Axel POV

6 months later

"I have just been told Axel Gunnar Taylor has been cleared of all charges," The blonde news reporter spoke into the microphone. "The search is still on for Reign Lucia Pozzo-Morrow for the killing of Jetson Larson."

"¡Que tenga un bueno día!" (Have a good day!) Reign said as she walked into our hotel room.

She looked beautiful as always. Her hair had grew a bit longer and was dyed brown. Her enduring brown eyes were lit with happiness as she headed towards me. She gave me a quick kiss which caused me to chuckle as I pulled her closer to me before flipping us so she was under me.

"You know I hate pecks." I said as I kissed her cheek then traveled down to her neck.

"It's a cold world Ax we're not going to be able to like everything in life." She replied with a giggle as I lightly bit her neck.

I playfully squinted my eyes at her as soon as I was done treasuring her neck. A light was shining in her eyes and I couldn't be happier to see it. Every since her dad died she has these moments where she zones out and wants to be alone for a brief amount of time. And I give her, her space because she comes and finds me when she needs to be comfort. I brushed the her curly hair back, then kissed her with every fiber in my being.

      She wrapped her arms around my neck and opened her legs a bit so I could lay in between them. Carefully I positioned myself over her as The addicting fire that lit up in me every time I kissed her came to life. My body was craving her body, her touch, her love and I let her know exactly what I was thinking.

"Nova Phoenix, the girlfriend of alleged Triad Boss Wolfe Táng has been involved in a car accident and we're being told it could be fatal."

      We broke our kiss, causing Reign to drop her arms from around my neck. I reached over to the computer and closed the tab. Then tried to continue our kiss session, to no avail cause  she moved her head to the side. Then pushed me off of her before going for the bag she had dropped.

"Do you want some?" She said as she showed me a banana that she currently putting chocolate on. I scrunched my nose at the vile food choice before sitting up and declining.

I stared at her until she finished her food.

"What?" She said with a sigh.

"Say it."

"Do you really have to go?" She said as she looked at me with her doe brown eyes.

      My heart was being squeezed as I looked into her pleading eyes. I wanted to tell her no, I changed my mind but I couldn't. I needed to end this once and for all. I felt her pain of not wanting to spend a bit of time apart. We have been glued at the hip since we got to Bolivia. Not to mention she has mentioned how scared she is of me going back to California.

"You know I have to go." I replied as I swept some of her hair behind her face as she down towards the ground.

I finally found out who set me up for Charlie's murder. The fucker will answer for what he did to Reign. He could've kept his vengeance towards me and it would caused me to be mildly angry. Now I'm pissed off he went after Reign to get to me. There is no way I can let him live.

"Alex tell mommy not to worry, daddy will be just fine." I spoke to her two in a half month protruding belly.

"Axel," She replied with a small smile. "That's not going to be our son name."

"Son? We're having a girl." I replied as I kissed her dimple cheek.

"It's a boy I can feel it and Alex will not be his name."

"We'll convince mommy to name you Alex so your name can match mine. That's what you want right," I asked the baby as I put my ear to her belly. Reign placed her hand on my buzzed head. "Yeah? I knew it daddy is always right."

"Whatever Axel," Reign replied and I could tell she was rolling her eyes as she let out a light chuckle. "I can't with you."

"I love you too and I'll be back before you know it." I replied as I interlocked our fingers then kissed her hand.

"Do you think you'll see him?" She questioned in a soft voice.

She refuses to talk to Sebastían whenever we go out of Bolivia to make our once every two week call to California. She refuses to even acknowledge his existence because he killed her dad. I could careless for Matís but Reign loved him, he was her father and Sebastían hurt her. For that if I see him I'll handle it.

"I don't know if I'll see him. Do you want me to see him?" I questioned which caused her to shrug.

"I'm a little sleepy," She replied with a yawn as she kicked off her shoes. "We'll go to dinner before your flight leaves, right?"

"Of course." I replied as I walked around the bed to pull the covers back so she could slide under the covers.

I took my shirt off as I crawled in behind her. In the pass six months of living with Reign I realized that she loves to cuddle. I laid on my back then she moved over so she could be close to me.

"I love you." She said in a soft voice.

"I love you too."

•••

"I've landed," I replied in text message form. "I'll see you soon. I love you."

"I love you too." Reign replied causing a smile to form on my face as I thought about her.

Before boarding my flight Reign had wrapped her arms around my waist as I wrapped mine around her neck. Her hands were gripping my shirt in bunches. The intercom was stating that it was the last call to board the flight to California and yet Reign still hadn't let me go. It took a bit of pleading to get her to let me board the flight. I gave her a lingering kiss on the forehead before pulling away. Our connected hands slowly drifted away from one another, I didn't dare turn around once I was headed to the plane.

