Thank you everybody for the comments follows and favs. I'm so glad you all stayed this long into Gabby's story. As a reminder this story is not a year per chapter like The Reluctant Lion Heart. This chapter is set the very next day after chapter 1.
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2021
Age 29
Casper lay awake in bed watching his wife still sound asleep. She had been ready and waiting last night when he got home both to treat his wounds and make love to him. He smiled and moved a piece of hair off her face.
Tom Tom and Bull had both tried to talk Casper out of taking an old lady, and Tom Tom had basically turned his back on him when they announced Gabby was pregnant. And sure, his life had changed, but he didn't regret it for a second. He loved his family, his wife meant more to him than he could ever imagine.
She gave him freedom and trusted him, didn't nag about the time the club took up and never got jealous of the sweet butts. And even now in this tranquil moment he kind of missed the sound of little feet escaping their beds and peeking through the door.
"Sleep." Gabby murmured and held his hand down to the bed when he swept more hair out of her face. He grinned and kissed her forehead.
"You have to get the kids?" He asked and slid back down to lay close to his wife.
"Charlene's bringing them back at lunch, we're gonna go to Vivica's and swim." Gabby shifted closer to Casper as she talked.
"Tig is gonna be there." He informed her.
"What?"
"Chris is having Jax and Tig over for steaks after the meeting. Invited all of us."
"Would have been nice if Vivica mentioned that." Gabby buried her head in her husband's chest. He rolled them both over and started kissing her neck.
"You know she didn't tell you on purpose. Busy body wants nothing more than to see you get over your Tig issues." He started kissing lower and she ran her fingers through his hair.
"However…" He continued to kiss a path down the lump of her breast to her nipple. "It's morning, there's no hungry kids waiting at the door. And I was a very good boy on my run." He emphasized that by finally capturing her nipple. "I think I deserve a reward."
Gabby laughed. "And what was last night?" She teased although they both knew she had no intention of turning him down.
"Last night? Purely medicinal, kiss and make it better, remember?" He captured her nipple once more and ran a hand down her side till it cupped her ass.
He paused momentarily at the sound of a bike but continued as soon as it seemed to stop. He trailed his tongue back up his wife's body till he captured her mouth and she instinctually wrapped her legs around him and pulled him closer.
The doorbell rang just as he was about to slip inside of her. "Mother Fucker!" He pushed himself up and grabbed last night's jeans off the floor. "Stay right there! I'm shooting whoever the fuck that is."
Gabby groaned and laid back in bed listening to her old man angrily storm down the stairs.
"What!?" Casper yelled as he opened the door with his left hand, his right brandishing a gun. "Tig what the fuck are you doing here?"
Tig looked at Casper's half-dressed state and the gun in his hand and knew he might have made a mistake coming over this morning.
"I came to see the kids."
"Kids ain't here." Casper seethed out.
"Oh…well Gabby…"
"Is busy." Casper finished Tig's sentence for him.
"Busy…I'm just gonna go then." Tig backed up a few steps before turning back to his bike.
Casper slammed the door shut and locked it before bounding back up the stairs only to find their bed empty. He followed the sound of water into the bathroom and stripped and joined his wife in the shower.
"Tig didn't ruin the mood?" Gabby teased when she was immediately picked up and pressed against the tile.
"Nothing can make me not want my wife." He answered and captured her mouth once again.
"What you doing Love?" Casper walked into Kristen's bedroom and reached his hands over Gabby's head to get a box down she was struggling to reach.
"You remember the woman I met last night?" Gabby took the box and checked the contents.
"I remember you saying you met someone."
"Yeah, Becky. I ended up driving her home last night. She has a little girl." Gabby trailed off and went back to the closet reaching for another box of Kristen's old clothes.
"You're giving her stuff? I thought we were saving this for baby number three." He took the box out for her, set it down, and hugged her. "Love?"
"Baby, IF we have another kid it won't be for a few years. And it might not be a girl. I'm keeping the baby stuff. Becky's daughter is three. I went in the apartment it…" She trailed off again and sighed. "The dad walked out on them. I don't know what Becky does but…"
"But it reminded you of your mother's place?" Casper pulled her away a bit to look at her.
"Not as bad. Didn't get the vibe that Becky was using. She wants to be a good mom, but she's struggling. I know what that little girl's life is like Casper. I know what it could turn into."
