Chapter 1
Alexi Trager leaned against the bar waiting for her father and her boyfriend to emerge from the chapel. She hadn't been around the clubhouse in a while and wasn't to thrilled about sitting around waiting for them. The church doors opened and Happy Lowman sauntered in cracking his gum as he did so. This fucking asshole. Out of all of her father's and boyfriends brothers she like him the crude and just an asshole in general. They had been together for an incredibly brief time when he was a young patch to SAMTAC. Talk about the biggest mistake ever. Alexi was pulled out of her thoughts by the cracking of gum in her ear and the feeling of someone standing just a inch to close to her.
"Do you mind?" She said stepping away from the tattooed biker and glaring. She looked past him to the her father and boyfriend talking to Jax. She tapped the ash off her cigarette and rolled her shoulders trying to alleviate the stress and tension baring down on her. "Aren't you pregnant or something? You shouldn't be smoking." Happy said leaning against the bar. He looked her up and down checking the brunette out like he was trying to spot her bump.
Alexi paled she felt like she was going to throw up. "What?" She hissed looking from Happy to Opie. Had he said something to Happy? They had made an agreement they wouldn't. After finding out they were pregnant the doctor had quickly told them not to get to attached. They could see the baby wasn't thriving/ The baby probably wasn't going to make it past a couple weeks. So the couple had decided to keep the pregnancy to themselves.
Alexi and the baby made it to six months. Which was way more than what the doctors thought even possible. The caution was still there. Things were going great til one day she and Opie got into a fight. Something stupid that now Alexi couldn't even remember what it was about. They were screaming at each other. Nose to nose, faces red as hell just pure anger and frustration. All that stress caused Alexi to go in to labor. She was rushed to the hospital. The doctors did everything they could but the stress was too much for the baby. Alexi was forced to deliver and lost the baby in the process. That was barely two months ago at this point. Alexi and Opie were finally getting back to a good spot. Both had blamed themselves for the loss of the baby.
But the doctor reached out to the couple and explained that it was inevitable. It was a miracle that the baby had made it that far through the pregnancy. Even if the baby girl did make it full term her life outside the womb would have been brief. After that talk with the OB. The pair had told Jax and Tig letting them know what had happened. Of course Jax and Tig were furious, more so Tig than anything. That would have been his granddaughter. Both men understood Alexi's plea not to tell anyone.
Alexi stared at the man in front of her trying to work through all of what she was feeling. "No asshole I'm not. Mind your own." She said her eyes never leaving his. He shrugged sipping his beer. "Should lay off the twinkies then." Alexi laughed it was cold and full of hate. "The fuck did you just say to me?" She asked before stepping up to the man. At 5'9 she wasn't much shorter than Happy. needless to say she was tall had broad shoulders like her father, long legs and a ass for days.
Her vibrant light green eyes framed by dark lashes and surrounded by an overly freckled face. Alexi had her fathers dark curly hair that just barely reached her hips, high cheek bones and a slender nose. She was as some would say thick. Alexi considered she self muscular. She wasn't a whispy woman by any means like the women who had given birth to her was, she took after her father in every way and that made Alexi proud.
She could hold her own on any day of the week by anyone. Tig taking every opportunity he could to teach her how to fight. Knowing that, she had no problem beating the fucking shit out of the prick standing in front of her. "Looking a little round is all." Alexi threw a fist into Happy's chest and one to his side and shoved him back. He tripped over the bar stool behind him and fell. "FUCK YOU." She spat stepping over the man and storming towards the clubhouse doors. "YOU LOST YOUR GOD DAMN MIND, BITCH?" Happy roared following after the brunette.
Tig and Opie intervened. Opie pushed Alexi back as Tig pulled Happy back from the bar. "Call me fat one more fucking time. FUCKING DO IT." Alexi said side stepping Opie and walking back towards Happy with every intention of finishing what she had started.
Opie picked up the girl and took her out side. Taking her to the play area to keep as much distance between her and Happy. Once to the play area, Opie set Alexi down and shook her slightly wondering if she had gone slightly crazy. "Lex, are you fucking nuts? Are you serious right now?" She shoved him and made her way back to the clubhouse. She didn't want to hear his bullshit. Opie grabbed her again, pinning her to the chain link fence with one of his hands.
This was the most emotion she had shown since losing the baby. He tilted her chin so she could look up at him. "Did you tell him or anyone about the baby?" She asked quietly pulling his hands away from her chin. Opie's mouth fell open looking at his girl in shock. "Baby. Baby, no. No, I didn't. No, I didn't tell him about you losing the baby. No one knew." He pressed his forehead to hers. "He asked me if I was. then told me I should lay off the twinkies when I told him I wasn't. seriously, like we need this shit right now. We just got over her, Ope." Alexi said clearing her throat.
