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“Calm down, tiger. She’s okay. I don’t know where Tenille is. Charlie said she tried to call you, but you didn’t answer, so in the end she called Bree. And Bree called me.”
She gave me all the details and told me she was on her way there, putting my mind at ease a little.
King narrowed his eyes at me. “Everything okay, brother?”
I blew out a long breath. “No. My kid’s in the hospital.”
He jerked his chin at me. “Go see her.”
“You good here?” Not that I wouldn’t go to Charlie straight away, but I needed to know where we were with the club.
He nodded. “Yeah. I’m gonna wait for Bronze to get back to me and then make plans from there. We’ll be sitting tight until then.”
Five minutes later, I was on my way to the hospital. My gut churned with worry for Charlie. I knew it was an overreaction, because a broken bone, if that’s what it was, could be fixed. But I hadn’t answered her calls, and I was pissed off at myself for putting her in a situation where neither parent was there for her.
Chapter 30
Monroe
It wasn’t often I met a woman I took an instant dislike to, but Hyde’s ex-wife was one of those women. I’d been at the hospital with Hyde for almost two hours before Tenille showed up. She hadn’t liked the fact I was there with him and had spent the half hour since glaring at me. But besides that, there was something about her that I couldn’t warm to. And it wasn’t just because she was Hyde’s ex.
Hyde was pissed at her. I could tell he was fighting like crazy not to lose his shit at her, which, full points to him, but I wouldn’t even blame him if he did.
Raking his fingers through his hair, he barked, “You left her alone when she needed you? When she was sick?”
Tenille turned her glare to him. “That doesn’t even have anything to do with Charlie’s fall,” she snapped.
His face contorted with anger. “She told you she felt sick, really fucking sick, and still, you left her alone. What was so fucking important that you had to leave her then, Tee?”
Tenille was right—this had nothing to do with Charlie’s fall, which happened because she was running to the bathroom to vomit—but I was with Hyde. What kind of mother would leave her child when she was sick with a raging temperature and had been vomiting? I wasn’t up on first aid, but even I knew that level of sickness required attention.
“That is none of your business,” Tenille threw back.
Tension coiled itself around Hyde’s body, and he took a step towards her. “I’m fucking making it my business.”
Oh Lord. He sounded like he could murder her. I felt the need to step in on her behalf, even though I agreed with everything he said.
Reaching for him, I said, “Hyde—”
Tenille’s steely gaze snapped back to me. “Take your hand off my husband.”
I lifted my brows. “Your husband?”
A smug expression filled her face. “Oh, you didn’t know? We’re still married.”
“Tenille,” Hyde warned in a low voice. “Stop trying to fuck with shit that doesn’t involve you, and answer my question.”
Her words hit their mark, leaving me confused and upset. Surely she was lying. He’d never told me they weren’t divorced.
Tenille moved closer to me. “He never told you, did he?” The woman was awful. I could practically see the venom dripping from her lips. How the hell did he marry and have a child with someone like her?
Well, she wouldn’t see me crumble. I didn’t believe in letting bullies win. “You can try and change the subject as much as you want, but the fact remains—you were a shitty mother this morning. And I think Hyde deserves an answer to his question.”
She slapped me. “Fuck you, bitch.”
My hand flew to cover my face where she’d left a sting. She was a crazy bitch.
Hyde finally lost his shit. Gripping her bicep tightly, he dragged her away from me, down the hospital hallway. She argued with him every step of the way, but he paid no attention. To think I’d tried to help her earlier when I thought he was about to explode. Good luck to her. As far as I was concerned, she deserved anything he said to her.