If I had turned around, I'm positive I wouldn't have gotten on the flight. Her doe brown eyes would have pierced into my soul and made me crumble onto my knees begging her for forgiveness. In the time that we have known each other she has become my best friend, my lover, my everything. Because when I'm with her I'm no longer the shell of a person I use to be. I'm me, a person instead of a robot. Perhaps I might have allowed the person who set me up to live if I was still that robot. They brought Reign into my mess and I'll be damned if they get away with it.

"Gunnar." A prospect from the Dark Howlers said as soon as I descended out of the airport.

A row of motorcycles were lined up. I looked the prospect who was visibly shaking under my gaze. It excited me to know I can still stur fear in people, it didn't even bother me that he called me Gunnar rather than VP. I know I'm no longer VP of the Dark Howlers because I hadn't ridden with the club in three months. The prospect threw me the keys to one of the motorcycles, once me and the three other bikers were on our way to clubhouse.

The clubhouse is exactly how I remembered it. Potential patch members were kissing the ass of club members trying to secure a spot in the club for themselves. Women hung around hoping to be someone old lady to no avail must of these guys were not looking to settle down anytime soon. I sat at the bar some patch members came up to me and congratulated me on being back. I simply gave them a half ass smile, I'm not trying to be here long I just need to handle my business so I can get back to my girls.

Just being in this city, was making my skin crawl. An unattainable itch was slithering up and down my veins hoping to suck me back into this life. The negativity and bad vibes this city provoked in me was sucking me back in like a recovering addict having their choice of drug dangled in front of their face. The logical part of me knows this isn't what I want for myself and my family. The irrational part of me craved the violence of this city, a sigh fell out of my mouth as I held onto my family.

I envisioned my angel, her wild curly hair framing her face as her alluring eyes looked from the ground to my standing position. A smile laced her melanin skin, giving me a perfect view of her captivating dimples. I gripped my glass of alcohol tight as I thought of him trying to take her away from me. I took a couple sips of my drink and as it was retreating a heavy hand slapped me on my back making me waste part of the drink on me.

"What the fuck? You dumb piece of shit." I said in outrage as I shook Manny off of me so I can reach over the bar to grab some napkins.

As I was patting myself down Manny spoke. "Is that anyway to talk to your best friend?"

Manny looked a bit different from when I last seen him. His fair skin was looking like he had been in the sun for a numerous amount of time. Which I wouldn't doubt considering his rank has moved up to the VP spot in my absence. His jet black hair was tapered on the sides leaving the middle long enough to go in a top knot. His sea green eyes no longer looked playful as they had five months ago, they seemed more serious. A perk of being the Vice President of a biker gang. He had grown a light beard and he was sporting tattoos on his arms something he didn't have before I left.

"When your best friend is a damn idiot then you can talk to them any type of way." I genuinely smiled as I sat the napkins down so we could greet one another. Our right hands clasped together, then met in the center of our chest while our left hands clasp one another backs.

We pulled away from one another and Manny gave me a short smile before nodding his head in a direction. "They're waiting for you."

I shook my head in agreement before following him towards the ranking members room. Yeah, Manny is definitely different several months ago he would have replied with an immature response like "I'm you're VP I can talk to you however I please."

"Axel, my son!" Maverick replied as soon as I walked into the room. His short brown hair was buzzed off like normal, he had a full beard which was different. His brown eyes were lit up with what others would think was joy, but me?

I knew better.

They were lit up because he was hoping I didn't know he had Charlie killed because he made a deal with Sehun. Sehun wanted to hurt me and Maverick knew the only way to get through to me was through Reign. Manny informed me Maverick set up Charlie's death, he acquired this information when he tracked Sehun to kill him. Maverick has been plotting this with Sehun since the party Sehun threw and I'll be damned if he gets away with it and lives. I didn't even bother to beat around the bush as I pulled out my gun, aimed it at him and took the safety off.

"Did you think I wouldn't find out?" I seethed as the other members rose from their seats and backed away from the table. Maverick dropped the façade as he folded his hands on the table and looked at me with cold eyes.

"I told you if you didn't get rid of her I would handle it." He replied with a bored expression.

"I know you're a man of your word but to help a cop out? That goes against our rules," I replied as I walked pass the confused members. "The price for being a traitor results in death."

"Who is the real traitor me or you? You're the one sleeping with an enemy for all we know you could be telling our secrets to your whore!" Maverick yelled as he slammed his fist on the desk before rising to his feet.

A flash of red washed across my eyes, resulting in my feet moving me quick as lightening toward Maverick. As I had him in my grasp, hands balled into fist repeatedly slamming into his awaiting face. I didn't think about him teaching me how to shoot a gun, him teaching me what loyalty looked like. I couldn't focus on anything but the feeling of betrayal seeping through my blood as showed no mercy on his face.

"Ax, man get off!" Manny yelled as he tried to pull me off of Maverick. I shoved him off of me, then proceeded to wrap my arms around his throat.

