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lives together.” Jasmine leaned forward, only inches from his face. “I’m a whole person because of you.  I’m a better person because of you. I’m coming into my own.” Jasmine gave him several slow, loving, deep kisses. “You’re stuck with me! Plus, you probably just knocked me up and then we’ll have a beautiful, healthy baby that will keep us up nights and ruin our sex life,” she laughed.
    “Yeah,” Nuke said and smiled as he placed his hand on her stomach. “I hope you are. Then your tits will get even bigger” he chuckled.
    “These will be for the baby!” Jasmine jiggled her breasts.
    Nuke leaned up and licked one of her nipples. “I want the right one; the baby can have the left one. My own personal hucow. Think of what we’ll save on milk?” he laughed.
    Jasmine rolled her eyes. “Pervert! It’s going to be alright, I promise.” She held Nuke’s face again. “I got your back through thick and thin.”
    “Look me in the eyes and tell me again how you’ll be there no matter what?”
    “I’ll always be there for you, Nuke, no matter what.”
    Nuke took her left hand and kissed her wedding ring. “I love my ring on your hand.”
    “I love the ring you gave me. Till death do we part, baby,” Jasmine said as she kissed him again.
     
     

Chapter Three
    Dancing with myself
     
    Nuke was sitting outside at the patio tables with his feet propped up on one of the chairs. Holden being there brought back memories he wanted to forget. He was trying to concentrate, but his mind kept drifting back to a different place and time.
    ‘They feel that you brought embarrassment to the family,’ one of the psych doctors had informed Nuke. ‘Your family is going through their own version of hell. They’re looking deep within themselves. They’re agonizing over the obvious fact that they’ve raised someone with such anger and violence inside of him. The things you do not only reflect upon you but your family as well. Violence has a very long reach with many victims.’
    As the psych doc’s words replayed in his mind, he went over the footage on the security cams again. Tech had found the vague image of a car but nothing that gave an indication that whomever was inside had shot at Holden and Gracie.
    He removed the cigarette from his mouth and laid it on the saucer that he was using for an ashtray.
    Holden and Medic approached. Holden had an apprehensive smile. This was to be expected. “Nuke, can I talk with you?” he asked.
    Medic shook his head with annoyance as he moved to sit down on top of the table but Nuke motioned for him to stop. “I got this, Medic. You can go chill.”
    “I’m heading home for a bit. One of my kids has this thing at school,” Medic said, then glanced over at Holden and back at Nuke. It was still hard for him to believe that they were brothers. Nuke was moody, but he was loyal to the club and the members. He was always there when you needed him. There was something about Holden, though, that made you feel slimy when you were near him. You immediately wanted to punch him in the face and then go take a shower to wash his stench off of you.
    “Okay,” Nuke replied. He waited until Medic had walked away before responding to his brother.  “What do you want now, Holden?”
    Nuke’s bluntness and unfriendly greeting caused Holden to back up as his entire body tensed.
    “To talk, I just…” he let his voice trail off.
    Nuke knew enough about people to know that when they failed to complete a sentence, it was usually because they didn’t know what to say and they wanted you to cut them a break. That didn’t work on him. Social etiquette was not one of his strong points. “You want to speak with me about what? You’ve been here less than twenty-four hours. What do you have to say to me now that you didn’t already say?”
    Holden’s eyes shifted away from Nuke. He didn’t know where to start. Nuke was making this harder than he’d imagined and he thought he had