Opie kissed his girl his anger melting away in instantly. "I know baby, but he didn't know anything, you still have a little bit of the body. You know how he can be. Just ignore it baby. You can't go after him like that. You just can't." Opie kissed her forehead. He held her tightly to him rocking her side to side slightly. "I didn't even look that pregnant when we had her why would he say something like that?" She sobbed crumbling into the man. Opie let his own tears fall and shook his head. "I don't know baby." He kissed her neck. Alexi sobbed more holding on to Opie for dear life. "We just buried her." She cried louder into his shoulder. Opie squeezed her tighter.
The couple didn't notice the man who barreled around the corner with the rest of the club hot on his heel, intending to beat the fucking shit out of one or both of them. He stopped short hearing Alexi crying about about the baby. What fucking baby? It all hit home for him and his heart sank. She had been missing from the clubhouse for a while. Opie's ever darkening moods and his constant fights with everyone now made sense. He backed up and ran in to Tig who swore looking behind him at his brothers who had heard the same thing Happy did. They all had heard. Tig looked at Jax who looked too lost for words. Opie picked his girl up and wrapped her legs around his waist.
"I love you Lex." The man said into her hair. He felt his neck dampen with her tears. She sobbed into his neck. Opie turned to see his entire club watching him. He narrowed his eyes at them. "She's sorry." Opie said coldy to Happy as he walked past him. Alexi shook her head. "THE FUCK I AM." She said into Opie's shoulder. The men watched as Opie carried his girl to his truck and ride off the lot.
One Year LATER.
Alexi found herself sitting at the bar waiting for Opie to get out of church. Alexi sipped on her drink and inhaled more of her cigarette. It was the first time she had been back to the clubhouse since her fight with Happy, since everyone had found out about the baby she and Opie had lost. Alexi smiled at the drink as she heard the crow eaters bickering about some stupid shit, something as trivial as a someone using another girls hairband.
The gorgeous green eyed Brunette finished her drink and asked the crow eater Katie or something for another. While the girl behind the bar made Alexi's drink, she grabbed her phone out of her back pocket and scrolled through it. She was leaning away from the bar while her elbows rested against the edge. "Looks like you lost that weight." Alexi groaned, she straightened up and faced Happy. She scoffed and sipped more of her drink.
The tall woman looked at the tanned tattooed man in front of her and shook her head. "Get fucked, Happy." Alexi said setting her drink down on the bar. "Still have that fucking mouth on you, huh?" He said flipping his tooth pick to the other side of his mouth. Alexi chuckled and shrugged.
She knew he wasn't the best with words or talking about heavy things like the loss of a baby or anything really serious. Their small fling proved that immensely. "Yeah well, kinda need it." She said looking to see if the chapel doors had opened yet and they hadn't. Happy had just got back from a run or something which would be the reason he wasn't in the sacred room with the rest of his brothers or he was sent out to keep an eye on her. She figured it was the former and not the latter. No one missed church.
"I wanted to uh... wanted to... you know wanted to talk about last time." Happy said looking around the room and stepping closer to the brunette so no one heard him. Alexi stepped back her lip curling into a snarl. "How about stop being an asshole and mind your own? Yeah?" She turned away from essentially giving him the cold shoulder and went back to her phone.
She was done with him and this conversation. She and Opie were slowly moving forward they had packed up the baby's room put it in storage. They talked about the baby openly with each other supporting the other one. She'd like to think they were happy right now. Happy looked over her shoulder at the phone she was playing with.
"Do you think we could ever be friends...again?" He asked quietly in her ear. Alexi stood up in shock so fast and turned she made Happy spill his beer over himself. Alexi stared at him for a minute and then laughed leaning back against the bar. "The fuck, Lexi?" Happy said brushing the beer off him. She tried to wipe the beer off but knocked more of the beer over him. She howled with laughter at her clumsiness and the scowl on Happy's face. Alexi brushed the tears off her face. "This better not stain." He grumbled pulling his shirt off. She took it and walked to the kitchen with Happy following closely behind her. "It's just beer, Happy, use your brain. Its not going to stain." She ran the faucet, sticking the shirt under the running water.
Happy leaned against the counter watching the woman. He almost smiled, to tell the truth her laughing right then had been the first time he had heard her laugh in a very long time. He missed their friendship and had meant what he asked before having his drink spilled on him.
