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Fuck what Randy offered, I’ll handcuff her to my bed until she realizes she can’t live without me and our daughter.
Fucking stupid depression, we’ll kick its ass together, I’ll make sure of it, and I’ll spend the rest of my life ensuring she knows how sorry I am for not fighting for us sooner.
An hour and a half later, I pull up against the curb of her dad's house, Randy waiting on the porch already, and I swallow hard.
I want her with me, but I know she needs this.
She spent the rest of the drive in her head while she traced the tattoos on my hand that was on her thigh the whole time.
“I’m going to give you full custody,” she whispers as her dad opens my trunk and grabs her bag.
“Lake–”
She cuts me off and whispers, “I drank heavily, I cut knowing the danger I was putting her in, she deserves more than me.”
My heart fucking tears open at her words, and I ask, “And what about me?” needing to know as her hand goes to the handle.
“You deserve more as well,” she chokes before climbing out, and I look forward, breathing heavily.
She’s putting all the blame on herself when she shouldn’t.
“I’ll meet you inside, pumpkin,” I hear Randy say before he opens my door and crouches down. “Son?” he questions and I mutter, “She thinks me and our daughter deserve more than her.”
“Fuck,” he curses.
I look at him and demand, “I need you to talk to her, Randy, this isn’t just about her depression, this is about her guilt with not only cutting while pregnant, but sleeping with someone else. She didn’t say it, but she wouldn’t look me in the eye. She won’t listen to me, but she will to you, please.”
“I’ll speak to her, son,” he promises and clutches my shoulder, stating, “Drive safely,” and I nod as he closes my door.
I look at her house to see her looking out the window at me, and I nod. All the shit that was said, the feeling of her being a patch chaser over the months, none of it matters.
She’s my heart, and I won’t allow her to give up on us, on me.
With that thought in mind, I put my car into gear and drive off, heading to the clubhouse, trying to come up with a plan.
If she gives up on me, on our daughter, she’ll regret it and go down a dark path, and I won’t have that.
***
I sigh as I walk back into the clubhouse ten minutes later, the common room full, and Cannon shouts, “Yo Viper, where in the fuck have you been, brother? You missed church.”
I look up to see everyone looking at me before I lock eyes with Blade, and he tilts his head, and I know he’s got my back, and I know it is time to tell everyone the truth about Lake.
I side-eye Cherri before I announce, “I just got back from dropping Lake off at her dad's after she’s just spent four weeks at Graves Medical Facility, which is where I’ve been going every week.”
My dad stands with shock while everyone quiets, not knowing what to say, though I do hear Cherri whisper, “Fucking bitch is trying to trap a brother by faking suicide, seriously, using his mama’s attempt to get his dad?”
I grit my teeth and send her a harsh glare for comparing my girl with that woman, making her flinch. The other clubwhores to look away before I address the brothers and admit, “For years she’s been called a whore, a patch chaser, way before she was even born all because of who she was born from and well, she couldn’t handle it. She started cutting three months ago and four weeks ago, after Cherri,” I glare at the bitch, “said some shit at the wedding, she cut too deep. I found her in the shower,drenched in her own blood, just managing to get to her in time before her,” I take a deep breath, “and our daughter could die.”
I look around the room at the shocked faces, and I threaten, “If I hear one comment about her trying to trap me like that bitch then I fucking promise, brother or not, I will slice your throat.”
“With all due respect, Viper,” Dirty pipes up, “How do you know she didn’t trap you?”
I raise a brow as Blade cuts in, “How about the fact she didn’t tell him she was pregnant?”
Dirty winces and mutters, “Alright, that would definitely prove it. Normally, they show up with the stick.”
Brothers nod in agreement, and I sigh and say, “She’s been trying to put the baby up for adoption behind my back.”
