Healing Gabe (Last Hangman MC Book 3) (24 page)

“Never! He just seems lonely.” she says sadly.

“Never thought of that. I’ll stop by his house, don’t worry.”

“Thank you Love.”

“You’re welcome Doll. I gotta go now, I’ll let you know when I’m heading back home, alright?”

“Okay, I love you, see you later, Sexy Beast.” I burst out laughing and hear Ayd, Line and Nic laughing on the other side of the line.

“I love you too.” I chuckle and hang up.

“Sounds like she’s feeling much better,” Aleck says walking towards me and sitting next to me.

“Yeah. She has the girls over way too often for my own sanity though, they keep talking about wedding preparations, baby stuff, shit like that and it’s driving me fucking nuts. I know Viv isn’t pushing to get married or have kids, but Line, Ayd and Nic? They are fucking onto me, Brother!” I shake my head chuckling.

“I bet, Line talks about it non-stop.” He looks perplexed.

“What’s up, Brother? I noticed you were staring at me a couple of times back there, not starting to fancy me are you?” I turn to face him, trying to gauge his reaction and body language. “You didn’t slip back into drugs, did you?”

“No, no, don’t worry, none of that. Although I could have.” He sighs.

“Talk to me.”

“Did you ever think that maybe the people closest to you have been lying to you all your life?” he says lost in deep thought.

“Considering what happened a few weeks ago, yeah.”

He nods. “My father passed away.”

“I’m sorry, Brother. I know you two weren’t close, but it still blows.” I pat his back.

“That’s not why I’m like this.” He sighs. “I found out some stuff when I went to their house.”

“What?” I look at him concerned. He’s never like this, he look lost.

“Was your mother ever pregnant between you and Nicole?” he asks out of the blue and I’m completely stunned.

“Yeah. How do you know?”

“What happened to the baby?”

“I was four when it happened. When she went to the hospital to have the baby and she said I’d have a little brother, but when she came back, it was just her and Dad, they were devastated. The doctors told them that the baby was stillborn. Something happened with the umbilical cord or something. How in the hell do you know about it?”

“My parents aren’t my real parents.”

“You were adopted?” I’m still confused as fuck.

“No. My so called mother who’s hated me for years told me the truth about where I come from.”

“What did she say? Don’t leave me hanging Brother.”

He scoffs. “Brother…”

“What?”

“Know how a lot of people think we are related?”

“Yeah…You don’t think…” I can’t believe what he’s trying to say.

“Yeah.” He sighs.

“How can that be possible?”

“She told me that they paid a doctor at the hospital to steal a baby, me. Her husband wanted an heir to their family fortune and legacy. He wanted a mini him while she just wanted a little boy but yet was too fucking preoccupied with her appearance to get pregnant herself. She said she couldn’t cope with the guilt and became the heartless bitch I knew her as.”

“Are you serious?” I look at him in shock.

“Yeah.” He sighs looking defeated.

“I don’t want to sound like a fucking asshole, but how can you be sure about it? That we’re actual brothers I mean.”

“She showed me a bunch of papers from the hospital, the original records they stole to make fake ones. It had your parents’ names on them.”

“Wow.”

“Yeah.” He nods and looks fucking miserable.

“Well don’t be so fucking excited to have me as a brother, dickhead.”

He chuckles. “It’s been messing with my head. I know I have Line, Ally and our little shrimp, but it’s not the same. If I didn’t have them, I’d be completely on my own.”

“But you do have them, and now you have me and Nicole. Oh shit! That’s fucking brilliant, when she wants to complain to me I’ll send her your way!”

“Now, who’s being the dickhead?” He chuckles.

“Me, but taking full credit for it. Did you ever hook up with Nic?”

“No! Fucking glad I never did, that’d have been fucking awkward!”

“You don’t say.” I burst out laughing.

“What’s so funny?” He looks at me confused.

“Just all those years, since you’ve been in the club. I always felt very protective of you for some reason, I wanted you to be happy and to keep you happy. I know I’ve done it with most of the guys, but with you, it felt different.”

“Yeah. I always saw you as a big brother figure. Guess we weren’t wrong.”

“Guess not.” I chuckle still shocked by it all. “That’s fucking mental. Does Line know?”

“It’s fucking mental and no she doesn’t. I wanted to talk to you first about it. I didn’t want to get her hopes up, she loves you and it would crush her if you didn’t want anything to do with me after I told you the truth. I guess I didn’t want to share it in fear it was too good to be true.” He shrugs.

