Page 149 of Heartbeats & Highways

“Cam and Lily.” Savage shoveled a heaping mound of potato salad onto my plate.

“Go on . . .”

“Their parents died not too long ago,” he said, pitching his voice lower and meeting my gaze. “Boxer and Doc became their legal guardians.”

“Both parents?” I whispered.

Savage nodded. “Within a couple of months. I’ll tell you about it later when we’re alone.”

Nodding, I looked back at the kids playing with two dogs and a soccer ball. My hand immediately went to my belly.

“They’re lucky,” I murmured. “To have the club.”

Savage met my gaze. “Lucky. Yeah.”

Chapter 38

Savage broughtme over to the group of Old Ladies who were sitting close enough to the bonfire to stay warm, but not so close that they would overheat.

“Go away,” Willa joked. “No boys allowed.”

Savage sniggered and kissed my lips briefly. “Sit,” he ordered.

I took a vacant chair in the circle of women and settled my heaping plate onto my lap.

“Something to drink, babe?” Savage asked me.

“Oh, water’s good. Thanks.” I beamed up at him. He squeezed my shoulder and then left.

“Well, I never thought I’d see the day when Savage acted like a puppy for a woman. I’m Logan,” she said with a smile. “I’m with Smoke.”

“Smoke, right.”

“Should I do a quick round-robin of who’s who?” Willa asked.

“Please,” I begged.

Willa went around the circle, pointing at women and naming off their husbands. Everyone except Rach was with a biker.

“We need name tags,” Mia said.

“I’ve got it pretty well sorted, I think,” I said, shoveling in a bite of fruit.

Savage returned with my water and then almost immediately left again to join Duke and the others.

“You guys look like smitten kittens,” Joni said. “Totally unable to take your eyes off each other.”

“You’re one to talk,” Joni said to Sutton. “You and Zip are trying to win the award for most sexual eye contact.”

Joni rubbed her baby’s back. “It worked, didn’t it?”

“We should start a book club,” Rach announced. “Which is really just an excuse to eat chocolate and gossip.”

“We do that now,” Mia said with a laugh.

“Yeah, but if it’s a book club, we can read smutty romance novels and then our men can reap the rewards,” Sutton said. “Logan knows a thing or two about smutty romance novels, don’t you?”

Logan laughed. “I might know a thing or two. And Smoke definitely isn’t complaining.”

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