Page 23 of A Love So Hard

“Baby,” I sighed out and then I reached down and grasped her ass, tipping her hips just so before I slammed into her and buried myself to the hilt.

“Ah!” She cried out, and I wasn’t sure if she would want me to stop or keep going, but then her legs wrapped around my waist and the choice was taken from me as she pumped her hips, fucking me from the bottom and blowing my mind. It was only now occurring to me that my innocent Lucy was going to end up being a wild little bitch in bed.

Chapter 9

(Lucy – age 20, Double-D – age 23)

The buttery soft leather of the vest slid through my fingers as I pulled the kutte from the box in the back of the closet where I’d been storing it. Tonight she would officially be mine in every way except having that damn legal paperwork, but if I had anything to say about it, the legalities would be following in short order.

“Is that what I think it is?”

I turned to see Merc standing in the doorway to my bedroom as I grinned at him and then glanced back to the feminine leather kutte in my hands. I spun it around to show him the back. Property of Double-D was embroidered into the leather just above our club’s image of the smoking skull in a top hat sitting on all four aces from a deck of cards. Beneath that was the club’s name.

Merc sucked in a breath. “Damn man, with Tiger Lily being knocked up again, she sees that shit tonight she’s gonna go ballistic on my ass for not getting her one yet.”

“Why the hell haven’t you? She already gave you one son and has another of your spawn on the way. What’s the hold up?”

Merc shrugged. “You know how it was. Nothing more than a shotgun wedding because of who her father was when I knocked her up the first time.”

“Still,” I started to argue.

He waved me off. “I know I need to get my shit together. Hell, I thought about leaving her before I knew she was pregnant again. I wasn’t ready to settle down before. I sure as fuck didn’t want a wife at 20-years-old.” He shook his head and then swiped his hand down his face. “Fucked around a lot rebelling against that shit. Heard her talking on the phone.” He came into the room; not bothering to shut the door since no one ever came back here. “She was crying man. Asking whoever the hell was on the other end what she was supposed to do with a man who didn’t love her, a young son, and now another kid on the way.” He sat in the one chair I had in my room. The one that used to hold most of damn laundry before Lucy started coming around and cleaning up after me.

“She wanting to get rid of it?”

“Nah, she was just hysterical thinking I’d demand she do just that. Hell, it’s what I told her to do the first time.” He dropped his head into his hands then. “Now, I look at Dec and wonder what the fuck I was thinking. I love that little shit more than myself, you know?”

“That, I do know.”

“It just gutted me hearing her say those things. Probably all true to a point, but still. It made me feel like the lowest peace of shit man there is, and I don’t want to be that. I don’t want to be what your dad was to your mom.” Merc had been around in my life a long time and he knew the story of my parents. He knew them before my father died, and he saw my mom now that she was actually thriving in her life without being stuck to a man who didn’t love or respect her the way she deserved. The difference was night and day. “I don’t hate Tiger Lily. She’s a great woman, takes amazing care of our son, and she’s always there even when she knows I’m out and up to no good. I guess I see what you have going on with Lucy and it’s made me start to wonder if I would be able to have that with my wife if I gave it a real shot.”

I reached over and clapped him on the back. “You should probably try that. If it doesn’t work, think about letting her go though, man. You’re right. My mom didn’t deserve that shit, and neither does any woman. Certainly don’t want your kids growing up with a mom you’ve made miserable. You know how I felt about my dad.”

“I do. Now, I have to figure out what the fuck to do to make her believe I’m serious about us.” He flicked his hand toward the kutte I still held. “I have to compete with that shit there while I do it too.”

I laughed. “Sorry, brother. I’m not holding this back a minute more. I’m making Lucy my old lady tonight. I need that shit to be official. It’s been six months since I got her back. I almost have enough for that house I’ve had my eye on. I’m buying it for her too. No fuckin’ way am I going to risk her not knowing exactly how I feel or what I want our future to look like.”

“I admire the fuck out of you for how you’ve handled the situation. If Timeless and old Jack Carter still have any issue with you being the one to fucking step up and be that girl’s man, then they’re idiots.”

“They don’t even factor,” I responded as I put the kutte away once more. I only had to hide it for a little longer, and then I could put it on my woman along with the ring I bought to put on her finger.

“If you say so,” he grunted.

I glared back over my shoulder at him and could have sworn I caught a shadow moving just outside my door. I walked over and took a look out in the small hall that led from the kitchen to my room. No one was there, but when I entered my room I still closed the door anyway. No need for anyone to hear my plans for Lucy before I was ready to share with anyone else. I definitely didn’t need word getting back to Timeless before I was ready. He knew I was dating her. I knew he’d been watching. He had also made it obvious that he hadn’t given up his fucking daughter as an infant to see her dragged down by our club because she fell for one of its rat bastard members. The man seemed to waffle daily on whether he was happy I was with her because I treated her like the most precious thing on earth, or if he wanted us apart because I also wore the same patch he did. That was a kick in the ass because he’d failed to claim her back when the Aces High MC wore the one-percenter patch on our kuttes. He did so thinking he was protecting her, and now he was faced with not only guilt over his actions, but knowing that he got to see his daughter often and she had no clue who he was to her.

“What are you planning to do about Prez? We both know he ain’t exactly happy you’ve been dating her all this time.”

“Our club is different now than it was in his time.” I shrugged my shoulders. Sure, we still had issues with rival clubs over territory, but that was to be expected. Most of the chapters in our club were no longer in the drug business, and those that were still dealing in illegal shit – like Tallahasse – were running guns. Yeah, it came with some risk, but the last damn thing that had happened to shed violence on our chapter had been when they tried to kidnap Lucy as a baby. A club whore had been a plant, and she also worked as a nurse at the hospital. She was on another club’s payroll. The bitch tried to make off with Lucy before she was released from the hospital. Just happened to get caught because another brother and his woman were coming in the back entrance of the hospital as she was attempting to leave. The old lady part of that equation – Miss Kim – was gone now, but she had an open hatred of the nurse back then so didn’t miss that was who was trying to cart a baby out of the hospital after the birth of the prez’s kid.

I sure as fuck wouldn’t allow for a repeat of that shit. Not with her – not with any of our future kids. I also wasn’t about to let her and any future kid go the way Timeless had. Call me selfish, but the best place they could be for me to protect was by my side so I could protect them.

“So you’re giving her a kutte and a ring?” Merc questioned me. I nodded my head in response as he grinned. “Good then soon as that’s done, I need you to get on the ball and put a kid in her belly so ours can grow up together.”

“That’s the plan,” I admitted. “I wanted to do things right and wait until we made it official, but as soon as I do you better believe I’m going to get down to the family building business immediately.”

“Does she know that’s your plan?” He asked chuckling at my eagerness to start a family.

“I haven’t kept it a secret that I want a family with her. Haven’t exactly discussed a timeframe since she don’t know about the kutte and ring yet, asshole.”

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