Page 34 of Baby Me

“Did you find her?” I barked into the phone when the prospect picked up.

“Yeah, she thought it sounded urgent and is headed to you along with Kip, Star, and Bagger.”

“Fuck, whole family reunion, huh?” I grumbled as I hung up. It was probably a good thing. This way, Davina would know that she was family, and we all had her back. We would always have Coral’s back, no matter what, as well.

Just as I moved from the waiting room back out to the hall, I heard the nurses trying to stop my family from coming down to see us. “It’s okay. Those are my children,” I called out to them.

“Ballsy fucking nurses,” Bagger complained.

I shook my head. “They did their job. When I tell you why, you’ll understand and thank them for being ballsy enough to go up against bikers wearing their cuts.”

“What the fuck is going on?” Kip asked.

“Come with me back to the waiting room. Don’t want Vina overhearing this and worrying.”

Kip grinned at me like the little shit he still was, even though he was a full-grown man now. “Vina, huh?”

“Shut it,” Star demanded as she slapped the back of her brother’s head while Scout and Bagger looked on in amusement.

“Why were you trying to get a hold of me?” Scout asked as we all finally made our way into the room and closed the door.

“June, my ex-girlfriend from high school,” I told her. “Need all the information you can get on her and what she’s been up to all this time, and I need a tail on her. She showed up a few days ago on the floor, apparently followed me here and then followed Vina and me upstairs.”

“I’m sure she was just curious, considering this is the second time you having a surprise kid ruined things between the two of you,” Star groused. She wasn’t happy with me for the way I carried myself when I was still a kid, or for the way I had kept June hidden for so long this time. She felt that if I had just forced June to interact with her and Kip, that the woman would have gotten over her hesitancy about them.

Maybe she was right, but something wasn’t sitting well with me now that I knew she’d been following me around. Who was to say it was a one-time thing?

“Her cousin came to see me today. She wanted to warn me that June asked for her help to get up on this floor and into Coral’s room. She also asked for all her medical information.”

“What the fuck?” Bagger and Kip both said at once as Scout scrunched her nose up while tapping away on her phone.

“Dad,” Star called to me hesitantly. “You don’t think she’d hurt my sister, do you?” My stomach clenched with the fear that she might just.

“I have no way of knowing, baby, but this is the second time a woman with a surprise kid of mine has caused a rift - in June’s eyes. There’s no telling how a woman would take that.”

“I’m having Breakneck go through security feeds for the past couple weeks. Bagger, he needs your access to check the ones outside your house,” Scout insisted.

“You good here?” Bagger asked Star.

“Yeah, go help him. Let me know what you find. I’m going to stay here with my sister and Davina.” My eldest daughter turned to look at me then. “If you need to leave to try to go confront June, I’ll stick close to the girls.”

“Thanks baby girl, I appreciate it.” I kissed her forehead, same as her man did before he took off.

“I’m going to stick around, too. Make sure someone from the club is always here watching out for them.”

I nodded to my son, proud as fuck that my kids embraced my daughter and her mother rather than causing problems because of her age or anything else.

“Find that bitch and figure out what she’s up to. We won’t tolerate her messing with family. If you need a female to bitch slap her around for information, I’ll be glad to come in and do it.”

Scout laughed at Star. “Don’t worry, they have me as the tech officer-slash-cyber enforcer, but it also means I get the wet work when it comes to females,” she teased with a wink.

“That’s not funny, Scout,” Kip called out to her.

“Didn’t ask for your opinion,” she sassed back over her shoulder as she left the room.

“When are you going to straighten things out with your woman?” I asked my son once she was gone.

“As soon as she makes me stop paying for my past mistakes.” He sighed and left the waiting room with his sister and me following.