The Baby with His Eyes

Five years ago, Simone Delacroix drove to the Grey Verse clubhouse gate to tell Levi "Cutter" Brannock she was pregnant. His father, the club's president, met her at the gate instead — turned her away, paid her to disappear, and swore Levi wanted nothing to do with her. So she left. She built a silversmith's studio two towns over, raised her son alone, and made sure he never lacked the way she had after her own father walked out. Staying gets you left. She learned that early, and she taught herself never to forget it. Now she's back in Ondine for one summer, only to settle her late mother's house — with her four-year-old in tow. She means to keep him far away from the club, from the man who broke her, from all of it. Levi has spent five years knowing exactly what he did. He was the club's Treasurer, married to its ledgers, and when a brother's crisis gave him an excuse he took it, and he blew up the one good thing he had. He owns it. He has never once tried to make it smaller. What he doesn't know is that a boy in Ondine has his eyes — and a scar through one eyebrow that matches his own. When Levi finally sees his son across a summer square, the denial he's leaned on for five years comes down without a sound. His fury at the secret is real. But the truth underneath it is worse, and it isn't Simone's: she tried to tell him. Someone he loved made sure she couldn't. Simone will not hand her son to chaos. If Levi wants any place in Emile's life, he can't buy it or claim it or ride in loud — he has to earn it, one supervised, un-thanked visit at a time, on her clock. And to be the father his son deserves, he'll have to give up the Treasurer's patch and the club's dirty books and the only brotherhood he's ever had, and walk away from his own father to do it. The Baby with His Eyes is an emotional, slow-burn MC second-chance romance about a sympathetic secret, a woman who stops waiting to be chosen and starts choosing, and a man who has to lose everything he balanced his life on to become the one thing he never learned how to be — someone who stays. Character-driven, with a hard-won, on-the-page happily-ever-after.