Page 54 of Hendrix

I barked a short laugh. “Welcome to my world, dude. Make sure you wrap up warm ‘cause it’s mighty cold out here in the doghouse.”

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“This isn’t a damned freakshow,” Anna grumbled, flopping herself down on the bed. “My cervix may be stretching for childbirth as I speak, but it’s not quite the size of the Grand Canyon yet. It doesn’t warrant getting tourists.”

I looked around the full room and grinned.

Bones had come down with Freya because he was a nosy bastard and wanted to take the measure of Anna, and playing doctor was his excuse, even though Freya needed no guidance, seeing as she was a resident and had scanned about a million babies.

“Could be my grandson in there,” Dad muttered quietly from beside me. “That’s if you pull your fucking finger outta your ass and don’t fuck it up like you did last time.”

My heart took a ten-foot leap. “Shut the fuck up,” I hissed. “She’ll hear you.”

“She’s not Colonel Steve Austin, fuckwit,” he shot back. “She ain’t got the hearing of theSix Million Dollar Man.”

“Showin’ your age there, you old fart,” I rumbled, lips thinning.

“Well, what an idiotic thing to say,” he berated. “What the fuck kind of stupid twat did I raise?”

“Why are you here again?” I demanded.

He folded his arm across his chest. “I’m family.” He sniffed. “Anyway, got more rights than fuckin’ Diablo. Why’s he here?”

My SAA jerked a thumb toward Anna. “Protection,” he declared. “We’re gettin’ a baby in the club. Mini baby biker boy needs lookin’ after. I’m gettin’ in early. Plus, it’s important club business, and I need to be privy to all the important club business, bein’ SAA and all.”

“Kennedy sent me,” Breaker interjected from the corner. “She needs me to report back to the ol’ ladies.”

Anna beamed at him. “That’s so sweet of them.”

“Kitten wants a copy of the scan pic,” he reminded her.

“I’ll take it on my phone and send it to her,” Tristan assured him, moving toward Anna’s bed and taking her hand. “Farrah and the girls will love that.”

“What’s taking so long?” Blade’s voice cut in. “We blew up a whole mountain in less time than it’s taking to get this scan sorted.”

“You mean I blew up a mountain,” Breaker corrected him. “If I remember rightly, your ass sat on comms at base while I had to do an Indiana Jones impression and get the hell outta that big motherfucker in one piece while earth and rocks dropped on my goddamned head.”

“I supervised,” Blade corrected.

Breaker barked a laugh. “You sat on your ass in an air-conditioned office drinking coffee.”

“Oh my God,” Anna exclaimed. “Did you really blow up a mountain?”

“I blew up a lotta shit,” Breaker admitted. “Including the enemy.”

Anna’s eyes went huge.

A loud knock sounded on the door before it flew open, and Iceman walked in with Arizona under one arm and Fifi under the other.

“We’ve come to take a look at the wee one,” he announced. “The girls have never seen a pregnancy scan before.”

“Lord, spare me,” Anna murmured. “It’s like Grand Central Station.”

My head tipped back, and I closed my eyes. “For fuck’s sake. Everyone out!”

Silence.

My head tipped forward again, and I pointed at Dad and Bones in turn. “You two, stay. Everyone else,get the fuck out.”

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