Chapter 73

MYKEL

I was still over the moon celebrating being a father again. The feeling of watching the monitor with the image of my child growing inside my wife was fucking extraordinaire—we made this baby, and I couldn’t wait to hold my child in my arms.

Then it was only a matter of a split second that my triumph and delirious bliss were gone in an instant.

My world stopped and faded around me. I was quick to rush toward my wife to drag her away from the motherfucker, shielding her and my child from the perilous exploit, but I wasn’t fast enough.

I was supposed to be there to protect her, yet I failed her as a husband. Again.

It sickened me. It fucking pissed me off.

“Babe.” She wrapped her arms around my neck and buried her face in my chest.

“Get that motherfucker out of my face before I fucking break his skull!” I ordered Sax and Kye.

If I let my rage consume me, and if I was that man before I met Adley, I would have done what made me feel b