Hawk (Reckless Kings MC #2) - Harley Wylde Page 0,36

cheating on their woman. So when I say you’re mine, it means I’m yours too. I’m only going to be with you, just like you’ll only be with me.”

I watched her face, trying to judge her reaction. There was a haunted look to her eyes that concerned me. What the hell was she stressing about now? Did she think I just made all that shit up and didn’t plan to be faithful to her?

And then it hit me. I’d been worried about her finding someone else. Was she thinking I’d been with other women since the night we’d shared?

“Baby, look at me.” Her gaze focused on me, and I noticed her eyes were glassy from unshed tears. It fucking gutted me. “I won’t lie. I tried to be with other women after I came back home that first time. I’d told you I would be in town another day or two, and you hadn’t come back. I figured you weren’t interested in more than our one night together.”

She sucked in a breath and a tear rolled down her cheek. I quickly wiped it away.

“It didn’t work,” I said. “Couldn’t get hard for any of them. Only woman I wanted was back in Alabama.”

“Really?” she asked, her voice nearly a whisper.

“I swear it, Hayley. I’ve only wanted you since that night. Hell, I’ve jacked off to thoughts of you so often I’m surprised I don’t have blisters on my hand. It fucking killed me when I saw Viking holding Freya and you standing next to him. I thought I’d lost you for sure, that you’d started a family with someone else.”

She sniffled and leaned into me. “We’re quite a pair, aren’t we?”

I gave a humorless laugh. She wasn’t wrong. “Sit here for a second. I have something for you.”

I eased her off my lap. She sat on the edge of the bed. I dug through the things I’d taken with me to Alabama until I found the box I wanted. Opening the lid, I removed the silver bracelet and carried it over to Hayley. I reached down and took her left hand in mine and slipped the cuff bracelet onto her wrist.

“You already had this?” she asked.

“I made it,” I admitted. “A while ago.”

“How long is a while?”

I shifted on my feet, suddenly feeling like a nervous teen boy about to ask out his first crush. “In the last few months. Even though it seemed like you didn’t want anything to do with me, I guess part of me always hoped you’d end up here in my house. In my bed.”

“Hawk…”

“Call me Alex. But only when we’re alone. I know you saw the name on my credit card. No one’s called me anything other than Hawk in a really long fucking time. You’re not just anyone to me, Hayley. You’re my woman. My old lady. The mother of my children.”

Her eyes went wide. “Children? Plural?”

I smirked. “I figured we’d wait until Freya wasn’t keeping you up all night anymore before we start trying for a baby.”

“I’ll have to see if I can take birth control while I’m breastfeeding,” she said.

Shit. I hadn’t thought of that. I wasn’t about to wear a condom. Wouldn’t be a guarantee anyway, and I liked not having a barrier between us. Maybe there were other options open to us. Wouldn’t hurt to look into it.

“Looks like we’re leaving it up to fate. Again.” She opened her mouth, probably to protest, but I held up a hand. “When you’re ready. It’s not like I’m going to strip right here and now, Hayley. I’m not a monster.”

She blinked at me like a sleepy owl for a moment before sighing. “As much as I don’t want to get pregnant again so soon after Freya, I already know I wouldn’t tell you no. All it would take is you kissing me, and any rational thought would fly out the window. I don’t seem to make good choices when it comes to the two of us being naked together.”

I knelt at her feet and cupped her cheek. “If you really want to wait, we’ll talk to a doctor and figure it out. I’m not about to force you to have another baby right now. Having you here with me, both you and Freya, is enough. We can take things as slow as you want.”

The tension seemed to drain from her. “I’ve been worried about how things would go when we got here. Part of it is that we don’t really know