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“Might want to tell her that it’s imperative not to fill Ash in on their kinship,” I reminded him.
“I will. Not that Ash is home all that much to interact with her anyway.”
“Still, Nova might hate me right now, but I’ll do anything to keep her safe, and that includes killing your good for nothing wife if she steps a toe out of line and points fingers at my sweetness.”
Kip narrowed his eyes on me. “If only you were this protective ofyoursweetness months ago,” he taunted.
“Fuck you,” I called back before I stood and left the office. I’d had enough guilt dropped in my lap for how I treated Nova. It was time I started working toward building her trust again because giving up on us wasn’t part of my plan. She was the only woman I ever imagined having my children, and there was no way I was giving her up, or the dream of them. My fuck up wasn’t bigger than my dream of the family we were supposed to have.
Chapter 40
Nova
It was weird being back on campus, especially after everything that happened. The feeling that I was a completely different person continually plagued me. I once knew what direction I wanted my life to go, and over the past couple months, I’d done nothing but question if that was still true. It felt like there was a vital part of me that was missing, and I wasn’t sure I could ever get that back.
I missed the family that had been created for me when the Savage Vipers rescued me from the short life I was doomed to have. There was also the fact that my own biological father was the man responsible for my continued torment and worry.
And Kip came by to drop the news that Malcolm Larson – I refused to think of him as my father – had at least one other child in this world, and we already knew she hated me. Kip’s wife, Ashlynn, was my half-sister. That also made his son my nephew. Out of all that news, the last bit was the part I cherished. I hadn’t seen my little buddy yet, but Kip did ask if I would come back to work for him and take care of his son.
That was one of the questions in life that I struggled with. If I accepted his offer, that would put me back in a position of dealing with a club and people that I no longer trusted. It would mean that I’d eventually have to be confronted withhimand I wasn’t sure my heart could take it. The money was no longer a big enough draw for me to overlook those things, but the fact that Knoxville was my nephew most certainly was.
“Are you Nova Williamson?”
I glanced up, from where I’d been lost in thought while sitting at a random picnic table on campus, to see a young guy who didn’t quite fit the picture of university student. “Why?”
He grinned. “Yeah, you’re her. Look, I have this delivery for you. I’m just going to sit it down right here and you can wait until I’m gone to look inside. There’s a note that explains everything, so make sure you open the bag and read it before you toss it.” He chuckled, obviously knowing that was exactly what I’d do with a gift from a stranger.
The boy backed up and spun around before he strutted halfway to the parking lot and got sidetracked by a couple of sorority girls who didn’t mind giggling over his tattoos and easy grin. I’d bet money that the Harley parked over there belonged to him, too. Which meant that the gifted bag sitting in front of me was either from Mal’s MC – which I doubted considering how friendly the delivery guy had been, or it was from someone in the Savage Vipers.
On the off chance that it was from the latter, I decided to open it, in case it was Kip trying to entice me to come nanny for Knoxville again. When I pulled the bag open, it was obvious that it contained lunch, but I ignored the food and pulled the letter out.
Nova,
Sorry for assuming you needed to take our sex life slow when you didn’t. You better eat up. You’re going to need your energy when I win you back.
XO,
Breakneck
He could not be serious! I stood up and stomped over to the trashcan and tossed both the bag and the letter into the garbage, then I stomped over to where the idiot delivery boy still stood with the girls I tried to steer clear of around campus. His eyes bugged out in that way smart men get when they see an angry woman headed their way.
He threw his hands up in the air, “Don’t kill the messenger!”
“You tell that stupid, senseless, infuriating rat bastard who thought he could win me back with a bagged lunch delivered by a fucking prospect that had a note basically alluding to his fucked-up reason for cheating on me that it didn’t work. He can continue to fuck right off with Scout and the club whores because I never want to see him again in this lifetime.” I turned to stomp away after my angry, rambling outburst, but then stopped again. “And make sure you get that just right and don’t sugarcoat it for him.”
“Yeah, okay.”
“Holy crap! Did that just happen?” One of the girls asked as the others giggled at my expense.
To think I’d been questioning whether I could work for Kip again. The answer was no. As much as I would love to spend that much time with my nephew, especially now that I knew he was family to me too, there was no way to separate being his nanny from Kip’s life with the club, and that meant having Breakneck pull stupid stunts like this. I pulled my phone out of my pocket and dialed Kip.
“Hello?” He answered questioningly. I realized that he wouldn’t have me show up as a contact because this was the new phone Jeremy had purchased for me.
“It’s Nova,” I growled.
“Is something wrong? What happened?”
“I’m going to have to politely decline your offer to work for you.”
