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He unclipped his belt and mine then opened the door. I followed him out, allowing him to keep me steady. My leg had started to ache a little from being in the car, but I wasn’t about to complain about it when I saw Uncle Leo, Optimus, Blizzard, my mom, Huntsman, and Ripley all standing outside this old mechanic’s building with the most infectious smiles on their faces. There were a few other men there, ones I’d recognized from the hospital and a few I didn’t.
There were a million emotions swirling in my head.
I was excited, I was confused, I was nervous, and I was happy, but I still had no idea what was going on. All I knew was it was big, big enough that there were members from other chapters here, and my father and brother.
“What’s going on here?” I demanded, trying to be stern but unable to stop myself from smiling. “Where are we?”
“Phoenix, Arizona,” Romeo offered as he walked up beside us.
Uncle Leo looked at Ham. “You wanna tell her?”
I pulled back and looked up at him. “Tell me what?”
Ham brushed my hair back from my face, I could tell he was excited, almost fucking giddy as he spoke. “When you came back to school after Macy’s birthday, I sat down with Optimus and talked to him about how I could make this work,” he explained, licking his lips nervously. “I knew I wasn’t going to stop you from being somewhere that made you happy, but I couldn’t leave the club either. The club is my family, but you’re where my heart is, which made it fucking hell.”
I knew it was taking a lot of guts for him to explain how he was feeling in front of his brothers and my parents, and I was fighting back the urge to say “excuse me” and drag him back to Romeo’s SUV for a moment.
“The Brothers by Blood doesn’t have a chapter anywhere on the West Coast, the nearest chapter is either Texas or Montana,” he explained, his smirk growing bigger the further my mouth fell open. “There’s been talk about starting a chapter up over this way for years, so we got in touch with a couple of other clubs and Shotgun, the VP in Colorado put his hand up to run it.”
He nodded toward the group of club members standing off to the side and a man raised his arm, and by arm, I meant fucking tree trunk because holy shit. He had blond hair, looked to be closer to my dad’s age, but fitter than a lot of men younger than him. He grinned and dipped his head.
“So what you’re saying is…”
“Jesus woman, he’s telling you he’s been granted a transfer down here to help start the club,” Romeo interjected, throwing his arms in the air.
Ham reached out and punched his brother in the arm. “So?” he asked, searching my eyes as if he wasn’t sure what my reaction was going to be.
“This is gonna be it?” I asked, pointing at the old mechanic’s shop. It had a main building which was two-story, then connected was a long set of six large vehicle bays with roller doors.
It was huge, and I could most definitely see the potential…
… the potential to be our home.
A new club, where we get to build a life, and a family, and to start something incredible. Where he has his brotherhood, I have school, and we can still see family as often as we want, but without any pressures.
It was close to Huntsman, it was close to Romeo and to Phee. This was where we would get to makeourstart.
“Yeah…” Ham said, nervously watching me take it in. “This is it. It needs some renovating. A lot of fucking work actually, but—”
“It looks amazing.”
I was picked up off my feet in less than a second, giggling, as he swung me around and peppered kissed on my face and neck. He placed me back down, holding my face in his hands, searching my eyes frantically. “You’re in?”
This was a new adventure, one we were going to take together. It would probably have its ups and downs, I’d probably want to kill him at some point, and he’ll probably want to do the same to me.
“All in.”
I didn’t care where, or when, or how, or why.
With Ham, I’d always be all in.
