Chapter Twenty-Four Rage
It killed me walking out of Rose’s room and leaving her and Reid there without me, but I knew I wasn’t going to win that battle right now.
So I decided to go to the waiting room where my Devil’s Chaos family is and let them know about my boy and let them see the pictures.
My phone buzzes in my pocket and I pull it out finding Abby sent me another text.
When I open it, my heart aches from what I see.
Abby took pictures of the moments in the room where I was holding or trying to hold both Rose and Reid.
We actually looked like a family and that fucking family is what I fucking want.
I am a fighter and I know that I have the fight of my life coming, so I am going to get ready for it by taking care of everything else that is in the way.
Saving all the photos onto my phone and putting my favorite one as my background, I place it back in my pocket and continue my walk to the waiting room. When I get there my dad is the first to get up and walk over towards me.
“So you didn’t message us, do I have a grandson or a granddaughter?”
Mason doesn’t wait for me to answer before he comes barreling over towards us.
“Dad, I want to know if I have a brother or a sister. When can I see them? What do they look like? Are they okay?”
I chuckle at my boy and put my hand up in his hair.
“You’ve got a little brother. He’s beautiful and perfect. The perfect combination of his mama and me.”
I look at my dad and he has tears in his eyes.
“Do we get to see him?”
“I’ve got pictures. I think Rose wants some time with her family, her dad was there when I left. She told me she was tired so I didn’t want to push it.”
“Alright, well show us the little guy and what is his name?”
“Why don’t we just go back to the clubhouse and I can put everything up on a monitor so everyone can see all at once, Rage?” Wiz says from his seat.
“Yeah, we can do that. Hey, Mase, are you coming with me or are you leaving with Declan?”
“I’ll ride with you, I’m going to steal your phone while you drive. I totally want to see him first and think that is my right as a big brother.”
Everyone around us laughs as they begin clearing out of the waiting room. I do take notice that Liza and Dragon stay behind with Peyton, Whip, Fang and Parker.
“We are going to stay with her until she’s discharged. There is another waiting area that her family is in and her other friends from home. We will let you know if she needs anything.”
I nod my head and head out with my boy following close to my side.
“Give me your phone. I really want to see him.”
I hand over my phone to my bossy ten year old and let him look through the pictures.
“Wow, dad.”
“I know, buddy.”
And really I do, I know exactly what he is seeing when he looks at those pictures.
That baby boy who has my dark brown hair that almost looks black, with big hazel eyes and long dark lashes that he got from his mama is going to help put our family back together.
I know it. I believe that Mason knows it, now we just have to get Rose to know that we are a family.
The four of us. I fucked up, but that woman is mine.
She is everything I never thought I deserved and everything I know that I need.
“His mama is really pretty dad.”
“That she is buddy, that she is.”
“I mean it's a good thing she didn’t have a girl, I’d hate to have to beat up other people when I’m older. Like Declan is all worried about his sisters. I mean he’s got like three sisters and his mama is beautiful too. He’s going to have such a hard time keeping everyone in line.
And he told me his dad has said he’s planning on my kids, they already have eight that is just crazy. Their house is chaotic already.”
I chuckle at that as we make it to my truck and I open the back for him to hop in.
“Well, Sophie is one of ten. I think Lash wants to beat that record.”
“Wow. I can’t even imagine.”
“Me either, kid.”
He goes to hand me my phone back and I shake my head.
“Make sure you look at all of them before we get back. That way you can let everyone know that you saw pictures of Reid first.”
Mason looks up and smiles, “His name is Reid?”
“Yep, Reid Beau Matthews. Hopefully, he won’t be your last little brother either. At least not if I have anything to say about it.”
When we finally get to the clubhouse, the common area is filled with all the brothers and the families if they have any. They scream ‘congratulations’ and Wizard has a big screen put up and his computer set up to put images on it. I look down at Mason who still has my phone.
“You want to go give my phone to Wizard, so he can put the pictures up for everybody?”
He nods his head and runs over there and as he goes my dad comes up to me.
“So do I at least get to know his name before the rest of these assholes?”
I chuckle, “Yeah his name is Reid Beau Matthews. She gave him her dad’s and grandpa’s name for his middle name.”
