Free Catching Forever (BlackPath MC Book 2) by Vera Quinn Page A

out through the kitchen with Bandy. “Now, let’s put down a few house rules. Everyone keep their mouths shut unless I ask a question. No yelling and stay right where you are so no one gets hurt. I don’t want to have to shoot anyone. Is everyone clear with that? Now Chief, I have heard yours and Callie’s side of the story, so I want answers from Devil.”

Chapter 17
          Devil
    This man wants answers from me and I will give them. Looking at Callie just makes me want her more. She’s so beautiful. She’s cut her hair, but she looks almost the same. There’s something about her eyes. A sadness. I know I helped put that sadness there. I just want to be able to go back in time and fix this. To fix us.
      “Let’s get this over with. I want to talk to my wife. We are legally married and I want what is mine. She’s carrying my child.” I don’t know why Callie came here or why they think they have a say in anything.
      “I’m Hawser, President of the Troubled Fathoms MC and we are law here. Callie stumbled upon this town and did us a solid and we are repaying that now. I am guessing since you said you are Callie’s husband, you are Devil, so I have questions for you.” This man has a stick up his ass but I will play along for now.
      “Shoot.” I say, staying on point.
       “Did you marry Callie under false pretenses? Did you have an ol’ lady already? Did you not claim Callie before your club?” He knows how to get to the heart of things.
      “When Callie and I got married she did not know everything, but at the time it was an arranged marriage for business.” That’s as straight as it gets.
    “I’ll dig through the shit your shoveling and take that as a yes to the first question.” Hawser is being an asshole. Nothing is that simple.
      “Take it as you like. I did have an ol’ lady, but I thought she was being held against her will by Callie's DNA father. I thought I was trying to get a woman back being held against her will. I was working a deal with Diamondback.” This sounds bad, but I really ended up loving Callie.
      “So once again, a yes.” What can I say, he’s right.
      “I could not claim Callie as my ol’ lady because I already had Bri.” The final nail in my coffin.
      “So once again, a yes.” Hawser is being thoughtful as if thinking it out. Maybe he can see my side. I was caught in a hopeless situation. “Dra if Callie will have you then it is a done deal. We’ve all voted and that is all we were waiting on.”
      “Wait one damn minute, no one is claiming my wife. I am claiming my wife and my child. She’s leaving with me or this will be war. Are you ready to go to war over one woman?” The tall slender one he called Krill is laughing but I’m serious as hell.
      “Devil, what you don’t understand is that is exactly what we have done before. We respect women here and you disrespected and lied to Callie. If you would have claimed her before your club like you should have, you would be walking out of here with her right now. There’s no worse disrespect for a woman than what you did. So you lose.” Krill is laughing again and I just want to pound his face in.
      “Well she can’t get an annulment in Texas while she is pregnant. So she is stuck with me and she’s coming home with me.” I won’t leave without her. If I have to, there will be bloodshed. Anyone that stands in my way.
    “Surely you can see this is a family dispute and needs to be solved at home.” Dad is trying to reason, but I don’t want to reason. I want to rip the arms off the man that is touching what is mine. I wonder just how close they have become since she’s been here. Maybe she is like her mother after all, and I have been too blind to see it. 
    Callie pushes away from the man and comes out from behind him. “I need some answers and I have a few things to say to both my dad and Devil.”

Chapter 18
            Callie
      “Hawser, is it ok? You told us all