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Beast reaches for his beer, finishes off the last of it, and sets the bottle back down with a thud. “Fast forward to whenI was sixteen. I walked in on my father and mother talking about me supposedly marrying someone. I wasn’t about that and demanded to know. That’s when they told me about all of this. Not happy, I took off for a year, refusing to talk to them or anyone else. I lived on the streets and learned to handle myself. It’s how I met Diablo. We had each other’s backs.”
“One night, I decided to just go home. I missed my family. That’s when I walked in on my mother being tagged teamed by both my grandfather and father. Not something anyone wants to see. Evidently, it was part of the deal they all made. Both father and son would share my mother. It made me sick to my stomach, and I walked away. A week later, my father found me, and the two of us went to a bar where he explained things even more to me. According to him, it’s what my mother wanted. She was in love with both men, and to free me, she had to have another kid. Not Everett, he was already born, but she had to give over a child to her cousin or face death.”
“How could her family do that?” I gasp. “Or yours, for that matter?”
“I don’t know. I didn’t ask. It was fucked up, in my opinion, and I didn’t want him to tell me anymore. I don’t know if she had the kid or not. I told my father I didn’t want anything to do with him or anyone else in the family. But to make matters worse, the old man had to tell me a few things about his side of the family. Said it’s the way of the world they walk in. See, my aunt, Cordell’s mother, her marriage was a business arrangement, and according to my father, to the outside world, she’s a beautiful woman from society, but in reality, she’s nothing more than a slave to her husband. She’s to do everything he says without so much as speaking.”
“To get away from all of this, I refuse to speak to any of them. I want nothing to do with them and cut all contact with them. My father’s only request was to always have a number to be able toreach me in case of an emergency. I allowed this, and he’s never contacted me. He hadn’t used that number until he gave it to your dad.”
My mind is whirling with all the information he’s just dropped on me, and I cock my head slightly. “So, you were on your own at seventeen?”
“More like sixteen. I might have gone back, but once I saw what I did, I left again and never returned. I preferred to leave on the streets,” he grunts. “But not long after that, Diablo and I found ourselves taken in by the Satan’s Keepers MC. It’s where we belong.”
“How did you get your road name?” Something had to happen to get it. No one gets a road name without something happening.
“The night the Satan’s Keepers MC took us in, I killed three men with my bare hands. They were enemies of the club and had just attacked one of the brothers outside of one of the establishments they were running out of at the time. Diablo and the club member said I was like a beast on a rampage. Afterward, Diablo set fire to the three men and covered any evidence that could possibly lead back to me. After that, we took the brother back to the clubhouse as he asked us to, and Reaper took us in. He just became President. We’ve been with the club ever since,” he says, watching me closely.
I sit silently, letting the weight of all that he shares sink in. Not just about his family but how he got his name. That’s something I never expected, but it also shows how much faith he puts in me. Setting my still-full wine glass on the coffee table, I crawl the small distance between the two of us and settle in his lap with my fingers wrapping around his neck.
I stare into those beautiful dark eyes of his and lean in, pressing my forehead against his for a moment before I press my lips to his. Words aren’t going to be able to do anything in thismoment. Right now, the best thing I can give him to show him my appreciation and that I’m not scared is to give him my trust. He may have already had my body, but not like this. Tonight, it’s not going to be hard and fast or just about the sex. It’s about connecting. The two of us finally getting on the same page and knowing what we have is real. We’re both cut from the same cloth in some ways. It’s why we fit so well together and make sense.
But I do think that he and his brother should talk and reconnect. That relationship was severed when it shouldn’t have been. And to hold on to him, to get him over what’s happened in the past, I’ll start with getting them close again.
CHAPTER 12
BEAST
“I’ll pick you up after work today,” I inform Bristol the moment we step onto the floor of her office building, and I have her at her desk. As much as I want to get out of here before seeing my little brother, I’m going to have to talk to him. Tell him if Ronnie or Cordell come by here, I need to know, and more importantly, if her mother stops by. I’m not going to leave her unprotected.
I’m sure Everett is competent enough to look out for Bristol. I had Scythe look into him and find out he’s not just some hotshot, but he’s a fucking cutthroat in the business. I shouldn’t be surprised. He was always a fighter and sharp-minded when we were kids.
Fuck.
In the past week, I’ve thought more of my family, more or less of Everett, than I have in the past. It makes me question whether or not my mom ever did have another kid. Growing up, I loved my parents and cherished my mother. That was until the blinders were ripped right off, and I saw them for who they really were.
“Okay,” Bristol says and moves around her U-shaped desk, eyes scanning over everything scattered around. “Everett must have worked this weekend. Swear I don’t know how he does his job with how disorganized he leaves things. He could have put everything back where they belong.”
I can’t help but smirk as she goes on grumbling and fixes the folders and papers on her desk. “You know when he’s going to be in?” Just as the question leaves my mouth, Everett’s office door opens.
“Never left,” Everett says, brushing a hand through his hair, eyes on me. “I’m surprised you’re still here.” He jerks his chin up and cocks a brow, that smug expression in place.
“Need to talk to you,” I inform him and start in his direction but halt my steps as Bristol snaps.
“About what? Everett has work to do, and you have to get to the clubhouse.”
I cock my head in her direction and stare at her. What the hell is she getting pissed about? “Gotta talk to him before I go, baby.”
“You don’t have time,” she declares, planting her hands on her hips, her eyes narrowing. “If it has anything to do with what I’m thinking, you can do your talking right here in front of me.”
Crossing my arms, I give her my full attention. “And if it’s something I need to speak privately with my brother?”
“Unless it’s something you really think I don’t need to hear, more than what you told me last night, then you don’t have anything to hide, right?”
Fuck me. Does she have to be sexy while trying to go head-to-head with me? My cock throbs, and I’m not against fucking her right here on her desk, but I’m not going to do it in front of my brother. I’m not like my father and able to do something like that, not with the woman I claim as mine. Even with the PPs atthe clubhouse, I’d take them in the shadows, never with anyone watching.
“What’s going on here?” Everett demands, his tone going fully alert.
“You have court today, you take her with you. If she’s working, she sticks with you, going where you go. No leaving her here at the office alone.”
