Page 71 of Deception
Holding a hand up, Ky looks at Colt. “You know this asshole knocked up my daughter?”
“I had no fucking idea,” Colt says and looks at Lex. “You knew?”
She shrugs and pops a kernel into her mouth. “I may have overheard Kent and Gavin talking to Cole this morning, yes.”
Gracie steps away from her boyfriend. “You told Gavin? Not even twenty-four hours after you promised you wouldn’t say anything.”
“Baby, I had to,” Kent says, his eyes pleading with her. “I couldn’t get that motherfucker out ofourclub alone. Not without this happening, which, I suppose, happened anyway.”
“You’re Nolan’s father?” Klaire gasps.
Cole shakes his head furiously. “No, she’s a fucking stalker and a goddamn liar. I’d never touch that ugly bitch.”
“Say another thing about her,” Kent growls. “I fucking dare you.”
“She’s getting everyone against me! She knows how dangerous—”
“Is it true?” Klaire asks and turns to Gracie with watery eyes. “Gracie… Did you sleep with him?”
Lip trembling, she nods. “I didn’t know you were together until I found out I was pregnant. It was a stupid decision at Melissa’s party, and then he refused to even admit anything happened.”
“Why didn’t you tell me?”
“I didn’t want to hurt you,” she says, and she hates how her voice cracks. “I didn’t know until last night he was even prospecting.”
“You’re a liar! And you’ve asked them to throw me out. Why are you trying to ruin my life?” Cole shouts.
Handing Melanie the bowl of popcorn, Lex hops off the bar. “Actually, that’s on me. I’m the one who asked to have you thrown out. I’m the one ruining your life.”
“What?” he gasps.
“Yeah, you see, I heard things. Like you admitting you slept with Gracie. Then you said really not nice things about her. I risked my life twice to save her, and I love her like a daughter. But there was one thing you said that really,reallypissed me off.”
Jaw dropped, Gracie stares at Lex. She did all of this? Pulled the strings?Who else could pull this off?
“And what was that?” Cole asks through clenched teeth. He has enough sense not to call Lex any derogatory names, even though it looks like he’d love nothing more.
“You said you were untouchable. No one’s untouchable, and if you think my husband would have picked you over Gracie simply because you’re with his sister, you’re even dumber than you look. Which I didn’t think was possible.”
“Which is a very nice way to say that you can go fuck all the way off, motherfucker,” Melanie says.
Rolling his shoulders, Cole laughs. “She was a lame lay, anyway. And easy as fuck. Good luck keeping Kent happy, you whore.”
Kent’s fist connects with Cole in a flash while Gavin grabs Cole by the arms to hold him upright, letting Kent beat the hell out of him. “Don’t you ever fucking talk about my girl again. Ever.”
“Now, that’s teamwork,” Lex says.
“Lex, you knew?” Gracie whispers.
“Baby, you should have told us from the very beginning. He never should have gotten this far, and that stupid motherfucker thought I wouldn’t be able to pull anything off.” Grimacing at the bloody mess of his face, she shrugs. “Guess he was wrong.”
Lily tilts her head as she joins them. “Gracie, you should know better than any of us how seriously Lex takes protecting the women of this club. Especially the daughters.”
Her lip quivers, and she looks at Klaire. “I’m so sorry. I didn’t tell anyone because the last person I ever wanted to hurt was you.”
Klaire just nods and lets out a deep breath. Her eyes don’t leave Kent and Cole. “You chose to raise a baby alone to avoid hurting me?”
“Yes.”
