Chapter
Kimber
“You sure you’re ready to meet them all?” he asked.
I grinned. “Oh, yeah.”
He winked, then pressed a kiss on my forehead, then nodded, “Alright then.”
We walked hand in hand into the clubhouse.
“There’s my girl!” Merlin called out.
The woman at his side elbowed him in the gut.
I smiled as Grey led me to the bar, then I leaned over it and kissed Merlin on his cheek.
He winked, then he introduced me to the woman at his side by saying, “Baby. This woman doesn’t look like either of us, but it’s okay.”
I gasped, “I do too. We both have fabulous hair.”
The woman winked at me, then said, “Right! I pushed that thought to the universe and then voila. It was done.”
Merlin winked, then looked at Grey and teased, “Now, we gotta go have a talk. No man is just going to sweep my girl off her feet without a talk from me.”
I giggled.
Grey chuckled.
Merlin winked.
Then he introduced me to his wife, Tempie.
After we got our drinks, I gasped at the crush of bodies I hadn’t noticed as we walked into the clubhouse.
“Wow, this is crazy,” I said as Grey wrapped an arm around my middle, pulling me tight to his body as he moved us through the crowd. Ensuring that he was at my back and blocking anyone from running over me.
“Yeah, it’s like this at least once a year, at a fucking minimum.”
“Why?” I asked close to his ear so he would hear me.
“Fight night, baby girl. Fucking fight night.” He said.
Then, for some reason, everyone around us went quiet.
Hell, I swore that even the fucking music got turned down.
My head twisted to see what had brought that on, and you could have knocked me over with a feather at who I saw standing there at the doors to the clubhouse.
“What the fuck?” Grey growled.
I glared at them, then stomped through the crowd.
“Mom? Dad? What are y’all doing here?”
My mom huffed.
My father sneered.
Then my mother said, “You won’t answer our calls. How are we supposed to tell you our good news?”
I growled. “I don’t care. You both disowned me. Remember?”
Grey was at my back just then. He wrapped his arm around my waist and pulled me into his chest.
Just in time for me to have something to fall back on at my father’s words.
“You're going to have a little sister or a little brother,” my father shared with a beaming smile on his face.
I stared.
My mouth dropped open.
Grey tensed at my back.
“What?” I asked in a whisper.
Neither of them paid me any mind, but my man did.
He pressed his face into the top of my hair, and then... my back shook with his silent laughter.
And then... well, it was a chain reaction.
I burst out laughing.
They both stared at us like we had a few screws loose.
But really, they were the ones who deserved that designation.
From the corner of my eye, I watched as Merlin stalked toward us.
Then another man I didn’t know followed.
Then another man.
Then another.
And then one I did recognize... Nuke.
“Okay, so you told me. Now you can leave.” I shared.
My father glared at me.
Then my mother snapped, “That’s not all, missy.”
Then she said, “How you really believed us when we said that I’ll never know. We would never actually go through with something like that. Besides, you have responsibilities to your family. It’s time you do your duty.”
I shook my head, “No. This is my world. I don’t want the clean-cut life you planned for me. I want this.”
My mother scoffed, “And what is this exactly?”
I sneered at her, “I want a man who won’t cheat on me. I want a man who will insist I eat that last slice of cake. Because he knows I want it, and it keeps my ass looking fantastic for him when I bend over in front of him.”
I felt Grey’s cock so hard against the small of my back. I grinned.
“I want a family at my back who will protect me and keep me safe. Who won’t hesitate to do what needs to be done because it’s the right thing to do, and that’s the brothers at Grey’s back.”
I heard one of the brothers say, “Preach.”
“I want to be lifted up, not torn down. I want to walk into a room and see someone’s eyes heat with need and want.
But most of all... I want to be loved. And I get all of that from the man at my back.
So, if you think I would ever leave him and what he gives me just so I could perform like a trained Seal for the family who never wanted me. .. then you’re fucking delusional.”
Then, like my mother was prone to be dramatic, “Kimber, will you please stop?” My mom asked as she rubbed at her temples.
“Are you serious? No. Are you actually fucking serious?” Merlin growled.
Then, to show she was being dramatic, she stopped rubbing her temples and growled, “What?”
Merlin lifted a brow, “Your daughter is telling you things that are important to her, and you have the audacity to ignore her?”
My father stepped forward then and sneered at Merlin.
And that... ladies and gents... is when I’d had enough.
“No,” I growled in a low tone and ripped away from Grey’s hold.
Then I got toe to toe with my father and growled, “Merlin is a better man than you could ever dream of being. He’s the kind of man I wish had been my father.
