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I pursed my lips. Jax was right again.

“He’s quiet. Which means I’m really in the shit.” I ran a hand through my hair. I couldn’t believe I was having a conversation with Jax! All these years and it was the one thing I was terrified of. Yet it seemed natural.

“You’ll work him around. God knows you always knew how to work me down. So, I know you can handle your son.”

Jax was missing one fact. It was his son, I was meant to be working down. Jack had my stubbornness but Jax’s clear thinking.

I couldn’t put it off any longer. “You’re right.”

“When you are ready to see me, reach out to your brothers. They will always know where I am.”

I nodded even though he couldn’t see it. “Bye, Jax.”

“Bye, sweetheart.”

And I hung up. Okay, that hadn’t gone terrible. Jack threw a fit. Jax heard me at my very worst. But Jax was letting me go, right? That’s what I’d always wanted. For me to reach out to him, when I know Jack was ready for it.

Jax had put the ball in my court. He just didn’t know he was trusting me to bring up his son. And one day, let him have a relationship with that son.

One day, I would let Jax in, wouldn’t I?

I slowly walked up the stairs, realizing I didn’t have an answer to my question. I hoped to wake up one day strong enough to face Jax and tell him he had a son.

I just didn’t know what it would take for that day to happen.

Chapter Five

Jax

I had one regret. One regret that haunted me every day I was in prison. I’d pushed Amber away.

I knew as soon as she turned the tables on me and pushed me away, that what I’d done was a mistake.

She had disappeared like she promised. And I knew she was going to keep her word about never seeing me again. Years had passed since the day she left me in prison and no matter how many men I hired to find her, they pulled up nothing.

She had even cut her brothers off. They weren’t very good liars, so I knew they were telling the truth when they said she’d disappeared from their lives as well.

She was like a ghost. And I thought that was how she would stay until I got Tae held for bullshit charges all to get her number.

I had a feeling he would know where she was. Even though I had sent the boys there and he gave them bullshit excuses.

Hearing her voice for the first time in six years was like giving me a dying wish. But a part of me had always counted on her being with Tae. And waiting for me. Even though I knew that was unfair to her, and she had told me that was the last thing she was going to do.

Well, she pushed me away in the end, taking the power from me when she realized I wasn’t changing my mind. Little did I know my mind would change the second she disowned me.

She had moved on.

According to the fake name she used. She was in a relationship with a Will Daveson, who was a lawyer. One that went up against me a few times. I’m starting to think that was on purpose now. She also had a son.

And she had moved far, far away from me.

I leaned my bike to the side. First day out of prison and how did I spend it? Making sure my purpose was really doing okay. That she was happy. That she did have a child. Even though I had heard it on the phone and read it on her tax forms, I didn’t want to believe it.

Believing it meant another man had gotten what I always wanted. Another man was bigger than me, to claim her and not do the stupid thing and push her away, like I did.

I knew her son was having his birthday party here. I also knew my so-called loyal members had been blowing off the club to spend time with their new nephew.

I couldn’t blame them though, if Amber was letting me back in her life, I would want to spend time with her and her son.

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