“Being with me is being safe.” I shrugged. “What happened at Sophie’s house… I can’t promise that something like that won’t ever happen again. All I can do is promise that I’ll do my best to keep her and our children as safe as I can. That I’ll lay down my life to make sure they keep living. It’s all I can give.”
“It’s enough,” Devyn said, rising and coming to stand by my side. “Can you accept that, Dad?”
He sucked in a heavy breath then released it. “Yeah. I’ll get there. It might take me some time. But my girls are right. You ran into a burning building and saved three people who are incredibly important to me. You didn’t have to do that.”
I scoffed at that. “Yeah. I did. I always will.”
Mike nodded. “And that’s why I’ll learn to live with this vigilante shit. I can tell you love my daughter.” He stepped forward and held out a hand. “But you have to promise me something.”
“Yeah?”
“I don’t want you to die for them. I want you to live. You make sure to kill any bastards that threaten them. Deal?”
“Deal.” We shook, then he left us standing there in our son’s nursery. I grinned down at Devyn. “I knew I’d win him over.”
She rolled her eyes. “You think it was your charming personality that did all that?” She shook her head. “Yeah, right.”
CHAPTER 37
Devyn
Iwas stunned that my father had come over here and told us that he was accepting my choice so quickly. I figured we’d still be having these arguments well after I gave birth. Yet here he was, ready to accept Bolo, not only as the father of my child, but as my potential future husband. That was assuming that Bolo ever wanted to ask me to marry him. I’d been scared of that in the beginning, but now I wanted it more than anything.
A life with him, together with our son? I was pretty sure nothing could make me happier.
Having to tell my family about Bolo, and his club, and the things they did had been hard. Watching my father lose respect for him, andworse,for me, had made me stressed since the morning I told them. There’d been more than one night of tears. It killed me to think I was disappointing my family.
Mom and my sisters had all come around right away. Not that they were any less scared of potential threats due to the MC’s actions. They just understood that I loved Bolo and that he would never let anything bad happen to me or our son. They had been willing to take it on faith that Bolo would protect us. My father had needed to think things over, then get that promise straight from the horse’s mouth.
And now Dad was on the same page. Tears slipped down my cheeks as Bolo pulled me into a hug. When my shoulders started shaking, he pulled back and frowned down at me.
“Hey. What? Why? You were just teasing me. Where did the tears come from?”
“I’m happy,” I said with a little sob.
He cupped my cheeks, wiping the tears away with his thumbs. “Are you sure about that?”
I gave a little laugh with more tears slipping out as I did. “Stupid hormones.”
He moved his right hand down to my stomach and pressed it there over my small bump. He loved to feel the baby move. That had just started happening. I’d been worried that it was taking too long, but Dr. Natalie had assured me that it could take longer for first time mothers to feel their babies move. Since I was twenty weeks now, she said I was right on time.
The regular ultrasounds I was getting with the MFM were looking good and our baby was doing well. Nothing from the fire the other night seemed to have impacted our son. That in itself was enough to make me want to sob happy tears. But now? Bolo had given me a beautiful gift. My dad had accepted my decision to stay with Bolo. Everything was just clicking into place, despite the trouble that Bowers and The Collective were bringing into our lives.
Bolo leaned his head down and fit our mouths together. I melted into him with a groan. His kisses were always earthshattering, but lately they had gotten even more intense. Maybe it was because he knew how much I needed him, and how much my hormones had me turned on.
They had me so ramped up, all the time, that Bolo really only had to give me one of those intense stares and I was done for. He was really getting a kick out of that. I’d started to get a little worried that maybe we shouldn’t be having sex so much. I didn’t want to hurt the baby. Even though he was gentle with me, I’d wanted to make sure, so I’d asked Dr. Natalie.
That appointment had been the other day, before the fire, and she’d assured me that I was more than ready to continue sexy time with my man. Like that wasn’t embarrassing enough to ask about, but then she’d given me a knowing smile and a wink. I wanted to melt down through the floor. I just hoped she didn’t mention any of that to Drifter.
I pulled back and stared up into his eyes. “Take me to bed.”
His brows shot up. “You want to break this place in already?”
I nodded, smiling at him. “Just make sure you go lock the front door first.”
“You’ve gotten more demanding.” There was approval shining in those gorgeous blue eyes of his.
I reached up and laced my fingers through his hair, tugging gently. “Is that a problem?”
