Um, all these chapters have the old author's notes at the bottom, well most of them do anyway. Please ignore them. When this story was published on here the first time, I downloaded it right before I deleted it due to lack of interest. It's also filled with errors and whatnot. It's even in my old cringy writing style. So forgive me for that.

SOASOASOA

Bri POV

"Mommy! Your car is blue!" Ale bounced around the car as I tried to get her in. Aleric had let me secure him in his seat without trouble and had promptly fallen asleep. His sister, on the other hand, was a ball of energy that I didn't feel like dealing with.

"Alessandria get in the damn car." I stomped my foot. "I will take your boots away and toss them in the pond."

"No." She pouted and climbed into the car and sat in her seat. I quickly fastened her in and got in myself.

"Take a nap or something," I said to her before looking at Monica who was too enthralled with her phone to start a conversation with.

"No." Ale replied. I looked in the rearview and she was glaring at me. Her tiny arms crossed over her chest. "Daddy looked scary!"

"He always looks like that!" I smiled. I couldn't help but to. She was already claiming him as her dad. I knew that when he came home it may be different and difficult but I was ready and willing to put forth the effort to blend Happy into the family dynamic.

"He's in timeout?" She asked.

"Yeah, he's in adult time out. You're going in time out when we get home for not listening." I said.

"For why?" She whined. "I wasn't bad mommy. I was good!"

I rolled my eyes. "You didn't get into the car the first five times I asked!"

"Is Moni going in time out?" She kicked the back of my seat and giggled behind her hands.

"No." I shook my head. "Moni was good. You were the bad one. So you get three minutes in time out."

"No." She kicked the seat again. "One minute!"

"Five minutes. You're three, I'm your mom, you have to listen to me." I honked the horn at a car that cut me off. The last fucking thing I needed was to get in a car accident before my first day at my new practice.

"You get that Alessandria? Don't play dumb with me. I know you're smart." "Three minutes."

She held up three little fingers. "Okay, mommy."

"Three minutes." I agreed. "As soon as we get home, go to your time out chair baby."

"Okay." She yawned.

"You know Hap is going to be hard to them?" Monica touched my arm and slipped her phone into the cup holder.

"Yeah, I know." I sighed. "He's going to be hard on you too. He's basically your dad too Monica."

"I know." She smirked. "I'm glad you and him took me in. I didn't really like living with my parents."

"My jerk of a brother still hasn't come back. Starting to think he's in the ground somewhere." I steered towards the Hohrykova Estate. "You still want to paint your room?"

"Yeah." She nodded. "I want to paint the wall with chalkboard paint. So when my friends sleepover they can write messages on it to me. I can draw on it and it's functional."

"Sounds fine with me." I hit the button to let me into the estate's gate. "This house is amazing."

"Not even a house. It's a freaking mansion. Like from cribs." She unbuckled her seatbelt and got out of the car. "I'll take him, you grab her."

"Alright." I picked up Alessandria who had managed to fall asleep in the last fifteen minutes of the drive. "I have a feeling Nik and Juice are up to no good."

"Surprise party." She whispered. "I would have told you sooner but I found out while we were seeing Happy."

"Jesus." I frowned as we walked in. "Let's flip this shit. Follow my lead alright?"

"Okay." She smiled.

"Let's take them upstairs and we can go out back." I took the stairs slowly as I held my daughter. I was not going to risk a fall while I held her but usually, I would have taken the stairs in pairs. I placed Ale in her bed and pulled the blanket over her sleeping form before kissing her head. She looked like a little angel. Too bad she was a little devil when she was awake.

"Ready?" I grabbed Monica's arm and we walked down the stairs trying our best to make each other cry. "We're going to say Happy got into a fight and got another thirty days."

"They'll freak the hell out." She pinched herself and her eyes got misty. "Let's do this."

We pulled open the French doors and stepped outside.

"Surprise!" The group yelled and me and Monica just looked at each other and frowned.

"Omg!" Kozik walked over and picked me up. "What's wrong?"

"Hap isn't coming home." I started to cry on his arm.

A collective gasp went among the guests and I winked at Monica.

"Gotcha!" She yelled. "He's still coming home."

"You know I hate surprise parties." I looked at everyone. "I don't even know what we're celebrating for."

"You starting at your practice." Esai wrapped his arms around my waist. "You're a big hot-shot plastic surgeon. Best lip and fake noses in the goddamn business."

"You know it." I hugged him. "You guys really just find any excuse to party here huh?"

"Yeah." Nik stepped forward with Jax and they both hugged me. "My baby shower is going to be here."

"Knock yourself out Ms. Party Planner." I smiled. "I don't know what to do because my plan was to bum around and draw."

"Now you party." Jax nodded. "It's only right. Where are the twins?"

"Sleeping." I shrugged as Nik handed me a cup of juice. "Ale is in trouble."

"Ain't she always." He chuckled.

"I think she's in for a rude awakening when her dad gets home." Juice smiled at me. His arm was wrapped around Lo's waist and Luna was holding his free hand. A lot of things had shifted for all of us in the last three years.

