Chapter 13
Faith
One Month Later
You know that saying, Life will throw you curve balls when you least expect it ?
Well it definitely decided to do that for me.
After making sure Tiny and the babies would be okay, I was mentally and physically drained.
I never expected to share my story about when Alec was born, let alone share it with Chains in front of the rest of the people surrounding us.
However, he needed something to help reassure himself that the hospital staff would make sure his woman would be okay.
That his kids would be okay. So, I’d done the only thing I could think that might help.
Over the past month, the two of us had somehow formed a friendship, one in which I love.
It’s similar to what Lawson and I had which makes me feel good.
As if I had a big brother who needed me to look out for him and he’d do vice versa.
Being around him and Tiny as much as I have lately, I’ve noticed the indescribable bond Chains and Tiny share.
Beautiful as it is, the best of it is seeing them with their son and daughter they named, River and Brook.
Chains’ sister, Victoria, came down for a quick visit and gave her brother shit about the names saying this was the reason he didn’t want her to use the name River.
And not because her kid would have been joked on.
The two of them together were hilarious.
I didn’t know her that well but from what I heard of her she’s pretty badass.
Considering who she’s married to she’d have to be.
One look at Tracker and I wanted to hide in the nearest corner, he had this look in his eye that said it all, fuck with me and I’ll gut your ass.
Alex and I have grown closer than we ever were before.
I adore watching him with Alec, the two of them have such a blast doing anything and everything you can imagine together.
My favorite being sitting on the porch watching them work on Alex’s motorcycle.
Alec is enthralled with his dad’s bike as Alex points out different tools and whatnot.
Everything for the past month has been nothing short of pure happiness. Even through the hurdles. Alex and I have bickered on several occasions about things such as the bills I want to help contribute to paying along with him going out and trading my car in for a brand-new GMC Tahoe.
I swear my blood pressure went through the roof when him and I argued about him trading my car in.
I loved that car, mainly because he’d bought it for me and now it was gone.
I didn’t like not one of the things I’d kept that Alex gave me.
Lyrica was there for this argument and sided with Alex on this one stating I needed a new vehicle; however, she did voice my reasoning for being so upset.
Alex seemed to understand this and sat down with me in his arms, told me, nothing of material like a car is as sentimental as what really holds memories.
Especially a simple car. Compared to the rings he pointed out, the very ones he put on my finger when I married him, as well as he put back on my finger after taking them off the necklace I always wore, were far more important in memories than the car.
After this I relented, unable to fight against words so beautiful.
The only thing that darkened my life over the past month is the fact, we didn’t know where the lunatic went.
I ended up getting a new phone number and for the past week, I’d been receiving the same calls from an unknown number.
I haven’t answered the first one, but it freaks me out to think this lunatic might have found me again.
“ Ma fée ,” Alex murmurs as he tightens his arms around me when I climb back into the bed to snuggle close to him again, my heart racing at what I just confirmed.
It scares me because it was in the very same bathroom, I found out I’d been carrying Alec.
Now I’m carrying our second child and it terrifies me to death, Alex will tell me he doesn’t want me anymore. “Love you, ma fée.”
God, I love his sleep filled gravelly voice. “I love you too, Alex,” I whisper, turning in his arms to face him. I wrap my arms around his neck wanting to hold onto him as long as I can. “I have something to tell you.”
“What’s up, baby?” he asks, coming more alert as he leans his head back enough to meet my gaze.
“Pregnant.” Is all I could muster to fall from my lips.
Alex blinks, then does this again. I start to think he’s going to pull away from me when his lips lift as he grins. “You carrying our baby?” he asks.
I nod my head silently, pulling my bottom lip between my teeth.
“How much time we got before little man comes in here for us to take him to the zoo?” We’d decided to have a family day and take Alec off for some fun.
Lyrica was going to join us later on after she got off work from the garage the club owned.
She was working there as their receptionist. What she should be doing is helping them with restoring the older cars.
It’s one of the many things she’s really good at.
“Um, not much, fifteen maybe twenty minutes,” I murmur, tightening my arms around his neck.
“Good, it’s gonna be quick, but I gotta fuck you, baby,” he declares, sliding a hand down to cup my bare ass cheeks. “Fuckin’ love when you don’t wear anything in bed.”
I knew this. He loved having easy access to be able to sink into me in the middle of the night if he woke up. Or I did, needing him to be inside me.
“I suggest you hurry then,” I tell him, lifting a leg up over his while leaning in to kiss him.
