Breaking Hammer (Motorcycle Club Romance) (Inferno Motorcycle Club Book 3) (41 page)

I
looked around at the crowd gathered together in the parking lot of the clubhouse.  For a moment, listening to the music in the background, the chatter of the brothers and their families, kids running around in the California sunshine, it was just like old times.  I reminded myself that it wasn't.  It was better now.  The club was better, no longer poisoned by Mad Dog.  With Blaze at the helm, things were good.  Working with Benicio was a solid gig, and the club was the kind of place I'd imagined before that it could be.

It was clean.  Not
legal
clean, exactly, although having Dani on our side was making things a lot more above board in that department.  She had passed the bar, was the club's attorney now, working for us and Benicio.  She didn't care that we weren't ever going to be totally above board, but she was keeping us out of real trouble.  Keeping Blaze on a semi straight-and-narrow path.

There were new faces now, new blood.  But the old guard was still here, the brothers who still remembered what we'd gone through with Mad Dog.  I thought that was important, remembering what happened.  In life, you had to know where you came from.  You had to know your history.  If you didn't, you
were lost.

Beside me, Meia slid her arm around my waist.  "Look at them," she said, pointing toward Ben and MacKenzie running around with the kids of the other brothers here.  "They're really happy."

"They are, aren't they?"  I said.  "And what about you?"

She leaned against me, and I pulled her in tight.  "I thought I was lost," she said.  "But all of this, it's beyond what I could have ever hoped for."

"I know exactly what you mean," I said.

"Okay!" I said, loudly.  Then I yelled it.  "Listen up!"  I waited a moment until the chaos subsided, and motioned for Dani to join me.  Pausing for a minute, I soaked it all in, looking around at the sea of faces, the brothers and their families.  That's what all of this was about.  Family.

"Got an announcement, and then you all can go back to eating and drinking," I said.  "I want to thank Axe and June for coming by, all the way from Colorado, giving us a chance to see the kids and all.  If you haven't seen what Axe can do, make sure he shows you some of the paint jobs he's doing now.  He's hot shit."  A couple of the brothers that knew what I was talking about hollered.

"Anyway," I said, looking at Dani, then back at the group.  "Here's the news.  Wanted you all to be the first to know that I knocked up the old lady!"

Amid the chaos from the crowd, Dani laughed as I drew her in close to me.  "Classy as fuck, Blaze," she said.

"You know me, baby," I said.  "Nothing but class here."

I grinned, listening to Blaze's announcement that Dani was pregnant.  It was good being here, back with the club.  It was a whole different kind of vibe now, with Blaze at the helm.  Lighter, somehow.  Calmer.

It probably had a hell of a lot to do with the fact that I was calmer now, with the kids, June at my side.  I was taking a ration of shit here now for that fact, but not too bad.  Everybody knew I was doing custom paint jobs on bikes now, had gotten a pretty good rep for it.  So it wasn't like I'd just walked out of here and donned a suit or something.

Even if we drove up to the clubhouse in a goddamned minivan.

I watched June from across the parking lot as she scooped potato salad onto Holly's plate.  I couldn't shake this feeling of satisfaction - pride- looking at her.

It was nice coming back here.  The club was part of my past, and I'd do anything to help any one of them.  But June, my kids over there?  They were my future.

And that was exactly how it should be.  If my dad were somewhere up there, looking down on me, I knew he'd be proud.

Of all of us.

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Breaking Hammer
is the third novel in the Inferno MC series.  Make sure you also check out the other books in the series, available on Amazon and part of the Kindle Unlimited program:

Taming Blaze

Saving Axe

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