Lily's Protector - Wolves MC

Chapter 16

Nitro

The last time I saw Pops this happy to see someone was when me and the guys returned home from our second tour overseas. It's great to see him this excited. It's also great to see the way Lily and him are together. The way they joke around with each other, it's obvious they've spent a lot of time together. I don't get why Pops and Lawman felt the need to hide her all these years. I mean, fuck, I wish I would have known about her.

Pops heads into the clubhouse first, with Lily following closely behind him. I step inside behind Lily and close the door behind us. The place goes silent as everyone's eyes are on us and the sight makes me uncomfortable, so I know it's making Lily uncomfortable. I reach for her hand and lace my fingers with hers, to calm her.

"What the hell y'all looking at. Get back to whatever bullshit you were doing." Pops waves his hand in the air, and the club grows loud again as they all turn away from us and back to whatever they were doing before we walked in.

We follow Pops into the bar as Deb, the president's wife, comes out from behind the bar holding her hand over her mouth as if she's seen a ghost. So, Deb knows Lily?

"Good God in Heaven, it's really you." she whispers removing her hand from her mouth as she stops in front of us. Lily tightens her grip on my hand, and I squeeze to let her know I'm here, and she's safe.

"It's really her, Deb." Pops replies and Deb darts her eyes from Pops, back to Lily in shock.

"You've gotten so big. What are you now, twenty-six?" Deb asks her, giving away that she definitely knows who she is. Fuck, how the fuck does Deb know her?

"Yes ma'am." Lily replies weakly glancing up at me. I can tell she is beginning to get frightened by the attention and I'm wondering how much longer I should allow Deb to fuss over her.

"Don't ma'am me. It's Debbie, or Deb, to you, understand?" Deb grins at Lily and I can tell Deb is holding back tears.

"Yes, Deb" she replies, and I can see a faint grin on Lily's face which makes me relax. Lily glances at me again and I nod to let her know she's safe and doing good. I fucking love that she keeps looking to me for support and not Pops. Especially since she's known him much longer than she's known me.

"Good. Now, can I get you anything? You hungry? Thirsty?" Deb asks her as she continues to try to hold back her tears.

"No, thank you." Lily grins at her and I can tell she's trying but any more of Deb fussing over her might send her over the edge.

"Alright Deb, let's let her breathe. I need to get some supplies together, the prospects here?" My voice is more demanding that I wanted but it's warranted. Everyone, including Deb, needs to know who Lily belongs to and who's protecting her and when they need to give her space. Like...right now.

"Yep, out back." Deb glances at me with an eyebrow cocked, before glancing back to Lily.

"It was nice seeing you again, sweetheart." Deb says quietly as she turns around to head back to the bar.

I begin to walk further into the bar with Lily's fingers still laced in mine.

"Think you could have been nicer to the prez's old lady, son?" Pops whispers to me as he walks next to me.

I look around the bar, and even though everyone has gone back to whatever the fuck they were doing before we got here, their eyes are still on us...on her.

"Everybody just needs to go back to what the fuck they were doing and stop looking at her." I growl lowly, looking around shooting daggers at the men looking at her as we walk through the bar.