He’s the kind of man who wouldn’t dare step out on his woman.
And he’s the kind of man who wouldn’t blame his child for his fuck up.
You don’t deserve to even breathe the same air that he does. ”
My mother stepped forward and glared, “How dare you?”
And then I looked at my mother, who was exasperated at me, and said, “Go fuck yourself.”
She gasped.
Then at my father, I sneered, “Get your nasty ass self out of my sight and stay gone.”
Then I looked over my shoulder at Grey and asked, “Honey, will you take out the trash?”
He winked, stepped forward, then pressed a kiss on my forehead, “With fucking pleasure.
Mentally, I pivoted on my heel and walked away for the last time.
I smirked as I watched my parents leave.
The fucking audacity of them.
Then I was wrapped in someone’s arms.
I knew it was Merlin.
He whispered into my hair, “Doll, be fucking honored to be that for you.”
I squeezed him back, “Good. So... if Grey pops the question. Want to walk me down the aisle?”
He pulled back, and then I saw it.
Tears were in the corners of his eyes, then he inhaled and swallowed, “Be fucking honored.”
I smiled up at him and waited for Grey to get back.
The moment he did, he introduced me to his brothers.
Wolf and Merlin, I had met.
Then he formally introduced me to Nuke.
He winked at me.
Then he introduced me to Saint, Xander, Grimm, Jury, Kettle, and Khal.
At the sight of Khal, I asked, “What do you use on your hair?”
Everyone burst out laughing.
He winked, “Fucking hellacious products.”
I grinned, “Care to share your wisdom?”
He winked.
I wanted his hair.
No... I wanted my hair to be as long and soft as his was. It was awesome.
Then he asked, “You mean what you said?”
I tilted my head to the side, “What?”
Saint stepped forward, then said, word for word, the words I had said to my father.
“I want a family at my back who will protect me and keep me safe. Who won’t hesitate to do what needs to be done because it’s the right thing to do, and that’s the brothers at Grey’s back.”
I swallowed, looked up at Grey, who had an emotion on his face that I hadn’t seen yet.
And I swear... it was love.
Oh. My. Stars.
Then I looked at Khal and nodded.
He looked at the guys who looked over my head at Grey.
Then they all nodded.
Grey wrapped an arm around my waist, then I felt him bury his face in my neck, and there... he whispered, “I love the fuck out of you, Kimber soon to be Adams.”
I giggled, then softly I shared, “And I love you too, Mr. Malfunction.”
He chuckled.
Then someone called his name, and he asked, “You good for a few minutes?”
Khal answered, “I got her, brother.”
Grey nodded, bent his head, and kissed me.
I followed Khal over to the bar and took a seat next to him, then he pulled out his phone and asked, “What’s your number?”
I gave it to him.
He hit some buttons, and then I felt my phone vibrate.
I lifted off my behind and pulled out my phone from my back pocket.
Then I looked at the links he sent me, and I burst out laughing.
He winked.
He had them pre-saved already.
Then, while Grey dealt with whatever he needed to, I talked to Merlin, Tempie, and Khal.
And come to find out... Khal and I... we knew what it was like to be born into a family that expected you to be something you weren’t.
I winked, then teased, “What’s shakin’ big bro?”
He snickered, “Nothin’ much lil sis.”
That was when I saw someone moving through the crowd in my direction.
I knew that pale blonde hair, because I shared it with her.
Kourt finally cleared the last man who was between her and me.
And when I got a good look at her face, I sighed.
She had a sneer there.
A sneer that was directed at me.
I sighed.
“This is my clubhouse. Get out.” Kourt demanded.
Before I could tell her to also go fuck herself, I heard it.
That deep, gravelly voice said, “Yeah, I don’t fucking think so.”
Then I crossed my arms over my chest and waited.
And like all the other times, I didn’t have to wait for long.
His presence lit my entire body up.
The heat from his chest as he curled his body around mine, and at the same time, he seemed to stand tall and firm. That did nothing but cause a tingle to shoot me straight into orbit. My panties got wet.
I whispered, “Almost drenched.”
He growled and then pinched my ass cheek.
Kourt looked up at Grey, then she tossed her hair over her shoulder, “Nuke is going to make me his ole lady. So that means I trump everyone.”
“Come again?” we all heard.
Kourt’s face went pale.
Nuke stalked forward and then got right in her space, and in a tone, even I shivered from, and took a step back into Grey’s embrace. He growled, “Wanna repeat that shit?”
“Umm.” Kourt stammered, then looked around her.
“You're done. Pack your shit, and get the fuck out,” Nuke growled.
Then he called out, “Wolf? Jury? Hamm?”