wasn’t gonna be that easy. They changed tact and concentrated on the baby. Six grown men making faces and talking like idiots just to get a smile out of their niece.

They passed her around, each of them holding her like a bomb that was about to detonate. Quinn came over to me, “you were calling me before what’s up?”

“I need to make a run, she needs stuff, like clothes and food and shit. I can’t leave her here because I don’t trust her fucking bitch of a mother…”



“Bro, watch what you say, don’t let your anger make you say or do something that you’ll regret later. She gave you a kid, whatever else happened or will happen; remember that. She could’ve thrown your kid away and you would’ve never known.”

“I’d fucking strangle her with my bare hands.” He had a point, but I wasn’t in the mood to hear shit.

“Congratulations by the way, she’s a beauty, my first niece. You beat Lo and Con in the baby pool.”

“Shit I did, didn’t I? Isn’t she perfect? Look at how good she’s being with her uncles.” I felt proud as fuck at the fact that my kid wasn’t a screamer, that she was studying them as much as they were studying her, that’s my kid. “Okay it’s my turn again.” Ty wrestled her away from Dev and the two of them grinned at each other. Just my luck my kid would choose him, after me of course.

“Damn bro we are so fucked, a girl? What am I supposed to do with a niece?” He looked at me the way we usually did him when he burped at Dani’s dinner table, then he turned to Logan and Con.

“You two fucks better have boys, there ain’t enough bullets in the county to deal with this shit.” He went back to cooing at the baby who was about the only one who found his ass funny, if the way she was beaming at him was any indication. I’m pretty sure he got caught in one too many mortar attacks, or some fuck from his childhood totally warped him.

“So, what’s the plan?” Logan watched me like a hawk. That fucker sees too much so I had to play it cool. The plan was to murder her bitch of a lying ass mother and bury her ass in the sand. Barring that I didn’t know what the fuck, I hadn’t thought that far ahead.

“The plan is I’m keeping my kid no matter what. Other than that I don’t know and I don’t care.” At least that much was true, and even though they may not agree with the way I did things, I knew my brothers were behind me one hundred percent. That didn’t mean they wouldn’t try to talk me out of shit, but they would back my play when the time came.

“Okay, things are changing up around here at the speed of light. We have a young girl and boy to take care of, two pregnant women, and now a baby. This, my brothers, is the hardest fucking mission we’ve ever been on. We don’t half step where security is concerned. We still have the whole weekend ahead of us so let’s get ahead of the game. Zak we need you on this so you’re gonna have to come to grips real soon brother, you can’t lug the baby around with you.”