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“Mr. Kessler now is not the time. Your daughter has been through major trauma today, and you will not cause her more stress in my hospital,” the doctor cuts in.
“Thank you, Doc,” I say, grateful to him for his speaking up. “You said the baby appears to be all right, yes?”
“We ran a few blood tests, and I’d like to do an ultrasound if that’s okay with you,” he replies. “I want to confirm something.”
“Yes, sure, anything you need to do,” I tell him.
I’m weak. Scared out of my mind. The longer I keep the truth from my father, the worse it’ll be not necessarily for me, but for Orion, Kai, and Drake. The club was there long before I was born, and if they survive Colton Harrow, it’ll be there long after I’m gone.
A little while later, I am lying on a bed in the ultrasound room, the doctor rubbing a wand over my belly, which is covered in gel. “Congratulations, Miss Kessler. Just as I suspected, you’re having twins!” the doctor quips as he wipes my belly with a paper towel, and I pull my gown back down. “Your blood tests gave me a clue, but I needed to be sure.”
“Nadia,” Dad says, also staring at the screen. We can’t make out that much, but we can see two shapes, two tiny droplets of life evolving in my womb. There’s no hiding it. “I need you to tell me the truth. You have to tell me the truth.”
“I’ll give you two some privacy,” the doctor cuts in, then gives me a confident wink. “A nurse will take you back to your room. I’ll be coming in to check up on you in about an hour, Miss Kessler. Remember, no extra stress if you can avoid it.” At this, he gives my father a pointed look.
As soon as he’s out the door, my father comes closer and takes my hand in his. I feel his tremor. He’s angry and scared, having lost control over the one situation he probably thought he still had a handle on and had a clear grasp of.
“Nadia …”
“Dad, you’re going to want to sit down for this. I’m not sure you will understand, but I need you to know that I did everything of my own accord. It was my free will. I was fully conscious of possible repercussions, except, well, this,” I say, briefly pointing at the screen. “I’ll be honest, we got so carried away, we completely ignored the possibility of pregnancy. It’s not coming at the best of times, and I swear I’ve been trying to figure out the best way to tell you.”
“What happened?”
“Orion, Drake, and Kai have a very tight friendship, as you probably know or have heard, at least.”
As soon as their names roll off my tongue, I see the blood draining from my father’s face. His shoulders drop slowly, and he stills in his seat as I tell him the whole story—spicy details excluded, of course. I don’t want him having a stroke; there’s a vein twitching along his temple as I try to explain.
But the more I speak, the more inclined I am to believe that this will not end well.
I can see rage simmering behind his blue eyes, hotter and hotter until it boils over and consumes everything in his path. Yet he needs to know the truth. I fell in love with Orion, Kai, and Drake. And they fell in love with me, against all odds.
“I don’t know which of them is the father, for obvious reasons,” is how I conclude.
A split-second later, my father nods and darts out of the room while I’m left scrambling to find my phone. I can’t remember where I put the damn thing, though. I need to warn the guys.
My father is likely headed for the clubhouse, and it’s not going to be a courtesy visit.
20
Orion
The aftermath is a gruesome sight.
Red and blue lights still flash outside as the crime scene investigators and the county examiners collect the bodies and all the evidence, of which there is plenty. We covered our asses the best we could, and most of our self-incriminating documents are stashed away out of the cops’ reach.
The clubhouse may have turned into a crime scene, but there are sections in the basement that they have no idea about, nor do they need access to. There’s nothing down there that could aid them in this particular investigation.
Paddy is at the hospital with Nadia and our other injured brothers. I’m relieved to hear they’ll be making a full recovery and that Nadia is okay. She’s safe. It’s all that matters. Frankly, the sheriff could arrest us right now. I don’t care as long as Nadia is okay.
“What was Colton thinking?” Kai asks in a low voice as he comes back to the bar.
The evening wind blows through the room, courtesy of the shattered windows. We’ll have to board them up for the night and have them replaced tomorrow. Drake is now giving his statement to the deputies while the sheriff walks around, flashlight pointing at every single detail that catches his beady eyes.
I don’t like the guy, but at least I know he’s thorough and not in Colton’s pocket.
“Either he’s desperate, or he was just testing the waters to see how we’d respond to an open attack,” I tell Kai. “Did you give your statement?”
“Yeah, all good.”