“Well I love it and I can’t wait to meet him. What is the plan? Is she moving here? What are you guys doing?”
I forgot that I have just gotten a whole slew of information that I haven’t shared with anyone about my woman.
“I’ll fill you in on all the details later. I still have to talk to Mason, but we are moving over to her guesthouse for now. She says it will be better that way. She really refuses to live here. I guess I can’t blame her given everything. Where are the whores at?”
I do want to know which bitches were sending pictures to that fucker who is stalking my woman. I think I will be keeping tabs on all four of the bitches who have been giving Rose a hard time whenever she is here.
“It’s family time, so they were all sent to their rooms and told not to come out here. But I mean that doesn’t mean some of those new ones aren’t going to start trouble. I swear the girls who came in here within the last few years are fucking stupid.
I think we need to do a bigger deep dive and weed them out especially after what happened with Lips. Also I heard all the shit that happened with your woman when she was here. That shit can’t fly.”
“I agree. I’m gonna fill you in on some of that shit too. Have you seen Bulldog ?”
“Yeah, he’s over at the bar with Rigg. Why what’s up?”
“I need to talk to him about something.”
“Alright, I’ll let you go, but you and I need to have a conversation. I want to meet my grandson. Don’t make me call that woman myself. That should be something you two work out without third parties.”
I nod my head and turn to walk towards the bar where Bulldog is sitting. When I get to him he pulls me into a hug.
“Look at you, I never would have thought Rage here would find his soft spot. But it seems you have.”
“I guess I did. How are you doing? With everything?”
“I’m doing alright. I spent the last year riding around to clubs and talking to other brothers who knew about this shit with my dad and those club whores. Got some information I plan on sharing with the club and with my brothers over there at Untamed. But I’m waiting until shit dies down.
Everyone has had so much shit happening and Terror has had shit piled on him. Especially after the last couple of days.”
“I just talked to Terror, he didn’t mention anything new. Is everything okay with Ruby?”
Bulldog sighs and looks around as if he is making sure there is no one else around him that he doesn’t want to hear what he is about to say.
“Not my place to say, Rage. I just know that he’s got some drama that walked back into his life. He probably didn’t mention it because he has been living in that hospital room ignoring it. Noah is the one that told him because he is the first one that was approached.”
“Are you saying that someone came up to Noah about Terror?”
“Something like that, look I’m sure he’ll tell everybody when he’s ready. I think right now he is just trying to work out how to tell Ruby about their baby when she wakes up.
I think that there is a lot more to the story now that someone has conveniently walked back into the story after all this happened.”
That’s when it hits me that the person who he is talking about has to be Tishia. That bitch just seems to not want to leave him the fuck alone even though she’s fucked her way through fifty fucking clubs by now I’m sure.
“So what do you need, Rage?”
“I was wondering if you could put a call into Shepherd for me.”
His face immediately turns curious. I never ask to contact other club presidents. It’s not really my place and I have never had the interest. Yes, I have gone to other clubs and dealt with them, but I have never needed to talk to them outside of business.
“Now why do you need to talk to the president of our Ashford chapter?”
“I need contact information that I can only get from him.”
He looks at me again and then really looks at me. I can tell by his eyes he is assessing every muscle twitch.
“And why do you need information for the Callahan fam–”
Before he finishes it looks like he put all the pieces together because his eyes go wide and he opens and closes his mouth before he looks at Riggs sitting next to him and then back at me.
“How in the hell do you boys get mixed up with these women that are from families with these connections? Please tell me. You’re baby mama is a mafia princess and you didn’t tell anyone?”
“Listen, Bulldog, she’s not a mafia princess. She was not raised in the life . Her family is from Texas.”
“So she is the daughter of Declan’s brother. You have to know that doesn’t mean much when you work with Declan. Just because his brother no longer runs any part of family operations doesn’t mean that his brother isn’t part of the family.
You know I know that Beau gets money from the family just like any active member would. He also attends events when it is necessary to appease his mama and dad. Fuck. You get involved with a mafia member like Twister. Dragon gets hooked up to a Skullz princess. What’s next?
Why can’t any of you boys meet girls that don’t have crazy backgrounds?”
Riggs chuckles from next to him and turns to look at him.