“Ah come on, you’re a good and respectable man. Everyone would be lucky to have you as a brother. Guess I’m the lucky bastard.” I chuckle.

“Thank you.” he says, his voice full of emotion.

“What the hell for?”

“Accepting me as your brother, as a blood brother. It’s good to know I still have a family left.”

“No matter what, we’d always have been family, but having you as my blood brother is pretty fucking sweet, ” I say meaningfully.

“Thank you, Brother. Would it be too soon to play pranks on Nic? I’ve been dying to do so for a while. Perfect excuse now that we are related.” He chuckles evilly.

“Be my guest, but be careful, she can be a mean bitch if you mess with her too much.” I chuckle.

“I bet. She’s like us.” We both grin at each other nodding.

“Amen to that.” I shake my head thinking about the three of us and how life is going to change knowing we have one more blood family member.

“Viv and Line and going to love this, being sisters-in-law and shit. We’ll never hear the end of it.” He laughs.

“Oh shit, didn’t even think about that! Also means that Ally is my niece.” I grin, I love the kid, she’s fucking awesome and smart.

“She’s going to be fucking ecstatic, she loves you.”

“Love her too.” I smile, feeling like another part of my life is piecing itself together.

“Will you ever tell me about our parents?” he asks tentatively.

“Whenever you wanna talk about them, bring a six pack and we’ll talk.” I clap his back and motion at Ant to join us.

“Thanks Brother.”

“You’re more than welcome Brother.” We grin like fools.

“What’s up? Why are you two grinning like that? You creep me out sometimes.” Ant says.

“Nothing, just family business,” Aleck says chuckling.

“Family business? Did I miss something?” Ant looks between the two of us, confused.

“Yes, we’re brothers, like blood brothers.” I tell him and he burst out laughing.

“You’re messing with me.”

“No, it’s a long story, but yeah, we really are brothers.” Aleck says smiling. He looks a lot more happy and relaxed than a couple of minutes ago.

“Fucking mental.” Ant chuckles. “I can see the resemblance. You’re both dickheads!”

“Asshole!” We both mutter at the same time and all end up laughing.

Yeah, life can be fucking weird, but it feels good to know that I have a long lost brother and that we already get along so well.

EPILOGUE

Viv

Three months later

Things have been fucking insane!

Since the surgery and the complications after, Gabe has become the most overprotective boyfriend in the world. Not the ‘my boyfriend is so cute and protective’ kind, oh no, he’s the ‘I’m gonna put a tracker in your phone and car’ type. I literally have cameras covering the whole of the outside of my house. The only positive thing about them is that they scare the shit out of sales people, I can see them coming from a mile away and scared the shit out of them with the speaker Gabe installed. Most of them are confused, some run away thinking the house is haunted or some shit. It’s fucking epic!

Gabe and Bennett are healing slowly, they are both pretty much fine now. Gabe’s recovery is taking a little longer than expected because he was stabbed in the same shoulder he was shot in last year. Bennett is almost as good as new, he’s still walking with a slight limp but the added swagger has only made him hotter. He’s going to be breaking even more hearts now.

Jenny, unfortunately, lost her life, and it fucked up Sanders. Everybody, including him, keep telling me that it’s not my fault, I just can’t help feeling bad about it, even more so that I didn’t get to go pay my respects at her funeral.

My sweet little Nicky.
Over the past three months, we’ve been hanging out a lot and have become really close friends. She’s an absolute firecracker. Any man who manages to get through Gabe and be lucky enough to date her, won’t know what hit him. She’s basically Gabe in the body of an extremely beautiful young woman. Instead of returning to college, she moved back here and transferred to UNO because she didn’t want to be far away from her family anymore.

Well, her new extended family. Everybody thought Gabe and Aleck looked like each other, the resemblance was uncanny, but no one expected the crazy story they told us. It’s amazing though. Aleck finally has a family, both inside and outside the club, who love him as he deserves. Nic was happy to have a new brother, at first. She became the target of their stupid pranks. It’s like they are fifteen all over again, putting sugar in the salt shaker and salt in the sugar bowl or throwing water balloons on her before she goes on a date. The worst was probably when they decided it’d be a good idea to redecorate each of the rooms in Gabe’s old house, where she’s currently living, with different things. One was covered in post it notes, one filled with balloons, one had the walls covered in aluminium foil and the worst probably was the life size clown they put in her bedroom. She did get them back. Not without mine and Line’s help. We managed to shave the sides of their head and put make up on them and take pictures for blackmailing if need be. We’re all expecting payback for the haircuts, but they seemed to enjoy them after a couple of days.

