Beast and Baby by Naomi West

Author:Naomi West
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: mc romance, motorcycle club romance, biker romance, dark romance, bad boy romance, second chance heist romance, secret baby romance
Publisher: MBK Hanson Inc.
Published: 2018-11-30T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

Jessi

When I came into the shop the next morning, Dad was already hard at work with a welding gun and a bunch of machinery scattered around him. He wasn't working on J.T.'s bike. It was one of the other projects that we had at the moment—a smaller project. I wondered what it meant that he wasn't leaving those other projects to me or Rip, and I swallowed hard.

What if he really wouldn't let me work around the shop anymore?

“Dad?” I asked hesitantly, when it seemed like he had reached a break in the work that he was doing.

“What is it?” Dad asked without looking up.

I swallowed hard, feeling tears at the corners of my eyes. It was like he didn't even want to acknowledge my presence there.

I wished Rip were there with me. He'd offered to come with me, but I'd told him that I needed to have this conversation with Dad by myself, to try to sort out all of this. I knew that things would be better that way, if I could just face up to my dad about all of this, but at the same time, I could have used Rip's comforting presence at my sidea and his warm hand in mine.

“Ellsmith is getting fired,” I said timidly.

Dad looked up at that, a sharp look in his eye. “Oh, really?” he asked.

“Yeah,” I told him. “He, uh ...” I trailed off, not really wanting to admit everything that had happened the night before. “He tried to ...do some things to me. Unsuccessfully.”

Dad looked like he might explode at that, and he got to his feet, coming closer to me. “I'm going to kill the bastard!” he snarled, echoing the words that Rip had said when I'd first told him about Gary's advances.

I shook my head. “It's okay,” I told him. “Really. Like I said, he was unsuccessful.” I took a deep breath. “That's because Rip's had one of the guys from the Hounds watching over me at all times over the past few weeks, and when they heard Gary and I in his office ... they were there to come to the rescue.”

I could see a new look of appreciation in Dad's eyes, just as I'd hoped I might. I pressed on. “Rip really saved me last night. I know you think that he's trouble, but he really does care about me and want to keep me safe.”

“That's where you were last night,” Dad said flatly. “At the clubhouse.”

“No,” I said, shaking my head. “Rip took me back to his place after the whole thing with Ellsmith. I was pretty upset, and he was a bit shaken as well, and I didn't want to be all alone to think about all of it. And he was so good to me, Dad. He made me some soup and got me all curled up on the couch with a blanket, and then we just watched a movie and cuddled. It, uh, it really helped me calm down.”

Dad blinked at me and then shook his head.

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