– Jax –
I place my arm around Harley’s lower back as I guide her into the clubhouse, the small infant still in her arms. all of the men become quiet when we walk in all attention on us and the baby. Shark Eyes stands up and walks over to us followed by Betty. “Harley you didn’t-..” She rolls her eyes and cuts him off, “No dad I didn’t steal a baby” She smiles down at Isabella in her arms before looking back up to her dad. “It’s Matthews” She whispers to him, his eyes widen at the small baby infront of him, “Can I?” He asks nodding his head towards Isabella. Harley nods and smiles as she passes the child over to him and Betty.
Harley had told me before that Betty has never been able to have kids of her own due to medical problems, we watch the two of them coo and cuddle into the small baby. Harley looks up to me and stands on her tiptoes planting a small kiss on my cheek, I grab onto her hand and lift her onto the pool table before jumping up myself.
I clear my throat and all eyes turn to us. “Well, it looks like we have a new member of the family. This is Isabella, Matthew and Stacey’s child” I watch as my men become stiff and ridged at Matthews name, “Now if anyone has a problem with this baby you can leave. She is family no matter who her parents are. I want her watched like a fucking hawk, no one hurts her or I’ll slit your fucking throat. Do you understand me men” I growl over the crowd, they nod their heads and bang their fists onto the tables letting me know they agree.
I jump down and lift Harley off the table as everyone returns to what they were doing before, Harley’s hands wrap around my arm as she leans her head against it watching her father and Betty swoon over the small child. “Aren’t they cute” She hums, “Indeed they are kitten” I reply as I kiss her forehead. “I’ve gotta do some paperwork, I’ll come and find you when I’m done and we can do something fun” I whisper into her ear as Gunner and Shelby begin to walk towards us. “Pinky promise?” She asks as I pull her into my arms, “Pinky promise kitten,” I say leaning down to her, her arms wrap around my neck pulling into a deep kiss, fuck I can’t get enough of her.
She pulls away and Shelby grabs her hand to walk over to Shark eyes and Betty, as she leaves I smack her ass and give her a smirk before pulling out a cigarette from my pocket and lighting it, “When are you going to tell her?” Gunner asks as we both watch our women swoon over the small child. “Not sure” I mumble as I take a drag.
“She’s going to become suspicious soon, you can keep fucking off for hours at a time with no explanation of where you have been” He replies, I take another drag and run my free hand through my hair, “We will get to that when the time comes” I huff before walking off towards my office, Gunner following behind.
“How long now?” He asks once the doors to the office are closed, “About a week, just need to do the final touches” I reply as I shuffle through the paperwork on the desk, Gunner takes a seat on one of the chairs infront of me staring at me but not speaking, I look up to him and sigh “Fucking what Gunner?” He sits there with a shit-eating grin on his face, “You’re so fucking whipped” He laughs to himself. I stop what I’m doing and zero in my eyes on him, “Says you googly poo” I mock watching his face drop at the nickname.
He sits in the chair silent for a few minutes before speaking again, “She’s going to kill everyone once she catches on” He says looking down at his fingers, “Well if you do your job and keep her occupied she won’t kill everyone hmmm?”. Finally, I find the papers I was looking for folding them in half and shoving them in the inner pocket in my cut. “Easy for you to say, the girl is bored after 5 minutes of anything”, I groan loudly and snap my eyes to Gunner, “Gunner you’re my brother but if you keep this shit up I’m going to let Harley at you. Now go and do what I pay you to do” I say shoving him out the door as we make our way downstairs and outside.
Once we get outside I spot Harley and Shelby playing with the dogs near the garage, “Go distract her, tell her I’m doing a run or something I’ll be back soon” I say patting him on the shoulder. I watch as he stomps over to them as I head to my bike. I start it up and quickly ride out of the compound down the main road. I know keeping shit from Harley will probably end up with my head on a platter but it’s a fucking surprise for a reason.
After hours of being out of the compound, the sun is finally beginning to set, my phone begins to buzz as Gunner’s name pops up on the screen, “What’s up brother?” I say while throwing my leg over my bike, he sounds out of breath before speaking, “It’s Harley, I tried to stop her. Her and Shelby teamed up against me” he almost cries into the phone. “What the hell are you talking about Gunner?” I say as I start up the bike pulling out onto the road.
“They think I’m helping you cheat, so they locked me in the cleaning cupboard, once I got out they were gone” He quickly spits out, “Fuck” I growl before hanging up and putting my phone away. I speed off down the highway to get back to the clubhouse, Gunner you fucking idiot. I pull up to the compound quickly, one of the prospects barely opening the gate in time. I stop the bike and stomp into the clubhouse.