They had met in Tacoma, when he first patched in, she was hanging out with her dad at the SAMTAC clubhouse having just moved into the dorms at UW Tacoma. Tig had come up to help his little girl move. Kozik had introduced them at a party, saying how funny it would be if the pair hooked up. Since mostly everyone knew how protective he was of his daughter. the Chances of that were slim. In reality it would only be funny to Kozik, give him another reason to agitate Tig. Dangle that in his face knowing he had put something in the works. Happy had just did a stint in Pierce County and was all for a quick fuck. He said as much to Alexi and she had laughed in his face, loudly laughed in his face.
The gorgeous girl laughed so hard she actually started crying. When she had calmed down the girl patted his cheek telling him he'd find her cold dead body in hell on November 33rd before that would ever happen and walked away. Leaving the young man stunned and wordless.`The pair became fast friends after that. They were friends for a while til one night the pair had got too drunk and a little too carried away. Alexi caught a glimpse of Happy watching her and stopped. She realized what she was doing. She wasn't his girl, he was very well capable of cleaning his own stuff.
Christ, he got blood stains out of his shirts he could manage some beer. She threw the soaking wet shirt at him and turned the faucet off. "Just wash it, it'll be fine." She said quickly before walking out of the kitchen. The guys had finally got out of church, most were hanging around the bar. Happy smirked following his brothers daughter out of the kitchen. Alexi smiled seeing her man and almost skipped to him. She wrapped her arms around her mans waist. "Hey baby." She kissed his cheek.
Opie turned in the girls arms rubbing her back and kissing her head. "Didn't expect to see you here. Missed you and that smile." The bearded man grinned down at Alexi and hugged her tighter. "Well you're going to be seeing me and smile a lot more, baby. I finished up all my work. Officially transferred down. So, now I'm all yours." Alexi wrapped her arms around the mans neck.
Alexi shrieked as Opie picked her up and spun them around. "Baby, seriously?" The tall bearded man kissed his old lady's nose unwilling to set her down. Instead his hands found her ass and the brunette wrapped her long legs around him. She smiled and nodded.
"Why is Happy shirtless?" Jax said looking over to Happy who was leaning against the wall. "Obviously, couldn't handle looking second best, to ME so he tried to one up it. Sad to say it didn't work. I still look better." Alexi joked resting her chin on Opie's shoulders.
Her eyes danced over to Happy and smiled. Happy shook his head. "Not by a long shot, ma." Alexi scoffed and in mock outrage. "You seriously think you look better than me? Me? Ope correct this wrong man. Tell him how wrong he is." Alexi said and motioned wildly.
The group stared at the long legged creature in Opie's arms. "You can't ask him he's biased." Happy said shrugging his shoulders. Alexi cocked her head back placing her hand on her chest. "Uhm excuse me, pal I asked him first, he has to answer." The pair looked at Opie expecting an answer.
Opie pulled back to look at her. It had been so long since she had cracked a joke or had even been playful. Juice was the first to recover and looked between the two.
"I don't know, I think Hap, might be beating you." Juice said joking. The green eyed girl smirked playing with Opie's beard. "You're only saying that because you're hard up for his cock and would do anything to call him daddy."She had slid out of Opie's hold and was leaning into him.
Her words rolled off her tongue before she could stop them. Chibbs spat his drink out in a fit of laughter. Her father pulled her to him kissing the top of her head. Juice chuckled but looked slightly annoyed.
"But seriously, Opie. Who looks better? I have to know." Alexi said tugging on the tall mans arm. "It's you." Alexi spun around pointing at Happy and laughing in victory. "HA! What now?" She tossed her hair over her shoulder and cocked an eyebrow at Happy.
"But I like Hap's ink better. So, I guess its a tie." Alexi grasped in utter betrayal. "How could you hurt me like that Ope? You just did me dirty. How could you say that? A tie? Uhh. I might cry." The brunette disentangled her self form her old man and hugged her dad.
Opie chuckled walking to the girl. "Did you hear those hurtful words, pa?" She wrapped her arms around her dad. "I know baby girl. I did tell you not to get mixed up with these assholes." Tig joked kissing his daughters head.
"Baby, I'm sorry. I thought you wanted me to be truthful." Opie pleaded with the young women.
"No, I now see where your TRUE loyalties lay. Go back to Happy maybe he'll make you feel better. I've got my Pa that's all I need." Alexi shooed the taller man away from her and hugged her father tighter making him laugh.
"That's right baby girl." Tig agreed resting his chin on his daughter daughters head. "Nah I don't fuck with anyone taller than me, sorry bro." Happy said clapping Opie on the shoulder as he walked by.
Alexi clapped gleefully and stuck her tongue out at Opie. "Guess whose on the couch tonight." She said, her hands on her hips and shook her head at the bearded giant.