Page 13 of Deception (Deranged Drifters MC #22)

Chapter Thirteen

Griffin’s Beach Gavin

W aking in the middle of the night, Gavin reaches across the bed for Hailey.

She officially moved in with him the weekend Emme left Nancy with him permanently, and he doesn’t know how he could have done any of this without her.

She’s an angel, even though he knows it still hurts her that he had a baby with someone else.

He knows if she’d been the one to have a baby with someone else, he’d have a difficult time dealing with it.

It’s probably something he couldn’t get over, and it bothers him to know he caused her pain of any kind.

It’s one thing to mess around with someone else—even if they weren’t together—but it’s another to have a product of that affair around every day for the rest of their lives.

His hand hits the still damp spot from their lovemaking earlier, but the bed is otherwise empty on her side.

Climbing out of bed, he slips on his boxers and walks out of the room.

No matter how many times she says she’s not going anywhere, he finds himself having a small panic attack when she’s not where she should be.

If she ever takes off on him again, he doesn’t know if he’ll make it. There’s so much more at stake now.

The dim light from the nursery calms his nerves as it illuminates the hallway. Walking over, Gavin leans against the doorframe as he watches his two ladies.

Hailey sits in a fuzzy robe on the rocking chair she insisted they buy. His baby sleeps in her arms with an empty bottle on the dresser beside them. They rock together, and Hailey looks down at her with a smile on her face.

“Hey,” he says, his voice quiet.

“Hey,” she responds, looking up at him. “It was feeding time.”

“I didn’t even hear her.”

Smiling, she nods. “I know.”

“You’re really good with her.”

“She’s an easy baby. I still can’t figure out how the waitress signed her rights over so easily. I don’t know that I could ever walk away from this little angel, and I didn’t give birth to her.”

Moving into the room, Gavin kneels before them and stares at his daughter. When he first learned Emme was pregnant, he thought he would lose everything. He was on the verge of a nervous breakdown, and he had no idea how to be a father.

Hailey just came back to him, and they were starting a real relationship. One where she didn’t always have one foot out the door at all times to protect herself. Then BAM! He gets hit with one of the ultimate surprises.

Even though she claims she played a part in everything, Gavin doesn’t feel the same. He was the one who chose to sleep with a woman he didn’t love. One he knew he’d never love, either. Hailey left him behind, and he was sad. He was sad, and Emme was convenient.

He’s not proud of it, but it’s the truth.

The pain became unbearable, and Emme offered herself up on a platter.

No matter how evolved he may see himself, he’s still a man.

And the sex was good, but nothing beyond that happened between them.

He’d never experienced anything like that before, and it unsettled him how empty he felt.

“I don’t know, either,” Gavin says, and it’s the truth. Even though he panicked when Nancy was left with him, he knows he could never just walk away from her. “I do know that Nancy is really lucky to have you in her life. Just like I am.”

Hailey smiles. “I have fallen so hard for this little girl. Love doesn’t feel like a strong enough word. I look at her, and I swear, my heart feels like it could explode. It’s unfamiliar but amazing.”

“As far as I’m concerned, you’re her mom, Hails. I know this isn’t what we planned, and I love you so fucking much for sticking it out with me. And for staying when a new twist shook us. No matter what happens with us, Nancy will know you as her mother.”

“Already planning on getting rid of me, huh?” she jokes with a small chuckle.

Standing, she lays Nancy gently in her crib, careful not to wake her. A skill Gavin has yet to perfect. Every attempt to put his sleeping daughter in the crib wakes her, and he has to start the process all over until Hailey comes home.

He runs his hand over Nancy’s dark hair before taking Hailey’s hand, leading her from the room. “I plan to keep you forever,” he says and kisses her. “And you will forever be her mom. The one who chose her. I honestly still don’t know how you do it.”

“I had a pretty good role model,” she says with a small smile. “No matter how much I tried to push Lex away, she never gave up on me. Even though she had every right to.”

Caressing her face, he smiles. “God, am I glad she didn’t.”

“She showed me it’s possible to be a mother to a child you didn’t give birth to. I never understood it until now, and I always thought she was just pretending. This kind of love is awe-inspiring, and there’s nothing else like it. I get it now.”

