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“Alright, brothers, let's give Jokester and his old lady a real welcome home!” Pitbull shouts, ignoring what had just happened. The brothers cheer while Damian looks at Bullet and asks, “Wanna help a brother out with moving?”
“I’ve been waiting fucking months for you to say that!” Bullet returns grinning, but he soon groans when Scarlett shouts,“Language, Ace!”and Levi copies, “Daddy fucking is a no-no…”
I laugh, leaning against Damian while Bullet picks up his son and tickles him while Scarlett slaps her forehead with her palm, and a sense of calm takes over. I realize I’m comfortable here.
Chapter 30
Jokester
Ichewmybottomlip as I watch Essy smile at Mama, handing her a cheese pastry and coffee while refusing payment.
Mama is the twelfth club member that she has declined payment from.
“Your girl is going to end up bankrupt if she keeps giving freebies to the club,” Acid mumbles from next to me, sipping his free coffee.
Bullet chuckles, “No, she won’t. Dad agreed to transfer eight thousand a month into her business accounts, not that she knows that yet. Every time she goes back and allows Abigail to take over the register, a couple of hundreds is placed inside.”
Acid nods but chuckles when I chime in, “She knows. She overheard Adam and me talking and said she’d change her bank information if they did that. I plan on getting her to change her mind later.”
Bullet shakes his head, and Slick asks, “How is she settling in at the house?”
Hmm, yes, the house with extra photos hung on the wall of Essy, Aiden, me, and Essy’s parents before we moved in to make her feel more at home. We’ve been on club property for about four days. The brothers wasted no time moving us in, and it is a little weird not walking downstairs to get to work, instead having to ride or drive if Essy doesn’t feel like driving herself, but it also feels like home, I guess, a feeling I haven’t had since I was sixteen.
“She’s doing okay,” I answer, not taking my eyes off my girl, “She’s adjusting but misses Aiden.”
“That’s understandable, she was basically a mother to the boy, wasn’t she?” Slick says, and I nod.
“Night feeds, changing him, watching him most of the week,” I admit, “She took her mother’s place, which was amazing on her side considering she lost her best friend. It helps that I’ve given her free reign to make one of the rooms up for him. I think she chose the room connected to Levi’s while the room next to ours will be the nursery.”
The men nod and look at my girl, and I swallow hard.
Today, I’m making her mine fully.
She has my baby in her belly growing nicely, which we have just found out is a girl yesterday and my cut is on her back. Now I just need my ring on her finger, so I’m changing that today, not by waiting months for her to plan a wedding I know she won’t want.
Her mother is no longer here, a wedding without her wouldn’t be a wedding for my girl.
“You sure this is the right way to go?” Bullet asks lowly, and I nod.
“I spoke to Adam and Cody about it a while ago. Essy won’t want a wedding her mother isn’t apart of. She doesn’t see herself wearing the big white dress or a horse and carriage because she can’t share it with her best friend. Marrying in her mother’s bakery while getting the ownership deed for the place is perfect.” I look around the space, “And every brother is here. Cody, Aiden, and Adam will be here in five minutes and your dad,” I look at Bullet, “got himself ordained after having a judge sign the marriage license for us without both our signatures. I’m ready, and I know she will love this. Besides, it helps that Bethany was sent to Europe for a little while, so timing is perfect.”
Bullet nods, sadness and disappointment in his sister shining back at me. Two days ago, Bethany arrived at my house and lost it seeing Essy wearing my cut. She physically tried to attack my girl, and I had no choice but to intervene, not willing for anything to happen to her or our unborn child.
I grabbed Bethany by the throat while she thrashed against my grip and screamed that she was going to kill Essy, and it took everything in me not to squeeze hard enough to crush her windpipe.
Butcher decided enough was enough after she passed out from the lack of air and saw how distressed Essy was from the whole thing. My girl even fucking mentioned going back to her dad's, which in turn made me lose it. A sister club agreed to take Bethany in, and she can clean for her stay.
All brothers have been banned from touching her in any way, but hopefully, she’ll see the error in her ways like Victoria did, though I don’t see that happening.
Acid chimes in, “Essy’s not one for a big fuss, even for a wedding.”
“Though making her make her wedding cake was a little harsh,” Cannon adds, and I grin.
“Nah, she’s a perfectionist,” Cody says, and I look his way and raise a brow at the gray suit and pink tie.
Fuck’s sake.
He shrugs, “I can’t watch my best friend get married without a suit, and besides, she thinks that we had court.”
