UnLove Me - The Angels Warriors MC Complete Trilogy Box Set (49 page)

My phone ringing wakes me from sleep. “Hello,” I say, answering it quickly so the kids can sleep in a bit.

“Hey, baby girl,” Mom’s voice says, filling the line.

“Hey, Mom. What’s up?” I ask while sitting up in bed. We don’t talk much
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Things have been awkward. I’ve kept my distance mostly because I hated lying to my mom, and well, if she heard about the kids, I would have had to tell her about Eden. Shit would have been a fucking mess.

“It’s time to come home now, baby. Think you can do that?”

“What’s goin’ on?” I ask her. “Is Eden okay?” I begin to worry. Shit, I just fucked up.

Silence fills the phone line before she answers. “You knew about Eden?” she asks, sounding hurt.

“Um,” I groan, unsure what to say.

“Hilary, baby, why didn’t you tell anyone?” She sounds disappointed in me.

“Mom, I couldn’t,” I tell her calmly.

“I understand you three girls are close, but the crap going on with her, her father, and her sister, we should have all been told this way before now,” Mom says firmly.

“I know. I’m sorry. I’ll get packed up and be down early in the week,” I tell her.

“Is that enough notice for your work, though?” she asks.

“Don’t worry about that. I’ll handle it,” I tell her. I thought I was due up for partnership, but one of the assholes at work is being too handsy and decided that since I wouldn’t fuck him, he would give the partnership to someone else. So my job can fuck itself.

“Okay, baby, drive safely,” she says then hangs up.

Shit, what am I gonna do about Jessica and Ethan? I doubt Eden has found the time to tell Jasper about them.

I walk into the living room and shout for the kids. Both come running out to me.

“We’re going home,” I say gently.

Jessica squeals. “Yay, I can’t wait to see Mom!”

Ethan just looks at me for a bit before speaking. “Does this mean we’re going to meet our dad?”

I chew on the inside of my cheek before answering. “Yeah, but until your mom tells him about you guys, you can’t say anything, okay?” I know this is asking a lot of the kids, but I can’t hurt Eden this way. She needs to tell him, and I hope to fuck she tells him soon.

I spend the rest of my week packing and getting things figured out for the kids to switch schools. Damn, when did I become such a mom? If I hadn’t lost my baby, I wonder how different my life would be right now. Would I have had a son or a daughter? Would he or she look like Mason or me? Whose eyes would I see when I looked into my child’s face?  I know I shouldn’t dwell on the unknown, but I can’t help but wonder if Mason would have changed for the baby.

Shutting my bike off as I pull into my driveway, I just sit on it, staring. I have only been back to this house a handful of times. Shit hasn’t been the same since Hilary left me. I left the club tonight after Angel confirmed Hilary was back. At first, I thought she’d come to the house, considering it’s still half hers, but she said she would be staying with Lilly.

It pisses me off. A few weeks after she left, she tried sending me divorce papers. I sent them right back to her once I tracked down an address, with them shredded in an envelope along with her rings.

I climb off my bike and walk to the front door, unlocking it and swinging it open. The place is a dump. It hasn’t been cleaned since I trashed the place after Hilary left.

I walk around the place and find a photo I had forgotten all about, the picture of Hilary and I just after we first started dating.

“Hey guys,” I said, walking up to Jasper and Vinny when I got into the school.

“Hey,” Jasper said with a head lift.

“Have you seen Hilary yet, man?” Vinny asked.

“No, why?” Why would he ask me about her? I’d lived to make her miserable for years—she was always great to pick on.

“Uh, she got hot, dude,” Vinny said.

“Hilary? We talking about the same girl here?” Hilary was never that good to look at. She had big buck teeth for most of the years I knew her, and then she was metal mouth. Called her rat head for a few years too, since I don’t think she ever brushed her hair.

“Trust me, man. You’ll wanna see this,” Jasper said. “Her and her mom went away for the summer, and she came back last week. I was hanging out with Eden and Lilly and couldn’t fucking believe it was her.”

Vinny nudged my shoulder and pointed down the hall, where I saw his brother, Bryce, leaning in close to a girl—a fuckin’ hot girl at that.

“Uh, why am I checking out Bryce?” I asked, confused.

“Not him, her. That’s Hilary,” Jasper said.

“Holy fuck!” Her hair was a lot longer than I remembered. It lay over the top of her chest. Fuck, when did she get tits like those? I scratched my head, taking her all in. It was like she left a girl and came back a woman. Her jeans hugged her hips—hips I never noticed her having before. She had an hourglass figure. Before, she was flat as a board and skinny as a rail.

I clenched my fists.

“Uh, are you jealous?” Vinny asked me.

“No,” I answered while gritting my teeth as she laughed at Bryce and touched him on the arm.

He started laughing. “Yeah, you are. I always knew you wanted her, man, with all the bullying you put her through over the years. I knew it was because you were crushing hard on her.”

“Shut up.” It was true, though. I’d always liked her. It was why I razzed her so bad all the time.

Before I realized it, Hilary was sauntering over to our group with a huge grin on her face. But she didn’t stop- she looked right at me and winked and kept on walking.

I followed her with my eyes down the hall and into Mrs. Wheeler’s classroom.

The morning passed by extremely slow, and when the lunch bell rang, I was up and out of my seat. Walking into the cafeteria, I spotted the guys and Hilary sitting at our usual table.

