Page 64 of Grumpy Sunshine

The person I’d called answered within two rings.

“Hey, Chevy.Heard you weren’t feeling well.What’s up?”Cakes asked.

“Cakes,” I drawled.“I have something you might want to come take a look at.Use my location.”

There was a long pause and then he hissed in a breath.“It’s Aella’s place.”

Over the last week that I’d started to get to know Aella, I’d had a long talk with Cakes, and he knew as well as I did that it was possible that Aella was his daughter.One that his wife had hidden from him.

Though, if I was a betting man, Trini had just as much of a part in hiding Aella’s existence from him as his ex-wife had.

I sat there and waited, slowly polishing off a bottle of water as I did, watching her squirm as she slowly came to the realization that she was well and truly fucked.

The knock came at the door, and I moved to it, making sure to keep Trini in my line of sight as I did.

She froze when Cakes walked through the door.

“Surprise, shorty!”I joked.

Goddamn, I couldn’t get those video sayings out of my head sometimes.

Cakes came in, but he didn’t shut the door.

When I looked behind him, I understood why.

Jasper, a.k.a.“Hush,” was the newest member of our MC.

He’d come from a couple of places, but the most recent place was New Orleans, Louisiana where he’d decided that being a cop wasn’t for him any longer.

The man was scarred as hell from a fire he’d been in years ago, and when we first met him, he’d confronted us for staring.

At first, we hadn’t trusted him all that much, but over time, he’d grown on us.He’d started out just being friends with Webber, having met when Jasper had applied to work for Webber at his automotive repair shop, Webb’s.

For the longest time, we’d been wary of Jasper because he didn’t say anything.

Like, not a fuckin’ thing.

That’s how he got his nickname, Hush.

But over time, as Jasper got to know the Truth Tellers, he’d started to open up.

Not a lot.

But enough that we began to trust him, despite his previous occupation as a police officer.

Now, it was like he’d always been there.

He worked with one of our other newest members with the club, Gunner ‘Jinx’ Penn at Gunner’s business, Angel Security.Though, he still helped out at Webber’s place when Webber needed the help.

I was surprised to find him with Cakes, though.

Hush tended to avoid One Love, Dallas.

I wasn’t sure why, but he didn’t want anything to do with the charity.

“Hush,” I said quietly.“What are you doing here?”

“Was meeting with Cakes.”He shrugged.

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