Page 60 of Rage’s Rose

I look over at him and give him a curious look.

“What?”

My dad looks back at me from the door and says, “That boy does love you. I think he just realized it too late.”

I scoff, “Can we please stop talking about how much that man ‘loves’ me?” I say putting the word love in quotations. “I do not need to hear it. I don’t care if he has made himself think he loves me. I’m never going to believe it and honestly, stop. I wish that you guys would just stay on my side.”

My dad stands up and grabs Reid from my hands before walking him to his bassinet to sleep. I hadn’t even noticed that Devil had put the boy to sleep when he was holding him.

“I am always on your side, Rose. But sometimes we men are not perfect, you’ve made that clear with all your ‘I hate men’ bullshit over the past few months. But you know what, sometimes we do realize it and we know that we have to grovel to make the woman we love know that we are aware of our shortcomings.”

“Yeah, well you never messed up with mom.”

“That’s where you are wrong sweet girl. I have messed up with your mom, many times. Maybe never to an extreme of cheating, but I have done my fair share of things that made me afraid I was going to lose her. Just because you don’t remember it, doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. Now, I love you. Get some sleep. I’ll let Brynley and Abby hang out with you and I’m going to see if I can convince your brothers and mother to go to a hotel to get some sleep.”

“Okay, daddy. Thank you.”

He walks over and places a kiss on my head before he too follows behind Rage.

“What a fucking mess? Can you believe it has only been a day? I feel like I’ve lived two lifetimes with everything that has happened today.” I say looking at my two friends in the room.

“Yeah, I mean who would’ve thought today would be so crazy?”

I go to answer but there is another knock at the door and before I can say anything a head pops in. Someone I don’t recognize, but he immediately looks at Brynley.

“Can I borrow you for a minute?”

“Sure.”

I look between Brynley and this brother with wide eyes. Brynley just smirks at me as she heads out of the room. I look over at Abby.

“Who the hell was that?”

“My guess? That is probably Riot.”

“Riot? What the fuck? When the hell did we get a Riot? Also why haven’t I been informed about Brynley’s love interest?”

“It’s her business, Rose. I don’t know.”

“I swear you guys are just not fair with your love drama. I need something that is going to entertain me now that I am against men.”

Abby laughs and then looks at me, “You’re not against men and I bet you that it will be no time at all before that man works his way back into your heart. Everything I’ve heard about bikers they fuck up and they fuck up hard, but they always come back harder. I’ve already seen a lot of change in Rage. But my question is, if you find out he really didn’t sleep with those girls, would that change things for you?”

I sigh, “I don’t know, Rose. I mean in a way, yes. I would be more open to trusting him, but he said a lot of fucked up things. Can we not talk about this right now? I want to talk about who Riot is. Also I want to know the name of your mystery biker. I know you told me you weren’t ready to talk about it, but do I get a name? I mean obviously I do not know every brother in this club.” I say as I wave my hand towards the door that Brynley and Riot walked out of.

“Fine, his name is Wrecker. He’s older and honestly there is a whole bunch of drama surrounding him. That is all I’m going to say.”

“How much older?”

“He’s thirty five, okay?”

“That’s fine for now. But you know as I said before, I am always here to talk if you need to. I don’t want you to think you can’t because of my fucking drama.”

She nods her head. “Get some sleep. I’ll keep an eye on my little man for now.”

I nod and lay my head back hoping that I don’t dream of the one man I wish I didn’t love.

Chapter Twenty-Seven