I look up at Joker and smile. “Join me?”
He shakes his head and gets in behind me, wrapping his arms around me. I sink into his touch. “You feeling okay?”
I lift my head and kiss under his jaw. “More than okay. You make me happy, Joker. You, Bailey, our chosen family. Everything I’ve donein my life and where it’s led me was leading me right to you, and I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else. I love you.” A tear slides down my face with all the emotions that are running through me right now.
I watch as Joker closes his eyes, my words hitting him. “I love you so damn much, Madison. It makes me fuckin happy that you see me, the real me. You're my ole lady. Hell, I already ordered your cut. I’m going to marry your ass so every fucker in the world knows you’re mine and plant as many babies as you want in you.” He leans down and kisses me, filled with so much passion; my heart is filled with so much love and happiness. I know we will get through anything life has to throw at us together.
We sit in silence with his arms wrapped around me. “Tell me something about yourself that I don’t know.”
He’s quiet for a moment, and I don’t think he’s going to answer me. “I’ll tell you, but you can’t tell anyone, okay?” His voice is so serious it makes me all nervous.
“I promise I won’t say anything.” I whisper, dreading what he’s about to tell me. With Joker, you really never know.
He lets out a sigh. “I’ve been to jail before.”
It takes me a minute to realize what he just said, and I move fast in the tub, splashing water over the side to lean closer to him. “You’ve been to jail? What for?” I whisper-yell at him, shocked. He nods his head and looks away as if he's ashamed. My heart is beating fast, wondering what happened.
“It’s true; it was the worst experience of my life. Once in monopoly. It took me forever to roll doubles because I didn’t have the money to pay the fine, and Little Terror wouldn’t let me borrow it.” It takes me a moment to get what he said, and he bursts out laughing at my shocked face.
I splash him with water, narrowing my eyes at him. “Joker, you ass, that was not nice. I thought you were serious.” I can’t help but laugh along with him. I swear this man keeps me on my toes.
“Aww, come here, angel. Sorry, I couldn't help myself.” He pulls me back into his arms and kisses my lips.
“Ya, ya, you're lucky I love you.” He pulls back as I shiver with the water getting cold.
“Come on, let's get you to bed.” With that, he lifts me out of the water and wraps a fluffy towel around me, drying me off. I walk into the bedroom and slip on a pair of sleep shorts and one of Joker's shirts and climb into bed face first. I’m so tired I could sleep for a week.
Joker turns the lights off and slips in beside me, pulling me over to him. I lay my head on his chest, listening to his heartbeat as he throws the covers over both of us.
“Sleep, angel.” Joker says as he kisses the top of my head.
My eyes close and I fall asleep with a smile on my face, knowing that tonight all of Bailey’s fears will be put to rest and we can finally move on as a family.
Fourteen
Joker
I watch Madison as she falls asleep. Each rise and fall of her chest brings me peace. A kind of peace I never knew existed. God, the way she fell apart in my arms tonight was amazing. Just thinking about it has my dick getting hard again, wanting to go another round. But I know she’s sore and needs time to heal. I lean down and kiss her head one more time, breathing in her scent, which smells like sweet vanilla, like the sweets she makes. Slowly, I transfer her onto my pillow and get out of bed and head to the closet to grab my clothes. Tonight is the night I finally get my revenge on that fucker. Walking back to thebed, I watch Madison for a few more minutes before grabbing my phone and heading out of the room, closing the door softly. Walking down the hall, I peek inside Bailey’s room to see her sound asleep with both dogs beside her, making me chuckle. I knew buying the dog beds would be a waste as they have attached themselves to her, guarding her. They both lift their heads as soon as I opened the door, and when they didn’t see a threat, laid back down. As soon as I told my parents about Bailey, they were so excited to meet her, and I have a feeling they will be here sooner than they said. They are going to spoil her.
I close her door and head downstairs, knowing she is safe as I walk out of the house and lock up, putting the house on lockdown. It might be overkill, but it will give me peace of mind knowing no one can get in. I stride to my bike and start it up, letting everything I’ve been holding onto come to the front. My anger takes over as I make the short drive to the clubhouse, knowing the rest of my brothers are there waiting for me. It’s only a matter of time before Leo is put down like the dog he is. His crimes against Bailey are unspeakable. I know it, and since he’s been down in the basement, he knows his number is up and will be rotting in hell soon enough. I pull up to the clubhouse and park, seeing all my brothers’ bikes there as well.
I walk inside and see all of them there, waiting for me. All of them have a soft spot for Bailey, and considering their women are all pregnant, it’s hitting close to home. They nod their heads at me as we make our way to the basement. My fists clenched, burning with rage, knowing it would be my hand that would finish this. If that makes me a bad person, then so be it. I just know I will sleep a lot better after this.
Before I walk down the stairs, Crow stops me. “So I was trying to track down Bailey's mom, Jenna, just to see where she was so we could keep an eye on her in case she decided to turn back up. She was founddead in a crack house with her new man. I guess they both messed with the wrong people and got killed for it. I just thought you should know. I also started the process of bringing her remains here to be buried, not saying Bailey will ever want to visit, but in case she does.”
“Shit. Thank you, brother.” I’ll have to talk with Madison and see how she wants to tell Bailey.
Walking down the rest of the way with my brothers behind me, I open the door and turn on the lights, which makes Leo close his eyes tightly against the brightness. He's right where we left him. Chained up, hanging from the ceiling, his feet hardly touching the ground. He lifts his head and looks at all of us warily. I’ve been starving him since he’s been down here so he knows what being hungry feels like. Hell, I know for a fact Hawk came down here with a burger and ate it in front of him.
“Please, just let me go. I promise I won’t do it again.” He pleas as his lip wobbles as if he’s ready to cry. He should have thought of that before he put his hands on Bailey and, who knows how many others.
I step up to him, smiling widely. “You hear that, boys? Leo here said he won’t do it again.” The guys laugh, making him wince.
“Look, I can get you whatever you want. Woman, drugs just named it. Is that stupid brat worth all this trouble?” As soon as he called Bailey a brat, I saw red and let my fist fly right into his face, breaking his nose. It hasn’t healed from when I hit him in the nose before, as blood gushes down his face.
I grab his face and squeeze hard, making him whimper. “Do not mention Bailey again because I can drag this out for days and weeks if I wanted to. You are going to die; it's just a matter of when, and that’s up to you. You liked to torture children. Whip her so badly on her back that she’s going to scar, all because she was hungry.” At that, the guys start cursing. I never told them how bad she was and all that she’sbeen through. I pull out a rag from my pocket and gag him, muffling his screams.
They each step forward with Blade in the front, ready to beat his ass. They will each get a few hits in, but after that, he’s mine. “Who’s first?”