It was obvious, the Sons who had shown up were keeping a distance from the Aztecs and Mayans who were present. The only Aztec they really talked to was Esai and that was because he was in the inner circle. He was family regardless of any outside bullshit.

"You guys, mingle and party. This is more for you than it is for me." I laughed. "I just want to eat the cupcakes and people watch." I grabbed a cupcake off the dessert table and peeled the paper liner from it. "This cupcake has a strawberry filling." I dropped it into the garbage.

"What's wrong with that?" Lo looked at me.

"I like normal vanilla cupcakes." I looked at her. "Ones without filling."

"They're all filled." Nik frowned. "I ordered them while pregnant, so my cravings bested me."

"My craving was pickles and brownies. I made Happy get me donuts at like four am once. Ended with us having sex in the backseat of Beast." I smiled at the memory while everyone else cringed. "Talk about a cream filling."

"Gross!" Nik smacked me. "That was too much information."

"Sorry." I laughed. "It was a good place to throw that in."

"Whatever." She shook her head. "Let's eat."

I let her lead me off towards the table that held the real food. My stomach growled and I let my eyes look over the options before grabbing the pizza.

SOASOASOA

Nik POV

I rubbed my belly and looked over at the table Bri and Esai were at. "You ever notice they make a gorgeous couple?" I bumped my shoulder against Jax's.

"We're the gorgeous couple. All blonde haired and blue eyed." He kissed my cheek. "Don't even worry about that."

"I'm not, I was just stating the obvious you know?" I smirked. "You still on the outs with the Aztecs?"

"We're hanging on by a thread." He said. "I don't want to start a war or anything with them because they've spread out all over the country."

"I know. I heard about the East Coast charters." I shook my head. "They're each getting their own team of mercenaries. Like those are the nomads of the Aztecs."

"I didn't know they hit all the way to the East Coast." He rubbed a hand over his short hair. "Jesus."

"Yeah." I looked back at the table and Bri was holding Ale and they were glaring at each other. No doubt in some type of argument because Bri couldn't resist getting into it with her mini me.

"You think I could ask Bri to help the Sons expand?" He looked at me as he rubbed my belly.

"Nope." I shook my head. "We're not getting her involved with Son's shit. I'll help you expand. I have just as many connections as she does. I'm a Hohrykova as well."

"Yeah, I know." He kissed my cheek. "Soon to be a Teller though."

"Or you could become Jackson Teller-Hohrykov." I smiled. "Guys drop the A at the end of the surname."

"Nah, you're becoming a Teller. You can hyphen it if you want too." He smirked. "Expanding the Teller bloodline, one kid at a time."

"You're going to have enough kids to form a mini Sons charter." I laughed. "You can recruit for it."

"The last thing I need is my kids becoming outlaws because I put it on them. If they wanna do it it'll be on their own terms, not mine." He sighed. "I'm not my mother nor my father or step father."

"Speaking of your mom. What's with her being all nice to me lately? She went from hating me three years to wanting to be all motherly." I crossed my arms. "I don't fuck with her like that. She's too sneaky for her intentions to be pure."

"Keep at an arm's length." He rested his chin on my shoulder. "You smell like skittles."

"That's good right?" I laughed.

"It's perfect." He chuckled. "I need a drink, you want anything?"

"Pizza and cupcakes." I smiled. "Like six cupcakes."

"Gotcha." He swaggered off towards the food tables.

"Hey, Chibs," I said as I walked into the garage. "Jax here?"

"Yeah, inside with Tara and the kids." He looked at me. "You look like you're gonna pop."

I laughed. "It feels like I am." I sat down on the stool. "You should have come to the party. There was a lot of whiskeys there."

"Aye. Tara needed my help with her car yesterday." He went back to work and I left him alone. Not bothering to start up a conversation with him. It wasn't worth the effort it required.

I stood and walked out of the garage. I leaned against my Range Rover and watched as Tara and the kids walked to the play area. I frowned as she looked my way. Anger apparent on her face as she took me in. I rolled my eyes and Gemma came strutting towards me her gaudy getup clinking as she walked.

"Jax is busy with his family." She shielded her eyes from the sun as she looked at me. "What do you want?"

"I came here to drop off his leather. He left it at home while he hurried to get over here." I shrugged. "I'll keep it safe until he gets home then."

"I'll give it to him." She held a hand out.

"Nah, it's fine." I pulled open my car door and got inside. "I'll give it to him later. Bye Gemma."

She glared at me and backed up as I pulled away. She was so immature. One minute she was all about me being family and the next she wanted Tara back in the picture.

I knew one thing and one thing only. Either Tara or Gemma had to go and I wouldn't have a problem with handling it myself. At the end of the day it was my turn to be queen, so everyone needed to step down and back off because I was ascending to the throne either peacefully or forceful and bloody.


A/N: Loving the support this story is getting so far. I hope to do this sequel justice. I have big plans for the gang this time around. And as for Bri&Hap go I'm glad I kept them together too but I was set on her ending back up with Juice I even had an ending where she went and married Esai and cemented the Aztecs spot as most powerful MC.