Page 25 of Slayin Villain
But I did register, I’d been coming in her, not thinking.I realized that it was stupid of me, too.Because Ember wasn’t a club girl who was fucking all my brothers, a sweetbutt who’d be careful.
Afterward, I laid beside her, chest heaving, trying to catch my breath.
She curled into me without a word.No smirk.No smugness.Just soft, steady breaths and fingers tracing circles on my ribs.
I should’ve left.Should’ve pulled away.
Instead, I said, “I fucked up.”
She looked up.“With Rachel?”
I nodded.
“She loves you.”
I didn’t answer.
“You love her?”
Silence.
Then I whispered, “I don’t know how to love anyone right.”
She didn’t say anything.
She didn’t have to.
Later, after she fell asleep, I got up and grabbed my cut.
I passed the nightstand on the way out.
Paused.
Opened the drawer she’d shut in a panic.
And there it was.
A pregnancy test.
Positive.
I stared at it for a long time.
My chest didn’t tighten.It detonated.
Chapter 10
Rachel
Pregnancy made everything louder.
The rumble of bikes on the road.The thud of my heart in my ears.The silence from Villain's phone.All of it pulsed through me like warning bells I couldn’t shut off.
It had been weeks since I saw him with Ember with my own eyes.Weeks since I threw up in my bathroom, held that positive test in my hand again, and felt the floor fall out from under me.
Now I sat at Royal Road, tucked into the back booth with Connie, an Ol’ Lady who’d seen more blood, betrayal, and biker bullshit than any woman should in two lifetimes.She wore her hair high and her heels higher, lips painted the same red every damn day since 1996.
She took one look at me and said, “You look like hell, sugar.”
