Axel cleared his throat. “Remember what I told you motherfuckers. Mom likes Kaia. We have to practice treating him nice so it’ll come naturally when she gets home. If you piss off Mom, I’m cutting off your fucking dreads, Bishop.”
“I mean Kaiareallycan’t,” Bishop said irritably. “He can’t fucking cook.”
“Learn,” CJ said, not looking at anyone. “I’ll let up, Kaia, but I swear if you want to fuck all the club girls at once, leave Rebel the fuck alone.”
“I wasn’twithRebel when I fucked Fia,” Kaia snapped, and pointed his fork at Diesel. “He’s the one who set me up to play fucking mind games. Why the fuck are you being so hard on me?”
“Oh, I fucking like that,” Diesel sneered. “I wasn’t fucking responsible for your goddamn cock.”
“You were fucking her in front of me. What the fuck did you fucking think would happen?” Kaia snapped his mouth shut and glanced at Jana, regret on his face. “I’m sorry, Jana. That was disrespectful of me.”
“It’s okay,” she said. “No matter who else he sleeps with, I’ll be his wife.”
“Don’t give this motherfucker that much leeway, bae,” CJ said, glaring at Diesel, still not over their argument from yesterday.
When Diesel had every right to be furious, since CJ was the one who calledhima bitch. He’d let that shit go, so why couldn’t CJ?
“Can I ask you something, Jana?” Axel started.
“No!” Diesel snapped.
“I’m not talking to you, Diesel,” Axel said flatly.
Jana placed her hand over Diesel’s. “It’s fine, babe,” she said, smiling at Axel. “What’s your question?”
“You’re a girl, right?”
“Uh—”
“No,” Diesel barked, interrupting Jana’s floundering. “She’s a fucking donkey.”
“They got boy donkeys and girl donkeys, so shut up,” Axel said, and focused on Jana again. “No matter your specialty, you’re a girl, right?”
“Species,” Diesel grumbled.
Axel glowered at him.
“Uh, I am,” Jana said, looking from Diesel to Axel with uncertainty. “I’m a human girl.”
“You do know girls don’t like their motherfuckers with other girls, right? I mean, part of the reason Mom’s so fucking mad at Dad is ‘cause of another woman. Even Tabitha, andshe’s a miserable cunt that Diesel hates, is jealous. And let’s not even talk about the Blonde Viper. She would try to cleave that motherfucker in half.” He thrust his chin toward Kaia. “Him, too. That’s why he’s so fucking afraid that Rebel might find out about Fia.”
“I, uh, I-I—”
“You don’t have to answer Axel,” Diesel said in a reasonable tone.
“I just don’t want you to be mad at me,” she said quietly.
“You got brothers now,” Axel said. “We’ll beat the brakes off Diesel on your behalf.”
She laughed nervously, not realizing the little monster was serious.
Axel’s cell phone began ringing, and his face lit up. He answered immediately. “Hey, Mom.”
“Mom?” CJ, Ryder, and Ransom echoed.
“MegAnn!” Gunner screamed.
“Tell Aunt Meggie I said ‘hi’,” Diesel added. “Put her on speaker.”
