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“For us, yeah, but you? No. You’ll be out there alone and fuckin’ defenceless. Ain’t doing it.”
“Prez—”
“It ain’t up for negotiation, Rage. You both stay.”
I glance at Blackjack, who shifts his shoulders. “Don’t look at me, kid. I’m on his side.”
“Okay, so we stay, but Skye’s gonna need things, at some point a hospital, unless any of you know how to deliver a baby.”
I don’t know the first fucking thing about childbirth, and I’m not looking to play midwife with my own kid. Skye needs to be around professionals who can bring our child safely into this world.
“Yeah, but that’s not a problem for now. We have a doctor who can do visits here for the time being.”
I shake my head. “Not that fuckin’ prick. He ain’t getting near Skye again.”
Howler’s brows draw together. “You don’t like the guy touching your girl?”
Your girl… yeah, she is mine, but that’s not the problem I have with that fuck.
“I have a problem with him trying to convince Skye to leave with him.”
“What the fuck?”
“He said he had a duty of care to his patient and he was worried about her.”
A look passes between the two men, and I don’t know what it means, but I’m hoping it prevents that fucker from getting near Skye again.
“I’ll deal with it,” Howler assures me.
“She needs out of that room too. I know she can’t leave the clubhouse, but she’s gonna lose her mind staring at those four walls. It’s fucking cruel to keep her locked up like this.”
Howler isn’t quick to answer, which isn’t a good sign. I trust Skye, but he has no reason to. In fairness, I have no reason to either, but I don’t think her motives for coming here were bad.
“You believe her story?”
“Yeah,” I say, “I do.”
Howler sighs, leaning forwards and interlacing his fingers on the table. “Why?”
“I’m good at reading people, Prez, and she has this innocence when it comes to the life. She ain’t a hardened criminal who’s been mentored by her father for years. She’s the girl waking up in cold sweats after killing two people. She ain’t done this before. She ain’t out there being a ruthless gang member. I don’t think she’d even know how to handle a gun or knife for that matter. Skye’s the girl who rode ponies around her million-pound estate while her dad was adding more deaths to his tally. I just… I know bad people, Howler, and she ain’t giving me that vibe. All she cares about is our kid and keeping that baby safe, even from her own family.”
I believe every word that comes out my mouth. Skye ain’t some mastermind playing double agent. She’s a scared girl who is desperate to be protected. She’s a mother who wants to be with her child. I don’t buy her being in this life in the same way as every man in this room is.
“I trust you,” Howler says, which leaves a warm feeling spreading through me. I didn’t know I’d done enough to earn that yet. “But I don’t know her, and I’ve gotta think about the women and the kids who come here.”
Disappointment floods me, and I don’t like the way it feels to have that rejection from someone I respect as much as him.
“Understandable,” I agree, keeping my voice level so I don’t let him know my true feelings.
Howler taps his fingers on the tabletop, his eyes unfocused as he mulls over the issue.
“She can use the common room and the back terrace. That’s it. And only under your supervision until we’re sure about her.”
It’s a start, but I’ll take it. Trust has to be earned, and Skye will have to do that herself. “Thanks.”
“Don’t thank me yet. You need to promise me if she tries anything, you’re gonna do your duty to the patch and take care of those under Untamed Sons protection. It comes to her or an old lady, I need to know you’re gonna take her down.”
The thought of hurting her sits in my gut like rotten food, but it’s an easy promise to give because I’m never going to need to choose. Skye ain’t in cahoots with her father.
