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I spin around and see everyone sitting there waiting on me. Jax, Blake, Max, Brinley, London, Brody, and damn even Shannon’s face is glowing on a computer screen. Kallie, my mom, and McKinley are standing by me and I look at each of them.
“I’m suing for custody of the girls.”
The screams from my mom and Kallie nearly make me deaf. Everyon
e jumps up to congratulate me and I shake my head.
“Christ, you had me thinking the worst of things. Don’t ever do that again. This is the best news ever,” Kallie says as Jax wraps his arms around her.
“I know it is great news, but that’s not it. Sarah is going to say and do anything to keep them from me, and that includes pulling up anything that has to do with any or all of you. She’s going to fight hard and dirty. So, yes while it is amazing, I’m afraid you all will take a lot of backlash from it.”
I take a deep breath and McKinley grabs my hand. I look down at her and she smiles, mouthing, you did great. I chuckle and pull her to me, kissing her head.
“Let that bitch try something, I will drag her out of whatever bar she is sitting in and kick her ass,” Brinley says, causing us to laugh. “You think I’m kidding.”
“Braden, none of us have done anything we are ashamed of, so fuck her. We are all behind you. Now go fight for my nieces.” I look over at Kallie and she grins.
Jax looks over at Blake and says, “Well most of us have nothing to be ashamed of.” Blake flips him off and once again we laugh.
One by one they all tell me they can and will handle anything Sarah does. Why did I doubt anyone? This is my family, blood or not, I never should have expected anything less. After hugging me for a few minutes, my mom wipes her tears and tells us she has a date. After I gag, I tell her to have fun. Blake decided to order pizza and we all sit down to eat.
“Braden, I think this is amazing, man. Your girls deserve to be here,” Brody says.
“Thanks, man.”
After we all finish and the conversation finally shifts to other things, the girls excuse themselves and after they go in the house Jax slaps my arm. “You know I’m behind you one hundred percent. Those girls need to be here, and we all know it, but I’m just telling you now if Sarah hurts Kallie in any way, I’m going to let Brinley kick her ass.” The love he has for my sister makes me smile.
“You know everything London went through; I really hope that bitch doesn’t bring it up. Because like Jax, I’ll hire Brinley to kick her ass. And she better not hurt my sister,” Blake says, crossing his arms.
“Listen, I hear you guys. This is what I worry about, but if I’m honest, I think McKinley needs to be the most prepared. Sarah is not going to like the idea that I am with someone and she doesn’t know yet, but once she finds out...” I blow out a breath and run my hands through my hair. “She’s going to really make shit bad. As far as all of you guys and the girls, I’m sure she will bring up my kids being around models and the sex life you are known to have. Nothing we can’t handle, or I hope,” I say chuckling, looking at Blake and Max.
“Not like we have sex with your girls around, she has nothing. You worry too much. She’s the one who should be nervous, not you,” Max says, sipping his water.
Maybe everyone is right. Maybe I am worrying about nothing. There is nothing she can do that would be worse than what I know she did and does now.
“I think you’re right Max. I’ve kept this to myself for so long, I guess I just thought about everything that could go wrong.”
“Max is right. You just make sure you protect my sister,” Blake says.
“I promise you. I will never let anything happen to her.”
“Sounds like a guy who’s falling in love,” Jax says with a wink.
“I think it’s way too early for that, but yeah I really fucking care about her,” I say and Blake grins at me.
Just then the girls come back out, smiling. Just seeing McKinley smile like that makes me happy. It also makes me realize that as much time as we spend together, we still don’t know enough about each other. I opened up about Sarah, now I want her to open up about her past.
“So, listen to go along with the theme tonight of exciting news,” Kallie says, smiling at me. “London came to me the other day and told me she had a description of the female character from her new book, and we decided that McKinley would be a perfect fit.”
The pure excitement that is on McKinley’s face is surreal. This beautiful woman is about to explode into stardom, and she deserves it. This is her dream, and she never gave up on it, which makes this that much more special.
I get up and pull her into my arms. “Congratulations. I’m so happy for you,” I whisper in her ear and she squeezes me a bit harder.
“So Jax and Blake, we are going to do the shoot here in the pool. Blake, I promise nothing sexual with your sister, with you there,” Kallie says, and I chuckle.
“Damn right, but she’s lucky it’s Jax she’ll be with because I wouldn’t want to have to kill a fucker.” I’m glad he said it because I was thinking the same thing.
After they all discuss the shoot for a while, McKinley and I finally leave. On the way back to my place I simply reach over and take her hand, squeezing it like she’s done to me so many times lately.
