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“But wait there’s more. Good news. I’m becoming an officer.”
Now Steph was truly confused. “Finally but how?”
“I guess I was gone so long, Kingpin decided he needed me.”
Getting out of the bed, I pulled on my pants.
“You’re going to be back, right?” Steph asked as I was leaving. I assured her I would be. I’d have to tell her Eve and I were back together later. If that happened.
Rolling into Royal Road on my Harley, I stopped at the gate. I didn’t expect to be treated like a prisoner. Cricket and Gunn were both working, waiting for me. His pistol out, Gunn took me to the King. The fucker sat in his fucking throne in Royal Road but left for his office to have words with me.
He told me I’d be a Cleaner only because of Eve. Threatened to kill me if I left the chapter again. Said I was to stay over the clubhouse until Eve let me move in with her. Needless to say, I left his office in a fucking mood. I went straight to see Eve. It’s not that I didn’t want to see her but being made to put a bad spin on everything.
Stomping over to Goliath and Levi’s old place, I fumed. When I reached the door, I took my anger out on it. Eve answered. She was pregnant, alright. Part of me hadn’t believed it until I saw it with my own eyeballs. Part of me hadn’t wanted it to be true. I couldn’t face the fact that I’d put a baby in her the way I had.
My name zipped from her lips, “Adam,” she called me. She was surprised to see me.
“Didn’t your best friend tell you I was coming?” I pushed past her into the living room.
Eve shut the door and followed me in. “Kingpin?”
She knew exactly who I was talking about. I’d laugh if I didn’t want to scream.
“No. He didn’t tell me when. Just that you heard,” she said, clutching her large middle.
I stepped toward her. “Why didn’t you call me yourself? You know I hate that asshole.”
“You’ve not called me,” Eve retorted, trying to cross her arms.
“We were broken up,” I said as a way of explanation. “I’ve been on a run.”
Eve chewed her lip. Her beautiful face twitched as she tried not to cry. The girl would cry at the drop of a hat. We were ignoring the elephant in the room. Her round pregnant belly between us. So ashamed of myself, I could hardly glance down.
I asked, “How far along are you?”
“Six, seven months,” she said, rubbing her belly.
I did the math in my head.
Before I could say anything, Eve asked, “Are you still with Steph?”
Not wanting to lie, I bowed my head in defeat. “I told you before that if you would have me back, I would leave her. The offer still stands.”
Like I killed her, Eve scowled. She wasn’t at all happy I was with Steph. Her eyes narrowed, “If you wanted me, you’d leave her.”
I’d made a deal with Kingpin to come back to Eve, but I wasn’t sure we could ever be the same again. There was too much animosity. This was not how I wanted things to turn out between us. There was so much bad blood we had to overcome. Eve was no longer the innocent girl I’d fallen in love with. I scorned her, hurt her. She was so stubborn.
“Why did you even come?” Eve stammered, walking away from me.
“You’re my responsibility. You’re having my baby.”
One hand behind her, Eve lowered herself onto the couch. “I can have this baby all on my own. If no one wants me.”
“Fine, then. Do it.” I was just as stubborn.
Eve started crying. Turning my back to her, I couldn’t witness her tears. I’d been so cruel to her all because I’d done her so wrong. Just like in Columbus, when I ran from the police force. I wanted to run. I couldn’t face the agony I’d caused. But back in Ohio, I’d not been directly at fault. It had simply been what I could’ve done differently that haunted me. With Eve, I was completely to blame.
“I thought we might be able to work things out,” Eve wailed.
