Chapter Fifteen Rage #2
I should’ve seen this coming. Really I should have.
“Alright, Mason this is Declan. Declan this is Mason. We are going to be right outside. If you want to order your breakfasts while we are gone go ahead. Your dad and I will take care of our orders when we get back.”
They both nod their heads, so I stand up and follow Lash outside.
We barely make it out the door before he rounds on me.
“Who the hell is that? What the fuck is going on?”
“Well, that would be my son Mason. I just found out about him about three weeks ago because his mother died in a car accident.”
“His mother?”
“Scarlett Cross from high school.”
“The one who disappeared around the time Sophie found out she was pregnant?”
“That would be her. Turns out she was also pregnant. Look at us being irresponsible together.”
“This is crazy Caleb. How does no one at the club know?”
I watch him as he paces around the space in front of me.
“I don’t want anyone else to know yet. He’s been through a lot and I want to give him some time to adjust.”
He stops and looks at me.
“Rage, how the hell does no one know when you live on the compound? Also what the hell are you doing for school?”
“Well, I rented a little apartment not far from here so that we can get to know each other in a calmer setting than the clubhouse. I have a nice little old lady neighbor who watches him when I have to go to work or to the clubhouse for business. We haven’t figured out the school shit yet.
I was going to see if you thought your mama would keep this secret for me and maybe take him on for homeschooling with your kids.”
He looks at me with a look that pretty much says ‘ Are you stupid?’ .
“Yeah, how would that work? You’d have to get him on the compound to get help from my mama and do you honestly think she won’t say anything to my dad. Who if you remember is your dad’s friend. Why the hell haven’t you said anything to anyone else? What the fuck, Caleb?”
“I need fucking time Toby! A lot of shit has been happening. I’ve been having a fucking hard time! My head is all over the place! I don’t want other people in my business right now because I need time to sort my shit out!”
“I get finding out you have a kid is a lot, I mean, I’m glad I’ve never had to deal with that. Your dad has, he could be a shoulder for you.”
“I don’t want to bring my dad into this right now. I already hate the fact that history is repeating itself. I need to figure out a way to solve my other problem because I know for sure I’m not going to let my ten year old son not get the help he needs or the time he needs to figure out this new
life he’s being thrown into. Also I’m not going to be my dad. I can’t.”
“I don’t understand what is so wrong with being Devil. He was a great father to you.”
“Yeah, he was great, but he was so hell bent on pretending nothing happened to me that I never got the help I needed. I don’t fucking trust women, Toby!
I pushed away the only woman that has ever seemed to care about me despite the fact that I have all these fucking issues and never opened up to her. Now she won’t fucking talk to me and she’s pregnant with my baby. Another thing that makes me just like dear old daddy.
A knocked up woman and an older son I knew nothing about.”
Lash is standing there staring at me with his mouth wide open.
“Are you fucking kidding me? Someone else is pregnant? Is it Parker and Peyton’s friend? The one that you’ve been hooking up with for over a year?”
“Almost two, yeah. She’s pregnant. I just found out right before I found out about Mason, great timing yeah? I mean it’s not exactly dear old daddy’s situation, but pretty close. I guess it's a good thing that Rose hasn’t had the baby yet and abandoned us before I found out about Mason,
but I mean she abandoned me and took my unborn baby with her.”
“What do you mean she abandoned you?”
“Can we just not talk about all this shit right now? Our boys are in that diner there and I’d like for them to get to know each other. Mason needs a friend. I need my best friend and I need him not to say anything about any of this to anyone.”
He gives me that fucking look again.
“I cannot, not tell Sophie. You also realize if you want Mason to get home schooled by my mama I can try and talk to her to figure something out and we can come up with a plan to get him through the back gate area, by our house. Or you know you can go back to living in your barely finished home.
But my other kids are still little and really shitty at keeping secrets.”
“Well, I think your kids are fucking amazing at keeping secrets. I have them do that shit all the time.”
“I don’t even want to fucking know. We will figure this shit out, but you’re going to have to tell your family soon, brother. This isn’t something you’re going to be able to keep a secret for long. Especially the Rose being pregnant thing. I know she’s not staying gone.
She’s got too much on the line here, plus those friends of hers seem to all be moving here.”
We head back inside and I feel a little lighter now that I shared some of this shit with Lash. I know that he’ll keep my business to himself and we can figure out a way to get everything else taken care of.