Total pages in book: 50
Estimated words: 47524 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 238(@200wpm)___ 190(@250wpm)___ 158(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 47524 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 238(@200wpm)___ 190(@250wpm)___ 158(@300wpm)
Dinah climbed off the bike, and it took every ounce of practice to not fall on her butt as her legs did feel a little wobbly. She was pretty sure she was still feeling the vibration of the bike traveling through her body.
Road climbed off and didn’t say a word as he grabbed her hand, and then they headed into the hospital. He didn’t ask for directions, just looked up at the signs, and they walked all the way to the maternity ward.
Dinah kept up with him, and they finally arrived to where she saw several other people waiting, as well as a crowd of men wearing the same leather jacket Road wore.
“Didn’t think you were going to make it.” The guy who came to her house along with Road that night, stood up.
“Wouldn’t miss it. What happened?” Road asked.
The man glanced toward her.
“Uh, Sarge, you remember Dinah. Dinah, this is Sarge.”
She reached out, shook his hand, and couldn’t help but wonder if she seemed a little … silly. Sarge shook her hand.
“I don’t know what happened. I know there was a bit of a panic, and then—”
“Faith collapsed. Not long after she did, her water broke.” Another guy approached, this one had ink on one side of his face.
“Nikolai, this is Dinah.”
He then started to point around the room, where he began to name people. Stan, Maxim, Tank, Krill, Hail, Vlad. There were so many, that all the names started to merge into one. It was going to take her some time to learn them all.
“It’s okay,” she said. “I’ll, uh, remember them eventually.”
“Shit, right, yeah, I didn’t even think of that. Fuck me. Has the doctor been out? Brute?”
“All we really know is she went into labor, and we’ve been sitting around waiting. That’s it.”
She wasn’t quite sure who said this, could have been Krill or another guy named Igor, but again, she didn’t know. What she did see, though, was a family, all here for a guy named Brute and a woman called Faith.
Dinah looked around at the group, and she couldn’t help but be charmed. This was a family, an odd one, but still a family.
****
Road knew the guys were curious about Dinah. She hadn’t changed out of her sweatpants and shirt, and her hair wasn’t put together. She looked a million miles from any of the club pussy, and he’d brought her with him.
They sat in the waiting room, and he didn’t like this. He’d not been around a lot of pregnant women to know that the longer it took in the emergency room, the more bad news they would hear. He wasn’t a big fan of Faith, and he’d been more than happy to trade the woman for Tank, one of their own.
There was no way he was going to turn his back on her either. Faith had given Brute a new lease on life, and it had made the other brother fight harder. Road saw it now, he understood it because he knew that’s what Dinah was making him do.
She continued to sit beside him, hold his hand, and just be there. There were no complaints about being bored or anything like that. Dinah was just happy to be with him.
He ran a hand down his face, and for the first time in awhile, he remembered his scars. Several nurses had passed through the room, and a couple of them had looked in his direction. Around Dinah, he’d forgotten all about the scars. Now, he was remembering them again.
“Would you all like some coffee?” Dinah asked. She got to her feet and pulled her hand out of his.
“Coffee?”
“Yeah, I don’t know how long everyone has been here, and I think it’s only fair I go and grab some.” She pulled away, and several of the guys held their hands up. “I’ll be right back.”
Road didn’t want her out of his sight but as Dinah left, he tensed up as another man entered the waiting room. It had been a long time since he had seen Nikki Golubev. He should have known that little fucker would arrive at some point, but he had hoped he wouldn’t be the one to see him.
All the guys tensed. They were all aware of who Nikki Golubev was. He was their main fucking spy within the group of men, and he wanted to kill him.
Road had a lot of issues with Nikki, like the fact he’d been the one to tell them all to back down. They were not his puppets and it pissed him off to think he even thought he stood a chance against them. Anger traveled down his spine, and he wanted to kill the bastard right then and there, but he held himself in check.
When he killed Nikki, and there was going to come a point that he did, there would not be witnesses. He was pleased that Dinah had chosen to leave. He needed to keep her safe, and he didn’t know if any of the Golubev men even remembered the orders they had given. Knowing the kind of man Golubev was, he wouldn’t remember Dinah’s mother.