"Okay." Casper kissed her on the forehead. "I trust your judgment. You want me to carry these downstairs?"
"Please. She said she'd call me next week so the kids could play but I don't know if she will. She seemed pretty embarrassed of her situation."
"So you gonna be the pushy biker bitch and go over there? Be my friend or else?" Casper smiled as he teased her.
"Thought I'd take her the clothes and invite her to swim with us, although maybe not with all the others coming too."
"Bring her. Guys ain't gonna say no to another girl in a bikini." He lifted the boxes and headed down the stairs.
"Hmmm, bikini…" Gabby stopped following her husband and headed back to her bedroom.
Becky was surprised by the knock on the door and cautiously opened it. "Gabby?" She swung the door open completely and stepped out of the way of the woman struggling with two large boxes.
Gabby set them down in the middle of the living room and stood back up cracking her back. "Okay, first off, I am not being pushy…I'm actually having an 'oh my god I'm turning into Gemma' moment." She had finally understood Gemma's tendency to be so domineering, no one really welcomed the biker chick anywhere, she had to push her way in.
"Gemma?" Becky wondered but Gabby waved her off.
"I brought some of Kristen's old clothes for Suzie. 3T and 4T. Some of the toys and books that I know my son won't touch also."
"Oh my…thank you… I don't…"
"It's okay. This stuff was literally packed in boxes in her closet. I wanted Suzie to have them. Is she here?"
"Yeah she is… she's… Suzie!" Becky was still speechless at this near stranger's generosity and hurried to her daughter's bedroom. "Suzie, baby come see what Mommy's new friend brought you." Suzie came out of her room carrying a baby doll that had seen better days in what looked like her own old baby clothes.
"Hi Suzie." Gabby squatted down to the little girl's level. "My name is Gabby."
"Hi." The little girl said swinging her doll in front of her.
"I brought you some clothes and toys, do you want to take a look?" She nodded her head shyly and Gabby un-stacked the boxes and opened them both for the girl to look through.
Suzie peaked into the first box and her eyes lit up as she pulled out a pink Disney princess shirt. "Mommy look!" Suzie put her doll down and held the shirt up to herself.
"I see baby." Becky was near tears as her daughter continued to go through boxes. 'Thank you' Becky mouthed again to Gabby and Gabby smiled wide and gave Becky a hug.
"You're welcome. Come on, let her play." Gabby led her away a bit so Suzie wouldn't pay attention to them but Becky could still see her. "I know you didn't like the party last night but I was hoping you'd give the club one more chance. I'm taking the kids swimming at a friend's house and it apparently turned into a bit of a club picnic. I thought maybe you and Suzie could come. I promise if the club's still not your thing I won't ask you to do anything else with them. But I really want you to meet some of them, at least my old man. I told him a little bit about you already."
Becky was quite for a second. "I don't want to sound ungrateful, I'd still love to get together but Suzie can't swim, and neither of us have swimsuits."
"I brought you both suits. Suzie's is in the boxes, and you just happen to be my pre-baby number 2 size." Gabby pulled a suit out of her purse and dangled it in front of Becky. "The pool has a shallow side and Vivica has lots of water wings and life vests for the kids."
"Vivica… as in the Presidents old lady? Oh…"
"Don't freak. I don't know what your friend told you about the club but I am inviting you, as my guest." Gabby looked at Becky's face and backed up a step. "Yeah, okay I'm definitely having a pushy Gemma moment."
"No, not pushy! This…that…" Becky pointed at her daughter going through the boxes. "That is amazing and kind. I'm just wondering why you're so… interested. In me, in Suzie, in me getting involved in your club."
"Honestly? Well, it's complicated. Mostly I really want another mom as a friend. And I think we'd really get along. Unfortunately me hanging out with someone completely independent of the club isn't gonna go over to well. Not that I'm not allowed, I don't want to give you that perception of the club, it just won't be easy."
"That actually makes a lot of sense, it doesn't really seem complicated though. "
"I understand what you and your daughter are going through, my mother and I lived liked this, worse than this. It got a lot worse. I'm not saying that you're bad just that, I understand this…" Gabby waved her arms around the room. "I'd like to make this a little easier for you, for her, and make a friend in the process. If that's okay?" Gabby began to get nervous. She was hearing the words coming out of her mouth but they weren't conveying what she wanted them to.
