Jett

8 - I'm not walking away

Jett

“Jesus Christ, Jett! How could you be so stupid?! What the hell were you thinkin’?”

“I wasn’t. Obviously.”

I thought with my dic.k that night.

What man wouldn't?

Maria is so goddamned beautiful it would stifle any man with a heartbeat, that body of hers... Hot damn!

However, that aside, she’s pregnant with my kid, and I’ll do anything to keep them with me.

Do I think Draven Vidal will put a stop to it?

He’ll try. I’m not scared of any man, Mafia Don’s included. I’m not stupid either, and I know the power Vidal holds. I know my days will be numbered should he put a hit out on me.

When I got to the clubhouse earlier and asked to speak to my father privately, he instantly knew something was up. I didn’t lie to him; lying to my father is something I’ve never felt the need to do.

I didn’t go into detail with him, but I gave him enough information to know that I was about to make him a grandfather. He also understands that I haven’t been able to get Maria out of my head since the moment I met her.

Shepard wanted to know if I had feelings for the girl. I told the man the truth. I’m not in love with her, but I sure as shi.t feel something special for her.

Now, he’s standing there giving me a damn lecture like I’m a fuckin.g five-year-old or something. I’m not a fuckin’ stupid kid. I’m pushing thirty.

Is what I did stupid?

Without a doubt. Only an idio.t would willingly take the Mafia Princess and fuc.k her six ways to Sunday and stupidly get her pregnant.

Stupid should’ve been my middle name.

“Prez!” Is the only thing I hear before a breeze flies past my face. A fist lands on my jaw, a powerful fist, the fist of Draven Vidal, cage fighter, Mafia Don.

Fuc.k me; the man can hit. I’m no weak man, but Vidal has some fuckin’ power behind him.

I get a punch in before he goes for my ribs.

Bastard!

“Let him go!” Hammer has Vidal by the arms, pulling him away from me.

“Get your fuckin’ hands off me, Sam!”

Aside from Willow, only Draven Vidal could call Hammer by his given name and get away with it. I have no idea what kind of relationship they’ve got, but it thoroughly pisses me off that they have one at all when Hammer can’t bear to have Maria near him. We’re his f*****g family, this MC, that motherfucke.r has been around a few months, and he’s taken the fuc.k over!

I wipe the blood from the corner of my mouth while my eyes scan the room.

When did it fill up?

Vidal has three of his biggest men with him. I don’t know their fuckin’ names, and I don’t want to; they’re nothing to me. Hammer’s here, Stryker, Hawk, all looking at me like I’m the devil.

I’m the damn VP of this club; who the hell do they think they are to look at like that?

“Did you think she wouldn’t come and tell me?!”

I fold my arms across my big chest. “I knew she would.” Of course, I did. I knew Maria wouldn’t keep it from him; I just thought I’d be with her when she did. Naturally, she left the house as soon as I did, and it obviously didn’t go well.

So where the fuc.k is she?

“Whatever ideas you had about marrying Maria and raising that kid, forget it!”

“It’s not your choice to make.”

“The hell it isn’t!”

I let him yell, and I let my father yell in retaliation because it doesn’t mean anything to me right now. There’s nothing on my mind other than Maria. Maybe I should pull my head out of my ass and appeal to his nicer side.

Ha! The nicer side of Draven Vidal.

Is there one?

“You stupid fuckin’ son-of-a-b***h!”

“Give it a rest, Hammer! Don’t even dare do the big brother thing after the stunt you pulled today!” He has no fuckin’ right! None whatsoever.

“That has nothing to do with what’s going on now!”

“It has everything to do with it!” I yell. “I get why you’re angry, Draven, Maria is your baby sister. But I’m trying to do the right thing.”

“The right thing? The right thing would’ve been not to fuc.k my sister and knock her up!” I wince at his words, and all eyes are on me, Hammer’s are burning into me like lasers. “But you have,” He says more calmly while scratching his jaw with his thumbnail. “And I’m going to fix it. She’ll be marrying one of my men, a man I trust...”

“What?!” My dad yells.

“Over my dead body!” There’s no way I’m letting this man marry off my woman to a stranger! “She’s carrying my kid! She’s already had one scare through stress,” I look at Hammer. He caused the scare; he knows it, and the look in his eyes tells me so. “I already had to take Maria to the hospital today because of it. You do this to her, and she could lose the baby.”

“If that’s what God wants.” Vidal shrugs with a roll of his eyes. He really doesn’t care! “Just think yourself lucky that I don’t kill you right now.”

“You’re gonna have to if you think for one second, I’ll let this happen!”

He laughs deep from his chest while leaning into me. “Watch your back, Jett. I am not the man to mess with.”

Cunt!

“You’re doing it again,” I tell him. “Wasn’t what you did to Avery and what she did in retaliation enough for you to realize the same thing will happen to Maria?”

“There’s a difference. Maria doesn’t love you. She’s pregnant, not in love with you.”

Son of a bitc.h is right. I drag in a deep breath through my nose. I should think myself lucky he’s not pulling the same shi.t that he did with Ghost and forcing my own club to kill me.

Vidal turns to my father. “We had a deal. I called a truce because my brother is part of this club, and I won’t do anything to hurt him,”

No, but he’ll hurt the sister he raised?

Motherfucke.r!

“I had every intention of coming here and blowing your son’s head off.”

“This won’t end well, Draven. You’re angry right now, but you’re making a big mistake.”

“Is that so? Maria is not marrying your son. I won’t give another member of my family to this fuckin.g club. After all the shi.t with Avery, you swore to me that it would never happen again. You swore none of your men would come near my sister, and look what happened. Your godforsaken son defiled her!”

Defiled her?

He can’t honestly believe Maria was some innocent virgin?

A virgin does not know how to work her body to tease a man the way Maria did with me.

“I won’t let you do this!” I won’t. He can’t take her from me now, not with my kid inside of her. “That’s my baby inside of her. You think you can just push me out of my child’s life?”

He smirks.

He knows as well as I do that he’ll kill me before he lets me anywhere near my own child. No matter what I do to get access, it will never happen. He’ll allow me to live if I stay away.

This does not feel good at all.

“It’s already done. Come near Maria again, and I’ll kill every one of you! I will end this motherfuckin.g club before you have time to say, Boom.”

Cunt and a half!

“He gets it, Dray.”

Do I?

Do I get it?

Hammer is a stupid fucke.r if he thinks this is over. I’m not walking away. Maria is mine!