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Tears prick my eyes, and it’s all I can do to keep from letting them spill down my cheeks. I want to cry for my sister and what she’s been going through. I wish I’d known exactly what she was going through. I’d have sent someone after her a long time ago.
“Does anyone else know you’re pregnant?” I ask.
“Stella and the rest of us know she’s pregnant,” Isabelle answers, reaching across the table to take my sister’s hand in hers. “We told her we’d be here for her.”
So that’s why Isabelle came over here. To give my sister support as well as me. To make it easier for the both of us to understand each other.
I open my mouth to say something else but close it when Beast, my dad, and my brother all sit back down. I won’t say anything in front of any of them. Not unless she speaks up first. I don’t know if I’ll be able to keep from saying anything to Beast when we’re alone, though. With my sister pregnant, I don’t know if sending her away will be for the best. She’ll be alone, where here, she has family close by.
Either way, my sister’s pregnant, and shouldn’t be alone to take care of this child without someone to help her.
“What’s going through your head, Butterfingers?” Beasts asks me a couple of hours later.
The afternoon ended up being a good one. My family seemed to have a good time and were really laid back. I realized while eating that it was definitely always my mother who made things so tense. None of them were involved in the tension. Well, that is unless you count them being tense because of her. We were never able to be an actual family, and for the first time today, we got to do that, and it was great.
I brush a strand of my hair out of my face and meet Beast’s gaze. Honestly, I’m not sure what I’m seeing. He looks curious, yet concerned, but there’s something else, and I just can’t put my finger on it.“Why do you ask?”
Beast pulls me close, his larger body molding against mine as we sit on one of the benches. With all the children having gone either home or to their parents’ rooms to sleep, the skanks have come out of hiding. My dad and brother left, and my sisterwent back to her room. Beast and I have been enjoying the party. Some of his brothers had come over and talked with us, including me in the conversation. It feels good that they do this even if I don’t know what they’re talking about.
Now, it’s just the two of us sitting alone with a bonfire going not too far away. Only the glow of the flames lights up the night air.
“I can see it in your eyes, Bristol,” Beast murmurs, leaning in, he rubs his nose against mine. “Something’s been on your mind all day. Now, it’s time to talk to me.”
Sighing, I look away as I tell him. “My sister’s pregnant. That’s why she finally left Ronnie.”
“Fuck. Did he know she was pregnant?”
I knew this would be asked.
“She said he didn’t know, but you know men like him don’t let go without a fight. If he finds out, she’s in more trouble than ever. But also, if she goes anywhere, she’s without family to help her with this baby.”
“You don’t want to lose your sister,” Beast announces, stating it more to himself.
“Yes,” I whisper.
“I’ll talk to Reaper and the others in the morning during church. See what we can do so you don’t have to lose her ‘cause you’re right, she’d be without family, and after what she’s been through, she’s gonna need us.”
“Us?” I jerk back and stare at him in confusion.
“Yeah, us, baby. Your dad and brother, you and me. She’ll need all of us to get through this.”
My heart leaps in my chest, and I want to believe him. I really do, but I’m so confused. “We still need to have that talk, Beast.” I find myself saying.
“And we’re gonna have that as soon as we get back to the house,” Beast declares and gets to his feet, bringing me with him. “Time to go home.”
Holding my hand, Beast guides me to his bike, gets on, and waits for me to join him.
Fifteen minutes later, we pull into my driveway only to find two vehicles there, neither of them I recognize, alongside a cop’s car.
“What the hell?” I murmur to myself because I know there’s no way Beast could have heard me.
Beast parks the bike and no sooner he turns the key for it, my mother is there.
“Where have you been?” she demands.
“What are you doing here?” I snap and look past her to see not only an officer but Ronnie and Cordell standing off to the side. Both men glaring in our direction.
“I asked you first.” My mom reaches for me. “And get off that death trap. You’re embarrassing me by being on the back of some biker’s motorcycle like some whore.”
