The rest of the time spent in Charming was uneventful. Vital documents, family items, and pictures were gathered up and everything else was packed up and sold or donated.

Roxy stood on the front curb, Mateo on her hip and EZ beside her, looking at her childhood home with the sale sign hammered into the lawn.

"Well this is sadder than I thought," she whimpered.

"It's for the best," EZ said to her just to sound supportive.

When they heard a Harley coming down the street both Macy and EZ expected to see Chibs or Tig but not Happy. EZ tensed but didn't say anything as he approached them.

"End of an era," he remarked.

"Yep," she sighed. "Teo, say hi."

The boy looked up at Happy and waved. "Hi," she said timidly.

"Hey kid," Happy grumbled, messing the child's hair with his hand.

"Chibs know you're here?" Roxy asked

"No. I'm supposed to be avoiding you."

"Been hearing that for six years now," she remarked.

Happy chuckled, "Yeah."

"For the best," she said ruefully. Roxy turned and gave Happy a hug, "It was good to see you despite the multiple attempted murders."

"It was," he agreed. "You going home?"

"Yeah," she said as they separated. "I think it's better for everyone."

"Probably," Happy agreed. "Where's your old man?"

Roxy was about to mention the break-up but caught the words before they left her mouth. "He went ahead, club stuff. I kept the prospect for the dirty work."

"Listen," he said quietly, "If they give you any shit if they fuck you over or hurt you, tell me. Okay?"

"Yeah, you got it."

Since Coco took EZ's bike after making the trip to Charming with her, EZ was forced to ride home with Roxy and Mateo. It wasn't a tense drive but there were words both adults in the car were holding back.

"Mommy I'm tired," Mateo whined from the backseat. "I don't feel good."

"I know, me too kiddo," she commiserated. "We'll be home soon."

EZ looked at Mateo for a second, giving him a little smile, and used that break in the silence to open a conversation.

"Poor kid," EZ remarked.

"I know," Roxy sighed, glancing at her son in the rearview mirror. "He's had a long few weeks."

"Yeah but he'll bounce back, kids are resilient."

"Especially mine," she laughed. Roxy knew they were getting close to home and with the tension broken, she looked at EZ for some advice. "You said to keep believing the lie, I'm okay with that, but I feel like I have to tell Coco. I owe him that much, and shit, the way I spazzed on him for lying to me, I just, I feel like I have to tell him. I want to tell him."

There was no way Roxy wasn't going to tell Coco about Happy so EZ knew he shouldn't waste his breath trying to talk her out of it but he also agreed with reasoning. "I get it, I think you should, I think you should keep what happened in the cemetery to yourself though."

Roxy scoffed, "That was such a bad decision. No offense."

"You're not gonna get an argument from me," EZ said quickly.

Taking her eyes off the road briefly, Roxy glances at EZ and smiled. "Thank you for everything, E, and I'm sorry for all the times I've been a shit or I've taken advantage of you."

"And the time you ran off with Teo and scared the shit out of every one of us?"

She huffed and nodded. "I still think I was justified but I'm sorry you all were so worried."

"You're forgiven," he chuckled.

"Friends again?"

EZ nodded. "Yeah, friends."

Roxy wasn't nervous about talking to Coco until she actually rolled into the yard. She swallowed slowly, feeling like she was going to vomit, as she put the car in park and EZ jumped out quickly to stretch his legs. She unclicked her seatbelt and watched EZ chat with Gilly and Tranq.

"Nope, I'm out," she said in a moment of weakness. Starting the engine again, Roxy prepared to make her escape but in came Angel and Coco behind her. "Fuck."

"Coco," EZ hollered, pointing to Roxy.

There was no outward sign of reluctance as he looked over and made brief eye contact with Roxy. Jogging toward her, Coco waved timidly as she rolled down her window.

"Hi."

"Hey," he said casually. "Sup?"

"Uh, I wanted to know if I could make dinner tonight. You know, for the four of us, and maybe we could talk after?" That was when she saw reluctance, an uncertainty she'd never seen in him about her. "Nevermind. It's cool. Forget it."

"I'll come," he said quickly. "I'll see if Letti wants to."

"Are you sure?"

"Yeah, I'm sure." Coco smiled a little, placing his hand on the top of the door and leaning into the window. "Everything work out?" He knew it did, he'd gotten the full report from Bishop, but he still asked, he still wanted to know if she was okay.

"As much as possible, I guess," she shrugged a little.

Coco nodded and pressed a fleeting kiss on her cheek. "Regular time?"

"Yeah," she smiled. "I'll see you tonight."

When Coco and Letti arrived at the apartment they were greeted by the delicious aroma of one of Gemma's best recipes. Roxy was sure to take both recipes boxes when packing up and decided to make her favorite dinner for the Cruzs.

"Hey," she spoke timidly, clearly nervous.

"Hi," Letti said quickly as she sat on the couch.

"Hey," Coco kissed her cheek. "Where's Mateo?"

"Not feeling well," she pouted, "Said his belly hurt but I think he's laying the price for my meltdown. I feel awful."

Frowning, Coco nodded. "You didn't know."

Roxy huffed and rolled her eyes. "I should have though. Dinner should be ready in a few minutes."

"You wanna talk now?" He asked, following her into the kitchen.

"I don't know," she kept her back to him. "If it goes badly I'll be stuck with all this food."

"It won't," Coco said confidently. "We're both adults, we can keep shit calm."

Laughing at his comment to herself, Roxy turned and pressed her palms to his chest. "When I got pregnant I was young and dumb and terrified. I went to the person I trusted and loved the most in the world. The advice I got was flawed, at best, but I was too scared."

"Okay," Coco said expectantly. "What was the advice? Keep it?

"No," she frowned. "The advice was to lie and I did. I told Esai the baby was his but he isn't Mateo's father. Happy is."

Coco looked at her, his usually intense eyes were even more focused on hers and slowly nodded. "Goddamn, that makes so much sense."

"Really?" She laughed a little.

"Yeah," Coco huffed. "Jesus Christ, Rox, Why did you lie?"

"Jax," she sighed heavily as she began the story. It occurred to her halfway through that she'd also lied to Coco about Happy before when he asked about their history. "I'm sorry," she said as an end to her story. "I'm sorry I lied and I hurt you and I-"

"Who knows?" He interrupted.

"Uh," she stammered nervously, "The only living people that know are you and E. Please don't say ANYTHING. He only knows cause he found some shit at my mom's and it came out."

Coco wrapped his arms around her, sighing heavily as he embraced her, and pressed his lips to her forehead.

"You were, like, 18?"

"Yeah," she mumbled into his chest.

Coco quickly thought of Letti and how furious he would be if one of his brothers did what Happy did to Roxy. She was a kid, he was near forty, it was unforgivable to Coco.

"I'm sorry, querida," he said sadly. "I get it," he admitted, thinking of his lies about Letti. "Besides, if you didn't you'd be stuck up there, and I'd be missing out."

Rolling her eyes up to look at him, Roxy's lips turned upward into a small grin. "What's that mean?"

"I love you," Coco said earnestly. "It means I love your crazy ass, Rox. I'm not gonna take your shit anymore but I'm not gonna walk away. All our mistakes and our trauma brought us here. Gotta be a reason, right?"

"Right," she whispered.

Coco smiled sweetly and kissed Roxy, feeling comfort in her embrace and presence. "Let's forget this shit, I like our weird ass family."

"Me too," she giggled. "Come on, let's eat."

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