“Got that. Now, tell me why you’re here.” I try to catch the flinch at the harsh tone in his voice, but I know he notices.
“I don’t know who the guy was. He . . . He . . . He attacked me soon as I opened my car door. Forced me inside the house, threatened to kill Lyrica and Alec if I didn’t do as he said. I clocked him in the head, once he had me in my room, with an angel statue then used a chair to lock him in there long enough to get Ly and Alec out. We barely got into the car before he was coming after us. All I could think about was getting Alec to you because I knew even as pissed as you are with me. That no matter how much you hate me, you would protect him.”
“I’m sorry for throwing this on you. I know you don’t want me to be in your life anymore, but Alec means everything to me. A . . . And I hope that you will put aside what happened between us and your hate for me to protect him. I can handle a lot on my own but—”
“Faith.”
“You don’t have to protect me. Or even be around me. But please don’t take us home tomorrow. T . . . That guy, h–he had a key to my house and it’s not safe for Alec. Please, Alex,
just keep him safe. He’s the only person I have in this world besides Lyrica. I can’t lose him too.”
“Ma fée, quiet,” Alex murmurs softly as he cups my mouth with his hand silencing me and with the other, he uses it to swipe the tears away as they fall down my cheeks. “I wasn’t talkin’ about that place because it’s not your home. Your home is in Louisiana with me where you belong.”
Um, what?
Did Alex just say what I think he said?
My home is with him.
He called me Ma fée.
Oh my God.
I haven’t heard him call me that in four years and hearing those words roll off the tip of his tongue does something to me. Something I don’t know what to think of.
Chapter Six
Axel
“Faith.”
Ma fée. Fuck me, I called Faith the name I’d given her back when I first met her, and she became mine.
“Alex. Don’t say things you don’t mean,” Faith whispers, tears continue to flow down her cheeks.
“What do you mean? Things I don’t mean?”
“Calling me Ma fée. I haven’t been that to you for four years don’t say those words when you don’t mean them.” Shit her tears have always been my undoing. The only time I didn’t let them, was when I’d told her to leave me.
Fuck.
As pissed as I wanna be with her for keeping my kid away from me, the feeling vanishes almost instantly when she starts rambling and explaining. I cut my woman deep and that wound is deeper than any other I could have given her.
“Faith, listen to me. I get what happened between us hurt.”
“Happened between us? Alex, you’re the one who did it to us,” Faith mutters.
“Ma fée, I know I did. Don’t need the reminder,” I growl, moving my hands away from Faith’s face and grip her arms. I pull her against my body nearly groaning at the feeling of having her this close to me.
“Alex, please,” she whispers my name and my dick twitches in my jeans. After she left it took a long fuckin’ time for me to fuck any of the strays at the clubhouse, but I didn’t fuck them in any position but from behind. I also never let them kiss me. I wouldn’t have be able to sink my dick into any of those bitches if I had because when I fucked them it was to images of my woman.
Was it shitty of me to do? Fuck yeah it was. I know it was especially now. When Lawson had told me Faith hadn’t been with anyone.
“Faith, I get it. I do and I’m going to take care of shit. You and Alec are coming home where you belong. With me. I know I fucked us up, but I want to be there for our kid. I want to fix what I broke between us,” I mutter speaking the truth, hoping she can sense the sincerity in my words.
I’ve lived with the knowledge of what I’d done to our family from the moment I did it. Faith is it for me always has been. No one can replace her, and I need to convince her to come home to me, now that I’ve got her right in front of me. I would thank the lunatic for going after her because he sent her straight to me. Either way I’d already made up my mind before she knocked on the door, I was going to stay behind while my brothers rode the rest of the way up to Tracker’s club. I intended to find my woman and convince her to come home.
“That’s not my home either, Alex. I’m not trying to throw it in your face, so please don’t take it as that but you ripped that away from me.” Fuck, the look of defeat shining in her gaze guts me. I did that to her. Stripped her of the woman who was full of attitude and full of life.
I’ll fix that as well once I get her back home where she belongs, and I will prove to her she wasn’t ripped from our home. Hell,
