“Use my room,” Smokey spoke up.“The things we pulled out of her truck are up there, and it’s where they’ll be staying.”He glanced at Tania.“You want to take him or you want me to keep him until you come back?”
“You won’t give him to anyone else?You’ll have him when I come back?”
“If I give him to anyone, it will only be with me right there.I won’t let him leave my sight.I promise.”
Tania stared at him a moment longer.He wished he knew what was going on in her head, then maybe he would know how to reassure her.As it was, all he could do was wait.
After what seemed like an eternity, she stood and handed him Carter.“He’s my everything.Remember that.”
“You got it, Shell.I won’t let anything happen to him.”
Taylynn touched her arm.Together, the two of them left the room.Once they were gone, Raven sighed and turned his attention back to Smokey.
“How the fuck did you mess with a married woman and end up fathering her kid?”
“I’ve known her all my life.And she wasn’t married when Carter was conceived.She showed up at my door one night, drunk.I wasn’t too sober myself, shit happened.”He turned his attention to his son, and found himself telling the rest of his story in the higher pitch so many people use when talking to babies.“I noticed she was drinking water at the wedding, and thought she must have turned up pregnant, but didn’t think too much about it, at least not at the time.”As he told his president about it, a mental image of the night Carter had been conceived popped into his head.Tania stretched out under him, her hair spread across his pillow and desire clouding her eyes.He remembered the way she’d tasted, the way she’d cried out his name and the way her body had clamped down around his as he’d driven her through her first orgasm and into another.
“Fuck.That was that wedding last year you had to go to.The one I had to assign a prospect to be your driver for the night.”
Smokey blinked, bringing his mind back to the man in front of him.“Bingo.Speaking of.I’m not trying to tell you how to run the club, but Dax has been a prospect for a while.Have you thought about taking it to the table about patching him in?”
“Yeah.I realized not too long ago it’s time.We’ve just had so much going on that it had slipped my mind.Fuck, and he’s in Bozeman with Spider right now.I’ll see about putting it to a vote at the next meeting.That means I’ve got to see if I can get Spider on the phone to get his proxy.”Raven let his head fall back against the back of his chair.“He’s not doing well.He’s been refusing my calls the last couple of days.The only way I know what’s going on with him is Dax and Thorn.”
“Damn.That’s not good.Is he talking to Fletch?”
Raven looked up, his eyes wide.“I hadn’t thought to check.I’ll do that.but that’s not a right this minute problem, your woman is.Go show off your kid, I’ll reach out to the attorney and see what I can find out.”
Chapter Four
Tania followed Taylynnback up to the main room then up the stairs.
“Can I ask who did this to you?”Taylynn spoke for the first time since they’d left Raven’s office as she stopped in front of a door and waited for Tania to catch up.
“My husband,” Tania said, keeping her head down.She didn’t want to see the pity or worse, disgust on the other woman’s face.
Taylynn opened the door and stepped aside so Tania could go in first.As she stepped into the room, she saw the things they’d pulled out of her car on the floor at the foot of the bed.
