Page 24 of The Secrets We Keep (Sovereign Sons MC: North Carolina #1)
GRAYSON
My son’s scream splits the air and everything inside me stills. My eyes search him out as quiet fills the entire room. He runs to me and hurtles himself into my arms. I squeeze him tight and look around for a threat but find none.
“What happened?” I ask as I see Paisley throw herself into Cane’s arms.
“The lady was saying mean things about mama, and I told her to stop,” he chokes out through tears. “She slapped me and then mama pushed us out of the way and told us to get help.”
My blood roars in my ears as I rush in the direction that Asher points.
As I get closer to the kitchen, I hear things being knocked over and women grunting.
Rowan and Axel are at my side in a second.
Rowan takes Asher from me, and I burst into the room, finding Sophie sitting on Candy’s stomach, raining down punches on her.
My eyes widen at the sight. Sophie has always been able to handle her own, but she’s only done it when absolutely necessary, which only proves that Candy fucking deserves this. Especially for hitting our son.
I let Sophie get a few more hits in before I walk over and grasp her around her stomach, pulling her away from Candy. She tries to fight me but stops when I whisper in her ear. “It’s okay, he’s safe. He ran straight to me. Stop fighting and we’ll take it from here.”
The fight leaves her immediately. She goes limp in my arms and then she’s turning around and wrapping her arms around me as she cries into my chest. I pull her tightly to me and stroke up and down her back.
I know that the adrenaline is wearing off and she’s thinking about what happened.
She’s thinking about Candy hitting our son.
When she calms down a little bit, she looks around the room for Asher, so I call out for Rowan. He brings him to the doorway and lets Asher climb into his mom’s arms. Sophie tucks Asher’s head into the crook of her neck, sheltering him from the view behind me.
I take a deep breath and then turn around to face Candy, who is still splayed out on the floor.
Rowan, Axel and Cane come further into the room and stand beside me.
I can feel the anger radiating from Cane.
Not only did this woman hit my son, she did it in front of his daughter.
It’s something that both of them are going to be thinking of for a long time.
I walk closer and crouch in front of her, surveying the cuts and bruises on her face. Sophie really let into her and I’m glad. Honestly, she deserves worse. Hurting women and children is everything this club is against.
“Candy, Candy, Candy. What the hell are you doing here?” I mutter.
“I belong in this club,” she slurs. I’m not sure if it’s from the beating she took or if it’s from the alcohol she drank. She smells like a damn bar.
“No, you don’t. My son, though? He belongs in this club.
My old lady? She belongs in this club. Cane’s daughter.
She belongs in this club. You were banished from this club, yet you show up again?
You had the nerve to lay hands on my son?
!” I growl as I reach out and grab her nasty hair, lifting her by it.
“I don’t know what kind of pull you think you have here, but you have none.
Now you’re not just banished from my club, but from every Sovereign Sons charter.
It just so happens that all our presidents are here tonight, so I won’t even have to reach out to let them know the news. ”
Candy’s eyes try to widen in panic, but the swelling keeps them from doing that. “You can’t do that!” She screeches.
“Yes, he can,” Rowan growls. “You’re lucky he didn’t let Sophie finish you off. I would have.”
“Get her the fuck out of my club,” I order as I release her hair and toss her back on the floor. “And make sure she leaves town this time. ”
Cane steps forward and hauls her out of the room as she attempts to fight him off. Axel follows behind him.
When I turn back toward the club, everyone is silent. “If you didn’t hear, Candy has been banned from all Sovereign Sons charters. If you have a problem with that, too fucking bad.”
I move towards Sophie and Asher and pull them into my embrace, more desperate than ever to be close to them.
“Pres, is it true that she hit your kid?” One of the men from the New Orleans charter asks.
“Yes,” I growl.
“Then she got what she deserved. Good looking out for your family, Sophie,” he tells her.
Everyone starts to clap, and it takes me by surprise. She had already started to win them over by throwing this party for everyone, but protecting her child, their president’s child, won them over. If I wasn’t already in love with this woman, I would be now.
“Why don’t we all go home and watch a movie? I don’t need to be here tonight,” I offer.
Asher lifts his head off Sophie’s shoulder and looks at me with tear filled eyes. “Okay, daddy,” he murmurs. “I love you.”
