Blood & Bones: Cage (Blood Fury MC 5)

Cage heard her breath slip in almost a sigh from between her lips. He straightened and stared down again into her face. The flush had crept from her throat into her cheeks, her eyes seemed a little wider than normal and her grip on Dyna had tightened.

“Gotta go,” he whispered.

He turned and exited the trailer before he decided to skip work altogether.

When he walked down the steps, he wore a grin.

Dyna finally had a stroller. Jemma had no idea who dropped it off, but a brand-new one, still in the box, sat outside the door when Cage had come home. He dragged the huge box into the trailer and unpacked it to find a stroller and a matching carrier that could be used as part of the stroller or as a car seat. It was perfect since Cage only had one car seat and kept it in the old, beat-up Honda he’d been driving around, not just to haul Dyna but because riding his sled was still too painful for his ribs.

She could put the second car seat in her Volvo, or use it as a carrier when she couldn’t use the stroller.

Whoever bought it had spent a nice chunk of change. But the gift that showed up mysteriously on their doorstep was proof this brotherhood had each other’s back. They weren’t going to let Cage and his daughter go without. If he couldn’t afford the shit he needed, someone else who could wouldn’t hesitate to help.

However, by not putting their name on the gift, Cage wouldn’t feel pressured to pay that person back. The selflessness both impressed Jemma and warmed her heart.

She decided to give the new Cadillac of strollers a spin this morning and take Dyna on a little journey over to The Barn. Jemma hadn’t had much of a chance to explore since coming to the farm a couple of days ago. Even though she wasn’t officially a part of the Fury, she was curious about the club’s church and how the guys were living, including her nephew who had a room in the rear bunkhouse portion.

While eating leftovers Lottie had dropped off when she’d popped in for a quick visit—her aunt’s excuse for a chance to cuddle with Dyna—Cage had mentioned that their meeting room was on the upper level of The Barn and two apartments took up the second floor of the bunkhouse.

Sig and Autumn lived in one. Deacon and Justice lived in the other, but Reese crashed there with him on the weekends. During the week, her cousin took the twenty minute or so drive to Mansfield to shack up with his ol’ lady in her big house on a mountain.

The idea of that made Jemma smile. Deacon was more like a brother to her than a cousin, so she was happy to see him happy. He’d always been a dog, so she had been shocked when he told her over the phone a few weeks ago he found “the one.”

The one. She shook her head.

While visiting yesterday, Lottie seemed to be thrilled with both of her boys’ choices in women to settle down with. Not that either was exactly “settled.” They were just in a serious relationship.

What her aunt wasn’t happy with was her boys wearing Fury colors. They were forbidden to wear their cuts in her house. She had cut ties with Jemma’s father, Ox, when he got involved with the original Fury and the MC began to cause problems in town. And elsewhere.

Like Jemma, Lottie didn’t want to see Judge follow in his father’s footsteps, meaning in prison and then six-feet under. Her aunt also tried to talk Ry into staying with her for the summer instead of on the farm, but both Ry and Judge put their foot down about that. The whole reason he was in the bunkhouse was to take the summer to get to know the father he was stolen from. At least by staying on the property, he was close. If Saylor hadn’t already been a part of the Judge/Cassie household, he probably would’ve ended up staying with them.

Jemma pushed the stroller over the uneven ground past the pavilion and to the back of the building that housed both the club’s church and quarters. She rolled Dyna through the rear steel door.

What she had noticed as she walked along the outside of the building was the lower level had no windows. Neither in the barn or the bunkhouse portion. She found that interesting and wondered if that had been done for a reason.

At the very front of The Barn were large windows on the second floor and two large windows at the back where the apartments overlooked a field. Plus, a couple along each side. One for the apartment in the back and one, she assumed, where the meeting room was.