Taming Coyote - E.C. Land Page 0,7

was dealt a shit hand in life and knowing that my son will be in good hands is all I’ll need to get through the rest of my life.

Please tell Rachel, that I’m sorry for my part in everything that happened. Like a chessboard, there are pawns then there is the king and queen. I was merely a pawn in the grand scheme of things.

Coyote, all I ask is you love Cody with all your heart and give him what I couldn’t. And let him know that I love him more than anything in this world and only did this to protect him.

Milley

P.S. Tinsley has paperwork to fill out for Cody’s birth certificate. I didn’t want to give him my last name. No reason for my brother to be able to get him.

I end up reading the letter several times over before lifting my gaze to meet Tinsley’s. “Where is she?”

There was no way after reading this that I couldn’t go after her.

“Well, umm, she discharged herself after I left with Cody,” Tears filled the woman’s eyes as she looked at Grigory.

“I got word from one of my men I’d sent to pick her up from her brother. I’m sorry to say this but she was beaten to death.”

His words are a blow I didn’t expect to receive. One night. That’s all I had with her and I didn’t even know her name. Now we have a child and I’ll never see her again.

Fuck.

Chapter Four

Coyote

It’s been a month since the day I found out I had a son and the woman who carried him died. I couldn’t help but blame myself for the fact if I’d simply asked for her name, Milley would still be here.

What ifs continue to roll through my head.

A lot of people would have told me I was nuts for taking Cody without a DNA test, but I don’t need one. He has the family birthmark right behind his ear, exactly where mine is. Weird as it may be, but every man in my family was born with an oval looking mark behind the ear.

Breaking the news to Rachel had felt like another punch to the gut. Granted she’s never said it, but I’m sure she blames me for Milley’s death. Stoney promised her and I both we’d go after the motherfuckers who took my son's mom.

Having to raise a kid isn’t a joke. Those who have to do it completely on their own deserve a hell of a lot of credit. If it wasn’t for the fact I not only had all the help here with my brothers and their ol’ ladies, I don’t know what I’d do.

Hell, I don't know what I’m doing period.

Each night after I get Cody to sleep, I end up finding a couple of clubwhores and lose myself in them. I refuse to drink, knowing I have him to take care of so that leaves the only other reprieve I have.

Doesn’t help that a certain blond has stuck around because she wasn’t able to go back home. If she did Milley’s brother would probably get to her and she didn’t want to go home with Grigory.

We’d told him Tinsley could stay here in town and since she’d helped save Cody, we got her situated in an apartment on the other side of town. Whenever she’s around, I avoid her at all cost. I don’t know what it is about the woman, maybe she reminds me of Milley.

Or the fact that every time I see her my dick reacts in a way it didn’t even do that one night I had with Milley. Either way I’m not about to go that route. Clubwhores are all I’ll allow myself to have.

“Hey, brother, you good?” Shadow asks as he sits on the couch next to me.

Clearing my throat, I glance up at him from where I’d been staring at Cody as I held the bottle to his mouth. “Yeah, I’m good.”

“You sure?”

“Yeah,” I nod my head not wanting to admit how fucked up my head is right now.

“Look, I’m just gonna say it because you're my brother. I know you’re not fuckin’ okay. Who would be after finding out not only do you have a kid, but the mom was beaten to death after going back to her brother rather than trying to escape him. But, Coyote, you need to get your head back on right. This fuckin’ the clubwhores isn’t helping you,” Shadow says.

“You don’t know what’s in my head,” I mutter.

“I