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Tate stepped closer and lowered his voice.

“You shouldn’t be here. With our family? It’s—”

“It’s fucking weird.” West, the one who’d been the softest with me during our night together, crossed his arms and scowled. “Maybe you should leave. If you have something to talk to us about, it shouldn’t be here, like this.”

Feeling more embarrassed than ever I pulled Lucky from my chest and yanked my shirt down. Lucky, never happy to have his meal interrupted, opened his mouth and let us all hear how angry he was. I patted his back and stood up, suddenly desperate to flee. I looked at the three women I already felt a budding connection with and told myself I wasn’t going to cry.

“I’m sorry. I’ll go.”

“No, you’re staying. If my brothers can’t act like decent human beings, they can go.” Maxie mimicked West’s pose. “And you wonder why you weren’t invited.”

“What is this?” Mills took a step closer to me and my body felt a flare of arousal. “Is this some sort of shakedown? You come here with a fucking baby, thinking you can fool some poor fucks into supporting you? Not going to happen, lady.”

“Look at him, idiot.” Vera huffed at her brothers and came over to put her arm around me. “Open your eyes and look.”

Lucky was still furious and his screams had only slightly died down. The moment Mills got close enough to examine him, Lucky froze as he spotted the large man. His little mouth twisted down in his fiercest scowl yet but he stopped crying and reached a single fist out to Mills. It was gut-wrenching to see him instantly react to Mills, almost as if he could feel that the man might’ve been one of his people.

“It’s not possible. We were careful. We weren’t going to chance getting something from a sex club, for god’s sake.”

I felt like he’d slapped me. I held Lucky closer and blew out a shaky breath.

“This was a mistake.”

“What the hell did you just say to my best friend?”

Everyone snapped their head around to see who’d snuck in the kitchen. Harley and Mason stood behind West and Tate, cramped in the corner of the kitchen, but Harley wasn’t one to be put in a corner so easily. She had murder in her eyes but it was Mason who really worried me. His face was a mask of calm anger, something he didn’t typically do.

“It’s fine, Harley. Let’s just go.” I’d never been more grateful for her not listening to me. With the car outside, I could just slip in and we could drive back to Dallas and forget Devil’s Den had ever happened.

“Who the hell are you? And is that another kid you’re going to pawn off as ours? Sorry, kid. I don’t know what your mom told you but we’re not your daddy. Good luck.” Tate grimaced. “Seems like you’re going to need it.”

“Stop it, you asses! That’s your kid. Just freaking look at him!” Maxie gripped my shoulders and gently turned me so I was facing her older brothers. “Look at his eyes.”

“These are the guys, Rea? No way. They don’t deserve to be around Lucky. I’ll stay home with you and help out. I’m not going to leave you and Lucky with these fucking assholes to be verbally abused.” Mason shouldered his way past Mills, his much smaller frame bouncing back but it didn’t stop him.

“Let’s go.”

CHAPTER 11

Reagan

“Language.” I realized how stupid it was to correct Mason’s swearing at that moment and sighed. “Forget it. Swear all you want.”

“No. We’re not leaving until these cornbread motherfuckers apologize to you for implying you have some sort of STI.” Harley was about as pure as fresh snow but she had an alter ego who came out when it was necessary. “The audacity of you big dickwads treating my best friend like that. I should drag you all out by your ears and kick your asses up and down the street. Who the hell raised you?”

Maxie coughed. “Pretty sure our mother would’ve sounded just like them.”

Mills stumbled back a step at that. His face turned red with anger and I was sure he was going to explode. Instead, he ran his hands down his face and took a few deep breaths.

“What makes you think he’s ours?”

“I haven’t slept with anyone else.”

“Really? You sold yourself at a sex club auction and you want us to believe you haven’t been back there for more money?” Mills saw Mason reaching for him and easily pinned Mason’s arms behind his back to pin him to the wall. “Watch it, kid.”

I panicked.

“Stop it! Let him go!”

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