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As soon as she’s close, I grab her hand and give a salute to Lorenzo. He nods, his eyes going to Scottie for a moment, eyes laced with guilt before he focuses on Rachel who has gotten in his face.

I guide my wife to the car as Rachel begins to screech in horror because her brother is stopping her from coming after us. That he’s helping Scottie to have a life that she wants, instead of the fact that we’re now taking Sammie six hours away.

“Pathetic,” Scottie mutters just as Rachel screams, “No, she’s not allowed to be happy!”

“Let’s go home, baby,” I whisper, and Scottie grins as I help her inside the car before I look at the Untamed. They are all on their bikes with their women ready to send us off.

Fuck, I’m excited to be going home finally.

***

“We’re two minutes out,” I murmur six and a half hours later as I look in my rearview and notice Sammie still asleep and Scottie hums.

“It’s beautiful around here,” she whispers, and I grin wide.

“Just wait until you see your new hospital,” I say. “You’ll be working with Doc. Stone's old lady, Rose, is a peds nurse and will always be around, and Tank is also an ER doctor.”

“So does this mean you won’t end up in my ER if your brothers are there?” she asks with a little bit of hope, and I send her a wink, causing her to groan.

“What, what happened?” Sammie chokes and Scottie huffs, “Your Uncle Thunder is still going to end up in the ER to spend time with me,” and Sammie laughs despite being asleep for the past two and a half hours and I smile as I indicate right.

“We’re here,” I announce, cutting into Sammie’s laughter and Grett, a prospect I vouched for, cheers seeing me behind Doc. I grin as I salute him and Sammie gasps, “Wow, it’s like a mansion!”

“You’ve been missed,” Scottie whispers and I flash her a smile and remind her, “Well, I am very missable,” causing her to laugh as we pull up outside the clubhouse. I look at Sammie and ask, “Would you like to meet everyone or go see your new home?”

“Can we meet everyone first?” he asks, and I nod before climbing out of the car just as Doc walks over and helps Scottie out.

“How's your head?” he asks her as he wraps an arm around her, and she mutters, “A little sore,” while Dad gets Sammie.

“Maybe we should go back to the house,” I say with concern, and my girl smiles softly at me.

“I think your family has missed you, Bradley,” she says, and I retort, “You are my family!”

“Half an hour,” she negotiates, and I huff as Doc clearly swallows his fucking chuckle, and I know if I look at Sammie he’ll be giving me the puppy dog look.

“Okay, half an hour but Demon stays in the fucking car,” I say as Doc guides Scottie to me and I grab her cut out of the trunk and hold it out to her.

She smiles and puts it on, and fuck, I’m so tempted to say fuck it and just take her home.

“Let's go,” Sammie cheers happily, ruining my plans, as he takes his aunt's hand. I grunt out a disagreement, causing her to chuckle as she burrows into my side.

“Come on, brother,” Doc laughs while Dad grins and I guide my family towards my other family.

Chatter hits my ears as Dad walks in first before he booms, “Brothers, we have some out-of-towners, give them a warm welcome will yah?!”

I guide Scottie and Sammie inside, and the club looks at us in shock before a loud cheer echoes and I grin wide as my little sister runs our way.

“You’re finally home!” she cries, and I wrap one arm around her, and I squeeze her tightly and murmur, “Yeah, Brit, I’m home, I even brought Demon, the little shit is in the car asleep.”

“His name is Felix, Uncle Thunder,” Sammie giggles just as Brit goes to my girl, and instead of pushing her away for how she treated her, Scottie takes the heavily pregnant woman in her arms. My sister lets out a sniffle, causing Doc to shake his head and mutter, “Fucking hormones.”

“Wait, did the kid say uncle?” Ace demands, and as Doc takes his wife, I hold my girl’s hand, then slowly turn her, showing everyone the cut before I lift her left hand.

“Brothers, I’d like for you to meet my old lady, my wife as of yesterday, Dr. Scottie Hills,” I announce, and everyone is silent for a moment before another cheer echoes and Dirty says loudly, “Only Thunder could go for a ride and find himself a beautiful fucking doctor,” causing the club to laugh, though Kathleen looks ready to burst into tears. Fuck me, a little bit of guilt hits me, along with a sudden bought of shame.

Should we have made her part of it?

Did I unintentionally punish her for how she treated me by not telling Brit to grab her before the ceremony?