His gaze fell then came right back up.
I kept at him.
“You could have been the father of my children.”
He winced and started, “Rosie—”
“When the club started to roll that way, I should have justleft you.”
“I wouldn’t have let you go.”
“You wouldn’t have had a choice.”
“No, Rose,” he growled, “youwouldn’t have.”
That gave me a shiver but I powered through it.
“Then it’s all worked out for the best.”
That was when the sneer came.“He’s married, Rosalie.Got afuckin’ kid.Get over it.”
What was he talking about?
“What?”I asked.
“Cage.He’s nevergonnabe yours.He’s gone for her and trust me, when that shit happens for a biker, it doesn’tturn around.”
He was talking about Shy.Shy and Tabby and me.
Ancient freaking history.
And trust him about that kind of thing?
Hetotallyhad to be kidding me.
“How can I trust you when you have no clue what you’retalking about?”I queried.
“Then you weren’t paying attention,” he snarled, allowingthe hurt he felt at my betrayal and my supposed longing for Shy to rise to thesurface.
“No, Beck, you weren’t.I’ve been over Shy since that nightI rode at your back and you took me to Lookout Mountain and kissed me with thelights of Denver spread out around us.”
“Right, that’s why you handed us over to Chaos, who handedus to the fuckin’ cops.”
“No, I did it because when I made a baby with my man, Iwanted that baby to know down to his bones his father was a good man in a waythe day that father passed from this earth, he’d struggle to cope, but hewouldn’t struggle to come to terms with the fact this world was better with hisdaddy in it.”
Beck shut his mouth and did it looking stricken.
That got in there.
Finally.
But still too late.
I did not shut my mouth.
“I wanted you to see how dangerous what you were doing was.How easy it would be for your life to be wasted, the life you sharedwithme.I wanted you to take a good look at it and find a reason to turnyourself around.I tried to talk to you about it, you wouldn’t hear me.So Ifelt the need to do something to save you, save us, to save our future.Andunfortunately for both of us, it got to the point where that something had tobe extreme.”
Beck had nothing to say to that either.
