Epilogue III
Bronson
Ten Years Later
I sat there in that chair, as we waited.
Waited for the news.
Lila was having her second kidney transplant.
I remembered the conversation we had when she had her first one.
The doctor had told us that she would need a new kidney at least twelve to twenty years down the line.
Lila had been hesitant, but I told her, “I’ll go to the media. And if that doesn’t work, then I’ll snatch it out of someone's body and grin as I do it.”
And that time was here...
The doctor finally walked out, and with a smile on her face, she gave us the good news.
I was so fucking proud of my woman and the friends I had.
Because none of this would have been possible without them.
Cole
I stood there as the priest finished the ceremony, and the only words I wanted to hear... “You may kiss your bride.”
I looked in Zada’s eyes and winked.
Her cheeks blushed.
Again.
Fuck me, but I lived to make that happen.
It was the cutest thing I had ever seen.
What wasn’t cute was the vivid image I still had when Zada’s dad, Dominik, my pseudo-uncle, we weren’t blood related by the way, told me that if I ever hurt her, he was going to chop my balls off. And then his wife, Talia, told me that she would take my balls and feed me to them.
I believed both of them.
And as Zada’s eyes sparkled, seeing that love for me that was written clear on her face, I knew I would never do anything that would hurt her.
As I lifted my head, I looked at my dad, then I looked at my mom.
Who had her head lying on my dad’s shoulder with tears in her eyes.
My dad might have taught me how to treat a woman, but it was my mom who showed me how a good woman should be.
Locking her eyes with mine, she smiled.
Madalyn
I growled at my husband, “I’m chopping your dick off.”
My mom snickered, “Honey, you do that, no orgasms.”
I snorted, “That’s why he has fingers and a tongue.”
She snickered.
Was that the wrong thing to share with your mother?
Yes.
But my mom was my best friend.
It had been that way ever since she had come into our lives.
An instant bond had formed, and over the years, it has done nothing but strengthen.
Lila Adams, formally known as Lila Durant, was the best mother this world has ever seen.
And I hoped and prayed from the moment I found out I was pregnant to be half the mother she is.
My husband shrugged, “I was put on this earth for her. Whatever she wants, she gets.”
I swooned, “I love you, B.”
He winked, “Nowhere near as much as I love you.”
Logan
I sat there with my back against the wall, thinking.
I could follow in my brother’s footsteps and be a football player.
I could follow in my father’s footsteps and be a fighter.
God knows I was built for it.
But... ever since I had watched the movie Pearl Harbor with my family about two weeks after they had adopted me... I knew that was what I was meant to do.
So, I pulled out my phone and called my uncle Alec.
“What’s up, shithead?” he asked.
I chuckled.
“Need a favor,” I said.
“Name it.” He said immediately.
Once I told him, he said, “Have you told your mom yet?”
I winced, thankful he couldn’t see. “Not yet.”
He snickered, “Talk to her about it first.”
And I did.
She listened.
I talked some more.
She listened some more.
Then my mom said, “If anyone dares to harm you... they will pray for Satan cause I’ll do worse.”
Bianca
I snickered as I watched old tapes of my dad in the ring.
And knew, just knew that the man I was asked out by wasn’t up to par.
Because he would be too scared to ask my dad for his permission to date me.
Another guy who didn’t measure up was checked off.
But two years later... in a bar in Clover Valley... I met him.
Snitches Get Stitches Text Thread
Melanie – Dad got served.
Granger – With what?
Melanie – Paternity Test.
Squirrel Text Thread
Logan – I’m going to be a daddy!
Cole – About time, you caught up.
Madalyn – I’m so happy for you, little bro.
Bianca – Auntie B to the rescue.
Samantha – Same!
Hudson – I’ll be your baby's alibi.
Hartley – Not without me, fuck face.
Logan – Fuck me.
Garrick
Ten Years Later
“You fucking serious?” I asked my brother.
He smirked, “Yeah. Shit, man, every time I had to watch Harlee wince in pain as she went through the birthing process and then the actual birth of our kids, this is the least I can do.”
“What if god forbid, something happened to her. You met...” Ethan started.
Carter narrowed his eyes at him, “You better not finish that sentence or I’ll make it to where Delaney has to get off with BOB’s for the rest of her life.
She’s it for me, she’s my forever. Something happens to her, I’ll make sure our kids are taken care of, then I’ll wait for the day I’m called home to be forever at her side. ”
I looked at my brother, and then I immediately thought about my woman, and realized something, realized I felt the same fucking way.
I looked up at the sky and asked, “I think they’d be proud of us.”
I saw from the corner of my eye as Carter, Ethan, and Talia did the same thing, but it was Talia who whispered, “I bet right now, Mom is wishing she could slap the ever-loving shit out of Ethan for thinking for a second that you would ever want to be with someone who isn’t Harlee.”
I snickered.
Which then turned to all of us chuckling.
It was in that moment that the air shifted.
Their voices started to trickle in, and I knew that our loved ones were on their way to us.
Harlee, Tatum, my life, Delaney, and Dominick.
The four people who make us whole.
My woman wrapped her arms around me and buried her face into my back, and when I heard her snicker, I asked, “Fuck me. What happened now?”
She giggled, which caused the other women who were wrapped around their men, and for Dominick to sigh.
Lila is probably going to kill Bronson.
She told him after their seventh kid that she was done. She got on birth control... well... Bronson wasn’t done, and he may have swapped out her birth control pills for sugar pills.
All at once, my siblings and I locked eyes, and then laughter filled the night air.
As we collectively heard Lila shout, “You make an appointment to get snipped or so help me god I will have your bike painted pink.”
We all froze as we heard Bronson mutter, “Fuck me.”
Laughter once again filled the night air.
And Bronson did... after Lila gave birth to their last child. A daughter named Melinda.
The End.
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