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Trick heard Stiletto’s laugh from just inside the cabin as he replied, “Your time will come. Let me talk to Jenna.”
“Hey, Unca T,” Jenna said in her high-pitched young girl voice as she beamed at him. “I got ice cweam! See!” She tried to hold the phone and her ice cream at the same time, but all Trick saw was the sky.
“Awesome. Did you get extra sprinkles?”
Her face appeared again. “Yup! Mia said you saiddoublesprinkles, so Unca Bute got ‘em.”
“That’s good. Don’t eat it too fast. You know what happens when you do.”
Jenna’s sweet little face scrunched up. “A headache.”
“Yup. Eat your ice cream, and pass the phone to Mia, Sweetie.”
“Okay! Bye!”
“Bye.”
The phone was jostled before Mia’s face was there, looking at him. She tried so hard to glare at him, but he could see the twitch at the corner of her mouth.
“Little Bug,” he said and smiled at her, “I am so sorry it took so long for our ice cream date. I promise to make it up to you.”
“Can I ride on your bike?”
Trick chuckled and took a bite of his ice cream. “Your daddy has a bike, but yes, you know you can.”
“Can we go somewhere special? Just us?”
He nodded. “I was thinking that I’d take you to a restaurant. You can wear your pretty dress. I’ll even put on a tie for you.”
“Atie!” She stared at him with wide eyes. “Bikers don’t wear ties, Uncle T. There’s like a law or something.”
He chuckled. “I’ll buy one. I’m a biker. We don’t always follow the law.”
“If I become a Claw when I get big, do I have to not follow the law?”
Trick nearly choked on the bite of ice cream he had just put in his mouth. “No.” He coughed. “No, Little Bug, that’s not what that means.”
They talked until his ice cream was gone. Then he called Stiletto over and introduced her to the rest of the kids. Once that was done, Brute told the kids to finish their ice cream before he walked a bit away from them.
“So, you’re my brother’s mate?” Brute’s face was expressionless, but Trick knew him. He was trying really hard to stay cordial, when deep down, he had a lot to say that would only piss Trick off.
“Yes,” Stiletto replied, sitting on the step behind him. She had a leg on either side of him and was looking at the phone from over his shoulder.
“You’re gonna deserve that, right?”
Trick let out a growl. “Brute.”
He felt Stiletto put her hand to his back to calm him, but he didn’t like the question, and he wasn’t about to apologize for his reaction.
“Yes, Brute. I know I have a ways to go to get you and your family to believe that, but I will.”
Brute gave a nod. “You love him?”
“With everything,” she replied.
“And I love her, too,” Trick added. “And I’m trusting that my brother will watch how he talks to my woman.”
Brute finally cracked a smile. “Got you, Bro. Miss ya. Come home soon.”
