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perfect, but
it’s the only good thing I have ever given them, even if it comes
at the sacrifice of me.
    Sighing, I clean the bathroom of Crews
Transports. Doll makes Tripp and Rex keep it relatively clean, but
seriously, a scrub brush and comet are the tools to my
day.
    Blaine cries out, and I fight to keep
my own tears at bay. Doll is blessed to be able bring her baby to
work with her. Blaine is a good boy. Tripp, Doll, and little ‘BW,’
as they call him, are a picture-perfect family. Okay, maybe not
your typical picture-perfect, but add leather, ink, and
motorcycles, and you can call it the picture-perfect family of
badasses.
    “ Shhhhh, BW, please, baby,
please. Momma is losing it here. Daddy will be home in two days. I
don’t know what to do for you, son,” I hear Doll pleading with the
toddler.
    I come around the corner to see tears
streaming down her face. Her blonde hair is tied in a messy knot on
her head, and her sweats clearly show she had a rough
night.
    “ You okay?”
    When she practically jogs to me and
hands BW over, I hold the boy to my hip and rest his head on my
shoulder. Then Doll drops her face into her hands.
    “ I can’t do this. He isn’t
eating right. He has diarrhea. Tripp is gone. He keeps crying. Oh,
Pamela, he wails and wails.”
    I sway back and forth as BW settles
against me. “Breathe, Momma, he feels every emotion from you. Get
calm, and then we can find the source of his irritation. First,
though, he can’t feed off you being a mess, making him become a
bigger mess.” She looks up at me, her red eyes understanding. “If
it’s a competition of who can cry the longest, baby girl, he’s
always gonna win, so get your head on straight.”
    She rolls her shoulders
back while I gently pat the diapered bottom of her boy.
“ Hush, little baby, don’t say a word.
Pami’s gonna buy you a mocking bird ,” I
sing the lullaby and little BW stops crying just enough to take in
my soft tone. “That’s it, baby boy. If
that mocking bird don’t sing, Pami’s gonna buy you lots of bling
bling .”
    Doll laughs at my change of words, and
her son lifts his head to look at her. Once he sees his mom is
okay, he settles back against me and closes his eyes as I continue
to make up parts of the old song and sway slowly.
    “ Magic,” Doll whispers when
she finds that Blaine is soundly sleeping and drooling on my
shoulder.
    “ Teething. I think he’s
cutting molars. Orajel and Motrin are your new best
friends.”
    She smiles at me in the Doll way that
lights up a room. “Right now, Pamela, you are my very best
friend.”
    “ Real talk, Doll. You gotta
breathe. It’s hard when they are little, and it’s easy to get
overwhelmed, especially when they don’t feel well. They can’t tell
you what’s wrong, and not one of us has the ability to read their
little minds. But you can’t join his pity party because someone has
to sort out the world’s problems from the view of a two-year-old,
and it’s not gonna be him.”
    “ You are so
wise.”
    “ He is the one person who
has heard your heartbeat from the inside, Doll. You are connected
in a way no one else can understand. Flesh of your flesh and blood
of your blood. What you feel, he feels, so you gotta be rock solid,
Momma.”
    “ How many do you have?”
Doll asks, watching me carefully. She knows. She can see the mother
inside of me. Can she also see the failure I am to my
kids?
    “ That’s a problem for
another day, Delilah,” I answer her honestly, but with her real
name so she doesn’t press me further.

Chapter Three

    ~Boomer~
     
     
    “ Pass me the socket wrench
set, Axel,” I call to Shooter’s boy, who is really Rex’s son
biologically, but somehow in only the way the Hellions can do, Rex
and his woman Caroline have found a way to truly co-parent with
Shooter and Tessie.
    He is an amazing kid. His mom and he
brought my best friend out of his own personal darkness and back
into the light of life. Mercy was no friend to