Page 84 of Pumpkin
Cage made a face. “This is going to be a thing with you, isn’t it?”
“After six years of beingpumpkined?” he snapped back with a glare. “Fuck yeah.”
Demo approached them. “Glad to see you finally brought them around.”
“Wait, you knew about this?” Cage demanded.
Demo’s expression turned insulted. “My BFF wouldneverkeep a secret from me.”
Pumpkin punched his ‘BFF’ in the arm.
The double doors opened behind Pumpkin, and he, Demo, and Cage stepped aside as Lucky, Bulldog, Ghost, Steel, and Jenna entered the clubhouse.
Pumpkin reached for Dosia’s hand, pulling her and SJ towards him. “Steel, this is Dosia, my woman. Dosia, I’d like to introduce you to Steel. He’s our President.”
Though clearly exhausted, Steel came forward, an arm firmly around Jenna’s waist. “It’s nice to meet you, Dosia. I’m glad Pumpkin finally grew a pair and brought you around.”
Pumpkin stiffened. “You knew?”
Steel’s gun-metal gray eyes leveled on him. “Of course I knew. There’s not much that goes on in my club that I don’t know about.” Steel tightened his hold on Jenna’s waist. “This is my much-better half, Jenna.” The women shook hands. “Forgive us, but there’s some kids I’d very much like to hug. I’ve been away for several days.”
“Yes, of course.” Dosia stepped closer to Pumpkin to give them room to pass.
Jenna touched Dosia’s arm. “We’ll talk later. I promise.”
Dosia nodded, though she didn’t look all that eager.
Pumpkin leaned down as Dosia adjusted SJ on her hip. “We’ll head to the house in a few.” Louder, he said, “And this is Lucky, our VP, Bulldog, our SAA, and Ghost, our Enforcer.”
Dosia held her hand out to each man. “I have no idea what any of that means, but it’s nice to meet you.”
“Same,” Lucky said.
The door behind him opened up again, and Scar came through. Pumpkin saw Dosia’s eyes go wide, but then, Scar was anintimidating presence. His bright sapphire eyes locked on Tally from across the room. Ignoring anyone and everyone else, Scar made a beeline for her, and despite the crowd, managed to make it there without touching a single person that stood between him and his goal.
As soon as he was near enough, he lifted Tally up, tossed her over his shoulder, and headed out the hallway of the clubhouse apartments. Giggling, Tally raised a hand to the room before twisting to say to Scar, “Clearly, your lessons in manners are not working, my love.”
Unsurprisingly, there was no answer from Scar.
They disappeared from sight, and Pumpkin figured they wouldn’t see either of them for several days. Scar had a habit of locking them away in their new apartment and not resurfacing for a long time.
Dosia turned to Pumpkin, clearly confused, but he just shrugged. “And that’s Scar. Trust me, your introduction to him could have gone a lot worse.”
“I wasn’t introduced to him at all.”
Pumpkin shrugged. “My statement stands. Come on, let’s grab JJ and head to the house. I want to show you?—”
Bulldog’s phone went off right next to where Pumpkin and Dosia stood. Pumpkin recognized the ringtone from the gate. He looked around, trying to figure out who wasn’t here that would need the access code. It better not be Agent Douchebag again.
“Yeah?” Bulldog asked into the phone. Whatever he heard on the other end had him stiffen. His eyes, though, flew to where Angel and Bree were mingling across the room. “I’ll be right up.”
Hanging up the phone, Bulldog pocketed it. He turned and whispered something in Lucky’s ear.
Lucky, in turn, muttered a single word. “Fuck.” And then he went off after Steel.
“What is it?” Pumpkin asked. His hackles were up. His pregnant woman and kids were here. He needed to know if he had to hide them.
Bulldog’s jaw was tight as he answered, “We have an unexpected visitor. I’ll be back soon.” He paused before saying, “Best get thewomen and kids out of here.” He nodded his chin towards Bree, Aaron, and Ollie. “The teens can stay.”
