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I stared at him. “How do you know?”
He pulled me to him and pressed a kiss to my head. “As far as hierarchy goes, they’re at the bottom of the food chain. Just go inside. Ease their minds. I will make sure they stay safe.”
This was not what Saxon had asked for. I had a world of baggage to deal with.
“Thank you. You shouldn’t even have to get involved. My family isn’t your problem.”
“Haisley, if it affects you, then it is my problem,” he said. “Go inside. Stop worrying. Try and enjoy the rest of the evening.”
I nodded and took a deep breath, wiping at my face to get rid of the stray tears that had broken free. “Okay,” I replied.
I’d gotten my happy for a moment. It had been brief, but I should have expected life to take it from me. Saxon wasn’t going to fall in love with me and want to keep me with this kind of crap in my life. No matter how much I wanted him, he deserved better than what he got with me.
Twenty-Four
Saxon
I stood on the front porch as the headlights came into view. I’d wanted Haisley to be asleep before I left her in the bed. She had cried until she fell asleep, and I fucking hated it. The headlights of the G-Wagon turned off, and both the driver’s door and the passenger door opened. I hadn’t known Trev was bringing anyone.
Straightening from where I’d been leaning on the railing, I walked down the steps just as the Hughes brothers walked into the light from my porch. I hadn’t asked him to bring Blaise. I’d needed advice and to blow off some steam. If I’d wanted to bring the family into it, I’d have called Levi. He would be the one who went to Blaise. Not me.
“Blaise,” I said in greeting. Then looked at Trev.
“Don’t look at me like that. He called me. He’d already heard,” Trev said.
“I was going to fill Levi in, just not tonight,” I explained to Blaise.
“He’s my brother. Fuck the chain-of-command shit,” Trev drawled.
Blaise studied me for a moment while he lit up a cigarette. “You put a gun to a Red King’s head,” he said, taking a pull from the cigarette. “That shit gets back to me fast.”
“You what?!” Trev exclaimed, grinning, then slapped me on the chest. “Fucking hell, man! Why can’t you do this shit when I’m around so I can see it?”
“Trev,” Blaise said with an annoyed look on his face.
Trev shrugged. “Oh, come on. You can’t tell me you didn’t get one ounce of joy from hearing Sax had pulled his Glock on someone.”
Blaise ignored him and kept his eyes locked on me. “Red Kings are fucking bottom-feeders. They’re mostly young thugs.” He took another pull from the cigarette.
“He—” I started but was cut off.
“I know what he said. Taser, their leader, got in contact with me. Hike is currently being dealt with for pissing off one of my men. They’re not interested in making us an enemy. Taser gets his shit from someone under my control. He knows it can be shut off with one call from me.”
I ran a hand through my hair and sighed in relief. Fuck, my chest felt somewhat lighter.
“You love her,” he said simply.
“Yeah,” I admitted without pause. I did.
“Then, this changes things,” he replied, taking another drag from the cigarette in his hand.
“You want me to call off the police protection on their trailer?” Trev asked him.
Blaise shook his head. “No. I’ve already spoken to Horn, their leader. They’re looking for a reason to lock up Taser. Red Kings have been sloppy. If they are funneling coke into the schools, I’ll shut them down myself.”
“If Silver is getting her fix from them, then their hands are in something other than coke. She wasn’t messed up on an upper,” I told him.
Blaise nodded. “Probably oxy.” He let out some smoke. “If you’re keeping her and your kid, then we have to change some things. Starting with AJ. I’ll need to go visit him, and you’ll be going with me. Let’s get through the holidays and the wedding shit. Then, we will head out.”
I rubbed the back of my neck. “How’s this going to affect Haisley?” She was my only concern.
Levi could get the fuck over it. I knew he was going to be pissed that we’d made any contact with AJ.
“I don’t know yet. That depends on AJ,” Blaise replied. “But she’ll have to choose a side. It’ll come down to her brother or us.”
I wanted to believe she’d choose me—or us. But she’d dropped me before. She could shut me out again. Take our baby with her. I nodded, unable to say anything else.
“Expect to leave a few days after Christmas,” he told me. “Let’s go,” he said, turning to Trev and heading back to the vehicle.
