Page 14 of A Twist of Fate

“You crossed a big fucking line tonight, bitch! Get the fuck out of here while you’re still breathing!”

She huffed out a laugh and then slowly stood to her full height. She cocked her hip out and had the nerve to blow him a kiss before she turned to walk away. “We’ll see,” she told us as she walked off, confidence oozed from her pours. She was not concerned in the least about Toby’s threats, and that worried the hell out of me.

Toby leaned in and kissed the top of my head. Despite the gesture and the fact that it was meant to calm me I could feel his body shaking against mine with the pent up fury he wanted to unleash. Normally, I wouldn’t condone violence against women, but she wasn’t someone I wanted to be lumped in a box with either.

“I’m not the usually suspect to offer this up, but I will smash those kneecaps of hers. Just give me the okay. You don’t have to get your hands dirty, and I’ll enjoy doing it,” I told Toby. It helped break the tension because he chuckled slightly before placing my helmet on my head and making sure the chin strap was secure.

“Babe, as hot as that offer was coming from you, I need you to not worry about that fucking cunt. I’ll handle her ass with the club later.”

“No handling of her ass, honey,” I teased. “You just get rid of her.”

“You knew what I meant,” he laughed as he said it and the best I could hope for. He had stopped shaking and I knew he’d deal with the problem. Unfortunately, the club didn’t want to handle her and for a while that put Toby and I in a rocky place until he told me everything about what his mom and dad had gone through because of the whores in the club. I knew in abstract before, but hearing how they all lost so much time as a result gutted me. It also made me realize that Toby was a victim in all of this, and he was doing his best to handle an impossible situation.

Three months later

“I saw her again outside of the studio,” I told Toby.

“What the fuck? Did you get a picture this time?”

I shook my head. “It was too dark. She wasn’t in her car. The bitch was just standing there watching. Someone needs to do something about her.”

“I know, babe. I really thought her obsession would have run its course by now. I’ll talk to the guys and get her out of there. Hopefully, without them propping up her living situation, she’ll move on somewhere else.”

I shivered. “Toby, I’m not sure that will be enough. This is crazy. She’s been following us for months, and now I’m really worried she might try to hurt me, and it’s not just me anymore.”

His head snapped back at that, attention on high alert. “What do you mean by that? Is she harassing Ever now too?”

“No,” I told him as my hands moved down toward my belly. His eyes followed the movement and before I could say anything else, he was on me. Toby lifted me off my feet and spun me around.

“Are you serious? Did that mean what I thought it did?” I just wrapped my arms around him and squeezed him harder. “Holy shit! I’m going to be a dad? You’re gonna be the best momma a kid could have. I hope you know that. You just made me the happiest fuckin’ man alive!”

“Wow! I wasn’t sure what to expect,” I admitted as he put me back on my feet.

“I love you, babe. I love you more than life. How could you expect anything else?”

“Well, we’re still hiding the fact that we’re together, so…”

“That ends. Ever’s feelings aren’t greater than the family I’m building. Hell,” he started to say as he ran his hands up and down my arms. “I’ve been wanting to properly introduce you to the family for a while now anyway.”

My brows pulled together in question. “What’s been stopping you then?”

He chuckled before pulling me into his body. “Honestly?”

“Always,” I whispered into his chest.

“Selfishness. I didn’t want to have to share you with them. I know my mom, she’ll be happier than a debutante with a crown on her head to meet the woman who was making an honest man out of her son.” I had to laugh at that description. “Ever, once she gets over the initial shock, will love that you’re in my life and then she’ll want more time with you too. Then there’s Anna. She’s always been in her own head and daydreams, but knowing that I plan on marrying someone will have her jumping headfirst into wedding planner mode, if I know her. That will obviously take up some of your time too. All of it means less time with me.” He poked his fat bottom lip out and pouted about the potential for lost time together, but my mind was still stuck back on ‘marrying someone’.

“You plan to marry me?”

He laughed again before he chucked my chin with his finger. “I planned on asking eventually. I was trying to give you time to fall so deeply in love with me that you wouldn’t have any choice but to say yes.”

The vision of him before me blurred as tears pooled in my eyes. “I’m already there, Toby. You are the love of my life, and there is no doubt in my heart about that.”

“That’s good to know, babe, because I feel the same damn way, and now we’re going to have to get a wedding date set quick, because I want you to be Mrs. Brothers before our baby is born.”

“You’re forgetting a step,” I informed him as I grinned in his general direction. He was still a bit blurry standing before me.

“What’s that?”

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