Total pages in book: 98
Estimated words: 94921 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 475(@200wpm)___ 380(@250wpm)___ 316(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 94921 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 475(@200wpm)___ 380(@250wpm)___ 316(@300wpm)
Smokey looked at him. “This is not where we have to share feelings, is it?”
“What made Ava different? You’ve been surrounded by willing and free pussy for a long time. I couldn’t help but wonder what made Ava so different.”
“She was. It was the way she made me feel. I loved being around her, and she had the power to make me laugh, to make … everything feel so fucking good. Even after everything that happened, she was within her rights to get rid of the baby, our baby, but she didn’t. She kept it. How could I turn my back on a woman so strong, so fearless? She had every right to leave, to not look back, but she stayed. Ava is one hell of a woman, and I know how lucky I am to have her in my life.”
Hunter thought about Harlow. She didn’t get that chance but he knew Harlow would have loved their child. He didn’t know if Harlow would have allowed him into their child’s life, but he did know she would have been an amazing mother.
He finished his beer. “I’m heading out.”
“Where are you going?”
“Just for a walk,” Hunter said.
He slapped Smokey on the back and then left the clubhouse, heading out into the night.
They were close to Fort Clover, but it was still quite a distance. Rather than walking to town, which would take too fucking long, he straddled his bike and took off.
Hunter didn’t even know what he wanted to see, or if he wanted to see anything. The cold had already given way to spring, and soon summer would be approaching. Time was already ticking by.
Waiting for the Twisted Bastards MC to hit had started to piss him off. Harlow had disturbed their plans. Cadeon clearly wasn’t expecting to be caught so easily, but like Big Dick, Harlow managed to hunt. He didn’t know if she was capable of killing anyone.
Arriving in town, he saw the glow of the beauty parlor and he looked inside. Harlow was there, her head thrown back, laughing. He also spotted Hailey, and there were a couple of women inside.
He knew Ava, Raven, and Abriana missed her. She had become part of their group and because of him and Big Dick, it had all gone to hell.
“I love you.”
Her words echoed through his mind once again. Harlow had loved him and he’d known it as well. He also knew he had feelings for her, which is why he had to break it off. There was no way he was going to allow them to manifest.
It had to be sex.
For the club.
For his sanity.
But as he stood in the darkness, looking at the woman he would have given anything for, he felt his eyes prickle. She had been pregnant with his kid.
He never wanted to be a father, had never considered having children, until this very moment, and now he couldn’t think of anything but.
A little baby girl or boy.
A child to bind Harlow to him. Was that why he refused to wear a condom? Was he already trying to claim her as his own?
He didn’t know his reasoning for it, but he knew he had lost completely.
****
Several Weeks Later
“A fair,” Hailey said.
“It’s just a little bit of fun, but to be honest, it’s just one giant picnic if you look.” Harlow pointed toward the town, all gathered on a large field.
“Wow, this is incredible.”
She had been working for Hailey for quite some time now, and she had come to learn that her friend didn’t get a lot of experiences growing up. From what Hailey had told her, she had been in boarding school since she was a child, only allowed to go home for special occasions, and that changed if her parents had other obligations. She had a feeling Hailey’s parents were wealthy. They rarely called to check in, but she knew Hailey did call them, and more often than not, she got an answering machine.
She wasn’t going to say it to Hailey’s face, but her parents sounded like dicks, and she was not going to be ashamed for thinking it. She imagined a lot of people thought it about their parents. Harlow had certainly thought it about her own. They were all a bunch of dicks.
“Am I seeing this correctly?” Hailey asked. “There are rides as well?”
“Yeah, it’s why a fair is a lot of fun. There is also a small section for young children. One year there was a petting zoo, but I think a snake or a scorpion got out, I can’t remember which one, and it kind of created a mass panic. The petting zoo wasn’t allowed again.” Harlow hated reptiles and she had steered clear. Also, by the time the petting zoo came around, she had also been vegan, and just another reason to piss her mother off, which had been fun.