“Shit,” I said when she came toward me. I held out my hand. Adelita took it, and I pulled her into my chest.
“Tanner, your injuries!” she complained.
“Fuck the injuries.” I pressed my lips to her mouth. I needed her. I needed to fuck her. Needed her under me. Hadn’t had her in such a fucking long time. Bitch wouldn’t allow it. That shit was changing tonight.
“Now, now, Tanner.” Beauty’s voice cut me off from kissing my wife. “I love you both and all, but like hell I wanna see y’all fucking.” Beauty smiled, then said, “Anyway, we got something to show you.”
I frowned, then looked to Adelita. She shrugged. “I don’t know what is happening either. Beauty just made me get ready.”
I held Adelita’s hand and walked out of the hallway, behind Tank and Beauty. Beau stayed behind me. Beauty stopped at the entrance to the yard. She put her hand on the door, then said, “Y’all snuck the fuck off and got married with us. Now, y’all know I love to plan a fucking party.” Adelita looked to me, confused. Beauty opened the door, and I saw all my brothers and their bitches out in the yard. They held up their drinks when they saw us. Adelita’s eyes widened. “So I threw y’all one!” Beauty said. “Gotta celebrate our very own Romeo and Juliet getting hitched.” Beauty dragged Adelita to a table holding drinks and handed her a champagne—bitch had gone all out.
Hush put a bottle in my hand. His eyes fell to the new tattoos on my arms. “About fucking time.” He smirked. But I nodded in agreement.
It was about fucking time.
Adelita got pulled into the crowd by the bitches. Her smile was so fucking wide I felt it like a stab to my chest. She made a beeline for Mae, who handed her Charon. Seeing my bitch holding her nephew in her arms fucking destroyed me.
I wanted that. I wanted my kid in Adelita’s arms. I wanted her looking at our kid like she was looking at Charon. Like she could hear my thoughts, she turned around and smiled at me.
I was one lucky fucker.
Styx came beside me, and I saw him looking at his sister with his son. Adelita had gone to his house more and more over the past couple of weeks. Styx didn’t say much to her, but I knew the brother loved having her there. Who the fuck wouldn’t? Like I’d told her, she was easy to love.
Styx put his hands to his mouth and whistled. The yard fell silent and the music cut off. Adelita came over to me when Styx met her eyes and nudged his head in our direction. I shrugged when she looked at me for an explanation. I didn’t have one.
Beauty came out of the doors behind us. I smiled when I saw what was in her hands. Beauty stopped before Adelita. “Beauty . . .” Adelita whispered.
“What you waiting for?” Beauty said. “Try it the fuck on, girl.”
Beauty helped Adelita slip on the leather cut. When it was on, Adelita turned to face me, a huge fucking smile on her face and “Property of Tanner” on her fucking back.
“You like?” Adelita said to me, her red lips hooking up into a smile.
Growling, I smashed my mouth to hers and said, “You’re wearing that tonight in bed. That and nothing fucking else.”
Someone cleared their throat. Luis. “It suits you,” he said to Adelita. The guy always spoke in English to Lita whenever he was around me. She had a fucking good friend in him.
“Thank you, Luis,” Adelita said. Her shoulders sagged. “You sure you have to leave tomorrow?” Luis was heading back to Mexico. Back to his church.
“I have people to serve, Lita. But I’ll be back to see you as much as I can.”
Adelita threaded her arm through his. “Then we need to have a goodbye drink.” I watched her as she disappeared into the crowd, my name on her fucking back. The music came back on, and brothers got back to drinking.
Chavez, Ky, Shadow, AK, and Vike came over to me. AK handed me another beer. Adelita had met with Chavez a couple of times. He’d told her how he fucking hated his old man. The minute she knew that, he had Adelita’s attention. She hated her old man too for what he did to her, to her mama.