My eyes scan the room to see Gunner sitting down with Betty, Shark Eyes and Isabella. “You better have a damn good explanation for this Gunner” I roar over the room as I walk towards him, “H-Harley asked where you were going once you left, i told her that you were doing work for the club but she called me out on my bullshit saying if it was something for the club you would have taken other people, so i said i didn’t know where you were going but it only made her madder. she asked if you were cheating and i said you were doing club shit once again but she didn’t believe me, so Shelby got involved and asked me, i told her the same as Harley but she didn’t believe me either. At this point Shelby asked Betty to watch Isabella, she dragged Harley off upstares. When they came back down they were all dressed up. Harley then knocked me out and locked me in the cleaning cupboard until Wood heard me shouting to get out, and that’s when i called you”.
I run my hands through my hair before dragging them over my face, “You couldn’t have just said ‘no he isn’t cheating’ instead of avoiding it dumbass” I say as I slap the back of his head, “You told me to tell them it was club shit” He says while rubbing the back of his head, “Well there’s no point saying its club shit if she fuckings knows its not you twat” I stand up and look around, “Does anyone know where they went?” I ask around the clubhouse, most of them shake their head but Wood whistles out to me.
I turn around and walk over to the bar where he is, “They have gone to the strip club. Something about you being a piece of shit, and to show you what you’re losing” He says with a smile as he wipes down the wooden bar top. I march back over to Gunner and grab him by the back of his cut standing him up with one swift motion. “Come on dickhead, I need to get my old lady” I growl as we walk outside towards our bikes. “I’m going to kill you if there’s a single soul-touching her” I yell out as I start my bike.
We both pull out of the compound and ride to the strip club, I kick the stand down and throw my helmet off not bothering to wait for Gunner, I kick the doors of the club open and march inside, my anger is at boiling point, my eyes scan the room until i see Harley on top of the bar with Shelby. In the smallest and tightest pair of black shorts I had ever seen in my life, they look like a second layer of skin, a tiny white crop top with no bra, and those fucking thigh-high boots she brought in Las Vegas.
An animalistic growl comes from me and almost everyone’s eyes fall on me, expect my kittens, but I know she has seen me I can see that fucking smirk on her face. I march through the crowd pushing men and women out of the way until I’m standing at the bar, I grab her legs and throw her over my shoulder, I turn and make my way to a quiet corner of the club while Gunner deals with a drunk Shelby. I drop her down on one of the chairs infront of me, her small body bounces on the cushioned seat making her giggle like a schoolgirl.
I grab ahold of her cheeks and make her look at me, my face turns to a scowl, “You’re mine kitten, what part of that don’t you fucking get?” I say as calmly as I can still staring at her face, “The part where you run off and fuck whores” She spits with venom at me, fucking hell Gunner. “I’m not fucking anyone except you,” I say as I tighten the grip on her face, she laughs at me a huffs, “So what were you doing then?” She asks shoving me away from her as she stands up and crosses her arms over her chest.
“It’s a surprise, but I wasn’t fucking anyone kitten”, She laughs throwing her head back, “That’s the best excuse you can come up with?” She asks as she turns me around and shoves me into the chair she was sitting in before, “I didn’t fuck anyone” She mocks as she crawls onto my lap straddling me. “Why should I believe you? Your best friend couldn’t even come up with an excuse to save your ass” She laughs once more.
My anger gets the best of me and I wrap my hand around her throat, no hard or maliciously but enough to get her fucking attention, I stare into her eyes as I watch her chew on her bottom lip “I’m going to say this once and only fucking once. I didn’t fuck anyone else, It’s a surprise for your dumbass. Unfortunately, I believed that Gunner wouldn’t make this worse but I have been proven wrong.” I stop what I’m saying to let the words sink into her pretty little head.
“You see this?” I grab her hand and move to my rock hard dick, “This is for you and only you, do you understand me” I growl in her ear, “Yes” she whispers. She moves my hands from her body to her tits and smiles down at me, These are for you and only you, do you understand me?” She looks at me with her big eyes, “But you have pissed me off and you’re still keeping shit from me. So now here’s your punishment, you’re going to sit here with your best fucking buddy. While Little Red an I enjoy our night, and maybe just maybe I’ll forgive you hmmm?” She smiles and gets off my lap leaving me slightly dumbfounded and extremely turned on.
Gunner walks over and sits next to me with the same confused look, “I fucked up” He mumbled as we looked over to Harley and Shelby dancing on the bar, “Yeah we really did”.