Free ANTONIO: Diablos MC by Barbara Overly Page B

even stand to look at her.  How could she keep my daughter from me?  Why wouldn’t she tell me.  I am so lost.  I am not really sure where I am going or what happens from here.  All I know is this is my daughter in my arms and I can’t seem to put her down.   I don’t want to put her down. 
     
    She looks up at me with those big brown eyes. “What is your name?”  She asks all quiet.  Like a little mousey voice.  Instantly it pulls at my heart. 
     
    “My name is Toni.”  I say softly.
     
    Her eyes go wide and she gets a huge smile and she yells “Hey.  My name is Toni too.  Mommy says I am Toni like my daddy.”  I stop walking and look at Emma.
     
    “You know who your daddy is?”  I ask a little confused.
     
    She shakes her head yes “His name is my name.  Toni Hernandez.” 
     
    I look at her with tears in my eyes.  It has been a long time since I have cried but this sweet little thing is about to reduce me to rubble.  Quietly I say “My name is Toni Hernandez.” 
     
    Lifting her hands and touching my face like as if she is examining me for the first time.  I give a little chuckle at this.  “So are you my daddy?”  She asks. 
     
    Tears spilling down my cheeks “Yeah peanut.  I am your daddy.”
     
    “Mommy say I look like you.”  She says still touching my face.
     
    “Yeah peanut you do look like me.  But you are very beautiful just like your mommy.”
     
    “Uncle Tank said if I walk to him slowly I can get cake.  Did I do good.  Can I have cake now.”  she asks wiggling in my arms. 
     
    Uncle Tank.  Hmmm.  She seems very familiar with him.  Since Haylee doesn’t want to talk right now he can answer a few question.  Fuck it being his wedding day.  I want answers and someone is going to fucking give them to me now.  “Yeah peanut let’s go get a big piece of cake.”  She starts wiggling so much I set her down on her feet.  She takes off running down the hall way yelling for her Uncle Tank.  Fucking Uncle Tank. 
     
    Once we round the corner Emma runs right up to Tank.  He bends down and starts to talk to her.  I stand back and watch the two interact.  He looks up and sees me watching him.  He hands Emma a cup cake from the table.  Turns and says something to Monica and then walks in my direction.  “My office.”  He says as he walks past me.  Once we are both in his office he props himself up on his desk and waits for me to start. 
     
    “So I take it you knew about Emma?”  He shakes his head yes.  “How long.”  I fold my arms over my chest to help control the urge I have to strangle his neck.
     
    “Vegas.” Is all he says.
     
    “Wait a minute.  You knew she was pregnant while we were in Vegas??”  Her throwing up, tired all the time, saying no to alcohol all makes fucking sense now. 
     
    He gets up from the side of his desk.  Pour himself some whiskey as well as me and points for me to sit down.  “Look I will tell you everything that I know but you have to keep your cool or you are out of here for the night.  This is my wedding night which means I will do anything to make Monica happy.  You will not do anything to ruin it for her. Got it.”  I shake my head in agreement and sip on my whiskey. He tells me everything from how she found out she was pregnant the morning before we went to Vegas, how when she came back she wanted to run away and disappear but he convinced her to not go very far and to let him help her.  Give her protection from me that way she could live her life as she wants.  He told me how he paid off Vinny to not locate Haylee.  He knew where she was the entire time but didn’t want me to find her.
     
    “Why?  I thought we were brothers.  Brothers stick together.”  I am not going to lie.  I am fucking hurt.  Not only was I lied to and betrayed by Haylee but by my own brother as well. 
     
    “I did it for one reason.  And that reason is Emma.  Toni I am your brother but when