Page 55 of Walking Red Flag

Shasha grinned then, showing his upper and lower teeth. “Then he’s going to die.”

I shook my head. “Find a way to do it so that your daughters don’t have to grow up without a father.”

“Daughters. Times three. One more on the way.”

I blinked.

Then I straightened out of my lean against the counter and said, “What?”

“Brecken is pregnant again. With another girl,” he said. “We found out about fifteen minutes ago. Wanted to come over and tell y’all the good news in person.”

I shrieked and threw my hands to his face, then pulled it down to mine so I could kiss him on the cheek.

“Congrats, man,” Dima said. “Looks like I came home at the perfect time.”

After I did the whole jumping and dancing thing, Shasha put his arm around my waist and guided me into the living room where Brecken was sitting with their daughters, Vivi and Rosie.

The moment I saw her, I excitedly moved to her.

She looked at me sadly, and I pulled her to her feet and said, “I can’t wait until she’s here!”

Brecken laughed and we all exchanged another round of hugs and kisses.

Vivi, too, joined in on the excitement.

“Are you excited, baby?” I asked her.

“I’m not the baby anymore,” she declared. “Haven’t been for a while. You’re going to have to find a new name for me.”

“Okay, how about…” I tapped my upper lip. “Tiny?”

She scrunched up her nose. “That’s derogatory.”

I laughed. “I’ll think of a new nickname, then. One that’s not derogatory.”

Shasha had given Vivi a word of the day calendar, and she’d used the words in daily speech relentlessly.

I loved it and hated it, because some of the words not even I knew, and I was a thirty-one-year-old woman.

After we’d all calmed down, and were sitting on the couches, Vivi declared that she was going outside to sit in the hot tub.

Her bodyguard went with her to keep an eye on her, and the three of them stared at me, studying me.

I stared back until finally I said, “Shasha, did you or Dima find out where the Truth Tellers MC clubhouse is?”

“Yeah,” he answered. “Will you take a guard with you?”

I shrugged. “I will until I get there.”

Meaning, I didn’t want one to stay.

Or come in with me.

Shasha sighed.

Dima said, “I’ll take her.”

Shasha turned to him and said, “What’s going on with you?”

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