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“Jesus Christ, are youup Sway can fuck right off Babysitting his porn star is at the bottoive-a-fuck list”
His chuckle h ti out my frustration
“Bro, after that fuckery at National, I think Sway’s pissing his pants worrying about Priest taking over his charter”
“He should be” As if I can muster up any sy in assholes like Shadow and Bull before they were fully vetted”
“Does any biker alks in and asks for a patch get one downstate?”
“Fuck if I know You’d think after Priest point-blank told everyone not to get caught with stolen parts, Sould’ve had a specific chat with each of his men”
The corners of his mouth twitch “You didn’t have one with us”
I roll h he only pointed it out to fuck with me “Because I know none of my brothers would pull a stunt like that and disrespect our charter that way”
He smirks “And you’re so far up in our business—”
“That too” Finally, I crack a smile
Z’s dogs scauys” I crouch down, rubbing Ziggy behind his ears Zipper tolerates that for about five seconds before head-butting hiuys Calm down”
Z chuckles “They’re jealous little shits”
I give the little about them anymore”
“Right? I’m about to take them for a run if you want to come with?”
“Nah, I have soet done before Hope wakes up and co for me”
He cocks his head and drops his sht?”
Mythe two special wake-ups I’d received in the ht thanks to my wife “She’s been pretty ht now she’s pissed it’s taking so long to get the tests set up”
“I’et this over with”
“Me too”
He snaps his fingers at the dogs, and their ears perk up “If she needs so, let me know”
Z’s offer is sincere, and I feel asuch a dick with him “Thanks, brother”
I walk out with hi room catches my attention “I’ll talk to you later, Z”
He slaps s
Trinity and Charlotte are seated at one of the dining tables flipping through one of Trinity’s party binders They both glance up when I shove the dining room door open
“What’s up, Prez?” Trin asks “You’re over here early”
“So are you”
She grins andHope’s shower,” she half-whispers
I’d been wanting to talk to Trinity about that at some point, so I pull out a chair and join the two of them
“How are you, Charlotte?”
She flicks the end of her napkin a few ti “Teller told , Rock”
“Nothing to be sorry about We’ll deal with it” I’m pleased I sound as confident as the words I just spouted
Trinity makes a noise I haven’t heard from her before “I swear, my blood pressure spikes every tih the stack of papers in front of her “We orking on the baby shower to take our minds off it”
“I actually wanted to talk to you about that”
Charlotte tilts her head, and Trinity’s lips curve into a smile I don’t think either of them expected me to have an opinion
“We’re th
inking of holding it at Teller and Charlotte’s,” Trinity says
Charlotte nods vigorously “We have plenty of rooood”
“It should be pretty small” Trinity meets my eyes “Unless you want it to be a Jack and Jill shower”
I stare at her
“Co-ed The father-to-be and other male family members also come to celebrate the baby”
“I thought that only works if other dads are there to scare the father-to-be?” Charlotte’s lips quirk into a playful smile “Murphy and Bricks are the only other dads”
“I’ve had a ringside seat to Alexa’s antics since she got here” I crack a s else “Hasn’t scared me off yet”
“She’s a sweet baby, though” Trinity snickers into her hand “If Wrath didn’t put you off having kids, nothing will”
Our inside jokes about Wrath’s toddler tendencies never get old “I’lance at Charlotte “If you’re sure you’re okay having that many people at your house?”
Again she see and have everyone over” She lifts her chin at Trinity “I don’t want to dis and looks attime for this”