Becky smiled, "you're not what Angie described. She made this big deal about old ladies. What they're like, what they do, what it takes to become one, what you get to do and dictate once you become one. When I found out you were one I thought you were going to kick me out of the clubhouse or put me to work cleaning something. I'm kinda intimidated by you."
"Don't be intimidated by me, just go swimming with me."
Casper showed up to his presidents house with Tom Tom and Shark. He had made a point of arriving before the meeting with the Mayans was done so he could have time with his kids.
"Daddy!" Kristen lifted herself out of the pool as soon as he turned the corner into the backyard and launched herself into her father's arms.
"Hi sweetie. Are you having fun?" Casper carried Kristen back to the pool.
"Yes, mommy made a friend and I made a new friend too."
"Oooo yes you did munchkin." Shark yanked her ponytail while examining the new girl floating on her back in a bikini. "What's your new friend's name?"
"Suzie!" Kristen squirmed out of her father's arms and attempted to pull him closer to the water.
"And her mother's name is Becky. If you scare away this woman I will not be responsible for what my wife does to you." Casper warned Shark and knelt down to his daughter.
"Let me change and I'll swim with you."
"Really?" Kristen asked jumping up and down.
"Really sweetie. Come on." Casper lifted Kristen back up, "Gabs!" He called and when his wife swam a few feet closer he tossed his daughter back in the pool as she squealed.
"Becky huh? What do you know about her?" Shark continued to stare at the woman, joined now by Tom Tom.
"She was at last night's party. She has a daughter and Gabby invited her here." Casper filled in his brother as he ducked into the pool house and changed into swim trunks.
"She's got a kid?" Tom Tom seemed disappointed.
"Dad not in the picture?" Shark clarified.
"Guys seriously, what the fuck? Tom Tom you have a girlfriend and Shark, did you or did you not fuck two different sweet butts last night and take a third one home?"
"The third one was the first one." Shark clarified as the men headed back to the pool area. "Hey Charlene, your phone is flashing!" Shark grabbed a beer and sat down at a table under an umbrella.
"Uggh!" Charlene sent Mathew floating over to Gabby and climbed up the ladder.
"Don't answer him Char! Babe!" Gabby yelled at her husband.
"On it!" Casper grabbed the phone out of Charlene's hand and read the message out loud. "If I find out you're with those criminals we're done you slut." Casper tossed the phone to Shark. "I don't know where the fuck to start. The fact that you took him back, for the third time mind you, after he cheated on you. The fact that you let him treat you and talk to you like that or the fact that I actually allow it to go on."
"We could take care of him for you." Shark offered.
"Give me the phone!" Charlene reached over to Shark.
"No."
"Shark! Phone!" Shark tossed the phone to Casper and pulled Charlene down into his lap.
"Why do you keep letting that bastard back in?" Charlene tried to get up but Shark held her tight. "You deserve better darling."
"Ryan's a great guy."
"Charlene you cried on my couch for three days last time he cheated on you." Casper reminded her.
"Oh shut up!" Charlene got off Sharks lap and dove for her phone. Casper threw it back to Shark and grabbed Charlene around the waist and pulled her into the water with him.
Becky glanced at Gabby in shock but Gabby didn't seem bothered by the physical contact between the two. She kept Suzie close and away from the rough housing.
"Can you?" Gabby pointed at Mathew and Becky nodded her head and pulled the happy baby over by his small life vest.
Gabby swam over to the fighting duo and jumped on her husband's back to stop him from dunking her best friend.
"Hey hey! No tag teaming! Shark!" Casper yelled for help but Shark could only laugh at his friend now being attacked by two bikini clad women.
"Munchkin, come here, stay out of the fight." Shark jumped up and pulled Kristen out of the pool.
"No, I want to dunk daddy too." Kristen attempted to squirm out of Shark's arms but he held tight.
"You can dunk me, come on, introduce me to your new friend." Shark carried Kristen to the other side of the pool and dropped her in before jumping in himself.
"Uncle Shark this is Suzie." Kristen swam over to the younger girl.
Shark smiled at Becky who shyly smiled back. "Hi Suzie, very nice to meet you. And who is Suzie's mother?"
"Becky!" Kristen answered for the woman and both adults smiled at each other.
"Nice to meet you Becky. I'm Shark." He extended his hand but was quickly under water as Kristen jumped on his shoulders.
