Page 141 of Reaper
“Okay,ladies!Wehavefour virgin Bloody Marys, Wisconsin-style of course,” I say with a wink as Miracle and I hand a drink to Mae, Levi, Mama Astrid, and Elvira from our trays. “And for Mary, Nikki, Susie, Miracle and me, regular Bloody Marys, also Wisconsin-style, with a snit,” I continue as we pass out the rest of the drinks. I’m still a little freaked out about Loki’s visions from yesterday, but I’m trying to put it out of my mind as much as possible. Mama C was right—Mae doesn’t need a cloud like that hanging over her right now.
My smile widens after taking a sip of my Bloody Mary. The usual garnish for a Bloody Mary is olives and celery, but we mix things up a bit more here in Wisconsin. A lot of places add extras things like pickles, beef sticks, sausage, cheese, mini sliders, and bacon. Others… Well, some of them go overboard. Hell, I’ve seen fried chicken added into the mix. As for the snit, it’s a beer chaser. Another Wisconsinite thing to do.
As for our drinks today, Miracle and I kept the toppings fairly light with just olives, celery, pickles, beef sticks, sausage, and cheese. Because of course we added cheese—we’re from Wisconsin.
“So, what game are we playing next?” Susie asks as she takes the skewer of olives out of her drink and pops one in her mouth.
“How about pin the diaper on the baby?” Nikki asks as she points over at the wall where a corkboard has been hung on the wall and a mat with a picture of a baby is pinned on it.
“Yes!” a few of the ladies cheer and I laugh.
Nikki gets up and picks up a stack of what looks like pictures of diapers printed on cardstock and then laminated sitting on the end table near, but not too close, to the corkboard. Nikki’s mainly been the one leading today’s baby shower games. She’s Mae’s only aunt by blood relation while Levi, Sasha, and Susie are all aunts by claiming. Well, and Mama Astrid as a second mom, since she’s Punisher’s mother and he claimed Mae as a sister. Personally, I love that so many of the club brothers have claimed Old Ladies as sisters. It makes for an even tighter club family feeling.
“Okay, we’re not going to go overboard on the spinning, but it’s basicallyPin the Tail on the Donkeybut with a baby and a diaper. The closest one to get it in the right spot will win a prize. We can play as many times as you guys want, but like the other games, we only have three prizes. Now, get your beautiful pregnant self up here, Mae. Like before, you’re starting off this game.”
Mae pops an olive in her mouth before getting up and walking over to Nikki as we cheer. Nikki blindfolds her and carefully spins her twice before righting her. Mae sticks her arms out and slightly stumbles before her steps steady out.
We all cheer when she sticks her diaper on the mat, and she slips her blindfold off before groaning. At her groan, our cheers change to laughter.
She’s pinned the diaper on the baby’s face.
Shaking her head, she raises her hand that’s holding the blindfold in the air and turns. A huge smile is on her face and my grin widens at how much fun we’ve been having the last few hours.
“Who’s next?” Mae calls out.
Levi, who’s sitting next to me, moves to get up when gunshots ring through the air.
“Get down!” I yell as I throw myself over Levi and help her get down onto the floor. Well, as much as a pregnant lady with twins can get down on the floor that is.
I look around, my gaze roaming over each of the women and rage fills me at seeing blood on Mae’s left arm. Nikki’s placed her body over Mae’s but she hasn’t seen the wound yet. None of the other women seem to be hit.
“Stay down,” I tell Levi as I gesture to Miracle who is on the other side of Levi and she moves closer to her, shielding her.
I creep over toward Mae and take a look at her arm, relieved that it’s just a graze but then I curse at how much blood is flowing down her arm.
Nikki’s head whips over to me at my curse. “Fuck,” she hisses before covering her wound with her hand.
I glance around, looking for something that we can stem the bleeding with. Spotting a pack of diapers, I crawl a few feet over to them and rip open the package before crawling back to Mae. Nikki moves her hand off the wound and I wrap the diaper as tightly as I can over it.
“I know it’s not perfect, but this should help until Patch can take a look at you.”
A stampede of boots comes running down from upstairs. The guys were hanging out up there in a loft area watching football while we had the girlie part of Mae’s baby shower in the main room.
“Sunshine!” Timber cries out and I shift back, letting him take over.
The rest of the guys converge, all of them talking over each other as they close shutters over the windows from the inside. I creep over to the window by me and peak outside, instantly cursing before I close the shutter and lock it.
My head whips around and I spot my backpack nearby. Unzipping it, I pull out Ol’ Faithful and my bag of shells that I secure onto my belt.
“O????????? ????????(circumcised shotgun),” Sasha cackles and I blink, wondering what the fuck she just said.
Levi, Thor, Dragon, Alexei, Ethan, and Mary all snicker but I shake them off as Thor composes himself.
“Ladies, to the panic room now. Dom and Erik, too. The kids are already down there,” Thor orders before kissing Levi and following Smoke over to a table where he sets up a laptop.
Patch guides Mae toward the kitchen with his kit in one hand. Timber’s close behind him, not that I blame him one bit.
“Darlin’,” Reaper says as he comes over and inspects my hands.
