UnHinge Me (Savage Beast MC #6) - Hayley Faiman Page 0,119
our best interest as brothers and as a club at heart.
Parking my bike, I climb off and before Leighton can throw her leg over the side, I scoop her up in my arms. Carrying her toward our room, I slam the door behind me and make our way toward the bathroom.
“I didn’t bring all your soaps and shit, but I did grab your shampoo and conditioner.”
“You didn’t have to do that,” she whispers.
I hum, setting her down on the edge of the vanity. “Yeah, I did, because I knew I would find you, I would bring you back here and you’d want to be clean.”
She lifts her eyes toward mine, they’re wide and full of unshed tears. “I don’t know if I deserve you, probably not, but thank you. Thank you for everything.”
“You don’t deserve me,” I grunt, taking a step toward her as the shower heats up. Lifting my hand, I cup her cheek. “You deserve so much fuckin’ better.”
Tilting my head to the side, my lips brush hers once, then twice before my tongue peeks out and slides across the seam of her mouth. She opens without hesitation and I slide my tongue inside of her, tasting her, tasting what I thought that I had lost—tasting what’s mine from now until the day that I fucking die.
I love Leighton and I never thought I would love another human, but here I am, and I’m fucking happy about that too.
So goddamn happy.
Epilogue
THREE MONTHS LATER
LEIGHTON
The doctor warned me that it would happen. Contractions before it was time. The tightening in the lower belly that feels like cramps. The backache, the exhaustion. I guess I didn’t think that it would be this bad.
I was wrong.
Standing in the nursery, I look around. Everything is ready for this girl to make her appearance—everything but me.
I’m not ready. Not in the slightest. Three months ago, I thought that this would never happen, so even if I’m not ready, I’m still excited and happy. This life has turned out absolutely nothing like I imagined. If someone had told me two years ago that I would be pregnant, and the Old Lady of some biker, I would have laughed.
The reality is that, that is exactly my life and it’s better than I could have ever dreamed of.
I groan, placing my hand on my belly as it tightens with another contraction. My gaze flicks around the room, the crib is set up, the bedding washed and ready. Her clothes are neatly hanging or folded in her dresser. I even have a little changing table.
Wilder spared no expense for this baby, absolutely none. Anything that I could have thought of, he bought before I could even ask. Then, if he didn’t, the other wives did during our baby shower.
I almost laughed when they invited us to a couple’s shower, until I realized that a couple’s shower meant the men were outside talking, drinking beer, and smoking while the kids all ran around like wildlings and we were inside eating cake, opening presents and laughing.
It was amazing.
It was the moment that I truly felt accepted by this family. The moment that I felt like part of their family. That was almost two months ago. Right after my father took Trista and me.
I thought that once we were back, once we were settled, Trista would hate me, but she didn’t. In fact, the whole thing brought us closer.
“What’re you doin’ in here?” Wilder’s voice calls out from behind me.
He makes his way closer, sliding his hand around my belly to rest his palm in the center. Something that he does often and I absolutely adore it. Leaning back against him, I let out a puff of air as my stomach tightens again.
“You okay?” he asks.
“The doctor said I would get these for a while before it was time, but they hurt,” I admit.
He hums, touching his lips to my temple. “I don’t like that,” he murmurs. “You in pain? Fuck that.”
I laugh softly, turning my head slightly to touch my mouth to the side of his neck. “It won’t last forever,” I whisper. “Just until she’s here.”
We’re quiet for a moment, Wilder looking at the new space for our daughter and me looking up at him. I don’t know how it happened. How he went from this man who saved me, to this man I lusted after, to the man that I completely fell in love with, but he did.