Despite Gabe being overprotective, living with him has been perfect. I get to drool over how hot he is on a daily basis and he’s the sweetest man ever, even though he tries to act like a badass biker, deep down inside, he’s a big softie. He’s been doing up the house, fixing, decorating, rearranging, basically anything and everything to make it our own. We didn’t change too much in the end. We painted the house from top to bottom and changed the purpose of a couple of rooms. Gabe brought in a couple of things from his house and I might have gone a bit crazy shopping for new home stuff. It was a weird experience sorting through my parents stuff as well mine and Annie’s old stuff.

Annie…
I’m still dumbfounded by what happened even after all this time. To think I was jealous of her being normal and she was jealous of me being rebellious, I wonder what would have happened if we had just talked to each other, would things still have turned out like this? I get that losing our parents was traumatic, it messed with both of us, but for her, it was taken to a whole new level of fuckedupness. How can one go as far as faking being raped and killed? I’ll never understand what happened inside my sweet Annie’s head, as far as I’m aware, my twin died in the same car accident as my parents did. It’s easier for me to handle and that way I can focus on the good memories pre-accident.

Killing her, as fucked up as it’s going to sound, wasn’t as difficult as I thought it would be, I also thought I wouldn’t be able to cope with the guilt but to me, at that point, she wasn’t my sister, she was just a fucking psycho who was trying to kill my boyfriend. I don’t regret doing it. I do sometimes have nightmares about that night but over time they are slowly becoming less frequent, it is getting better. You’d think that living in the house in which we grew up in would stir up bad memories, but it hasn’t at all. It’s actually calming to be living here with the man I’ve always loved. My parents would have adored him, and not because he’s a Last Hangman, but because he’s the most loyal, respectful, polite person in the world, even if he swears like a sailor, but then again that makes two of us. He makes me happy, he’s smart, funny, isn’t afraid to do housework, I mean, any woman would love to walk into the kitchen to her man going commando in low hung sweat pants cooking up breakfast. Major swoon!

We’re working on him being able to express his feelings and he’s getting better at it. He leaves me notes every morning when he goes to the garage, it’s the sweetest thing ever. Looks like Ant and Aleck inspired him to be a total sap in private.

We’ve been planning their weddings like crazy. They keep pestering me about when is Gabe going to propose, but I honestly don’t care when or if we get engaged and married. If it happens, fucking ace, if it doesn’t, that doesn’t mean he loves me any less. I don’t need a piece of paper to tell me who I love. As for the kids, we’ll see what happens after I fully recover. We did talk about adopting a pet from a shelter and have been fighting like cats and dogs about what to get, cat or dog, I want a cat, he wants a dog. While I love dogs, I’m more of a cat person. He’ll have to deal with it! Luckily I have a few tricks up my sleeve to help me win this debate.

My plans to open up my own bar have been put on hold until I recover, but Gabe didn’t relent. He found me the perfect spot so he could still be at work and keep an eye on the place. An old building was next to their garage and abandoned. He managed to get ahold of the owner and get him to sell him the property. A shit load of work needs to be done on the place, but once it’s finished, it’ll be fucking amazing! I just can’t wait to see it. Gabe has banned me from going there, says it’s going to be a surprise. While I love him and his surprises, he can be an annoying prick when he wants to be and worst of all is that he’s doing it on purpose.

Things were pretty quiet on the club front, ‘were’ being the keyword. There’s a new MC in Louisiana and it seems they are here to stay, well until the Last Hangman kick them to the curb like they did with the Kings. The Hades Disciples are worse than the Kings, if that’s even possible. We’ve been on lockdown a couple of times, just to make sure nothing happens to any of us. They haven’t made a move on the Last Hangman yet, but it’s only a matter of time.

I love my new life with Gabe and things are going really well. We have a nice routine but he always manages to surprise me, be it with sweet notes hidden around the house, cooking food or picking up takeaways or donuts, the Red Velvet kind of course. I knew there was a reason why my feelings for him never vanished over the years. We were meant to be, and after all our trials and tribulations, we’ve finally made it, and I couldn’t be any happier.

Life is fucking good when you find the man who can be your confidant, your best friend, and your lover. He is all I’ve ever wanted and I finally get to call him mine.

******

Gabe

It’s been a couple of months now since Viv has been released from the hospital and things have been amazing.

