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I went on to tell hi How I felt about said doctor How I felt about Linc How I’d inadvertently outed Linc as my baby daddy to my non-existent baby

By the tie

“I’ll bet that just made Linc’s day,” Hoax admitted

I thought about that for a long runted “To be honest, he wasn’t really all that upset about it”

Hoax grinned but didn’t laugh

“That’s because you just gave hi him work for it You practically tied a pretty little bow to your sweet little head and then said, ‘Okay, takeboy,’” he explained

I frowned “I’m not sure what you mean”

Hoax rolled his eyes towardan answer “Even if you hadn’t introduced yourself, I would’ve eventually knoho you were”

My broent up “Really? How?”

“Linc,” he said, shrugging his shoulder slightly, then wincing “Linc’s been talking about you for so long that I can’t even pinpoint an exact day I know it’s at least been going on since he joined the club, and ere talking about switching the name from the Dixie Wardens MC to the Bear Bottom Guardians MC”

“What?” I was surprised “You were once a Dixie Warden?”

He nodded once “Yep Originally, anyway We chose to set up here because it was pretty localized to clubs that were friendly with the Dixie Wardens already Mostly all of us were sons of original randdad is a member of the Benton chapter Dixie is his name”

I blinked once in surprise “My stepfather is Big Papa”

“I know,” he replied “I told you I’d knoho you were despite the intro But that is due to Linc never shutting his trap about you, not because I ever saw you there I was in the Marines until we branched off and changed our name to Bear Bottom Guardians”

“Heneration wasn’t happy about y’all wanting to change the name?”

How had I not heard this before? I felt really stupid for not knowing

This tih in “Oh, hell no That was also when I started to hear about you nonstop”

But before I could get him to expound on his answer, the sirens drowned out our conversation and the lights started to color our world with a wash of red and blue as the eency personnel arrived on scene

So up, and absently I swatted it away before I could think too hard on it