Page 61 of The Broken Beginning: Part One

“What about the bullshit with your dad? It hasn’t been five years yet, and what’s he going to say about that when he finds out you’re pregnant again? I hate to say this, because I want nothing more than your happiness, but you might be stuck there.”

“Then I’ll get my own place here that the fucking asshole doesn’t get access to. I can’t deny him entry into this house since it was his family home, but I can damn sure get my own.”

“There you go! That’s my girl!”

I backed down the steps just as quietly as I’d gone up them. There was something I needed to do before confronting Lily about everything.

Once I got to the clubhouse, she was there waiting, just as I thought she’d be when I had Boone call and tell her to get her ass to the clubhouse because I was back in town.

“Damon!” Shaina squealed when she saw me. She did her usual run at me thing, but this time, I didn’t bother catching her when she tried to jump and instead, she sort of just bounced off me and landed on her ass. I didn’t know any pregnant women who would go jumping around like that, so it only worked to confirm my suspicions.

“Let’s go inside.” She moved to head toward the door to the clubhouse, but I caught her arm. “Nuh-uh. Around back.”

I took her to the entrance of the room we had built out of the old inground pool that once stood behind the clubhouse. When we got to the bottom, Boone and Robbie were waiting.

“What’s going on? What’s this about?”

I sat her ass in the chair where we usually put the men that we needed to extract information from. There was no need to tie her down, especially when she saw the leather straps that were there for that purpose. Fear shown brightly in her eyes.

“Do you want to explain what the fuck you’ve been up to since I’ve been gone?”

“I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

I hummed out a sound of disbelief and then leaned down in her face. “So, you didn’t pay my wife a visit while I was away?”

“I-I-Um-I went to tell her that we were together.”

“But we’re not together. I broke up with you before I left, and even if we were together, that was for me to do – not you. Never you!”

She shook her head. “Our breakup wasn’t permanent. We both knew that the day you left.”

“No, I meant every word I said that day. It sure as fuck was permanent. I remember telling you that there was nothing between us, that I loved my wife, and would do whatever it took to get her to trust me.”

“That’s not what I took away from that conversation.”

“Then you weren’t listening.”

“I love you!”

“You love me so much that you went and put my pregnant wife in distress while my son was there?” I didn’t know if Lily had been stressed by the situation, though I had a feeling it wasn’t exactly easy to get a visit like that on the same day she found out she was pregnant. It was obvious by the way the men around me stiffened, that they hadn’t been aware that Lily was pregnant again.

Shaina laughed. “Is that what she told you?” She smirked. “What a desperate bitch! She’s just telling you what I told her.”

“That you’re pregnant with my kid? That we never stopped seeing one another?”

She nodded.

“And are you?”

“Am I what?”

“Pregnant.”

“No, but I could be. I had the implants removed last month.”

“I wasn’t home last month, and I’ve never fucked you without a condom.”

She shrugged as if it made a difference.

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