We live together and at first, it was a huge adjustment, I was so used to living on my own since Nicole went off to college but it’s been pretty fucking sweet.

It seems like Viv has come to life since we started living here. There were a lot of things to work on in the house, but we managed to make it our own. I didn’t have much I wanted to keep from my old place, just the bed and a couple of pieces of furniture we needed. Viv though, she was fucking bat shit crazy in the department store. She made the house look homey and we love it, even if it’s a tad too girly to my taste. She’s been a lot more bubbly, happy and relaxed since we moved in here permanently. We decorated her sister’s bedroom, transforming it into a guestroom. Neither of us felt it would be right for us or our future kids to sleep in that room. I’m not saying Annie is going to come back to haunt us, but it does feel awkward. Viv’s old bedroom is her office and her parents’ old room has become our walk in closet and the old guestroom is our bedroom, it’s not the biggest room, but we love it that way, besides, we don’t spend much time in it. We spend the majority of our time in the extra room we added. The skylight room. It was hell to build, but we have a couple of construction workers in the MC who helped out. We lined it completely with pillows and have potted plants dotted around the room and installed an epic sound system. It’s so peaceful and perfect for fucking. We both fucking love it and love fucking there. The night sky makes a perfect background for Viv when she’s riding me.

We had to wait for a long time before we were able to have sex again. It frustrated the hell out of me, but I couldn’t risk hurting her. I knew she was as desperate as I was, but she’s still healing. When we went to the doctor for her to get checked out he openly laughed at me when I told him about being worried of hurting her. I wanted to fucking punch him for laughing at me when I was asking a serious fucking question about the wellbeing of my woman if we were to fuck.

The whole club is pretty happy with the new alliance we made with the Fallen and the Bastards. It’s been interesting to work with others, who turn out to actually be great men. Some things still need to be worked on, but we’re getting there.

We had our first run in with the Disciples, it was interesting to say the least. We were chilling at the Bastards’ compound when they showed up unannounced. Only a handful of them were there, and they didn’t pick the smarter or older. I’m not even sure they were over twenty. They came over telling us to be careful, that the new Kings were in town and were here to stay. Imagine pre-teens telling you that. We all burst out laughing at them. It was hilarious.

From what we’ve heard from our other charters who had a couple of run-ins or echoes of what they’ve been up to, they are fucking worse scumbags than the Kings. I had no idea it was possible, but it is. They are the worst kind of human beings there could be. It’s pissing me off to just think that they are out there, free. They have no morals, no respect whatsoever, for anyone, but especially for women. A couple of incidents have occurred since they’ve hit Louisiana and our area. And we thought Jared was messed up… We’ll need to keep a close eye on them.

It’s been hard to leave Viv to go back to the compound, but installing the trackers and camera system gives me some peace of mind. I know it pisses her off, but I can’t leave the house without them being there, not after all the shit that has happened over the past twelve years.

I still can’t believe I finally get to call her my woman after wanting to for so long. It’s surreal that despite everything she’s been through because of the club lifestyle, that she wants it with me and accepts it; and loves me as much as I love her. I never imagined she’d feel that way for me. I never thought it would happen to me. She’s a match made in heaven for me. I wouldn’t change a thing about her, well maybe make her less stubborn but then our fights wouldn’t be as interesting. The way we were forced to live our lives has shaped us to be the people we are today, yet those events never hindered how we felt about each other. We always had each other on our mind and we finally were able to reunite.

We do have our fights, more often than not, and for the most stupid things, but the make-up sex is electric. Quite hard to do that when your woman is injured, but she still gets as wild as she did before. Last week’s fight proved to be one of the best fights and make-up sex we’ve had so far.

I’m driving back home from the shelter with a pouting Viv next to me. She wants a cat, I want a dog. To be honest, I couldn’t care less what we get, I just like to rile her up. The doctor did say she could use some animal company for the days I’m not home. What she doesn’t know, is that I’m planning to get her her dream cat, a sphinx. I just have to wait a couple of weeks until I can bring it back home. Hopefully she will love it. I went to see the litter a couple of days ago and I know she’s going to love it. Me? It looks like the fucking spawn of Satan, but if it makes her happy, a hairless cat is what she’ll get. It just better not jump on me in the middle of the night. She blames her love of them being down to having an allergy to cat hair. I don’t know if it’s true or not because she’s always playing with Ayd’s cat that she rescued, and that thing is fucking furry.