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“The real reason” Copper reached for the bottle again, but Jig was fast, snatching it out of reach

“Yeah The one you’re burying so deep, you’re afraid to even admit it to yourself The one that made you react like a fucker instead of amore than another strawberry-haired, blue-eyed baby to dote on”

A bone-rattling, blood-chilling, heart-stopping fear snaked its way to the forefront of Copper’sworld He loved that woman For so sixteen years her senior Despite hi an ornery motherfucker Despite the fact there were details of his club he could and would never share with her None of it mattered when it was just the two of them

The thought of plodding his way through the rest of his life without Shell by his side had Copper feeling so he holly unused to

Fear

Dread so great he could breathe through it, so he shoved it down and refused to allow the thoughts to penetrate Fear so consu, itat his pregnant wo her alone and crushed

Fuck, if any one of his men had acted this way toward their ol’ ladies, Copper would be the first to beat their ass

“She had an eh the entire pregnancy, until it wasn’t Until she was bleeding so bad, she nearly died It was close, Jig Closer than she’d even admitted to me I saw the records”

With a snort, Jig shook his head “Don’t want to kno you got your hands on those”

“I had to know Won’t apologize for that But it was bad And she’s at a high risk for it happening again Toocontrol I can’t…” He cleared his throat as it tightened, and an unfa buzzed in the corners of his eyes Fuck, when had he becoet the word out without wanting to curl up in the corner and cry

“I get it, brother,” Jig said, not a trace of huet it more than most”

“Sorry if this stirs shit up for you”

“I’ responded “I had to e at the moon these past nine months”

Copper grunted in response

“You know the doctors will keep on her, right? They’ll monitor the fuck outta your woman and your baby Won’t be the same this time around” Some of the other men wouldn’t’ understand The ones without women, mostly Even some of the men with ol’ ladies had never experienced the threat of so to them