19. Chapter 18
Thunder
I smile softly as I watch Scottie talk to her mama, who is taking in every single word her daughter is saying.
Despite Kavan glaring my way every five minutes, despite Rachel's snide remarks and Yasmin staring at my cut, my girl is doing good. Don’t get me wrong, she’s confused, but she’s doing alright and it helps that for the past hour her and her mama have been talking.
“Well, dinner was shitshow,” Marshall mutters as he stands beside me and I hum because yep, it was. Especially after Ellie decided she wanted dessert on her own with her youngest.
“Rachel's been brought up like her shit didn’t stink,” I say, not sugarcoating it, “And if her and Yasmin keep eyeing my cut, Scottie will attack.”
“Would she though?” Marshall questions, not denying my assessment of Rachel, and I nod to where Scottie is.
“Take a look for yourself,” I murmur, and he looks at my girl who is scowling hard at Rachel, who is standing near the glass door, her eyes completely on me.
“Fuck, if looks could kill,” he mutters, “Not even Rachel could bring a look like that over the years, even with Kavan.”
“She’s possessive of me,” I state proudly, and Marshall chuckles as Lorenzo walks our way with his wife right on his tail, and I groan seeing the look in her eyes.
Patch chaser...
“My daughter is going to break Yasmin's nose, isn’t she?” Marshall confirms, and I nod, but it isn’t until he sees Scottie narrowing her eyes at Yasmin that he groans.
“She was never like this with Kavan,” he huffs, and I mention, “Because he was familiar.”
“Who was familiar?” Lorenzo asks as he stops by us, handing me a beer, and I give him a nod in thanks as Marshall says, “Kavan to your sister.”
Yasmin scoffs, “She’s married to him, of course she’s familiar!”
I roll my eyes as Lorenzo snaps, “He was talking about Scottie!” before he looks at me and asks, “Explain.”
“Scottie is possessive of me, which I fucking love,” I say, and Marshall laughs. I continue, “With Kavan, she wasn’t hurt when she found him with Rachel.”
Yasmin scoffs, cutting in, “Yes, she was, because Kavan chose the woman he always wanted, and Scottie hated it!”
“Yasmin, you can either shut up or fuck off!” Lorenzo snaps, causing her eyes to widen, and I smirk as I yet again continue, “As I was saying, Scottie was hurt by her sister’s actions.
She lost her virginity to Kavan, and literally the next day he began sleeping with Rachel behind her back.
Scottie couldn’t understand her sister's hate, but with me, I’m her whole world, and she’s mine, so the more your wife keeps looking at me, Lorenzo, the more of a chance she’s about to have her nose broken. ”
Yasmin tenses and we all look at Scottie, who is now leaning her back against the railing on the porch. Her arms are crossed over her chest with her eyes completely on me while Ellie’s shoulders shake with silent laughter.
I kiss two fingers and hold them up to my girl.
Yasmin huffs, but we don’t look her way.
Lorenzo whispers, “We all treated her like fucking crap because of Rachel's lies. After my guitar was broken, something snapped inside me and I always thought that Rachel was telling the truth because of that one incident. Even that Kavan had apparently loved her, that Scottie was blackmailing him to stay with her and that she was a cleaner, trying to get money from our parents. When in reality, she worked her ass off.”
“She did blackmail Kavan!” Yasmin chimes in, and Marshall snaps, “No, she fucking didn’t, he had an affair with her sister,” and Lorenzo growls, “Stay out of shit you don’t fucking know!” causing her to curl her lip before her eyes come my way, then trail my body yet again.
Fucking patch chasers…
“You can stop looking at me that way, fuck you very much!” I snap causing Yasmin to jump just as we hear, “So, Thunder, how long are you in town for?” whispered seductively, and I raise a brow as I lock eyes with Rachel's conniving blue ones full of lust that make me want to gag.
Is she seriously trying to fucking hit on me with her sister right there?
“I’m heading home in two weeks,” I answer politely despite wanting to snap at the bitch. She smirks as she slowly twirls her hair, trying to be seductive, which isn’t fucking working, and mentions, “So two weeks of potential fun before you break my sister’s little heart?”
Fun? With her? Ha!
I smile, and her smirk slowly fades, her confidence waving because not once have I looked past her face where I know she’s pulled down her dress, and I state, “Actually, your sister is coming with me, and she’ll be staying with me after I give her my property patch and ring.”
Her mouth parts in shock, pure jealousy etching her features as Yasmin gasps, but when I add, “Also there is a chance she could be pregnant,” both women stumble back as Marshall sighs, “You fucked with her birth control didn’t you?”
Am I shocked that he came up with that answer? Nope, not one bit, but am I shocked he hasn’t punched me yet? Definitely.
The man may have made some bad choices when it comes to his daughter, but you can see he’s trying.
I shrug and remind him, “I won’t lose her,” and he mutters, “I can see it now, here lies an idiot, clear as day…” As he spread his hands before him, moving them apart as he speaks.
I grin wide and admit, “You and your daughter think alike because she mentioned burying me in the yard when I didn’t call her while I was meeting up with my club.”
Marshall's eyes soften, and he looks towards Scottie, who is focusing on her mama again, both smiling, and he whispers, “That is good to know.”
“And what about Sammie, huh? Who is going to take him?!” Rachel snaps, breaking her father’s moment, and I raise a brow while Lorenzo takes a menacing step forward.
Oh yeah, this plan is definitely a good idea.
“How about you and your husband?” Lorenzo snaps, fisting his hands at his sides while Yasmin looks between everyone with shock.
Who knew there was actually something that would shut her up and get her eyes off me?
Kavan stops near us and demands, “What about Rachel and me?” though his eyes stay on me, full of anger that makes my lips twitch with amusement.
