Epilogue
Bolo
Iput a hand on Devyn’s shoulder as she tapped softly on the hospital door. She gave me a bright smile as we waited.
“Come in.”
We stepped into the room and Devyn immediately went over to the hospital bed and hugged the woman lying there. “How are you feeling?” she asked, sitting in the chair next to Ava.
“Tired, but wonderful,” Ava responded, smiling over at me and her husband.
I walked across the room and pulled Collin into a hug. “Congrats, Son.” He was twenty-eight years old and this was his first baby. He and Ava had gotten married last year and neither had wanted to wait to start having kids.
Ava didn’t have much family, and those she had, she mostly avoided. As soon as she’d joined our family we’d taken over fully as parents to her. We were thrilled to have her as a daughter-in-law. She and Collin were perfect together.
Collin had always said he wanted a large family.
He’d been the best big brother to his siblings.
He was the oldest of four boys. Life had been nothing less than feral as we raised our kids, but we wouldn’t have had it any other way.
We honestly would’ve had more, but we’d both been forty-three having our last and for Dev’s sake we stopped there.
“Want to hold her, Grandpa?”
I took in my son’s wide grin as he teased me and swore my heart was ready to burst. I had the most amazing wife, incredible sons, and now a precious granddaughter. Collin and Ava didn’t know it yet, but I was going to spoil her rotten.
I’d done my due diligence and made sure that my sons were productive members of society—mostly—and now it was my turn to give my grandkids everything they could ever want. All of our sons had gone into the military and then joined MCs. Dev always said, like father, like sons. And they really were.
Collin placed his brand new daughter into my arms and I cuddled her close. Collin’s birth had been a bit traumatic for everyone, but you’d never know by looking at him now that he’d been born a preemie. He was a monster. He was even bigger than I was.
I looked down at the baby in my arms and then smiled over at Ava.
“You sure you want to have more of his kids?” Their daughter, Molly, had been born at ten pounds and four ounces.
I doubted any subsequent babies would be much smaller.
Then again, we’d learned that you couldn’t predict what was going to happen.
“Ask me again after I’ve forgotten all this,” Ava replied with a tired grin.
Dev came over and smiled at the baby in my arms. “She’s beautiful.”
I carefully passed the baby over to my wife and watched as she spoke in a soft voice to her granddaughter. Devyn had been an incredible mother, and now she was going to be the best grandmother. I couldn’t wait for our other kids to start having babies.
We were going to end up with a bunch of children running around our house as we grew older, and I’d be forever grateful to that. I owed everything to Dev. She’d taken a chance on me and stuck with me over all these years. We’d built a great fucking life.
“I’ll teach her to ride her very first motorcycle,” I told the room.
“Pretty sure that’s my job,” Collin replied.
Narrowing my eyes, I shook my head. “Nope. That’s my tradition. Did it with you and your brothers. I’ll do it with your kids. You can buy her the first motorcycle though.”
“Gee, thanks,” he said, but he chuckled.
Wrapping an arm around Devyn’s shoulders, I smiled down at my now sleeping granddaughter. “Who knows? Maybe she’ll start her own club one day.”
Collin shook his head. “I can’t even think about all that. Not when she’s only a few hours old.”
Dev rested her head on my shoulder. “It goes faster than you can even imagine.”
She wasn’t wrong. Just yesterday I was thirty-five and sitting in this same damn hospital while I watched doctors and nurses work on keeping Collin alive. Now here we were, twenty-eight years later, as I hugged my wife close and our kid had a baby of his own.
The years had flown, but I wouldn’t trade any of them for anything. Both my, and Dev’s, parents were at their homes—they still lived in the houses the club had bought all those years ago, along with Camila’s mom—waiting to meet their great-granddaughter.
We all had houses next to each other, a huge compound all for ourselves, and even my MC brothers lived in the same neighborhood with their families. We’d basically taken over a whole neighborhood as our own.
We’d all stayed close even as our kids took over the MC, and still hung out most days.
They were all going to be excited to meet Molly.
I couldn’t believe after the way our relationship had started, Dev and I were here together now.
It’d been a life well-lived. Not that we didn’t still have plenty of years left to keep building memories.
One day at a time, we’d fallen in love. One day at a time, I was still making her glad she’d chosen to stay with me.
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