Page 70 of Deception
“What? No,” Kent says. “You think she knows?”
Before she can answer, the Chapel doors open, and the men filter out. They all stand in two lines along the wall and look at the three Prospects.
“Here we go,” Lex says with a wide smile.
Colt crosses his arms over his chest. “Kent Conway, stand up.”
Kissing Gracie, he does. “Yes, sir?”
“Take off your kutte and toss it here.”
He does, and Colt immediately tosses him another one that Jace hands him with a smile on his face. “Welcome to the club.”
Beaming, he pulls on the leather and wraps Gracie up in his arms. His mouth finds her ear, and he says, “Prepare to celebrate with me tonight.”
If it gets Cole out of my sight, I’d go to Timbuktu.
“Gavin Short, stand up.”
They turn and watch her brother do the same thing Kent did. But this time, Colt pauses, and Gracie holds her breath. There’s no way they won’t patch Gavin into the club.
“Colt?” Hailey asks as she looks at her father. “What’s wrong?”
A smirk appears on his face, and he takes a kutte from Ky, tossing it at him. “Had to make you sweat a little bit. You’re with my daughter, after all.”
He laughs and hugs Hailey before giving her a big kiss. “Thank God. That would’ve been humiliating.”
“Cole Walsh, stand your ass up.”
“Here we go, babe,” he says to Klaire, bypassing the kiss she tries to give him, and tosses his kutte to Colt.
His cocky smirk tells everyone he expects to wear a member kutte home tonight, and Gracie can’t breathe.Is he really going through with this? How can he sit at the same table as my father and brother knowing what he did? As my boyfriend?
“Colt?” Klaire asks when nothing gets tossed Cole’s way. “Aren’t you going to give him something? You know, like you did Kent and Gavin?”
Cole’s smirk doesn’t waver until Colt says, “No, I’m not. We took a vote, and we all decided you can get the fuck out of our clubhouse.”
“Wait, what?” Cole asks, “Are you serious?”
Giggling, Lex continues to eat popcorn, and Gracie looks up at Kent. If he didn’t look as confused as she is shocked, she’d think he lied about telling Lex.
“You’re out,” Colt says. “I can finally move around here without you up my ass all the time. It was fucking weird.”
Whipping around, Cole glares at Gracie. “You fucking bitch.”
“I didn’t… It… I had nothing to do with this,” she stammers.
“Woah, you weren’t kidding about the show,” Melanie says and shoves another fistful of popcorn into her mouth.
Klaire looks between her friend and boyfriend. “What would Gracie have to do with this?”
“That’s what I’d like to know, too,” Ky says. “What the fuck makes you think you can talk like that about my daughter?”
“I swear, I never touched her,” Cole says and looks at Ky. “That kid is not mine.”
All air escapes Gracie’s lungs, and she feels like she might faint. Kent broke his promise, and it’s confirmed when Gavin shouts, “The fuck he isn’t!”
“You admitted it to us this afternoon, motherfucker,” Kent growls.
