Page 19 of Ghost

“I don’t think so, your mother would have a cow,” Cajunsaid,and then Slider came up to Jas’s side and flung an arm around her.

“I told you, I would be your favorite dad, right?”

I watched as she looked up at him and she grinned when he handed her hisbeer,and she took a drink.

“Thank you, Daddy!”

Cajun frowned, “So not fucking cool.”

Brax chuckled as we moved away, but we could still hear Jas and her dads talking. When I glanced up at him, he smiled, “She is going to put those men through hell.”

“They will gripe and bitch, but they will enjoy every minute,” I said and grabbeda waterand handed a beer to Brax.

“I can’t believe you arereallyleaving us,” Rain sniffed and hugged me when she and the other women walked up.

“It’s not going to be forever, we can visit and stuff,” I saidsoftly,and Rain leaned back and glared at me.

“Damn right,” Rain snapped and then stepped back and let Harmony have her turn.

“We are going to put the Black Hawk compound on our list of places to ride when we need a fucking vacation from all this shit,” Harmony said, and when Brax coughedloudly, Iwhipped my head up to glare at him.

“What?”

“Nothing,” Brax said, and Freedom moved closer to him.

“Better be nothing, you don’t know what this woman means to us. So...you better know right now, when we call, and we will, she had better be happy and fucking spoutingrainbows,or we are gonna let Shady loose on you.”

I watched Brax as he looked around theroom.Typicalman searching for his way out when cornered in the middle of a group of women where tears were a huge possibility.

Shady smirked, then whispered, “Here at the Ops, our men know when to rein us in and when to get the hell out of our way. Now is one of the times to get the hell out of our way, Ghost.”

Brax stared back at Shady, then turned to me and leaned over and kissed the top of my head. “To show you just how smart I am. I’m going to go find Speed and the others and leave you women to it,” he said, and I looked at him and smiled.

“No problem, just come back here when you’re ready.”

Brax looked at Shay and the others and shook his head.

“No, baby, how about you come find me. You know? In case we get busy talking.”

I shrugged and winked. “Not a problem. Go have fun with the boys.”

As he walked away, I waited until the door shut before I laughed and turned to my friends. “Was that really necessary?”

Shady grinned and said, “Fuck yeah itwas. Next,we’re going to send out Boo with a bloody knife to tell the guys the sacrifice is over.”

We alllaughed,and Harmony said, “You know, there was a time when we wouldn’t have had the nerve to fuck with these types of men.”

I looked around, “Yeah, but look around, without these men, we would be sad and lonely spinsters.” They all laughed and then I continued.“Seriously,though, I’m not sure what the fuck I would have done without you guys. I mean, you are my family, all of you, and thinking about you not being there for the birth of my child...it sucks.”

The women who had been my friends and as close as sisters stared at me. Freedom was the first to start crying, and once the others noticed, they started, too. Soon, we were in a circle blubbering about missing each other.

We heard the dooropen,but none of us turned until we heard Roscoe voice, “What the fuck are you all crying about?”

Shady wiped her eyes and looked at the older man and said, “Moon is leaving.”

“Well yeah, I knowthat,darlin’. I was inhercabin with all of you, helping to packhershit,”hesaid,and when we just stared athim. He finally asked, “AND?”

Harmony frowned, “That is it, Moon is leaving.”

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