Taking Her Down (Savage Brothers Second Generation 1)

Instead, I sigh and rub the back of my neck, studying the man I should hate, but grudgingly like. The worst thing about him, is I think he cares for my girl. Hell, I can even understand why he kidnapped her and chained her to the steering wheel. If Nicole had pulled her shit way back when, I would have done the same thing, because I sure as hell wouldn’t have given her up.

Still, I can’t let Chains kidnap my daughter, no matter what’s going on, and get away with it. He needs to learn his lesson and I need to make sure others see it. I have to draw a line in the damn sand. This is something I never thought I’d have to deal with, but Chains and Kayden forced my hand, so I have to.

And I have to do it quick, because Kayden is getting too fucking pissed at me and with each hour that goes by, Nicole is talking to me less and less…

Kayden always swore she’d never end up with a biker. I love my way of life, but I was relieved when Kayden told me that. Mostly because I didn’t want to have to kill one of my own if they made a play for her.

She’s my little girl. I want her to have the world. I want her to be happy.

Christ, I just didn’t want to have to deal with this shit in general. She’s so fucking young, I thought I had more time. I thought Kayden would take her time before finding the man she wanted to settle down with.

I’m just not fucking prepared…

And what’s more… I’m not sure I ever will be…39Nicole“Are you going to keep giving me the silent treatment?” Dragon snarls as he gets in bed.

“I don’t know who told you that you could sleep in here, but either you go to the guest room, or I will.”

“I’m not fucking going to sleep in the guest room. You and I don’t sleep apart, Nicole.”

“We do when you’re being an idiot, Dragon. Now, which one of us is going to the guest room? But, I’m warning you, if you make me give up my bed because you’re too fucking selfish to sleep in another room, I’m packing my damn bags and going to stay with Dani for a few days.”

“The fuck you are,” he growls, sitting up in bed. “Christ, I don’t know why in the hell you have to be so fucking unreasonable about this shit.”

“Unreasonable? You’re lucky I’m letting you stay in the house at all after what you called our baby girl,” I cry, reaching over and turning the light on.

“I think I liked it better when you gave me the silent treatment, woman.”

“Too damn bad. Now are you leaving or not?”

“Fuck no, I’m not leaving.”

“Fine, then I am,” I mumble, moving out of bed to find my robe.

“You take one step out of this room Nicole, and I will spank your ass so hard that you won’t sit down for a week.”

“Dragon, if you don’t back down from this mess and make our daughter happy, you won’t see my ass again.”

“What the fuck?”

I sigh, because I know he thinks I meant I would move out. Really, I only meant no sex. I’d explain, but that’d probably make him worse.

“You called our daughter a whore,” I tell him, my voice sounding raw because of the pain inside of me. Kayden was heartbroken for many reasons, but the fact her father—the father she has always adored—could talk to her like that, broke something inside of her.

“You weren’t there. You didn’t see…”

Dragon stops talking. He sits up, throwing his feet off the side of the bed and rubbing the back of his head in frustration. It’s something I’ve seen often over the years. When it happens I usually move in behind him, hold him close and tell him how much I love him. I won’t be doing that tonight. I know he’s hurting, and I know he feels backed into a corner. The problem is that he has us all backed into the same corner and no one can back down. It’s all on him.

“You walked in on a private moment.”

“She’s our daughter, Nicole,” he snarls, grabbing his cell off the nightstand and hurling it against the wall so that it shatters into a thousand pieces.

“She is and you had her all to yourself for almost nineteen years, Dragon. She’s not a little baby anymore.”

“She’s my baby damn it. I was there when she took her first breath. I changed her fucking diapers. I held her hand when she lost her cat Tassels. I was there through it all damn it.”

God. I can’t stop from walking to him, because I can hear the pain in his voice. My man has few weaknesses, unless you know where to look.