Loving Nicole (Savage Brothers MC #3)(61)

I laugh, shaking my head at him.

“You going to take me home and make good on your promise or what, Dragon?”

“Thinking I should definitely take you home.”

He takes my hand into his and leads me over to the passenger side of his Tahoe.

“You know, you hardly ever ride your bike, lately. It’s like I’m in love with just a regular guy with a nine to five job.”

“Bite your damn tongue. It’s because my woman hasn’t been in any shape to ride with me.”

“I think I just proved I can handle riding on your bike.”

“Then tomorrow, unless we’re needed for Dom, we will go for a ride. Just the two of us.”

“To the Falls?” I ask excitedly, because it’s been so long since we’ve done that.

“Anything you want, Mama,” he says kissing my forehead. He opens the door and I slide in, feeling more my old self than I have since the day Michael Kavanagh’s goon stood at mine and Dani’s table.

“We do have one major problem, Dragon.”

“Just one? Hell, we’re practically home free now,” he says mockingly.

“Sarcasm does nothing for you, sweetheart.”

He shakes his head at me, putting the vehicle in reverse. We drive for a little bit before he finally asks me the question I’ve been waiting for.

“I give, what’s our major problem, Mama?”

“We can’t raise Dom at the club, sweetheart. I know it is home to you, but a baby needs a house to grow up in and I don’t want my seven year old wandering out of his room to get a snack and see Twinkies getting it on with some of the men. That is just not going to happen.”

Dragon goes silent and I worry a little, but I know I’m right. The club was fine when it was just him and me, but Dom deserves a home. A place to grow and be happy and loved in. All the things Dragon and I never had growing up.

“What if we build a house next to the compound, out back, away from the main grounds? We could put up a big privacy fence, so Dom would be protected from any of the craziness. Plus, it’d be close enough to be protected by the club and the defenses already in place.”

I think about it. I like it. Plus, it’d be close enough that Dani could watch Dom when… shit… Dani.

“Okay, Mama, if you don’t like that we’ll start looking at houses close by.”

“No, no sweetheart, I like the idea—honest. I was just thinking about Dani. I need to talk with her. I’ve not been nice to her lately.”

“She understands. She loves you, Mama.”

“I know…it’s just…we have things to work through. I completely blamed her, and I shouldn’t have. I made my own decisions.”

“It will be okay, Mama,” he says picking up our joined hands and kissing it.

“I know,” I whisper and for the first time in a long time, I believe that.

“Dial Bull and put it on speaker, Mama,” he says motioning to his phone.

I don’t question, I just do it. Honestly, I like holding his hand. I need to be connected to him right now. There’s a part of me that never wants to let him go again. I may have taken a leap, but that fear is still there.

I put the phone on my lap and dial the number. It’s not exactly easy to dial with just one hand.

“Yo,” Bull’s voice comes over the phone.

“Hey man, have the boys pick up Nic’s car after all.”

“Damn man, you’re starting to get annoying.”

“Fuck you,” Dragon says with a laugh.

“No thanks.” Bull retorts.

“Asshole. Did you tell the boys about Church?”

“Yeah man, they want to do it tomorrow. Shit has been up in the air too long.”

“Too f*cking bad, I’m taking my woman to visit our son and then we’re going out for the rest of the day. Tell them to shut that shit down. They can bitch Friday. I’m spending time with my woman.”

“You got it.”

The phone clicks off and I sit there looking out the window. I can’t explain it. Maybe my hormones are still wonky, but the fact that he put me before a needed meeting with his men brings a few waterworks out.

“Mama?” He asks when I haven’t spoken for a few minutes.

“Just thinking,” I answer managing to keep the emotion from my words. “How come you need a meeting so urgently?”

Dragon sighs.

My heart drops, expecting to hear him tell me how it’s club business, blah, blah, and freaking blah.

“Crusher. He went off on his own way too much. Put the club in jeopardy, left messes we still need to clean up. He f*cked up and he called me out. If I don’t address it Mama, I’ll be viewed as weak.”

I don’t pretend to understand the way the club works—or hell, even men. I just nod. He’s let me in. Something between us has completely shifted. It feels good. So, I lean over and kiss his cheek, while he’s watching the road.

He spares a glance at me and there’s a question in his eyes.

“Hurry home, sweetheart. I really want to see the church table.”

His barking laughter somehow finishes warming me all the way to my soul. I’m home.





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