Mama & Pops by Marteeka Karland

Author:Marteeka Karland
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: BIN 011227-03654
Publisher: Changeling Press LLC
Published: 2024-07-13T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Mike/Pops

A week later, I was still trying to come to terms with everything Taz had dumped on us. I knew about the Brotherhood. Or, at least, knew of them. That last was the worst part. The fact that I knew about the Brotherhood made me a marked man. No one outside the Brotherhood was supposed to know they existed. And I most decidedly wasn’t part of them. With Taz being with them now, I worried about his son, Liam. Then there was Gracie and her baby.

At any other time in my life, I might have scoffed at the idea of a family. After my first tour in Nam, I decided I never wanted to have to go through what my mother was going through. I could have a woman and companionship, but I didn’t have to bring children into the world. And, honestly, this was the first time I ever realized I could actually have people in my life closer than blood. Not having kids didn’t help me at fucking all. Alex and Gracie were definitely tugging at my heartstrings as much as they did my mama tiger’s.

Looking at Liam as he made his bond with Gracie warmed my heart. The pair had both seemed more than a little lost, but they were helping each other. Along with Mama’s gentle insistence they be together, they seemed to genuinely like each other. Mama said it helped Gracie learn what she’d need to do after her baby was born, and Liam needed a mother figure. I suspected it was a way to help both our young charges feel normal again.

In the week since I brought Mama and Gracie to the compound, I could already see signs Gracie was relaxing. She’d stopped jumping every time one of the men barked out a laugh, or spoke to her, or approached her in any way, really. A couple had tried to make a move on her, but she’d shut them down. Then Mama reinforced the shutdown. That always made me smile. They were a good lot, but a little lackadaisical in discipline.

“What the fuck are we gonna do with this bunch?” Mama muttered under her breath as she stomped inside the common room, which was supposed to be under construction. Currently, me and Mama were the only ones working on it. It would be a perfect place for the guys to hang out together and drink beer. Maybe watch a ball game or play pool. Or, as evidenced by the women who seemed to have descended on the place, fuck to their hearts’ content. Assuming we ever got the fucking room finished. Currently, they were doing everything ass backward. Pretty sure they’d done it on purpose too. Just because they could.

“I’d say whip ‘em into shape like a batch of new recruits, but I’m not sure these guys’d appreciate it.” I shrugged. “They just got outta the service. I doubt they want reminders this soon.”

She stared at me hard, her gaze contemplative. “Or maybe that’s exactly what they need.

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