Page 77 of Always Yours

He leans down and gives him a hug. “So sorry to pull you away from your love,” Derek says dryly making us all chuckle.

“Don’t you ever scare me like that again,” Tyson says, pulling away.

“Dad!!” Aiden shouts when he runs into the room. He pushes Tyson out of the way. Tyson falls into the wall as Aiden falls onto Derek.

“Be careful, don’t hurt him,” I tell Aiden.

“Who, Tyson or me?” Derek says with a chuckle as Tyson straightens himself up from the wall.

“Both,” I say, rolling my eyes.

“Thank fuck you’re awake. I don’t know how much longer we can keep Ella away,” Aiden says as he pulls away.

“How’s my girl doing?” Derek asks.

“She’s getting there. Everyone is home from the hospital, but I will tell you about all their injuries later. We lost unfortunately lost Armour but, thanks to him, we did not lose anyone else. We had to have him cremated, but we haven’t held a ceremony yet as we wanted to do it once the club was repaired. Everyone is working on it now,” Tyson tells him.

Derek nods his head. “I can’t wait to hear all about it.”

“Millie has been going crazy without you,” Aiden says with a laugh.

“She video calls me every day to ask if you are awake yet and when I am going to bring you home.”

“Give her a call. Let me see my little helper,” Derek says.

Aiden takes out his phone and puts the call on video before moving it to Derek’s face.

“Mr. President!!! You’re awake!” Millie cries out in excitement.

“I’ll be back in town soon,” Derek tells her with a soft smile on his face.

“I got so much to tell you! Ink woke up and forgot a lot of stuff, but then he remembered he loved Shield and now everyone is happy,” she tells him.

He looks over at me and I shrug my shoulders. I don’t know much about what happened, but I know we will be filled in soon.

“I can’t wait to hear all about it. Make sure you keep everyone in line for me, okay?” Derek tells her.

“Yes, sir,” she says and rambles on for a few minutes before Kid takes the phone away and tells her that she should let Derek sleep so he can heal faster.

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“There is something I need to take care of before we fly back home,” I tell my man a little while later.

His eyes close briefly before he opens them and looks at me. “What is it?”

“My father, mother, and Matteo. We have been taking our anger out on them, but they are still alive. We are going to rid the world of their evil before leaving so that we will never have to worry about them ever again. My brothers have taken over our family and made peace with the other families. In no time, I am confident that this city will be better than it ever has been,” I tell him.

“Give ‘em hell for me. Then come back to me. I spent too many fucking days without you,” Derek tells me.

“I know the feeling,” I say with a small chuckle.

“I’ll be back. Once this chapter of our lives is finally closed, we’ll focus on you getting better,” I say softly.

There are a couple of guards my brothers had posted outside of the door to protect Derek. I wait as our sons say goodbye to their father. We then head out to finally rid ourselves of this nightmare once and for all.

I message my brothers and let them know that we are on our way to finish them off.

We arrive at the safehouse and head downstairs.

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