As I walked over, I heard Hilary talking to them. “He gave me his number and said he’d pick me up tonight, something about a movie. It’s kinda cool—my first date.”

Oh, fuck no. I moved fast and pulled the chair out next to Hilary, and made her look at me by grabbing her by the shoulder and turning her toward me.

“Mason?” she said, sounding confused.

“You ain’t going on a fuckin’ date,” I told her, leaning in close.

“You can’t tell me what I can and can’t do,” she said while crossing her arms.

I grabbed the back of her head and crushed my lips down on hers. Pulling back, she looked dazed. “You’re mine. If I find out that you are making dates with someone else again, I’ll beat the shit out of them,” I told her, letting her go.

From that day on, she was mine. She fought it for the first week, but quickly gave in. We didn’t have sex until she turned sixteen, which led me to a case of the blue balls for two fuckin’ years. I started having sex at fourteen, and started dating Hilary at sixteen. Going from lots of sex to nothing fuckin’ sucked, but it was so worth it.

I knew Hilary wasn’t the kind of girl I could ever hurt. I’d done everything to have her, and fuck, when she gave her virginity to me, it was worth the torture I felt straining in my pants every time she kissed me.

I went to her dad after the kiss in the cafeteria and told him I wanted her. He looked at me then and nodded, saying ‘good’. That was it. Since then, it was always us- well, and the rest of the gang. It wasn’t often at that time that we were ever really alone.

Jasper always fought his feelings for Eden because she was so young. Vinny always said it was just friendship with Lilly, even though, when he looked at her, it was the same way Jasper looked at Eden.

Thankfully, I was pulled out of Jasper’s misery once Eden started high school.

Lilly left about an hour ago to help Eden set up for the barbeque while I’ve been chasing around after the kids, trying to get them ready.

“Okay, kids, come on. This is crazy. Settle down!” I shout.

Jessica giggles, and I hear Ethan scold her. I shake my head. “Come on. Let’s go, guys,” I call up the stairs to them.

They come down the stairs smiling. “Can we finally call our dad, Dad?” Ethan asks.

I sigh. “Your mom hasn’t told him yet, guys. We need to give her that chance, okay?”

Jessica looks sad. “It’s gonna be kinda hard for it to stay a secret once he looks at us standing with her. I don’t think he can be that stupid,” she says. I can’t believe Jasper didn’t see it when he gave me a tow when I first came back to town. I mean, Jessica has his face. I’m shocked Eden has me bringing them over today with him not knowing.

I giggle slightly. “Let’s get going, okay?” I have enough to worry about since Mason is supposed to be at this thing. If he sees me walk in with these kids, I don’t think it will be a fun time.

I’m so nervous, but I try not to let it show. The kids walk out of Eden’s house behind me as my eyes meet with Mason’s deep emerald pools. I throw my shoulders back and try not to show that seeing him affects me.  I barely get a few steps out when he comes charging at me, demanding answers that aren’t mine to give. But it kills me not saying something. He has gone all these years thinking the worst of me, when all I ever did was love him. I look to Eden and see the pain etched on her face. I know this isn’t how she wanted shit to go down, but this is bigger than her feelings. The truth has to come out. Jasper deserves to be a father, and Mason needs to know the truth so he can be set free of our past. It’s time for us all to move on and face whatever changes the truth brings our way. Whatever happens, I know and Eden knows that it’s time.

“They aren’t even mine,” I shout out louder than I intended, but the words pour out of me, and it feels so good to speak the truth to someone, even if it is Mason. I feel like a lifetime of burden has been lifted from my shoulders, but at the same time, my heart is breaking for Eden. The look on Jasper’s face right now says it all. He’s so done with her.

When I hear the words come out of Hilary’s mouth that she’s not even the twins’ mother, it shocks the shit out of me. And the minute Eden speaks up and says they are hers, I feel Angel’s pain.

She kept his fuckin’ kids from him for all these years.  Seeing Hilary again after nine years has brought back everything—the good, the great, and the bad- all these feelings I don’t want to have about her. She’s still so fuckin’ beautiful.

I look at Hilary, and she has tears streaming down her face as she watches Angel go to his kids. I go to move toward her, and she whips her head back to me. “Don’t,” she grits out. “You couldn’t just leave it alone, could you? She wanted to tell him, in her time, not have it blurted out like that. So fuck you, dickhead.”

She moves to go toward Eden, but I grab her by the arm, hauling her to me. “It’s not my fuckin’ fault. A little heads up would have been nice, because I never would have wanted him to find out this way,” I growl into her ear.

“Fuck you, Mason. Let me go.” She jerks at my hold.

“No. I think we should have that talk, the one we should have had years ago. Let you explain shit to me.”

Her body stiffens. “Too late,” she spits out. I release her arm, not because I want to, but because of past mistakes. I just don’t want to become that person again.

I watch her stalk off toward Eden and Lilly.  Angel is embracing his kids, so I decide to take off and so does Vinny.

“Too much drama in there for my liking,” Zippo tells me as we head to our bikes.

“Yeah,” I say.

“Where you off to?” he asks.

I shrug. “Just a ride. Right now, I need it.”

Seeing Hilary again, face to face, has me feeling all sorts of shit. At first, I wanted to fuck her against the house, but then when I saw those kids, I started spouting off…

How can that bitch have me so twisted?