"Ah! Kristen!" Shark yelled as he came back up to the surface. Suzie and Kristen both laughed and Shark smiled at the younger girl. "You want to dunk me too?" Suzie nodded her head and escaped her mother's arm so she and Kristen could dunk him.
Gabby came back over and swooped Mathew up in her arms. "I see you met Shark. Relax Becky he loves kids. He'll keep her entertained all day."
"Never seen her like this, Suzie's usually shy."
"Like her mom." Gabby teased.
Becky's cheeks turned pink as she finally tore her eyes away from her daughter.
"Come on, let me trade off kid duty and we can lay out in the sun. Meet you at the chairs." Gabby nodded to the lounge chairs set up on the far side of the pool and carried Mathew to Casper.
"Hey little man." Casper took him immediately.
"He's been in here a while, he might need to go down."
"I'll do it later. Gonna lounge for a while with my son." Casper smiled and shifted Mathew so he was securely on his chest as Casper floated on his back.
"Okay." Gabby kissed him. "His bag is in the den, pack and play is set up, there's a baby monitor in there…"
"Yes Gabs I can put my son down for a nap."
"I know you can, but we're not at home." Casper rolled his eyes and Gabby poured a handful of water over his face before swimming to the edge and climbing out.
It wasn't an hour later that more men started showing up in the backyard. Harry and Frankie showed up and immediately fired up the grill to start hamburgers and hotdogs.
"Damn." Bull walked in the back and stopped dead at the new girl laid out in a bikini. "Thought Vivica said no sweet butts." Bull grabbed a beer and sat down next to Tom Tom. Vivica didn't let sweet butts at any pool party. Too many fake tits in not enough swim suits she always said when the guys complained.
"Gabby's friend, Becky." Tom Tom informed his brother.
"She's hot, she single?"
"Yeah, got a kid though." Tom Tom was in no way interested in kids, not in having his own and defiantly not in an insta-family. There was no way he was raising some other guy's kid, no matter how hot the mom might be.
"Good for a fuck." Tom Tom shook his head as Bull took off his cut and shirt and headed over to the line of girls.
"Hey new girl." Bull stood next to her and whistled.
"Seriously." Charlene mumbled and Gabby chuckled.
"Becky this is Bull take no offense to what he says and don't get stuck in a room alone with him." Gabby introduced Bull.
"Excuse me?" Bull ripped off his sunglasses and glared at Gabby. "You need to watch what the fuck you say to me."
"You need to watch what the fuck you say to my old lady." Casper appeared in front of the three women and stared down Bull.
"Whatever." Bull stalked away and Casper shook his head.
"Does Kristen need to give you a lesson on playing nice?" Casper teased his wife.
"I didn't insult him, I warned Becky about him."
Casper walked over and kissed his wife. "Next time wait till he's out of earshot. You know I'm gonna be in the ring with him over this."
Gabby reached a hand up and pulled Casper down for a deep kiss. She waited for him to kneel on the chair and run a hand up her side under her bikini top to pull away slightly and pout. "Sorry baby."
"Uh huh." He gave her another peck on the lips and stood up to his full height of 6'5''. "Mathew is down, girls should take a rest too."
"The squealing died down a while ago, are they still playing?"
"They're pulling Shark around on a raft. He's awake, don't look at me like that. He pulled them around and then convinced them it was his turn." Casper chuckled as he looked back at the pool.
"They'll probably sleep through dinner. We waiting for the others? Is there a problem?" Gabby's relaxed mood instantly disappeared with a glance at her phone for the time.
"They're on their way over now." He snagged her hand and kissed it. "Everything's fine Love." He gave her a smile and looked out at the growing party. "Where's Vivica?"
"In the air conditioning."
"Cooking?"
"Vivica doesn't cook babe. Guys are grilling, she bought the side dishes. She won't come out till the sun goes down." Gabby shielded her eyes and looked up at Casper. "You'll still love me when the sun turns me all wrinkly right?"
Casper grinned and shook his head earning a slap to the thigh. "Do the kids have sunblock on?"
"Waterproof SPF 75 every two hours."
"Such a good wrinkly mother." Casper laughed and walked away.
"He calls you love, that's really sweet." Becky observed.
"He's always called her love, since day one." Charlene spoke for her friend.
"Yeah, he has always called me Love. I think it's what he called any girl and it kinda reverted to just me." Gabby realized.
"Any classy girl." Charlene surmised.
