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“I should just go back to my apartment.” I scooted toward the other door.
Kingpin didn’t move to stop me. “The choice is yours, Eve. But Hallow will hear. He’ll think our baby is his. Won’t he?”
That’s what I’d been afraid of. And was Kingpin seriously okay pretending his baby was Hallow’s? I was afraid to ask.
“I don’t want to hurt you and Sky. You and I ain’t a couple. Never was. I don’t know what we were. And yes, I’d love everything to go back to the way it was before I left Hallow at the altar. But I ain’t going to lie to him.”
“I won’t lie to you Eve, not anymore.” Kingpin took my cold hands in his. “I told Sky about my mistakes, too.”
“You what?” I screeched.
He let go of my hands. “I promised I wouldn’t make any more mistakes.” Mistakes meant having sex with other women. With me.
“Did you make that promise before or after the last time with me?” I snipped.
“After. And so far, I’ve kept that promise. Having you here I might not be able to, but I can’t let you leave Royal Road with my baby. You both would be in too much danger.”
“No one knows it’s yours. I ain’t told anyone about us.”
“But you’re in danger all the same. I didn’t want to tell you, and you might think I’m lying. When we were ambushed, the Gods were ordered to kill you on sight. I can’t have that. The club vowed to protect you.”
“What about Hob? Were they ordered to kill him too?”
Kingpin bowed his head.
“You promised to protect him,” I whined. I was still pissed at Kingpin for throwing Hob out.
“I am protecting him from the men here. The Gods gave him away. Believe me he’s better off, off property for now.”
“You have to do something, make him a member if you have to.”
“Are we negotiating?” Kingpin got a devilish look in his eye.
“What do you want in return?” I droned.
The biker scratched his beard. “For you to stay,” Kingpin answered, simply.
“Is that all?” It couldn’t be. I waited.
“The rest is up to you.” He had to be lying.
Shaking my head, I swore, “I will not lie to Hallow.”
Kingpin about broke the steering wheel. “At least let Sky have her babies in peace. Can you wait that long to tell him the truth?”
“I thought you told her?”
“I told her I’d made mistakes. We were on the outs at the time. I didn’t use your name. I don’t fuck and tell. The fact that those mistakes turned into a baby might hit different.”
There it was again. Our mistakes. We were nothing but a mistake. Sucking on my lips, I thought. Not upsetting a pregnant woman about to pop, sounded reasonable enough. But I was pregnant too, hormones coursing through me making me irrational and more emotional than normal. Wondering if anyone was going to care about how upset I was, I was hesitant.
“Please,” Kingpin offered.
I bobbed and agreed. Then I wised up. “You’ll bring Hob back right away and patch him. Or no deal.”
Kingpin said, “Yes, mama.”
“Ugh, don’t call me that. You make me sound like an old woman.”
