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Jen reaches for ives them a motherly squeeze “Yeah, he does, baby She’s about three years old”

I jerk away from her as if she’s slappedup stories to see if I’ll snap Well, I’ to!

Stupid ive him, ready to let him back into my heart even All over a piece of cake! All the reasons I assumed why Bash had left me had never involved soo play happy fahter—and I didn’t even know

And when he said there’s been no one else? That he’s never wanted anyone since me? All A LIE!

Feeling wild, ready to hurt as I hurt, I glance around almost frantically for one of my brothers They’ll tell oes on in the club—then I want to hear them say it Colt walks behind the bar with a tray full of ee trash can beside me

He barely shoots rab his elbow, catching hi him around to face me “Who’s the kid’s mom?” I demand

Colt frowns “What kid?”

My patience is slipping quickly “Bash’s kid,” I grit out “Who is her mom?”

His eyes darken and his gaze moves from me to Cory, who shrinks back from whatever she sees there Then those eyes, so identical to my own, back on me “I don’t know She isn’t frohter of the president in the Vegas club, Red Dragons”

“You think, or you know?”

“Yeah, Rave She was But the bitch caught a bullet in a raid at the warehouse in Vegas, along with half the club—including her father Kid had no one Bash decided that he didn’t want his girl living in that world, so he took her and made house somewhere else … Look that’s all I know, okay?” He tosses the tray aside and grasped both ainst him “I didn’t even know that much until recently”

I lean into hith as I try not to fall apart in front of a bar full of people that will never leta deep breath, I push away from Colt “You should have told me,” I whisper and walk into the back room where I let the tears fall

Chapter 12

Raven

The first tihteen My first kiss,