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We made it back to the compound just after sundown. Parking off to the side, we could hear the pounding music from outside. Chase leaned forward, leaning on the steering wheel as he took a deep breath and sighed. “You ready for this, baby? Because the second we walk in there, our love bubble is over.”
I chuckled. “Why do you look more upset about that than I do?”
“Because I am,” he smirked. “What if I get us the hell out of here and to the house before they notice? We can have the night to ourselves, then face the firing squad in the morning.”
“Are you scared of your brothers, Chase?”
“Nope,” he said, sitting up, unbuckling his seatbelt. “Just Bailey.”
Laughing loudly, I jumped from the truck, shaking my head. Rushing around the truck, Chase grabbed my hand, kissed it, and walked us towards the clubhouse.
The second we entered, I saw everyone laughing, drinking, dancing and having a merry time.
“They’re here!” Scribe shouted loudly, rushing over, quickly congratulating Chase with a manly backslap before picking me up and twirling me around.
“Put my sister down, asshole,” King growled as Scribe released me. Facing the President of the club, a man I had come to admire and look up to, I waited on bated breath for him to say anything, when he too picked me up, hugging me. “Welcome to the family, little sister.”
Looking at him, I smiled, “Thank you, King.”
“My turn, asshole,” Gunner laughed, punching King in the shoulder. And just like Scribe and King, Gunner picked me up, hugged and passed me around to every brother in the club. By the time I got back on my feet, I was dizzy.
“To Chase and Skylar!” King roared, lifting a beer in the air.
“To Chase and Skylar!” everyone shouted as the music stopped and someone whistled loudly. Looking towards the jukebox in the main room, Bailey stood on a table with a beer in her hand.
“There is a tradition in the Sons of Hell when a brother takes a wife. We celebrated that tradition with Gunner when he married Sarah and, in a few weeks, it will be King’s turn, but right now it’s Pyro’s night. While I’m not happy I couldn’t be there to witness their union, I still got a new sister. Welcome to the family, Skylar and Chase. I picked this song myself.”
“Shit,” I heard Chase curse as Bailey hip bumped the jukebox as a familiar song started playing. I didn’t understand why everyone was ribbing and catcalling Chase, but in the next instant, Chase took my hand and spun me towards the middle of the room before I came to a quick stop against his chest. “God, I hope you like dancing, baby.”
“Huh?”
I never got a response, as Chase winked, before spinning me away from him, and then back again as we laughed and danced toEarth, Wind & Fire’s,September. I’d never laughed and had so much fun in my entire life as Chase twirled, spun and passed me around to each of his brothers.
Sometime later, I was sitting at a table, catching my breath, when I leaned next to Bailey and asked as theRunawaysCherry Bomb pounded into the speakers, “Explain this tradition to me?”
Bailey grinned. “It’s something their grandfather started. Like our guys, Steele, the guys’ dad, was one of three boys. Their grandfather, Big Mike, instilled a strong family connection with his boys. That nothing was impossible if you had your family around. When his sons started getting married, he thought it would be nice that the new bride danced with the men who would be there, have their back as the marriage grew. So, when Steele’s older brother Boz married his wife, he shared the first dance with his brothers. After that, it just became a thing. King was married before but never got to partake in that tradition, which upset his dad and probably explains why the marriage didn’t last, if you ask me. Valerie was a bitch. She cheated on King during his deployment in Afghanistan. Anyway, when Gunner married Sarah, King brought the tradition back.”
“So, this is the second time Chase got the dance?”
Bailey slowly shook her head. “No. There was no dance for Chase when he married Ellie.”
Looking at Chase laughing with his brothers, I wondered why.
Chapter Twenty-Four
Skylar
“Cameron! Hurry up. We’re going to be late!” I shouted across the house for my brother, who was, as usual, dragging ass. It had been a week since I married Chase and the three of us moved into the beautiful house Chase built. Everything was perfect.
I should have known that nothing stayed perfect forever.
Placing my coffee cup in the dishwasher, I closed it and started it before grabbing my bag and the keys to the new Jeep I bought myself with the money from dad’s life insurance policy. The rest of the money, I put into a trust for Cameron. While Chase tried to tell me half of that money was mine, I just wanted the Jeep. I had a job and made good money. Cameron was still young and would need that money as he grew and whatever was left would go towards college.
Not that I believed for one second the brat would go.
Nope. It was becoming clearer every day that Cameron’s path in life was leading him towards a stint in the military and eventually becoming a brother in the Sons of Hell MC. While I knew Mom and Dad would be proud of Cameron no matter what he did, a small part of me was still hoping that my brother chose college.
“CAMERON AARON HOBBS!”
