Total pages in book: 41
Estimated words: 38741 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 194(@200wpm)___ 155(@250wpm)___ 129(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 38741 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 194(@200wpm)___ 155(@250wpm)___ 129(@300wpm)
I heard each of my kids cry out as they came into the world and the remaining tension left me. As
usual, I had a dilemma on my hands. They were taking our babies to NICU, but I never like leaving her while she’s in pain and out of it.
I got my mom and hers into the room and followed the nurses who were taking my kids. I let dad tell everyone about the safe births and that’s when I realized my boys were taking turns sitting in the room with Catalina.
That took a load off my shoulders because now I have to watch over the babies as well. It was a long damn night, but I never let myself come all the way down.
People left and others came but I stayed vigilant all night. I knew Law and his crew were here, accepted the well wishes from the women.
The SEALs showed up not long after Law had and though they’d browbeat their women into going back to the house, none of those boys left the hospital.
You could all but taste the nervousness in the staff. A room full of biker types with tats and bulging biceps isn’t exactly the norm for our little town.
“How you holding up buddy?” Law clapped me on
the shoulder while the others came to stand around me.
“I’m good, my girls are good, all of them. Fuck!”
I had to grab a chair when the full enormity of the past few hours finally sunk in. It felt like I hadn’t stopped going since the phone call from Kat telling me my kid was missing. That was hours ago.
That line of thought brought me full circle. “Jared, where is he?” He like me, had never left. It’s times like these that I’m reminded of the close relationship he shares with my wife.
He wasn’t looking much better than I, but when he looked around at the SEALs and Law before answering me I knew something was up.
“Uh, Mancini extracted him.”
“What? What the fuck are you talking about?”
“I don’t know Colt, I was here with you.” Lying fuck, I know when he’s lying.
“Logan, Law, Creed, you fucks look guilty as fuck.” Tyler wasn’t looking me in the face so I took that to mean they all knew what was up. “Somebody wanna tell me what’s going on?”
“It’s just like he said. Mancini took care of it.”
“How?”
“I don’t think we need to know that right now. He’s gonna call later.” I let Logan talk me down because there wasn’t much I could do about the situation now anyway.
I’d all but forgotten that I’d told my boys to take the asshole to our place. The cops were still looking for him so maybe it was a good thing he was gone since I couldn’t leave the hospital to take care of him. Still!
I put it aside for now and went back to check on my wife and kids again. Mom called to update me on my other kids who she’d taken home with her so I didn’t have to worry about them.
Cody though was a problem. He was too young to understand why mommy and daddy weren’t there. “Have him sent to me.” I could hear my kid screaming in the background.
“Well your dad’s already down there but Cy came back to get some rest. I’ll send Cody back with him then.” After that conversation I took up my place next to Kat’s bed and with her hand in mine finally allowed myself to let go.
I roused myself when dad came into the room with the bruiser who looked like he’d cried himself to sleep. I took him in my arms and held him against my chest.
“Da-da!” That sleepy proclamation were the first words my son spoke. I hadn’t cried since this shit began but hearing his sleepy little voice call my name brought tears to my eyes.
“I’m here buddy.” He made the rounds with me as I checked on my girls throughout the night until my body finally gave out and I had to sit next to Kat and get some rest.
I woke up the next morning fully rested. My wife was still out so I went to check on my daughters. Catalina was ready for release or so they said, but I checked her over myself.
She was her usual pain in the ass self and tried to con me out of some shit so I knew she was okay. I was feeling better until I walked back into Kat’s room where she was just waking up and overheard the nurse telling her about her release later that day.
“Are you out your fucking mind? She just pushed
three human beings outta her body. The fuck you mean she can leave in a few hours?”
“Sir, it’s hospital policy…”
“I give a fuck…” I stopped myself there because I know she wasn’t the one making the rules and it wouldn’t be fair to rip into her.