SOULLESS (Black Thorns, #2)
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I push through the boys, almost falling over my own damn boots in my haste. “Yeah? Is she—?”
“She’s fine now. And so is the baby.”
“I…what?”
She gestures for me to follow her inside the room.
But I’m frozen, not sure if this is real or just a trick, or something.
She’s okay? Rox is okay? They’re both okay? For real?
“Come on,” Dealer says, his hands on my shoulders. He pushes me forward and my body wakes the fuck up and starts moving on its own.
He lets go of me and hangs back with the boys as I walk into the room.
“Neil,” Rox calls to me.
Jesus Christ.
Wow.
I can’t believe it.
It’s like a damn mirage or something. It don’t feel real, the picture I’m seeing in front of me right now.
Never thought the day would come.
There ain’t no words to describe what I’m feeling at the sight of my wife sitting up in bed…with our baby in her arms.
Caught in some sort of daze, I make my way over to her.
My hands are shaking as I reach out and I can feel emotion I ain’t used to ‘bout to take me over. Shit, I can’t get a grip.
And I don’t care right now.
“Do you want to hold her?” she asks me, her tired eyes gazing at me, so fucking happy.
“Her?” I croak out.
She grins. “Yeah, baby. Just like you wanted.”
“Fuck,” is the next thing outta my mouth. Great. I’m already a crappy influence on my newborn daughter.
I take her from Rox carefully. I can’t believe how small she is. How delicate and fragile.
Big blue eyes just like Rox’s and mine open and close slowly as I gaze down at her.
I look back at Rox and see that she’s crying now.
“Babe?”
“Sorry,” she says, wiping her eyes quickly. “Just…seeing you like that…with our daughter…it’s…I’m so happy, Neil.”
I shift our daughter carefully into the crook of my right arm and sit down on the bed beside Rox. I wrap my free arm ‘round her and pull her into me, kissing her sweat-drenched hair. “I know, Rox. Me too.”
We stay like this for a while, ‘til Dealer walks into the room with the boys all crowding in behind him.
Dealer walks over to me and kisses our daughter. “Beautiful.” He eyes Rox, getting emotional too. “You did so well, princess.”
“Girl or boy?” Runner asks.
“Girl,” I tell him.
“Oh, we got trouble now,” Smiter jokes and all the boys start laughing like a bunch of hyenas.
“She got a name yet?” Dealer asks, once they calm down a bit.
Rox gives me a look. “You tell them.”
“Yeah? What we talked ‘bout?”
“If we’d had a boy it’d be a different story,” she tells me.
“How’s that?” Grit asks, curious.
Rox rolls her eyes. “He wanted to name him Neil Junior. I told him there was no way in hell that was happening.”
“Jesus,” Dealer laughs.
“So?” Runner presses.
Rox raises her eyebrows at me expectantly.
I look down at my daughter, then out at the boys filling the room and scaring the shit outta the two nurses milling ‘round in the background. It must look fucking scary to civilians to see a gang of leather clad bikers standing ‘round.
But I wouldn’t have it any other way now.
All of ‘em.
Rox. My daughter. The club. Dealer. Sin.
They’re my family.
I smile at my wife. Our family.
Cradling our daughter closer, I clear my throat, just managing to bite back my emotion, as I announce, “Her name’s Ava. Ava Barron.”
STANDALONE NOVELS
Contemporary Romance
Comfort Zone
BLACK THORNS SERIES
Motorcycle Romance
RECKLESS (Black Thorns, #1)
SOULLESS (Black Thorns, #2)
THE REDEMPTION SERIES
Romance Thrillers/Romantic Erotica
Over The Line (Redemption, #1)
Undertow (Redemption, #2)
Reckoning (Redemption, #3)
Salvation (Redemption, #4)
THE BLEEDING LOVE SERIES
Romance Thrillers
All Or Nothing (The Bleeding Love Series, Part One)
Battle Born (The Bleeding Love Series, Part Two)
Love’s Lies (The Bleeding Love Series, Part Three)
THE TWISTED DESTINY SAGA
Paranormal Romance
Fated Desire (The Twisted Destiny Saga, #1)
Fated Betrayal (The Twisted Destiny Saga, #2)
Fated Ties (The Twisted Destiny Saga, #3)
Fated Love (The Twisted Destiny Saga, #4)
Fated Blood (The Twisted Destiny Saga, #5)
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