The tie on her robe opens with one small tug from Gavin, and she lets it fall to the ground at her feet. Her mouth claims his as he guides her to the bed, laying her down on it before stepping out of his boxers.

“You amaze me, Hailey Nichols.”

Climbing onto the bed, his cock throbs and begs to slide inside her, but he needs to hear her moan. He moves to nestle between her legs and tastes her delicious need. Sucking on her clit, he finger-fucks her as fast as he can until her heels dig into his back.

“Oh God!” she cries.

Her fingers tug at his hair he’s started wearing a little longer than he used to because he loves when she pulls it. The little tingles at his scalp as she yanks and scratches in the throes of passion set him ablaze.

Her hips buck against his mouth, and he switches up his approach to stroke her G-spot instead. When her hands leave his hair, he almost stops, but he glances up to see the pillow over her face before she screams into it. Thighs squeeze his face, and her entire body shakes.

She tosses the pillow across the room, and he slides up the bed. Sticking his two fingers into his mouth, he sucks her juices from them and smirks. “Pillow?”

“I just put your daughter down,” she murmurs.

“Our daughter,” he corrects and dips his head to suck on one of her pebbled nipples. “She may not have come from the part of your body I just made love to, but she’s yours.”

“Ours,” she moans.

He sucks her other nipple before he shifts between her legs. Playing with her sensitive nub with the tip of his aching cock, he smirks as her body jolts from the sensations.

“God, I love you.”

“I love you, too,” she responds with a happy, little smile.

Her tongue slides along her bottom lip, and he wants to make her scream again. “Flip over.”

Hailey grins up at him as she bites her lower lip and does as ordered. Grabbing his pillow, he slides it under her pelvis to prop her ass up just enough. He still can’t believe she loves being taken from behind, and he moans as he dives deep into her.

Her head rests on a pillow as he slowly eases in and out of her, and Gavin loves the little moans of pleasure. They’re great, but he knows he needs more. He needs to hear her screaming out in pleasure, her body squeezing him until he comes, too.

“Hold on,” he says and leans over to the drawer in the bedside table to pull out a vibrator.

She gasps, and he turns it on before shifting it between her body and the pillow, pinning it against her clit.

“Oh God, Gavin,” she says with little pants. Her thighs squeeze tightly together. “I’m not going to last long.”

Neither am I, baby.

Taking hold of her arms like reins on a horse, he pulls her back straight as he slides into her tight opening, the vibrator tickling his balls.

She claws at his arms in the awkward grip he has her in, and he loves her nails scratching his skin. The walls around his cock begin to spasm, and he slams harder and faster into her.

Head pressed into the pillow beneath her head, she screams as her entire body bounces, and she comes hard enough around him that she almost squeezes his cock out.

The tight grip takes him by surprise, and he comes hard inside her. “Hailey! Fuck!”

When she shifts, he knows she’s trying to move the vibrator from her overly sensitive body, and he releases her to help her out. He slides out of her hot need and collapses beside her, both panting.

“I feel like I’m being rewarded, but I don’t know what for,” she says as he pulls her onto her side to cuddle against him.

“For being amazing,” he whispers as he tries to catch his breath. It may have been short, but it was amazing.

Laughing, she looks up at him with her head resting on his shoulder. “Well, if that’s the case, we should never get dressed. Because I’m pretty damn amazing.”

“That you are,” he says with a chuckle before kissing her.

His second wind comes quicker than he expects, and he slowly slides his hand along her body. He’s not ready for sleep yet, and Hailey doesn’t seem to mind.

“Don’t you have to get up early tomorrow?” she asks with a moan escaping from her lips when he slips between her legs.

His cock hardens even more at the sound, and Gavin looks down at her. “I can run on little sleep.”

“And I can sleep when Nancy does,” she says, pushing his hand away.

He frowns until she lifts and swings a leg over his body to straddle him. She takes him before he can grab her hips, and she rocks her pelvis against his.

“This is going to be a long night,” he says, a smirk on his face. “And I’m looking forward to every minute we’re not sleeping.”

Grabbing the toy from the bed, she turns it on and presses it against herself as she rides him. “Me, too,” she gasps.

No more words get exchanged the rest of the night. Only moans, pants, and cries of pleasure. Just how Gavin thinks every night should be for the rest of their lives.