Moving On (Dominant Devils Mc Book 1) by H.M. Stewart Page B

woke up in my favorite cabin on the compound. With banging heads, we fought hard trying to recall what we remembered about the night before. It was this moment, sitting around the table with my girls sipping on awful coffee, that I realized that with the help of the club and my girls I would be okay.

Chapter 8
                                              Three months later....
     
     
     
     
     
    Carrin
    "Thank you so much for coming with me, Athena.” I wondered why the Commander wanted to see us in person.
    "I'll tell you for the hundredth time, it's no problem driving you out here. I had to come anyway to finalize the end of my military career. I'm sure the commander was just using me having to come out here as a reason to get you and Octavia out for a visit."
    I chuckled to myself. The commander was in love with our little diva. He and his wife have even learnt to Skype to keep up with how Octavia is growing. In the three months since Brookes has passed my life has changed drastically. Not for the bad, though. Athena and Hart both made the move to Great Falls to settle down. At first, despite what Brookes had told me about Athena and her surrogate brother, I thought they looked like a couple. After only two weeks of both of them living with me, I found that to be far from the truth. Those two were a fucking riot.
    Hart had hit the ground running with the move. When he first rolled in with Athena I wasn’t able to put two and two together. Apparently Athena’s brother was the god of a man Hyde met a few years ago at some training thing. Hart was the one Hyde was trying to get to take over as the manager of the parts warehouse the club owned so she could get back out on the road making her sales calls. He seemed to be kicking ass with sales up and taking a lot of the pressure off of Hyde in the process. He had even started hanging around the club quite a bit and was talking about prospecting in the future.
    Athena, on the other hand, was having a slower go at getting settled. After a few private conversations with Hart, I've come to realize Athena has a hard time making such big life changes. Apparently she has to have time to think everything through and even develop a backup plan in case the first course of action falls through. I thought it was because of the military background but Hart said it was way deeper than that but it wasn't his place to tell. From what I could piece together from Hart and what Brookes had said in the past, Athena had a hard childhood growing up in foster care. It only became easier when she was twelve and Hart had been placed with her at the same home. Apparently those two had been inseparable ever since. In the last two weeks, I've been seeing a change in her for the better, though. I think it’s the fact that with me returning to school after the winter break she has had Octavia to herself most of the day. She elected to stay home with Octavia while I went back to school when I was using daycare as an excuse not to go back. It was the little security I needed to move forward. I thank any god I can every day for these two coming into my life. Without them, I don't know if I would be functioning as well as I am.
    "We're here for an appointment with Commander Quin," Athena said to the soldier at the gate pulling me from my thoughts. After the soldier verified the appointment and checked our id's we proceeded on the base. I sat silently as Athena maneuvered through the streets leading us to a large brick building which I presumed held the offices of the higher ups on base.
    "Well, what do you say we get going. I'm sure grandpa is dying, to see his little pumpkin," Athena stated as she climbed out of the driver’s seat of her truck. I allowed her to grab the infant seat, carrying Octavia, as I grabbed the diaper bag and my purse. Thank the gods Athena knows where she was going. I followed her through the main door, through the length of the building until