Page 9 of Haze (Serpents of Chaos MC #2)

LU

Haze is fucking unbelievable.

He holds me like I’m his, and the dangerous glint in his eyes as he looks at Lore is something I dreamed about as a teen, but we aren’t together.

And he might be having a baby, according to him.

Well, I might be pissed about that.

Those are consequences of his manwhore actions.

But then he lowers his face to mine, and I forget everyone standing around us. His lips brush the shell of my ear, and a shiver runs down my spine, not to mention the zap straight to my clit. “Come and sit on my lap while I finish my last game. And then I’ll take you to bed.”

Bed?

My pussy, which has been recently neglected, jumps at the idea, but my head and heart are a little more wary.

“You think you could concentrate with me sitting on your lap, Haze?” I flirt, unable to help myself.

He lifts his face to look into my eyes, the silver of his rings cold on my skin, and then he does something totally unfair.

He slowly smiles.

He fucking smiles, and the dimple on his right cheek makes an appearance at the same time his amber eyes light up.

Fuck.

“Probably not, but I’d be having a hell of a lot more fun,” he replies, searching my eyes before placing a soft kiss on the corner of my mouth. “Stop fighting me, Luella.” His hands slide down my body until they land on my hips.

Something shifts between us, and I think it’s me acknowledging that he still has his hold on me, and I will likely always have feelings for Haze. I always thought he was the man I’d end up with. In my head, he was my end game, but that was just the mind of a foolish girl.

Maybe I could fuck him and get him out of my system?

My eyes snap to Ora, who raises her brows.

Not a good idea , she says.

No, but it would be fun. And I’m horny.

A club full of men with no complications, why not?

“You think he would allow that?” I say out loud, nodding to the man still watching me.

Ora’s lip twitches, and we share a laugh. “No, probably not.”

“Want to share that with the rest of us?” Haze asks, pulling me up against his body. I feel his cock pressed against me, and it’s hard as steel.

I stop laughing and swallow thickly. “No, not really.”

If we did, we wouldn’t be using our best friend telepathy.

He smirks and is about to say something else when Daisy wanders in, scanning the crowd before her eyes land on Haze.

“There you are,” she purrs, ignoring me completely and brushing up against him. “I haven’t been feeling well. I can’t keep anything down.”

“You took something down your throat this morning.” Lore smirks, his lip twitching. “Quite easily, it looked like.”

I wonder if that bothers Haze. She’s carrying his baby, and she’s still fucking the other men. How does that sit with him? I keep my eyes on his face, but he doesn’t give anything away—no twitch, no narrowing of his eyes, nothing.

He’s a master of control, and I want to break that.

Daisy cuts her eyes to Lore, frowning. “Watching my every move, Lore?”

“Hardly, you left the door wide open.”

Who was she with? I share another look with Ora, who arches her brow in response. Yeah, we’re nosy, but we admit it too.

“Well, a woman has needs.” She smirks, licking her lips as she stares up at Haze. “Will you come and lay down with me? I need to rest, and I don’t want to be alone.” She places both hands on her flat stomach.

“Daisy, if you need to go and rest, then go do it,” Haze replies gently but firmly. His hands tighten on my hips when I try to move away. “As you can see, I’m busy with my woman.”

Daisy finally looks down at me, pursing her lips. “Your woman? What the fuck, Haze? I’m pregnant with your child, and you’re out here dating? You’re not going to have time for anyone else other than me and your child.”

“We’ll discuss all of this when we get the paternity test,” Haze replies calmly while possessively moving his big hand so it’s splaying across my lower stomach.

How toxic is this?

I look over at Ora, whose blue eyes are wide as they flicker between Haze and Daisy.

“Bet there are a few men around here hoping you don’t do that test,” Lore mutters, rubbing the back of his neck.

“Like you?” I tease.

He smirks and clears his throat. “The timeline doesn’t match up for me, plus the last time we fucked…” He laughs under his breath. “Let’s just say you can’t get pregnant that way.”

Daisy hasn’t taken her eyes off Haze, and I’d rather be anywhere else right now. This is his messed-up situation, and somehow, I’m getting dragged into it.

I wish I could be that nice woman, the one who could accept the man she’s always loved having a baby with another person, but unfortunately, I don’t think that’s me. Daisy will be connected to him forever. And she lives here in the damn clubhouse. Therefore, she’s not going anywhere.

“You’re not going to come take care of me? You’re about to make it big. You’ll have to pay me child support, you know that, right?” she snaps, her nose wrinkling. She throws her hands in the air. “I don’t know why I thought you would be a good father, Haze!”

Okay, now that shit annoys me.

“I’m sure you can understand why he doesn’t want to get invested when he’s not sure if the child is his,” I comment, unable to keep my mouth shut.

It’s a problem of mine. “Maybe next time, keep it to like two different men in a week or something, have a fucking schedule so you know who might be knocking you up.”

Ora clears her throat, trying not to laugh.

And failing.

Daisy scowls in my direction. “And who are you to say anything? You aren’t an old lady. You’re no one.”

“She’s claimed,” Haze says, his fingers rubbing soothing circles on my stomach. “By me. She’s mine . You don’t speak to her that way, Daisy.”

“No, you don’t,” Ora seethes, stepping closer to Daisy. “That’s my best friend you’re speaking to, and if you think I won’t get your ass kicked out of here, you have another thing coming.”

“The men won’t want me to leave,” Daisy replies, smiling now.

If she weren’t pregnant, I’d be tempted to slap that smug look right off her face.

Ora tilts her head to the side, stroking her own pregnant belly.

“You might have a purpose here, but if you think for a second you’re not replaceable, you’re more stupid than you look.

I can’t wait until you do the paternity test, so then we can resolve this once and for all.

” Ora’s eyes snap to Haze’s. “And then you become the problem of whoever was dumb enough not to pull out.”

Ouch.

Daisy storms off, but not before looking back and throwing Haze an angry look. Haze ignores her and tucks an untamed curl back behind my ear, whispering into it, “You never did like anyone speaking badly about me, did you, Luella?”

His words bring me back to reality faster than anything else.

He’s right. No one could ever say a bad word about Hayden in my presence.

But that was before he left and cut me off.

He didn’t even bother to keep in touch. No letters, text messages, nothing .

He had gone from being my favorite person to us having no contact.

“If only you had the same loyalty to me,” I murmur, stepping out of his embrace.

I walk away, and he lets me.

Having so much history with him hurts.

We should have had a much different life together.

We could have had that life.

Instead, he might be about to have a baby.

And as for me?

I can’t seem to live with or without him.