Page 56 of Loyal
“Which one of you assholes pissed a woman off enough to start this shit?” Tiny asks.
“Not me,” Quick says, raising his hands in surrender.
“You know it wasn’t me,” Fang says.
Savage scans the room until he stops on me.
“I’m not sure, but I think it was my girl’s ex,” I tell him.
“Explain.”
“She’s got an ex-husband who doesn’t understand what ‘divorced’ means. He recently found out about us dating. Her daughter doesn’t seem to like us dating either and is on the ex’s side. I know she mentioned he brought up my past last week. I can’t say for sure, but I would put money on it being him,” I admit.
“Jesus fuck. You just had to fucking step in it,” Savage mutters, rubbing his face.
“Hey, I didn’t do it intentionally.”
Savage glares at me, and I raise my hands.
“So what do we do? Clearly this fucker needs to realize who he’s fucking with,” Fang says.
“The first thing we need to know is…” Tiny trails off until I look at him. “Is she worth it?”
“She’s mine,” I say without hesitation.
Tiny raises a brow. “You claiming her?”
“When the time is right, yes. We still have the daughter thing to work through, but even if she doesn’t accept, she will always be mine.”
“Son of a bitch,” Savage mutters. “Okay. What do we know about this guy? Anything?”
“He is an investment banker. Never had much time for her or the kid when they were married but made sure to ham it up to them when he did make it home. Daughter thinks he hung the moon. Sami felt different. Finally got the nerve up to divorce him. He’s been harassing her ever since. I did a basic background on him and found nothing.”
“He sounds obsessed,” Quick says.
“Understatement,” I confirm.
“I’ll start looking into him when I get back to my office,” Dex says, before looking at me. “You should have told me sooner. I’d already have a file on him.”
He’s not wrong. I told him the ex wasn’t in the picture anymore. Not in an important way. I didn’t want the club deciding he needed eliminating when I know Sami would be upset. Not because she loves him, but because that’s the father of her child and it would hurt Farrah.
“That’s good and all, but I feel like someone needs to point out the obvious,” Tiny says, making us all look his way. “Men like him don’t go quietly. They need to be put down.”
“You’re not wrong. How would Sami feel about that?” Savage asks.
I think it over for a moment and respond slowly. “I don’t think she would like to know he is gone. She spent a long time married to him, and even if there is no love lost now, she at one point cared for him. She would move on if it was only her, but Farrah is part of the equation. She thinks her father is an upstanding guy. That her mother broke their family up for no good reason. She would be crushed if he disappeared. That would, in turn, crush Sami. Especially since Farrah would likely blame her for it.”
“Do you think he’s influencing her, or is she just a daddy’s girl?” Happy asks.
“I honestly don’t know. I’ve never seen them together, and Sami hasn’t said either way. I know that the way their relationship has changed since the divorce bothers her, but that’s about it. I offer support when I can, but I try to be respectful of the situation. I won’t push where she isn’t ready for me to be,” I tell him.
“Interesting…” Savage says.
“He could be holding something over her. It doesn’t sound like she is acting like a normal seventeen-year-old. More like a child,” Dex says.
“Not necessarily. I did some research, and this can happen with children of divorce. Especially when the divorce isn’t amicable and both sides are not doing what is best for the child. The child will tend to take sides, usually with the parent they feel closer to,” I say, running a hand through my hair.
“You think she was closer to the dad? Could there be any history of abuse there?” Happy squeezes his fists closed at the thought.