Multiple hands began pulling me away from a laughing Maverick. One of his eyes were draped shut and his face was laced with blood. Somehow he found this amusing.

"Before he dies we have to burn all traces of the Howlers off every piece of skin!" Manny yelled once they had managed to get me to my feet. "And you know if you kill him you have to take over Dark Howlers."

Manny used his eyes to communicate with me. He was telling me that this isn't the life Reign and I want for our child. Killing Maverick would legally bind me to this way of life or the Dark Howlers will follow me to the end of the earth to get me to reconsider or kill me and mine. And Manny would have to lead the search because he knows me best.

"Load him into the van," Manny ordered. "Ryder get Hope and tell her to get some gasoline and carving tools."

"What will Kenna think when she finds out you killed me?" Maverick laughed as Ryder helped him stand.

"What will she think when she finds out you had her only child killed? Just so you could justify your reasoning behind wanting to have beef with the Sons?" I retorted as soon as we were inside the van and heading to our destination.

Upon turning over leaves to find out who set me up, we stumbled across some bank transactions. The computer geek, Matis gave Wolfe Tang was willing to help us out mainly because he has a crush on Reign. It was tempting to kill him when he tried to flirt with my future wife. Lucky for him Reign talked me out of it. Maverick had paid a Sons member two hundred thousand dollars to have his son killed out of greed. When I found this out three months ago I was all for coming up here and killing the son of a bitch. But Reign and Manny made sense the cops still suspected me so I needed to wit until the coast was clear.

On the outside I probably looked like the beach on a calm day but inside a emotions were a full storm tsunami. We stepped outside and into the desert, completely isolated from anyone. Everyone had icy expressions on their face besides Hope and Ryder who were smiling at one another and kissing each other. I looked at Manny he had a stony expression on his face, pretending as if them interacting with one another had no effect on her. Maybe next time when he finds another woman he won't cheat on her, regardless of the situation it has nothing to do with me. I'm done playing their mediator.

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It was done, the ghost of my past no longer weighed me down. I could focus on being a good father and hopefully a husband. I could still see the sense of real fear in Maverick face once we were down skinning him of any trace of Dark Howlers. He thought he knew what was coming next, he couldn't even fathom the truth when he saw Kenna yank off her helmet. The strut of a mama bear seeking revenge for her fallen angel was a reckoning he wasn't ready for. She demanded to know why he killed their blood child in which he replied.

"He was weak, he deserved to die."

She took pleasure in dumping gasoline on his bloody body, screaming profanity as tears welled down her face. She lit the lighter then dropped it right on his head.

"Axel!" Reign yelled as she made her way towards me. A bright smile swept across my face as I looked at the mother of my child.

I joined her in the walk towards one another with my duffle bag in my hand. They're the only thing that matters in this world and I'll be damned if anyone puts them in harm way. I don't know where the future will take us all I can hope for is a full life with my family. I analyzed her as we moved closer to one another, vision of our six months in Bolivia illuminated my vision.

Her teaching me how to order in Spanish, me completely butchering the language. Her stopping on one of our many walks to give someone who was clearly poor some money so they could feed their family. Her coming out of the bathroom three months ago radiating with joy as she made me close my eyes before she gave me my surprise. And I felt my heart jump with because I was confused. Because after all we have been through and all the time we been together. I didn't think it was possible to love her even more than what I already did.

Both of us were running to one another and no doubt people in the Brasil airport were probably looking at us with confusion but we paid them no attention. She jumped into my arms, legs wrapped around my waist and face buried in my neck. I dropped my bag and wrapped my arms around her. I'm definitely not use to loving someone so intensely, I was home and she was safe in my arms. My chest clenched with unimaginable happiness at breathing in her familiar scent. My love for her was no longer a foreign concept instead it's this constant need of having her close.

Not just physically but emotionally as well, somehow we just fit with one another. She dug her head out of my shoulder and kissed me with a fiery amount of passion. I'll love her to the very end...

|Authors Note|

I just want to thank you guys for the feedback on the last chapter. Honestly reading your comments made me so happy! I truly love you guys thank you soooooooooooo much for sticking with me these past couple months. Because I had become complete shit at uploading frequently. I want to apologize for my slow updates. You guys are truly incredible and
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For the positive feedback last chapter. I honestly can't thank you guys enough. This is the official last chapter. You guys requested another chapter then an epilogue and I agree. I'll let you guys be the judge of how I should leave Reign and Axel with a bang.

Would you like a marriage proposal and a wedding?

Should I skip a few years so you guys can read about the baby/ she'll forgive Sebastían?"

Would you guys like Axel and Reign to move back to California of course Reign name will have to be cleared if this option is chosen??? (I'm not to sure about this one because how will I get the cops to back off)

Or an alternative???