Page 18 of Whip’s Wisdom

“Open it.” He whispers, still having his forehead on mine.

I open the locket and on the inside are sonogram photos. One baby is on one side and the other two on the other. A sob comes out of my mouth as I lift my head and look at Cooper.

“Small steps, baby. Small steps. I’m wiser now than I was earlier this year. Being without you does that to a man. So one day you’re going to let me put that property patch on you like you are going to let Knox. You’re going to see that those babies in here,” he says as he puts his hands on my belly and smiles, “are all ours because they are a part of you. Then one day you’re going to let me put some babies in you and those babies are going to be all of ours too.”

He leans down and kisses me again before he takes a step back and starts walking out of the living room.

“I love you, Pey and I love those babies of ours. Go get some food before your family devours everything.”

And just like that he walks out the front door and I’m speechless. How could this be the man who did all that shit to me for years? I take the locket out of the package and put it on my neck with the Untamed insignia pointed out. Right now I’m not ready to declare that I am claimed by Whip. I still need to protect my heart. I then head towards the kitchen and the dining room to eat. Then I will sit patiently through the million hour present opening before going to the clubhouse for another million hour present opening.

Chapter Ten

Whip

A month later

So the holidays went really well and I avoided any more contact with my family. I spent a good chunk of time with Peyton and Knox, it was really nice. Knox and I have become very close friends, obviously we would have to with the way we want this relationship to go. Peyton thawed a little bit those two weeks she was here and then before they left she had a run in with one of the club whores that I fucked around with. That did not go well at all and Peyton went right back to icing me out. It was like it poked at a wound that I wished I could heal overnight.

We didn’t have anymore nights like we did the first night in the Briarfield clubhouse while they were here, but that didn’t mean that I stopped touching her whenever I had the opportunity. Knox and I decided that for right now I would stay here in Virginia instead of heading back with them especially after what happened at the clubhouse. I guess it is for the best since I have a shitload of work to do at the bike shop. I work at Dragon’s custom bike shop. I have always loved getting my hands dirty and also painting and giving someone what they want on their bike is something that I have really enjoyed.

Knox called me last week and let me know Peyton was coming to Richmond for a visit by herself and asked that I keep an eye on her, of course I said yes. But that does not mean that my woman has let me spend any time with her. She has refused to go out with me in any shape or form. It has caused her parents to chuckle at me several times. They have finally come to the realization that the three of us are attempting a relationship, despite what Peyton tells anyone. So I spend a lot of time over at the Jacobson’s home.

They have even set up Thorn’s old room for me so that I am close by. I know Knox was nervous about her coming on this visit because she is close to her due date and the fact that she can go early is leaving him anxious. Him and I talk daily, multiple times a day and he knows how everything is going here. He has said that they’ve talked a lot about everything, but Peyton is not budging. Apparently being constantly attacked and reminded by all the club bitches at the clubhouse whenever she is there. I’ve brought it up to Bulldog and he has said he will have words with all the club whores because he knows that shit has been going on with Sophie as well. I guess we will see what happens or what comes with that.

I know that some of the bitches think that they have some sort of claim on me because I fucked around with them in the months prior to Peyton coming home in Thanksgiving. But I haven’t fucked around with anyone since that shitty ass blowjob I got in October, a whole month before I saw Peyton again. That bitch is the worst one, she thinks because I went to her a couple of times I wanted her to be my one and only. She has heard that I made a claim on Peyton, which I did to all my brothers. I claimed her as my ol’ lady. Peyton really hasn’t agreed, but it doesn’t matter if all her brothers know, all my brothers know she is my woman and I don’t want anyone else.

I thought the Jacobsons would be pissed, but they all told me it was about time I got my head out of my ass and claimed her. Of course I had to explain to some of my brothers the dynamic of our relationship because they know she is also claimed by Knox. But the whores heard the news around the clubhouse and have apparently decided that they are going to make life hard for Peyton whenever they see her here. I don’t know what it is about club girls and why they think that because a brother sleeps with them that means they are theirs. I would never make a club girl my ol’ lady. It is also ridiculous that club girls think that all the brothers belong to them. I swear it is just the new girls that have been brought in. The ones that have been with us for a little while know that if a brother is claimed or has claimed a woman that we don’t cheat. That we want nothing to do with them.

I guess I should’ve taken cues from the Jacobson brothers’ book and not hooked up with the women at the club. They are clingy and only cause drama. Drama I don’t want or need right now. I am trying so hard to woo my woman and they keep messing everything up for me. She is never going to trust me if this shit continues. It is like they keep throwing my mistakes back in her face and I need that to end. I want to be a part of this family. I want to make everything better and I can’t if I keep having to fight with all my past mistakes while trying to get her to understand that most of what these bitches are saying are lies.

I’m working today and I know that Peyton is either at the clubhouse or at one of her siblings’ houses on compound. She doesn’t travel far from right now and she has wanted to spend time with all her family while she can before the babies come. I’m working on a bike for one of our customers when my phone rings. The ringtone is the one I set for Knox. I put the wrench down and head over to my phone that I have sitting on my workbench.

“Hey man, what’s up?”

“Where are you at?”

He sounds out of breath and that makes my heart drop into my stomach. I don’t know what is going on, but I know that I need to head to wherever Peyton is.

“I’m at the shop, what’s going on?”

“I need you to get to Peyton now. I am on my way, but Missy was murdered and Peyton needs one of us there right the fuck now. I am going to catch a flight. I can’t be there as quickly as you can. This is not good, man. I don’t know all the details, but I know you guys have had a lot of shit going on with another club right now and I don’t know if that is what happened, but you really need to get there.”

I am already straddling my bike as he says that, “I’m already on my way. I will keep you posted until you get here. Travel safe she is going to need both of us. She might not admit it, but she is going to.”

With that I hang up the phone and speed out of the parking lot to get to the clubhouse. As I pull up to the gate there are flashing lights everywhere. EMTs, cops,crime scene people, everybody. There are a bunch of brothers waiting outside and I pull in and park my bike. I head over and see that there is a sheet on the ground covering a body. I walk up to the first brother I see and its Fist, Fist is Riggs’s kid so he is Missy’s nephew.

“Brother, what the fuck happened?”

Fist looks at me and you can tell he is holding back tears, “We don’t know all the details man, but Acid killed Missy. He’s got Dash and Dallas. It’s bad man. Bulldog called all our people in law enforcement here so everything is covered by people we trust. But he was a wreck when he left here.”

“Do you know where Peyton is?”

“I would guess that she is with all of them, Bulldog had to tell Tillie and Davis. All the other kids were here when Missy was dropped off.”

“They dropped her off?”

“I don’t know, she looked like she was thrown out of the car, man. I don’t know, I couldn’t look too long, that’s my aunt, brother. They raped her, she had stab wounds everywhere. There was blood everywhere. Fuck, they all saw here like that.”