Teaching Aleck (The Last Hangman MC #2)(49)
I park in her driveway and wave at Ayden who’s watching me from the window. Sneaky little one. I walk to the door and ring the doorbell.
“Finally someone who knows what a f*cking doorbell is!” she exclaims opening the door making me laugh.
“Good morning to you too, Gorgeous.” I chuckle and walk in.
“Morning, Aleck.” She gives me her beautiful smile. “Oh my God, you brought donuts.” She claps and takes the box from me.
“Not sure if I should be offended or not that you’re more excited to see the box of donuts than me.”
“Oh, come on, you knew what you were getting yourself into by bringing a box of heaven,” she says taking a bite out of one.
“I know, just messing with you.” I smile and go over to her kitchen, checking Bennett and Ryan’s handy work. “Looks like they did a good job.”
“Yes, I came back over this morning and it was already fixed.”
“I’m sorry I couldn’t come over last night. I would have if I didn’t have Ally with me.”
“Don’t worry about it, I know.” She winks at me.
“Thanks for understanding.” I stroke her cheek with the back of my knuckles and she leans into my touch.
“It’s normal.” She smiles softly closing her eyes.
“You’re killing me, Gorgeous,” I say, my voice strained.
“Why?” She opens her eyes and looks at me confused.
“You’re just too understanding without even knowing half of what’s been going on in my life, and you’re just too beautiful for my own sanity. I still don’t get how a woman like you can like a guy like me.” I sigh.
“I’m not ‘too understanding’ as you put it. I’m just not going to bitch about you having a daughter. Obviously I don’t know the details, but I’m going to wait for you to open up about it. Was I surprised and shocked when you walked in with a kid in your arms? Definitely, but it didn’t make me think less of you. We all have a past, some people’s past is tougher than others, but that’s how life goes. As for loving a guy like you, if you’d have clued in a lot earlier I’ve loved you for years. I know you’re far from being a saint, but that doesn’t mean you’re not a good man. There’s the Aleck I know and the Aleck member of the Last Hangman MC. Those are two different Alecks, you can deny it all you want, I know it’s the truth,” she finishes crossing her arms over her chest.
“You do know how to shut me up, don’t you?” I can’t help but chuckle. “I don’t know if you’re going to think less of me after I tell you everything about my past, but I’m willing to risk it because I’ve been trying to bury the feelings I have for you for far too long, I can’t do it anymore.”
She bites her bottom lip between her teeth and all I want to do is bite it myself. “About time.” She blushes.
“Hey, be nice.” I try to glare at her, but can’t help grinning.
“I’m all ears when you’re ready.”
“Not beating around the bush, are we?” I smile softly as she prepares two cups of coffee.
“Never, bring the donuts will you,” she says walking out onto the patio and settles down in one of the comfy chairs. I sit across from her and rest my elbows on my knees, cracking my knuckles.
“Six years ago, I met Emma at a party. She was really sweet and we hit it off instantly. We started to date, were pretty steady and things were going well. I wasn’t sure, and to this day I’m still unsure, if I ever was in love with her. I did love her but in love? I don’t think I was. She wasn’t the most accepting about the club life but I wasn’t about to leave the club for a woman. Eventually, she accepted it, well, I thought she had.
“The first chance she got, she left me without an explanation. She came over to my place one day and told me she couldn’t be with me anymore. That the club life wasn’t for her and that she was sorry. It crushed me. You know what happened with my parents, it left me scarred and with huge trust issues. I was mad at her for leaving me without even giving me a chance to compromise. I really just wanted to be happy and have someone love me and care for me and who I’d care for too. She broke the trust I had in her and she shattered my heart. Even if I wasn’t really in love with her, it felt nice to have someone who cared about me and wanted to be with me. With that, she took everything away from me.
“About seven months later, she came back. I was shocked. Not because she was back, but because of the reason she was back. She was pregnant. Apparently, I had gotten her pregnant pretty quickly as we were together only over a month when it happened. I took her back, but kept her at arm’s length, I couldn’t trust her. The thing is, as hurt and heartbroken as I was, I wasn’t about to let the mother of my future child do it on her own. She moved in with me. She wanted to be together again, but I just couldn’t. She told me she left me when she found out she was pregnant. She said she freaked out, didn’t want to raise a kid in a MC and didn’t want me to be upset or ask her to get an abortion because she thought I didn’t want a family. She only came back because she couldn’t afford things on her own anymore. I thought she came back because she loved me, but no, it was only because she needed money.
“Things were okay for a while; we were on talking terms, but not really at the point where I wanted to be with her again in a sexual way, and no, don’t look at me like that, it wasn’t because she was heavily pregnant. Two weeks later, I came back from a long run with the club and she was on the ground, unconscious and bleeding heavily. I immediately expected the worse, that she intentionally tried to hurt herself or the baby to get back at me for not wanting her the way she said she wanted me. Turns out, she had pregnancy diabetes and couldn’t afford her meds so she passed out and when she fell, she had a placental abruption. Luckily, Ally didn’t suffer from it, other than the fact that she was born two months early.