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I want my girl back. I should have been honest with Cassie all along but how I could tell her the truth of the matter? How could I tell her I couldn’t keep a woman and I don’t blame her for wanting to leave as well?
Fuck.
I feel the heavy feeling again when I hear Natalia talking to someone in the room. I know my president’s voice from anywhere and am immediately more alert. What the fuck are they talking about?
“Chase, look. We need to talk about everything,” Natalia murmurs while kissing something. I can only assume it is my son.
That’s another thing. I have a son.
“Let’s talk about how you come back right after my best lieutenant gets shot and bring his son.”
She sighs. “You need to understand I never wanted this life. I never wanted to be on the receiving end of the phone call that I would inevitably get about my man being shot. The father of my son got shot. I knew when the stick turned pink, that I would have to make a decision.”
Chase growls at her. I can tell he wants to lose his shit, and I’m proud of him for holding it together a little more than he normally would if the situation were to have been different. “You fuckin’ left knowin’ you’re pregnant?”
“Look, I’m sorry!”
I hear a chair scrape against the ground and I know he’s about to attack. I wish I could come out of this abyss to protect the woman I once thought I loved. The woman who kept my son from me all of these years. The woman who kept everything from me and just when I’m about to commit to Cassie, she blows everything up.
Getting Cassie back is going to be less than impossible.
“You listen to me. I don’t care about your reasons. You kept my boy’s son from him for all of these years and I’ll be damned if you do it any longer. You’re gonna stay here and work this out with my boy and you’re not gonna leave. You leave, I will track you down and make you come back. You can go, but he stays here.”
The abyss has pulled me back under.
Chapter Twelve
Natalia
I didn’t have the chance to tell him the whole truth and that is the fact that I’m here for more than just to sign paperwork. The attack on the clubhouse was premeditated and happened for more than just Mick getting out of prison.
You hear a lot in the hospital by sitting back and being quiet. I tried to be as nondescript as possible while they were talking about everything and every that Mick had to say. If Mick is telling the truth, he really didn’t do anything. He didn’t have a protection clause but the boys wanted to use something against them.
I hold on to the piece of knowledge I do have until it is time to share it with Dale.
“Mrs. White?”
I look up from the side of the room and see a nurse standing off to the side looking at me expectantly. “Yes?”
“Mr. White is asking for just you and not your son to come in the room. We have a daycare in the hospital you can check him into.”
I nod. I know this conversation is going to need to be had and I don’t want to have it in front of Maverick. I don’t want him to hear about all of the fucked things that have happened. I don’t want him to hear about his mother ran because she was scared all along and didn’t want to be in the situation again.
I knew what my father was capable of. I knew that my father would have killed me if he were still alive. But what these guys don’t know is, an attack on the club like this came from my dad’s club.
I have kept far away from the club and have tried to keep my head down so no one would know where I was.
I check Maverick into the daycare and give them my cellphone number in case something were to happen. After my safety net is checked in, I go back up the three flights in the elevator until I’m facing the room with my husband.
“I’m glad you’re still here,” Dale’s raspy voice cuts through me.
“I’m surprised you would want me to still be here.”
“Natalia, fuck. I had this whole speech I was gonna say to say you when I saw you again and you just fucked it all up,” he mutters.
I giggle at his attempt to lighten the mood.
“I didn’t think I would be back here.”
