Chapter 10
Waking up the next morning, we eat breakfast and head to Angel's father's house. We walk in behind Angel and he says "Pop? You here?" He smiles when his father says "In here." We walk into the living room and he stands to greet Angel. "I want you to meet someone, Pop." Filipe stands and Angel says. "Pop, this is Riley, my wife and Mouse, our daughter." Filipe looks at him shocked and then us and hugs me. "Welcome Mija." he says to me. Looking at Mouse, she is hiding behind Angel and Angel kneels down to her. "Bebita, this is your Abuelo. It's okay. He's familia." he tells her and she moves slowly over to Filipe and says "Hola Abuelo." He hugs her softly and he says "Hola mi precioso." We spend the next little bit talking to Filipe and he gets out the photo albums and is showing Mouse pictures of the family. "This is your Abuela. She would have loved you. This one is your Papi when he was about your age. You want to see your Papi as a baby?" he asks and she nods her head yes and he pulls out some baby pictures. "This one is your Tio, Ezekiel." Mouse looks at the picture and then at Angel and says "Tio EZ?" Angel nods and she smiles. After spending time with Filipe, we head to the clubhouse.
As soon as we walk into the clubhouse, Mouse sees Letti and looks at me. "Go ahead Mija." She hugs me and heads over to Letti. We walk to the bar and Bishop asks "How's she doing?" I look at him and say "She's better. Been talking a little more. I got her talking a little last night and found out how she got the scars. The people that killed her family, set her house on fire. She barely escaped. She said Adelita would yell at her but one of the men would smack her around. I asked her if they touched her and she said no that they just smacked her around." I tell them. "Well, she's safe with us." he tells me. "I have no doubt." I tell him and he smiles.
A little later, we all head back to the cottage and as soon as we walk in, Mouse says "Tio, will you play a game with me?" Angel looks at him and says "Yeah, will you Tio?" EZ flips him off and looks at Mouse and says "Come on little one." and walks to the living room while I move to the kitchen to start dinner. Angel stands at the doorway and just watches me. "What?" I ask, looking over my shoulder at him. "You look happy." he tells me. I turn to face him and say "I am happy. I have you and Mouse and a family I never thought I'd have. I'm happy and I have you to thank for that." I tell him. "No baby. We have Vickie to thank for that. She's the one that got you to start texting me. It's hard to believe that it's not been that long since I was sitting here watching you through the window wondering what it would be like to be with you. Now, we're married and have Mouse. I'm truly happy." I tell him. He walks over and wraps his arms around me and kisses me softly and says "I'm happy too mi reina."
After eating, EZ crashes on the couch, we put Mouse to bed and head to bed ourselves. "You know eventually I'm gonna want more kids." he tells me and I look at him shocked. "You know we'll need a bigger place." I tell him. "I know. I've been thinking about looking for a house. Maybe something close to Pop so we're close to family." he tells me. "I'd like that." I tell him. He hovers over me and says "We could start working on a little brother or sister for Mouse." I laugh and say "We could do that." He kisses me deeply before entering me and making love to me nice and slow in the hopes of expanding out happy little family.