He holds his arms out for me, and I hoist him up, welcoming him into my embrace and fighting back tears. He’s never told me he loves me before. With my free arm, I pull Sophie along with me and take my family home. “I love you, too, Ash. So much.”
We watch a few movies until Asher falls asleep. I carry him to his bed and tuck him in, kissing his forehead and making sure his night light is on before I walk out of his room and close the door behind me. Sophie isn’t in the living room anymore, so I go look for her in our room.
She isn’t in the bedroom, but I hear the shower running, so I walk into the bathroom to join her. Her beautiful, tanned skin is on display through the glass of the shower, and I stand there for a moment to appreciate it.
The water skates over every inch, every curve, as her head tips back to rinse out the conditioner in her hair.
I strip off my clothes and step in behind her, gently running my fingers over her skin, so I don’t scare her.
She still inhales a sharp breath, but she turns around with a soft smile when she realizes it’s just me.
She takes my hand and pulls me into her embrace.
When she wraps her arms around me, she sighs. “What is her problem?”
“I wish I knew, baby,” I murmur. “I promise you that I never was exclusive with her.”
Sophie pulls back with a frown. “Is that your sneaky way of telling me that you slept with her?”
“No,” I wince. “I did let her suck my cock once, though.”
Sophie’s expression turns unimpressed. “Of course, you did.”
“It was only once,” I argue. “I’m not going to lie to you, I almost had sex with her once, but Rowan swooped in at the right time. I had Noah doing a background check on you, and it came back right at that moment. Now, tell me that wasn’t fate?”
She playfully smacks my chest. “Well, thank goodness you ran a background check on me, otherwise you could be taking this shower with Candy, not me.”
I pull her closer, plastering her body to mine. “She could never take your place, baby. She has nothing on you.”
Sophie gets a wicked look on her face before she pushes me away again. I start to complain until she sinks to the shower floor in front of me. The water hits the back of her head as she smiles up at me.
She reaches out a slender hand and grabs my painfully hard cock.
This woman can just look at me and make me hard, but seeing her on her knees, naked, wet, and wanting me is a special kind of aphrodisiac.
She leans forward and runs her warm, pink tongue along the vein in my shaft from root to tip.
I groan as she flicks her tongue over my slit and then sucks the head into her mouth.
Her mouth stretches wide around my cock and my hand finds her hair, fisting the length in my grasp and guiding her up and down the length.
“That’s it baby,” I rasp. “You can take it all.”
She hums around my length, making my eyes roll back. She reaches out and cups my balls in her hand, gently massaging them as she sucks the head of my cock. I feel my orgasm start in my groin and shoot its way through my body. I hold her head to my pelvis as I empty inside her.
She doesn’t swallow, though. No, she slides her mouth off my cock and then shows me my release before making a show of swallowing it and licking her lips clean. “That’s my dirty girl,” I praise her as I help her to her feet and kiss her, tasting myself on her tongue.
“Was that better than Candy?” She asks huskily against my mouth.
I growl and lift her into my arms, turning the shower off and tracking water through the bathroom to our bed. I toss her on the bed and watch the way her tits bounce. She giggles at the look on my face.
“You’re better in every way, baby,” I murmur as I grab her ankle and pull her closer to me. “Let me repay the favor.”
She moans as my mouth meets her soaking wet pussy.
My girl loves to suck cock. It turns her on just as much as it does for me, and I’ll take any excuse I get to eat this pussy.
She’s sensitive like she always it, I can tell from the way her body jolts every time my nose skims her clit.
I flick my tongue against it, building her up as I sink two fingers inside her.
I watch the way her pussy stretches around my fingers and grow hard once again.
I moan at the taste of her and the way she pulses around my fingers and against my tongue. I find that spot deep inside her and massage it as I suck her clit into my mouth. Her legs begin to shake as she cries out. She comes as she arches off the bed and I lap up every drop of her arousal.
I climb onto the bed and drop down beside her, pulling her into my side as she comes down from her orgasm.
“Wow,” she murmurs when she catches her breath.
“Yeah,” I chuckle. “Don’t ever worry about Candy again.”
She looks up at me with heavy lidded blue eyes. “Okay,” she whispers. “Now, what are we going to do about that?” She asks as she points to my erection.
I just shoot her a wicked smile.