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We all nod. “She didn’t explain fully until today but she said that was the only place in town where she could hang out and not be the mayor’s daughter.”
The bluntness of my comment causes Theo to flinch. His chest practically deflates and he lowers his head. “I thought I could make the town a better place for her. Give her the best opportunities, not force her into hiding.”
“Talk to her about that later.” My brothers and I are jumping in the car, heading to claim our woman.
Fourteen
Aria
MammothbringsmeaCinderella seconds after I tuck myself into a booth. The bar isn’t open yet but he lives upstairs and took pity on me when I didn’t know where else to go.
“You sure you can’t add something stronger to it?” I ask.
“Not until your birthday. What have you gotten yourself into, princess?” He scoots the table over, making room to fit his huge body onto the bench seat.
I wrap my hands around the glass and close my eyes. How can I feel so intensely that I belong with my stepbrothers, yet be afraid to admit it…to Mammoth, no less?
“I’ve heard it all. Let me guess, does it have anything to do with those three guys you methere the other night? Your stepbrothers.”
I inhale, take a drink, then pour my troubles out for him. He’s been around long enough to read between the lines of my vague wording.
As I’m wrapping up, he nods, rubs his beard, and chuckles. “You’ve been hanging out at The Bottom Bar long enough, we must be rubbing off on you. I bet your dad’s livid.”
I drop my face in my hands. “This isn’t funny, and I left before Pam told him.”
“Whatever happens, whichever answer you decide to tell your brothers this morning, I’ve got your back. The whole motorcycle club has your back. Fuck what the people in town think.”
I force a weak smile.
“Good thing my birthday’s coming up. If I get fired, I’ll need a job.”
He nudges me with his elbow. “Hey, you’re gonna be fine—”
“Princess.” Vance and my other two brothers come running to me. They stop short and Vance nods at Mammoth.
“We need a word with her.”
Mammoth angles his head toward me. “You okay with that, princess?”
My nod is interrupted by Vance leaning forward, bracing his fingertips on the table. “About that. I’m the only one who’s going to call her princess from here on out.”
“Really?” Mammoth laughs heartily.
“You’ve been good to her. We appreciate that. But we can’t have other men calling our wife princess.”
I tried to sneak a sip of my drink and end up spewing it.
Mammoth leans between the guys and me and raises an eyebrow at me.
Wiping my mouth, I shake my head and shrug. “I didn’t agree to marry them. Can we have a minute, please?”
Mammoth reluctantly gives us privacy.
“Don’t say stuff like that,” I say through clenched teeth.
“We’re serious,” Klayton says. “Technically we can’t all get married, but we’ll work it out. None of us can stand the thought of losing you.”
I fill her in. “Mom told us about the picture. I don’t know why someone would do that but if SmorgasSmut is like most social media, we’re willing to keep you gone long enough for this to blow over. We know this private island where we can sneak you away for a honeymoon…if you’ll marry us. And if your neighbors are hooking up in multiples, it’s only a matter of time before their stories come out, too.”
