“Cut her loose,” Black advised.
“First, she’s the mother of my kids, and second, Black, wegot some important matters at hand, brother, and Naomi is not one of them,”Tack pointed out.
Black held his eyes and sighed.
He then looked to the lights.
Tack did too.
“The babies you two will make will be beautiful,” Tack toldhim, and it was no lie.
Black was a good-looking man.
Keely was amazing.
“Oh yeah, they will.Boys.We’re gonna have a crew of boys,”Black declared.“She pops one out, fill her with another one.”
Tack felt one side of his lips hitch up.“Not sure you canmake that call.”
“Keely is so on board with that, it isn’t funny.”
“I meant about them all being boys,” Tack shared.
“I’ll take girls, love ’emwithall I got.That baby is her mixed with me, love every cell in their bodies witheverything that makes me.”
“Good you got that attitude,’causefar as I can tell, chances are fifty-fifty.”
“We can have five girls and we’ll go until we got at leasttwo boys.”
Tack looked at his brother again.“Why?”
Black looked at him too.“Yougottaask that?”
“I did, didn’t I?”
“Okay then, a man needs a brother.”
Tack had a brother.
He was a piece of shit.
He found others.
Some of those were pieces of shit too.
But not the one at his side.
No, absolutely not him.
So Tack understood where he was at.
“Iwannawatch ’emgrow up,” Black said.“Teach ’emhow to set up a tent.Show ’emthe glory of sittingin the quiet, under the stars.Take ’emfor a ride.Show ’emthe thrill of wind in their faces.Teach ’emhow to change oil.Get ’emdirt bikes.Knock their heads together when they pull shit so they won’t beassholes.Watch them find a woman and do the work beforehand so they’ll knowhow to treat her.Then, when they find the one, know in my soul a goodnesscomplete, because I know they got what I found in their mother.And then spoiltheir babies so bad, they end up hating me.That’s gonna be my life, brother.That’s what’s gonna make Keely and me.That’s a great life right there.That iseverything.”
Tack had a son and a daughter.
Their mother was one thing.
His Rush and Tabby…