“Don’t worry, baby, I’ll make sure you’ll be able to feel me all fuckin’ day,” Alex chuckles, rolling me to my back where he proceeds to do just that by fucking me until I come twice to his once.
We were lucky to finish right before we hear the pitter patter of Alec’s feet coming down the hall as he calls out for his daddy. It was Sunday after all, which has become beignet day for those two.
* * *
“Faith, I hate to have to leave you and Alec, but something’s come up at the clubhouse. I gotta get there, see what’s up,” Alex grumbles as he puts his phone back in his pocket.
We’d just gotten home from the zoo when his phone rang. From the sound of his voice it wasn’t good and I knew times like this would happen. When club business came up, that had to come first. I understood this and I did, didn’t mean I liked it all the time, but that’s life.
“Okay,” I nod in understanding. “I’ll see you when you get home.”
“Baby,” he murmurs, grabbing hold of my wrist and pulling me into him. “You know I don’t wanna leave you two, right?”
Nodding my head, I give him a smile. “I know you don’t. This is part of the life.”
“Fuckin’ hell, the fact you are being understanding should make me feel better. Instead I fuckin’ hate leaving you and Alec after we’ve been having a good day.” Holding me in his arms, Alex leans down to press his forehead against my own.
“We’ll continue to have a good day later when you get back. I’ll fix dinner and get everything set up for a movie tonight, I’m thinking Die Hard ,” I say, grinning at him.
“How did I get lucky enough to have you in my life? I don’t know who I gotta thank but I’ll do it every fuckin’ day for me finding you again and bringing you home where you belong.
In my bed, carrying my kid, raising our family.
” Tears begin to well in my eyes. “Telling you now, baby, this time around you’re not gonna be delivering this kid alone.
I’m with you every step of the way,” Alex rasps.
I knew him hearing what I went through would affect him.
Rather than giving him a response with words, I kiss him.
Alex deepens the kiss briefly, then removes his arms from around my body. “Tonight, I’m taking my time with you once Alec goes to sleep,” he murmurs against my lips as he breaks the kiss. “Be back, baby.” Stepping away from me, Alex moves to Alec and lifts him up for a hug then leaves.
Sighing, I walk over to where Alec was sitting and sit with him. “Alright, kiddo, how about you and I watch one episode of PJ Masks before taking a nap?”
“Yay, PJ Masks,” Alec shouts happily.
* * *
It’s been hours since Alex left to go to the clubhouse and Alec is in bed for the night. I grab my phone ready to call him when the damn thing begins to ring. Worried it’s the unknown number again, I glance down to find it’s Alex calling.
Smiling I put the phone to my ear, “Hey you, what’s taking so long? You know Bruce Willis waits for no one.”
“You’ve been dodging my calls.” The voice on the other end isn’t Alex’s and my heart feels like it’s about to jump out of my chest.
“What do you want? Where’s Alex?” I demand.
“Where he’ll be unless you do as you’re told and come to me,” he commands.
“Where?” I ask immediately. I watched my husband nearly die once. I won’t do it again. I’ll do anything to make sure he’s safe.
“Hotel on the corner of Saint Philip and Chartres Street. Go inside and grab the key card under the name of Glacier, get to the room, I’ll be waiting.” He disconnects before I can ask any further questions, such as if Alex was with him.
Pulling the phone from my ear, I immediately call Tyres, not wanting to bother Chains since he has two newborn babies.
“Yeah,” Tyres answers on the first ring.
“Tyres, it’s Faith,” I stammer.
“Got that, Faith, number’s in my phone. What’s up?” he mutters.
“I just got a call from the guy who stalked me in North Carolina,” I blurt and go on to tell him everything he told me including the part where I have to meet him at some hotel.
Chills rake my body at the thought of going to any hotel in order to meet a man I don’t know. But for Alex I’ll do anything.
“Right, we’ll handle this. I’m going to send Steel and Lynch over there to sit with you while we go get our brother,” Tyres declares.
“Whatever you do, do not fuckin’ leave that house.
Make sure all doors and windows are locked and you don’t open them.
Steel has a key and will come in announcing himself as he does so, got me? ”
“Yeah, please bring him home safely,” I murmur, trying to keep the tears at bay.
“Got it, Faith, we will bring Axel home,” Tyres states before the line goes dead.
The club will get him. They protect their own and if I were to leave the house now, I’d not only be leaving my one child alone and unprotected, I would be putting my other in danger.
I have my second chance with Alex and I’m not about to do anything to ruin it.
Meaning I’ll let the club do what they have to, to bring their brother, my husband, home.