Chapter 2
A Couple Days Later
It’d been two days since I talked to Solei.
She wasn’t answering any of my calls or texts.
After the accident, her phone was crushed, so I had to get her a new one.
After she kicked me out the hospital room, she blocked my number.
I didn’t know if she was coming back to the house after she got released or what.
I think that was what terrified me the most.
Every day, I’d send a new phone to her hospital room, but all she would do was block me on that phone too.
I tried calling the room, but she blocked access, preventing me from reaching her.
No matter how much pull I had, those nurses in labor and delivery weren’t budging.
That was where they moved her to when they found out that she was pregnant, to monitor the baby.
Solei was overreacting. This was something great we were building.
She got to keep her life, and I got to get an heir.
All she needed was to stop pushing back.
I stood there, watching as they removed all the crates from the back of the eighteen-wheeler. Crates and crates of nothing but guns and ammo for Blackveil.
“You need to see this,” Ghost said when he stepped to my side. He handed me a folder, and I flipped through the pages. My teeth clenched.
“Get everybody out.”
“Boss?”
“Now.”
“Everybody out!” Ghost yelled, and they scampered out of there without a thought, taking the truck driver with them.
I paced the floor as I continued to look through the papers.
Someone had started digging into Solei that didn’t work for Blackveil.
Witnesses from her old case had started disappearing.
Everything was leading back to one name—Governor Travis.
Stopping, I shut the folder and said, “Find the fucking governor.”
* * *
I had called up to the hospital, and they told me that Solei had been released hours ago. When I made it home, she wasn’t there. I sat at the island in the kitchen with a bottle of Remy. Something had to ease the pain, but I felt like the liquor was only awakening the predator in me.
My jaw tensed. I heard the front door to the lake house and looked in that direction. Not long after, Solei entered. She stood there in the doorway, glaring at me.
“Just when I was starting to fall for you, you do some bullshit like this. How could you?”
“I did what I thought was best for us.”
“No!” She took a step further into the kitchen and continued. “You did what you thought was best for you. This is my body. I have say-so in it, not you.”
“Solei, you’re acting like it’s a bad thing.”
“How do you know I even wanted children? Huh?”
“Do you?”
“I don’t know.” Her eyes lowered, and she tugged at the hem of her shirt. “I don’t know if I want to bring something so innocent into this world and not be able to protect it every second of the day.”
I knew exactly what she was hinting at. I just wished that she trusted me enough to let me in.
“I can protect both of y’all. You know that.” I lifted to my feet and closed in on her.
“You went behind my back and did something fucked up. I don’t trust you anymore, Savion.
” She took a couple steps back from me as if I’d hurt her or something.
That shit crushed me. “I feel like a fucking prisoner. All you do is tell me what I can and can’t do.
You watch me every second of the day. You forced a baby on me without talking to me first. I need some time alone to think.
I need to process things. I’m going back to my apartment. ”
“You’re not leaving. You’re safer here with me.”
With tear-filled eyes, she asked, “Am I?”
My hands balled into fists. “Solei, you’re not going anywhere.”
“I’d like to see you stop me.”
I stepped toward her and stopped. There was nothing that I could do to make her stay. I could’ve kidnapped her ass and forced her to stay here, but I wanted to gain her trust again. If walking out that door was gon’ help our relationship, then I was gon’ have to let her leave.
“That’s what I thought.” She snatched my glasses from my face and lunged them across the room. “Bitch ass,” she said and turned and walked out the kitchen.