“Who…?” Jenna stared at the bike sitting in her driveway then at the children standing near. “You fucking brats. You need to have the—”

“Shut up, Jenna!” Lucky interrupted. “They didn’t do it.”

“Then who?” Her eyes went to Willa. “You jealous bitch.” Her hand flew out, smacking Willa across the face before Lucky or Shade could stop her.

Willa cried out, her hand going to her cheek.

Lucky grabbed Jenna back while Shade stepped forward, fury storming through his body.

“Go to work, Jenna. I’ll deal with you later,” Lucky said harshly.

Jenna paled. Nodding her head, she went to her car and got inside, but not without shooting a retributive look toward Willa as she drove away.

“If she touches Willa again, we’re going to have a problem,” Shade warned. “She’s a friend of Lily’s.”

“I’ll talk to her tonight,” Lucky said, reaching out to pry Willa’s hand away from her face, but Willa jerked away from Lucky’s touch.

“Since you don’t want my help cleaning the paint off, there’s no need for us to be here. Shade, go ahead and call Knox. I’ll talk to him when he comes. Let’s go, kids.” Willa bustled the kids inside her house, the flaming red hand print on her cheek standing out starkly.

Lucky winced at the sound of her front door closing. Any other woman would have slammed it shut, yet the quiet sound of the door closing was a testament to the embarrassment the woman had just suffered.

“Don’t say a fucking thing,” Lucky said between clenched teeth.

Shade simply took out his phone, calling Knox and asking him to come to Jenna’s house.

“On my way,” Knox said, hanging up.

“I have to get back to the hospital.” Shade slid the phone back into his pocket. “You going to send Knox over there?” He nodded at Willa’s house where the two older girls were staring out the curtained windows.

“No, they didn’t see anything. If they had, they would have said something.”

“They didn’t do it. Whoever trashed mine and Razer’s bikes did this.”

“I figured that out too late. I let my temper get away from me when I saw that word,” Lucky confessed.

Shade could understand how it would have struck a sensitive cord in Lucky.

“I’ll stop by in a day or two to apologize, since I don’t think she wants to hear anything I have to say right now.”

“I don’t think that woman wants to ever see you again, much less hear anything you have to say.”

“I won’t be getting a cupcake from her anytime soon; that’s for sure,” Lucky agreed glumly.

“I’ve had Jenna’s pussy and Willa’s cupcakes. I know which one I would’ve chosen, but you were never the smartest brother in the club.”

Chapter 92

Lily sat on the couch, playing with John, while he worked on the laptop next to them.

“Can you watch him while I go upstairs to get changed? He spit-up on me.”

“Of course,” Shade said, closing the computer before taking John from her.

“It always surprises me how easily you handle him,” Lily said, rising.

“I helped with Penni,” Shade told her as she went up the steps.

Shade bent his leg, placing it on the other one then laying his son on his lap. The baby’s blue eyes stared up at him as he sucked on his fist. Everyone who saw him remarked on how much he looked like Shade but he disagreed, seeing Lily in his cheeks and eyes. The blue was gradually fading, and a purple tint was beginning to appear. His son was going to have Lily’s eyes.

Over the first two months of his son’s life, Shade had become adept at pretending around Lily that he felt all the fatherly feelings he was supposed to have. Instead, when he looked at him, he felt the same void he did with everyone except his wife. However, he had been successful at keeping everyone in the dark about Penni when she was a baby, so he saw no reason he couldn’t do the same with John.

Lily came back downstairs, going into the kitchen and beginning to fix dinner.

“I’m heading into town to go shopping with Beth tomorrow. One of our church members is ill, so we’re going to take some food and a few other things to her. It’s Cal’s mother.”

Shade opened his mouth to protest but at her next words, it snapped closed.

“She’s dying, so I’m going,” Lily stated in a tone of voice which said she was going whether he wanted her to or not. “Besides, Razer’s going with us, so we’ll be perfectly safe.”

“You could have said that from the beginning.”

“I could have, but then I wouldn’t have seen that look on your face,” Lily teased.

Shade smiled wryly. Lily had become adept at teasing him. Motherhood suited her, giving her a confidence he had never seen in her before.

She had also become even closer to Rachel, the two spending large amounts of time together since Rachel had moved into the clubhouse while Cash remodeled their fishing cabin into a home for the two of them.

Lily had even gone to Mag’s house a couple of times. He had dropped her and John off then returned to pick them up when she called. No one would be crazy enough to attack Lily at that old bitch’s house.

No trace had been found of Brooke, and her family hadn’t given Evie any information they could use. To top it off, Pastor Merrick seemed unworried by his wife’s absence when Knox had questioned him several times.

“That fucker gives me the creeps. I don’t care if he’s a pastor or not,” Knox had told him.

“He’s not concerned she’s missing?” Shade had asked sharply.

Knox had shaken his head. “Said she goes on trips with her friends. Seems to think she’s laying on a beach somewhere, that the kid is with the grandmother. We’re checking it out. I’ve never seen a man deluding himself to the extent he is.”

“That’s why Brooke picked him; he’s easily fooled and believes every word out of her lying mouth.”

“If she goes for that type, why is she so hung up on you?” Knox had joked. Shade hadn’t thought it funny then, and he didn’t now. He should have taken care of Brooke after Evie’s attack.

John wiggled in the bassinet as they ate a quiet dinner. After they had loaded the dishwasher, Shade packed him upstairs and played with him on the bed as Lily showered.

She blow-dried her hair before lying down next to him on the bed. Then she lowered her gown and picked John up. He rooted for a brief second before latching on to his mother’s nipple.

Shade laughed at Lily’s wince, rising off the bed. “I’m going to take my shower,” he said.

Going to the bathroom, he stepped into the shower and turned the water on cold. He hadn’t touched Lily since before she had delivered the baby; as a result, his cock was nearly bursting after watching her nurse their child. The doctor had given them the go-ahead to have sex again, but Shade felt Lily wasn’t ready.

Neither of them had brought up the details she had found out about him; therefore, Shade felt he should let Lily take the lead. She deserved to have time to think things through before they came back to the level of intimacy they’d had before. It couldn’t have been easy finding out you were married to a monster the same day you gave birth to his child.