Fucker still thinks he can intimidate me now that we’re around people. What he needs to understand is that I don’t care about my actions. I just fucking do them, and shooting him seems like a good idea to me.
“Oh, you know, I just mentioned that Scottie and I are moving to Wincher in two weeks. She already has a residency lined up. Your wife wanted to know who will have Sammie if Scottie moves, you know, because she has permanently left him with her after Scottie stopped fighting her,” I goad and he growls like a fucking dog as he steps forward slightly.
As I said, he thinks he’s safe.
“Sapphire isn’t going anywhere,” he snaps, glossing over his own child and Rachel quickly adds, “She needs to watch Sammie!” while shooting daggers at her husband for calling Scottie her middle name.
And the mother of the year award goes to…
“Are you serious right now, Rachel?” Lorenzo snaps, making her jump, while Kavan just glares at me and I smirk.
“You ready to get this done?” Marshall asks, and I nod as Lorenzo looks at Scottie quickly, hearing his father before he gets the plan in motion and mentions to Kavan.
“Well, it isn’t like you can watch your own son when you’re playing happy families with the child you produced next door, huh, Kavan,” and Kavan freezes as Rachel’s head swings his way.
“Isn’t the reason why you actually had the snip is that the mother of your now five-year-old wants more kids.
Otherwise, she’ll tell Rachel about you fucking her, but you still thought you’d have a chance at winning Scottie back?
” I add, and Kavan's breathing picks up before he snaps and lunges at me, but I duck, not allowing him to get a cheap shot again, just as I hear Scottie shout, “Bradley!” with concern.
Fuck I love that woman.
I don’t look her way, knowing her mama is keeping her back, aware this could happen. I quickly grab Kavan’s right arm knowing he’s left-handed, twist it behind his back, then put him in a headlock just as Lorenzo holds papers in front of him and a pen.
“Sign the fucking papers!” Lorenzo demands just as Rachel snaps, “Dad, get off me!” and I smirk.
“If they’re divorce papers, you don’t need to restrain me, I’ll fucking sign them! I only want Sapphire,” Kavan snaps, and Rachel gasps while I grip his arm tighter at the mention of my girl.
“They’re not divorce papers, they’re adoption papers, to sign away Sammie!
” Lorenzo sneers, and Kavan, who struggles against me, grabs the pen and signs where Lorenzo is pointing without hesitation.
As soon as he’s done, I shove him away, causing him to stumble forward, then turn and look at me, fists clenching.
How I would love for him to attack again so I can finally get rid of the fucker. But alas, I have bigger fish to fry.
He takes a step forward and I smirk as I move my cut and show him my gun.
His nostrils flare and I know he knows he can’t beat me. Growling, he spins on his heels and storms out of the yard but not without looking towards where my girl is, and I slowly lick my lip as Ellie mutters, “Pussy!” causing Marshall to chuckle.
“They weren’t divorce papers?” Rachel chokes, and Lorenzo snaps, “He has a child with someone else!”
“And I don’t care!” she sneers, “While Scottie wants him, he is mine, little miss innocent, little miss can do whatever she wants, little miss I want to be a doctor so I will be. All while we had to abide by our parents’ rules, because dancing wasn’t a job, dancing doesn’t pay the bills, dancing won’t keep your allowance. ”
“I had to pay my own way,” Scottie says, “I had to work my butt off and you had everything handed to you on a plate.”
“I don’t care!” Rachel shouts, “Oh look, Scottie took her first step, oh look, Scottie just loves her big sister…”
“She’s on fucking crack!” Lorenzo snaps, “It was a milestone, Rachel, they were the same with you and me.”
“And they should have aborted her!” she snaps, “I’m their daughter, not her!”
Okay coocoo crazy…
She storms over to her brother and snatches the papers, and I step forward, but pause when she grabs the pen and signs her name next to her husband's. I smirk when she gloats, “And now Scottie can’t even have Sammie!”
Lorenzo quickly takes the papers, and I step forward, causing Rachel's eyes to travel my body and back up again, and she mumbles, “All I need to do now is fuck you and let you knock me up, and she’ll vanish like I’ve always wanted.”
Crazy, crazy, crazy…
“Actually, you’ve just guaranteed that Sammie will be coming with us to Wincher,” I state, causing her to freeze before her eyes go to the papers and I confirm, “Yeah, those were adoption papers for my girl and me, so thank you for that.”
Rachel's breathing picks up as she looks at the papers again and steps forward, but Lorenzo holds them up and tuts, “Nah ah, I don’t think so, sister!” and her nostrils flare before she runs towards the back gate where her husband went, and Lorenzo chuckles.
“Seriously, Lorenzo, you’ve just forced her to give up her son!
” Yasmin snaps, and Lorenzo sneers, “She wasn’t forced, she signed willingly you blind bitch.
And you tried to fuck my own father and have been fucking the gardener for months.
So why don’t you turn around and fuck off?
Your bags are already packed, and the lawyer has proof of your infidelity, so you get nothing and I can finally live in my own home again! ”
Yasmin gasps, but I ignore her as I gently take the papers from Lorenzo, who gives me a nod of approval, and I walk over to a shocked Scottie in her mama’s arms.
“What just happened?” she chokes when I stop before her, and I cup her cheek as I hold up the adoption papers and I state, “We just got ourselves a son, now it’s time to go home, to Wincher.”
Scottie’s tears fall as she gently takes the papers, and I press my lips against her head as her mama sobs from beside her, Lorenzo’s “Fuck, she really does love Sammie” just washing over us, and I close my eyes, silently promising to always give this woman whatever she wants, no matter what, because she deserves it.
Well, except leaving me, because she is fucking mine.