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Kai cocked an eyebrow at me.

“You really want to know?” he replied.

I smirked and shrugged.

“Maybe one day. Not today,” I said before setting the table with Lincoln’s help. I couldn’t forget the day we’d spent together. How he cared for me. Pleased me. Just the thought made me want to rub my thighs together.

Claude and Chris brought out the food a few minutes later, and dinner began, a swell of chatter rising at the table as what felt like a hundred different conversations went on around me. Despite the chaos, it was nice having so many people at the table enjoying dinner together.

I looked over at Bradley, who didn’t say a word while the others complimented Claude, Chris, and me for dinner. He didn’t even seem all that impressed, even when he glanced over at me. What was his deal?

Cameron and Auden sat on either side of me, passing me warm or flirty looks that had my face burning and distracted me from Bradley’s sour attitude.

“Quit,” I warned Auden.

“What’s the matter, sweetheart?” Auden quipped before biting into a roasted potato.

“You’re… eyeing me,” I replied. Granted, I liked it, but it was hard to focus on anything else when he was teasing me like that.

“He doesn’t know how to behave,” Cameron told me as he lifted an eyebrow at Auden. “Bedroom eyes don’t belong at the table.”

“Yes, Dad,” Auden said with a smirk before going back to eating.

Amusement rang through me as I shook my head at them.

With each passing day, I felt more and more interwoven in their hectic lives, but I was still kept at a distance.

They didn’t tell me everything. They whispered among themselves and shut up when I came into the room. That made me nervous, but it wasn’t like they were obligated to tell me anything besides what was part of the plan and the baby’s future.

When everyone was halfway through dinner, Bradley suddenly stood up from the table with his plate in his hands. He hadn’t added much to it when I glanced over at him earlier. Silently, he walked into the kitchen and then headed in the direction of the master bathroom that the guys used to shower after long rides.

I frowned a little, even as Auden patted my thigh to get me to loosen up. I didn’t know what Bradley’s deal with me was, but I was going to figure it out, and I was going to win him over.

One way or another.

Chapter11

Bradley

Frustrated heat filled my face as I turned the shower water on hot before stripping my clothes off. I swore that I felt the others’ eyes on the bathroom door, especially Aisling’s.

She seemed so perplexed by me, but I did everything in my power to ignore her. To forget she was even here.

I respected Kai as our leader, so I accepted his crazy plan to have her carry our heir, but I damn sure wasn’t happy about it. Did they even think about the risks that this carried for us? This group, these guys, were all I had left.

It took meyearsto get sober, to get my head on straight.

If it wasn’t for the guys, I would still have my ass glued to a bar stool every night, drinking my life away because it felt like I had nothing to live for. That was the sick side of addiction. It slowly killed me while taking the edge off the pain.

I stepped under the spray of hot water, letting it hit the back of my shaved head as I lowered it.

The roar of the shower filled my ears, but it didn’t block out my thoughts. They were too loud, especially at night when I was trying to get at least a lick of sleep.

Having Aisling here was dangerous for the club.

She was carrying our heir, and other clubs, specifically the Hornets, would see that as a threat. Who knew what crazy thing they would do to prevent us from having an heir? They could firebomb our clubhouse. Ambush us on the roads.

I already caught wind that another club was speculating that we had an heir on the way because they caught sight of Aisling with some of us in the city, but it was all rumors right now.