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“That went well, huh?”
Ace shrugged.
“Guess I should just focus on whether or not I’m going to prison for the rest of my life.”
Griff’s brows lowered. “That’s not how love works, though that is probably a good idea. I guess you’ll be borrowing the van again?”
“Huh? Why?”
Griff stared at him for a long minute. “You broke your bike again.”
“Fuck,” he muttered.
His bike, his girl, was everything to him and yet he found that losing her had nothing on losing Kody. His bike could be replaced. Kody couldn’t.
CHAPTER TWELVE
Kody
HOLDING A baby was not what he thought he’d be doing after everything that had happened. She had beautiful blue eyes that seemed to stare right into his soul even though he knew she couldn’t see very far yet. He had a hard time looking away and he told himself it wasn’t because he was missing a different pair of blue eyes. Nope. Not at all.
Yeah, no, he was definitely missing Ace. His thoughts and feelings were all over the place. Logically, he knew he shouldn’t want anything to do with Ace. He’d killed someone. He knew it’d been to protect him but if he was willing to do that, what else could he do? What else had he already done?
The Ace who’d killed to protect him and the Ace who’d become fast buddies with his father and had charmed his mother were so far apart and yet… they weren’t. Ace had been protective of him from the start. He’d thought he was kidding when he’d offered to kill Ruben, but what if he hadn’t been?
Eve started to get fussy, so he turned to Luna and said, “I think she needs her mom again.”
Luna was sitting in her hospital bed, and she grimaced at him even as she reached for Eve.
“I’m not her mother.”
He put Eve in her arms and when Luna looked up at him, he said, “You gave birth to her and you’re caring for her. I’m pretty sure that’s what a mother does.”
Luna hadn’t spoken to the cops at all, which he was sure was the only reason they’d let him in to see her. There was still a cop outside the door even though Luna hadn’t confirmed her kidnapping.
He watched as Luna brushed her fingertips across Eve’s forehead in a repeated pattern, her gaze soft.
He sat down on the bed.
“What do you mean you’re not her mother?”
He had a bad feeling about what she was about to tell him, and he tried his best to keep his expression soft to not let her see the anguish he was no doubt about to feel.
Luna kept her gaze on Eve as she said, “They implanted her. The egg.”
“Who are they?”
She did look up then, tears in her eyes.
“I don’t know,” she whispered, her voice breaking.
He didn’t know if it was because Eve felt her mom’s distress or if it was just her being an infant, but she let out a wail just then that made them both jump.
Luna shushed Eve as she rocked her, and she quickly settled down and went to sleep in her mother’s arms.
“Did they take you?” he asked.
Luna nodded. “Kids in foster care are easy targets, you know? They just take the ones that are already labeled as troublemakers. We’re just runaways to the state. No one bothers to look for us. If we hadn’t crashed…”
