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“I want you to be forced to come back. After all, you can’t turn your back on your wife.”

“I’ll always come back to you, Abby,” and he placed his hand on my stomach “and you, little one.”

I put my hand over his. “I love you, Reaper.”

“I’m pretty sure I love you more, Abby.” He kissed my forehead.

He just didn’t know how much I loved him. He kept me breathing. I knew right then I was going to miss him like hell when he was gone.

Chapter 42

Abby

“I don’t want to talk about it.” I was stubborn to the point I was now determined. I wasn’t answering any of Kim’s questions.

“So you’re completely fine with the fact Reaper’s going on a manhunt.”

“I said I don’t want to talk about it.”

“Yet here we are talking about it.”

“No, you’re talking about it, and I’m trying to eat breakfast.”

“Morning, girls,” Blue walked into the room and sat down at the table; he had a newspaper in hand, and like always, I felt a natural warmth toward Blue. He was like the grandparent I never had.

“Morning, Blue,” Kim and I both said at the same time.

“So what has you two up early?” Blue sipped from his beer. He never really cared about the whole don’t drink before twelve thing.

“Reaper woke me up.”

“Trigger left early.”

“You women are ruled by men. What did I always tell you?” He pointed a butter knife at us.

“Never let a man rule our lives,” Kim and I repeated while rolling our eyes.

“And what are you doing?” Blue’s voice hardened. “You both ended up with a terrible match.”

“Trigger isn’t that bad,” Kim defended her choice. “And plus he is really good looking.”

I rolled my eyes at that. “Besides, Reaper is good to me. He doesn’t rule me.”

“Fucking oath he does. Look at the suicide mission he is going on.”

“Wait, you know about that!” I put my breakfast down. How could Blue know about that? I thought it was something only my dad knew about.

“Who do you think your father comes to when he doesn’t know what to do?” Blue shook his head and picked up his beer. “If you ask me, a war has been coming for years. All Reaper has done is start it. I would have killed the woman too if I heard what Jacobs was going to do to you.”

“To me? You mean he already knows I exist? That Reaper has a fiancée?” I was getting more answers out of Blue than I was Reaper. I should have known Reaper was only telling me half the story.

“Of course he knows you exist. It was Jax and Amber that tipped Reaper off that Jacobs was threatening you.”

“Amber Shields and Jackson Johnston?” My mouth fell open. “They haven’t talked to us in years.”

“Who do you think is helping Reaper on this manhunt?”

“Jax is helping him?”

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