"Gabs!" Shark called over and all three women sat up to see what was wrong.
"That right there is why I put up with all this club shit." Charlene leaned over and whispered to Becky.
Shark walked over in nothing but black swim trunks, water dripping down his perfect abs, a child on each arm. "I've got two sleepy girls for two well rested mothers." Shark winked at Becky.
"Bring 'em here." Gabby smiled and grabbed a towel to wrap around her daughter. "Hey sweetie. You have fun?" Kristen nodded and curled up onto her mother's lap. "You tired?" Kristen shook her head 'no' violently but her thumb found its way into her mouth and her head leaned against her mother's sun warmed chest.
Gabby laughed. "Okay sweetie. You stay here with me and dry off but don't fall asleep, okay?" She got no response and scooted back further into the chair.
"And this little girl no longer qualifies as awake. She fails all the tests." Shark teased. "Suzie?" He jostled her a bit and she moaned and adjusted her head on his shoulder.
"Oh my goodness." Becky stood up and peeled her daughter off Shark. "Thank you."
"No sweat."
"What you got for me?" Charlene flashed him a grin.
"Whatever you want as soon as you dump the douche bag." Charlene groaned and lay back down.
Gabby rubbed her daughters back until she was sure she was asleep and carefully stood back up with her. "There's a place for them inside." Gabby said quietly and Becky nodded and followed the slightly older woman into the house and down a hall.
Gabby set her daughter down sans towel on a big king bed and Becky did the same. Gabby peaked into a pack and play in the corner before moving the baby monitor between Mathew and the girls.
"Casper has the monitor with him. But Kristen knows to just come out when she wakes up." She led Becky through the house and stopped in the kitchen.
"Viv, guys are close, this all going out?" Gabby called down another hall.
Vivica, who Becky met earlier, came into the kitchen in a flowing sundress and a large floppy sun hat. Becky has been surprised upon first meeting as she seemed the exact opposite of a biker's old lady.
"Plates, napkins, buns, condiments, toppings, potato salad, pasta salad. That's everything right?" Vivica ticked off each item on her fingers as Gabby pulled items out of the fridge.
"I'll slice up the onion and tomato. You want these salads in bowls or serve them in 'Grandma's recipe' buckets?" Gabby held up the large tubs and grinned.
"Oh like any of them care!" Vivica scoffed and took the lids off the tubs and stuck large serving spoons in each.
Becky laughed and started peeling leaves off the head of lettuce Gabby handed her. "Charlene! Get your ass in here and help with the bitch work!" Gabby yelled out the window and Charlene flipped her off before hopping up and coming inside.
"Here." Vivica handed her the buckets of side salads and followed her out with the plates and napkins.
"You want this set up any special way?" Becky asked, finished with the lettuce and looking at the large pile of sliced tomato.
"Just grab a big tray from under there." Gabby pointed to a cupboard with her foot. "Put it all on, doesn't have to look pretty, it'll get devoured before they bother to look at what it is."
Becky quickly laid out all the toppings for the hamburgers on the tray still making an effort to at least make it semi organized.
"We good?" Gabby asked rinsing the knife and then her hands as Becky finished laying out the onion and did the same.
"Is there anything else to go out?"
"Just silverware, that big box of plastic stuff." Gabby indicated with a tip of her head as she picked up the tray and Becky opened the door for her.
"Food!" Vin yelled as he spotted Gabby carrying the tray on his way into the backyard.
"And here comes the rest of the boys." Gabby whispered to Becky and gave the guys a smile as they descended on the backyard.
Chris instantly pulled his wife's hat off and kissed her. Vin kissed Gabby's cheek as he walked by and tipped Shark's chair so he fell into the pool from his perch right on the side of it.
"Nice look sis." Jax grinned at Gabby in her bikini.
Gabby stuck her tongue out at him, "you have two kids and look like this asshole."
"Calling the Redwood president an asshole, that's why I love you Gabs." Chris called over. Gabby just smiled and tried to stifle a laugh.
"Do I want to know?" Hap asked, walking up last with Tig.
"Probably not." Gabby shook her head and kissed Hap's cheek. "Becky this is my Dad, Hap."
Becky smiled and offered her hand which Hap awkwardly half shook. "You drown the kids?" Hap asked Gabby looking around.
"Wore them out in the pool. They're inside."
"I'm Tig." Tig offered his hand to Becky when no one bothered to introduce him. "I'm Gabby's….Tig."
