Mad Dog (Angel’s Rebellion MC: #2) (Angel's Rebellion MC), стр. 108
“Sweet boy, Mommy wants to tell you she is having another baby. I don't ever want you to think that I will forget you or love you less. Mason, you are my first born. Your place in my heart is etched with a love that is permanent and will never change. Mommy wants you to watch over your baby brother or sister always. Please do that for me, Mason,” her voice broke on her plea.
As we stood there surrounded by the most incredible peace I've ever felt, two male cardinals flew down and landed beside the female ones. They all started chattering away.
“Oh, Dog, they're all here,” she whispered.
“Yeah, babe. Pretty sure they’re all happy for us and are letting us know,” I said softly to her.
One of the male cardinals hopped to Brian's headstone and cocked his head sideways. I swore it was looking directly at me. The weirdest damn feeling came over me, urging me to take the ring out of my pocket and ask Ava to marry me. As the thought crossed my mind, the bird's head bobbed up and down and it hopped back besides the other three birds.
I reached down and pulled on the ribbon I had tied around the ring earlier today until it and the ring was out of my pocket. Moving slowly, I knelt to one knee. Ava turned to me with a curious look on her face.
I raised the ring up to her and said quietly, “Babe, pretty sure our loved ones are here with us. What better place to ask you than with them present. Ava, I was so lost and lonely before you came into my life. I felt like life was passing me by and I was going to spend it alone. Yes, I have Beau and my Brothers, but I didn't have someone to love me for me.
“I didn't have someone to lay beside me in the dark of the night. I didn't have someone who I wanted to spend time with, whether it was holding hands, talking, riding on the back of my bike, or making love. I've yearned for some unknown something for a long time, Ava, and when you walked into my office that night, I knew I had found it.
“Babe, pretty sure I can't live without you now. And, God, how I want our child. To hold something that you and I created will be among one of the best days of my life. With all that I am and all that I'll ever be, I'm yours Ava. I love you from the bottom of my heart and soul. Will you please put a lonely man out of his misery and love me the rest of our lives? Will you marry me, Ava?”
Tears ran over the smile that was shining brightly across her face.
“I agree that our loved ones are here,” she said as she glanced over at the birds who appeared to be watching us with great interest. “And a hundred, a thousand times yes, I'll marry you. You hold my heart, Dog. For now, and always, I'll be yours.”
She held out her left hand to me and I slid the ring on her ring finger. I got up, wrapped my arms around her and to a chorus of cardinals singing the most beautiful song, I whispered, “I will love you, Ava, forever and a day.”
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Happiness is to be found along the way, not at the end of the road, for then the journey is over and it is too late. Today, this hour, this minute is the day, the hour, the minute for each of us to sense the fact that life is good, with all of its trials and troubles, and perhaps more interesting because of them.
~Robert Updegraff~
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Excerpt from Slade
Viper
“Got some good news, Slade. But I want you to hear it all so you can make the decision yourself. Doc called me not long after you left and asked if we would let her cousin come stay at the Clubhouse for a while. She's got an abusive ex-boyfriend she is wanting to hide from. I asked Doc if she'd be willing to watch your mom and the girl said she would. She's a nurse, Slade. But know, she does come with trouble riding behind her. I'm sure it's nothing that we can't handle though. The girl is from Fayetteville and managed to get away from her ex without him following her. At least that's what we're told. She'll be here around six this evening. You think she'd work?”
I saw a look of relief cross his face, “Yeah, would want to talk to her just to get a feel for her, but that could work out just fine.”
“Good, Brother. I don't want you to go into work tonight. I think it'd be better for you to be with her for the evening so you can see how Audrey and her get along. I think Hatchet can handle the place. It's a Monday after all.”
“That'd be good, Viper,” he murmured as he studied my face. “Something else is going on.”
I wasn’t surprised he could tell something else was up. He knew me well enough to know when something was weighing on my mind.
“Want to ask you a couple questions, Slade. They're pretty personal and I know you'll wonder why I'm asking, but I'll get to the reason soon.”
He nodded at me.
“Tell me what your mom has told you about your dad.”
He looked at me in surprise, I could tell he wanted to ask me why immediately. But he