hard again, and all it took
was the smell of her floral scented hair.
“People will start
talking,” she said in a sleepy tone, but relaxed against him.
“I don’t care if
people talk, but I can guarantee they won’t.” If anyone thought to open their
mouth about them being together, or give him shit about anything, he’d beat
their ass. They stayed silent for a moment, and he allowed himself to not think
about all the crap going on in his life, and just enjoy holding her.
“Are you scared?”
she asked softly several minutes later.
He didn’t know if
she meant because of everything going on with the club, or because of being
with her, but he wasn’t going to lie. “Yeah, baby, I am, but I’m not the type
of man that backs down either.” He answered truthfully, and meant it because
being with her both exhilarated and scared the hell out of him.
****
“Can you speak English?” Kink asked, leaned back in
his seat, and crossed his hands behind his head. He stared at the lawyer that
was working on his custody battle with Sarah, and waited for the spindly little
man to finish speaking. He looked like the stereotypical attorney: thin,
wearing a designer suit, hair perfectly styled, and thin-rimmed glasses perched
on his beak-like nose. But Kink didn’t care what the man looked like as long as
he made it so that bitch didn’t take his kid.
“Well, since Callie will be eighteen in about a
month, even if she did try to take her, the minor could leave of her own free
will anyway—”
“I don’t fucking care when she turns eighteen, or if
she is only in California for a month. Sarah isn’t going to take her to another
state, that much I’ll fucking make sure of.”
The lawyer shook his head. “Mr. Roberts, your ex…” Sheldon, the attorney, looked down at his
paperwork, like he was searching for the right term to call Sarah.
Manipulative bitch. Sadistic asshole. Unsympathetic wench.
Those were all names Kink had called Sarah to
himself, or to his brothers, and although it probably wasn’t the right thing to
do, calling his daughter’s mother those names, the truth was she was all those
things and more. She used Callie against him, had her entire life, and those
couple of weeks that he tried a relationship with her after he found out she
was pregnant had been pure hell. It had been because of Sarah that he had
stayed away from a relationship and claiming a woman as an old lady … until now
that was. He hadn’t talked to anyone aside from Cookie about wanting her as an
old lady, and although he knew the other members would back him up, he also
knew now was not the time to get into it with them. They had to talk to the
hacker in a few, so he needed this problem with Sarah solved and behind him. He
only had the weekend with Callie, per the custody agreement, but because of the
lockdown he wasn’t going to send Callie back. That would probably cause a whole
new shit storm with Sarah.
“Just calling her my ex is sufficient.” Kink lowered
his arm back on the table and drummed his fingers on the table as he stared at
Sheldon.
“You’re ex doesn’t have any legal right to take your
daughter out of the state without speaking to a judge, and having you in
agreement. Since you are in the picture, to put it in laymen’s terms, she would
have to go through a lengthy processing situation, in which her attorney would
need to bring this up with the judge.”
“She said she is having her lawyer look through it,
but I don’t know if she really is, or is just hopeful I’ll back down. I know
she can’t afford to go through a big court hearing, so it’s probably bullshit.”
Sheldon nodded and started organizing the papers.
“Well, I can start filing for a hearing right away, whereas we can bring the
threats she has been telling you to the judge’s attention, and the fact she is
planning to flee to California without notifying anyone legally.”
“You think that we can get this done quickly?”
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