Charlene choked on her beer and pulled Becky away. "Tig is… special. Stay away from Tig." She whispered to the newbie. "Come on, it's easier to just wait till the guys are chowing down before venturing to get food.
Becky eyed Gabby and Vivica amidst the crowd of bikers and then eyed Charlene dragging her back to the lounge chairs. "So, sweet butts have to wait their turn?" She asked.
"No honey, there's no sweet butts here. Biker life is a little more complicated than that. We're friends of the club. Higher than sweet butts, more of a hang around. Just don't start sleeping around, than you will be demoted. You want to date a Son that's fine. More than two, you'll be pushing it. And I'd give it a few months so you don't look like a manipulator.
Becky slowly nodded her head. "So you aren't with any of these guys?"
"Oh god no! I appreciate, flirt, but this isn't my life. No this is the consequence and benefit of having my best friend turn into an old lady."
"Turn into? You knew her before?"
"Gabby and I grew up together. Up north, in Charming. I left for college, in San Diego and stayed. She came here to marry Casper." Becky nodded her head and settled back in her chair. Her friend had definitely given her a different run down of the club. She definitely liked this story better.
"Here!" Gabby showed up balancing full plates of food. "Charlene your disgusting mustard covered atrocity compliments of Vin. Becky, I didn't know how you took your burger so I just did ketchup." She handed out the plates before sitting down with them.
"Ask her for mustard." Charlene leaned over licking the escaping mustard from the edge of the bun.
"Stop." Gabby put her hand up blocking her view of the disgusting yellow spread.
"Mustaaaaard…" Charlene waved the burger and Gabby turned her head completely and dry heaved.
"Stop! Oh my god!" Gabby hopped back out of the chair and continued to dry heave as Charlene opened up her hamburger bun and licked mustard off it.
"What the hell is wrong with mustard?" Becky asked confused.
Happy stood in the doorway of the room the kids had been napping in. He had volunteered to check on them when he heard Mathew crying over the baby monitor.
"He likes it." Kristen explained to another little girl as she waved a plastic toy over her brother.
"He's still crying." The little girl said and struggled to reach over the side of the pack and play and wave a different toy.
"Did you girls wake him?" Happy finally spoke making his presence known.
"Grandpa!" Kristen abandoned the toy and ran to him. "He woke us grandpa." She explained and reached up so he would pick her up.
"Who's your friend?" Hap asked setting her down to fetch the crying baby.
"Suzie."
"Suzie you came here with your mom?" Hap asked quickly changing Mathew as he continued to cry.
"Uh huh." Suzie answered quietly.
Happy smiled, the girl was trying her damndest not to run and hide under the covers from him. "Well let's get you girls outside, you nearly missed dinner. Shhh little man." He comforted the baby.
"Oh honey!" Gabby leapt up as soon as Hap opened the door and she rushed to get her hungry infant. "You hungry little man?" She lifted him up and quickly shushed him though only for a moment. "Thanks dad."
"Girls, come get some food." Casper called over from the table. Kristen led her younger friend by the hand and headed toward her father.
"Changed his diaper, you got bottles in the fridge?"
"No, gonna nurse him." Happy put his hands up wanting no part of it and Gabby rolled her eyes and headed inside.
Hap watched Casper split a hamburger for the girls and helped them put what they wanted on it.
"When did we add another kid?" Chris asked coming up behind Hap.
Hap shrugged. "Comes in waves brother." He spotted Tig drinking in a corner and sighed.
"Didn't think he was coming to the meet this morning, said he had somewhere to be." Chris saw him as well. "I don't need shit going down here. He gonna be a problem?"
"Honestly don't know. I'll talk to him." Chris grunted and Hap headed over to the corner.
"Hap." Tig greeted and held up his beer in acknowledgment.
"What's up with you today? You weren't supposed to be at that meet." Hap asked sitting down.
"I've been trying Hap, but I don't think this whole family thing is gonna work."
Hap held in a stream of curses. "That's not what we agreed on." He glared at the man that couldn't look him in the eyes. "I told you, you either do this or you don't Tig. You ain't walking away from her again."
"She doesn't want to see me man. She won't talk to me. Her old man drove me off this morning. I can't force her to forgive me Hap."
"You gave me your word you wouldn't walk away again Tig. You got 29 years to make up for, it ain't gonna happen quick."