I have been holding this back since September. As soon as we finished Kalkin, I vividly saw this scene between Kal and Caden. I knew in order to start moving in the right direction Caden needed a come to Jesus meeting. This scene is it.
I hope you enjoy it!
Caden
picked up his phone to call out of work again, like he’d done several times
over the last few months, when a knock came at the door. He hadn’t been
expecting anyone. No one came to see him anyway. Kalkin warned them all away
from him. “Go away!”
The
knock turned to pounding. “Open the fuck up!”
Kalkin.
Caden stumbled from bed, and went to the door. He opened it a crack, and saw
his pissed off brother’s face. He’d been alone, which surprised him. Wherever
Kal went, Keeley wasn’t far behind him.
“What?”
His
brother shoved into the room. Rage rolled off of him in suffocating waves. He
held his phone in his hand as he shoved Caden into the chair near the small
table in the corner of the room. “I have tried to wait you out. I have tried to
tell myself you’ll wake the fuck up and see the truth, but that’s not fucking
happening. I knew we were fucking stubborn, but not this damn thickheaded.”
What
the hell was his brother going on about? It didn’t make any sense at all. “What
are you talking about?”
Kalkin
shoved the phone in his face. “Say hello to your premature son, Nicolas!”
He
stared at the screen. The boy had been hooked up to all kinds of machines. His
face was all squished and his body was a little on the small side, yet he
looked almost normal too. “He’s not mine.”
“He’s
got the Raferty stubborn chin and blond fucking hair. He screams like a banshee
when he can and he sure as fuck is yours.” Kalkin sat across from him. “Did you
enjoy your night of fun with Danielle? Or did you forget you jerked off in her
pussy?”
He
blinked at his brother.
“She
told us everything, you fucking idiot. She told you she wasn’t sure. You saw
all the fucking scars. You guys messed around and at the big moment, you stuck
just the tip in and now, here we are thirty-five weeks and five days later, Nic
is born.”
Caden
slid the phone back to Kalkin. “He’s not mine. She was already pregnant when we
messed around.”
“Lie
to yourself, asshole.”
Caden
growled and lunged at his brother grabbing him by the shirt. “The kid isn’t
mine.”
Kalkin
cold cocked him. His world spun momentarily before righting itself as he rubbed
his jaw. His brother had a mean right hook and Caden hadn’t even seen it
coming. The boy couldn’t be his. He smelled her pregnancy almost immediately
after they messed around that night. It wasn’t much past then Simon announced
she was pregnant with his kid. Caden could put two and two together.
“She
almost died giving your son life,” Kalkin roared. “She was so focused on saving
Nicolas’s life. The bullet did more damage to her than any of us knew. She kept that shit a secret and when she
went into labor, she didn’t have any strength!
She flatlined! Now, my mate, who’s about to drop my pups any day, is scared to
fucking death and won’t leave her sister’s bedside.”
Caden
absorbed each stinging blow of Kalkin’s words. Danielle almost died. Danielle
not only saved Kalkin’s life, but the baby’s in sacrifice of her own. Why the
fuck would she do that? Why would she put herself into a no-win situation? He
sat back in his chair, the fight draining from him.
“Why?”
Kalkin
gave a humorless chuckle. “Why? He asks why? She’s your mate, idiot. Here, let
me impart some words of wisdom on you. The boy hooked up to all those machines,
smells like Raferty too. I should know. I was the first one to hold him and
welcome him into the pack. She is your mate. She never belonged to Simon. Danielle
lived in fear because of that piece
of shit. Of what he’d do to her if he ever took her back to that place where he
and Hazel kept Jace. She worried after Hazel and Simon died, the man would
return because, ‘Simon is never really gone.’ She and Keeley have gone through
a shit ton of stuff. She needed you and you turned your back on her. Now, they
both need you. Get your head out of your ass and go the fuck home.”
Kalkin
stood and removed a polaroid photo of Nicolas from his shirt pocket. He then
threw it on the table before leaving. “I expect to see you at work tomorrow, or
else.” He slammed the door behind him as he left, drowning the room in silence
once more.
The
quiet almost deafening now, when used to hold so much solace for him. Caden
picked up the picture and stared at it. He could admit the boy did look like a
Raferty, but it could also be because his brother planted the thought in his
head. However, the more he studied the photograph, he wondered what if. Then he
counted backwards, if Danielle had carried the boy to term, the dates would
match up.
And,
though he might have blond hair, he did have a stubborn chin. He ran his thumb
over the photo as he stared at the baby’s prone body. Breathing tubes, IV lines
and a heart monitor lines covered his body. He sported a small white and yellow
diaper, but was naked from the waist up. Nicolas’ cries were frozen in time and
forever etched into Caden’s mind.
His
stomach dropped.
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