Chapter Eight Liza
As soon as the door clicks shut behind Glitch and Dragon I look up into the eyes of some of my brothers.
I haven’t seen them in years and yeah we’ve had conversations over the phone, but it’s not the same.
I still didn’t know how they could be here.
They have never told me much about Vandal or anything that was going on with the club, but if they are here is it possible he’s gone?
What if he isn’t gone and he follows them?
My heart rate picks up along with my breathing. I try to take deep breaths knowing that I am holding the baby, but I can’t seem to get it under control. Ryder immediately comes over and sits on the bed removing Walker from the side he is sitting on. He then grabs Jaxon and passes him over to Trent.
“Liza, you need to breathe. Listen to my voice.” Ryder grabs my face between his hands and forces me to look into his eyes. “Tell me three things you see.”
“Your eyes, your stupid messy hair, that dumb lip ring you got.”
He chuckles, “Alright now tell me three things you feel.”
“Your hands,” I then squeeze the tiny little hand holding mine, “Waylon, the blanket covering me.”
“Good, now three things you hear.”
My breathing is evening out, I’m trying not to think about anything else.
“You, people talking in the hallway, the monitors.”
“Alright, take a deep breath. It’s going to be okay. We are here and no one is ever going to hurt you again. Now, what got you so worked up?”
He leans back and removes his hands from my face, but he doesn’t move off the bed.
I look around and see that Trent is sitting on the couch holding Jaxon while talking to Walker.
Cade is standing on the other side of the bed keeping an eye on me.
I look over next to me and Waylon is sitting there staring up at me.
“Baby, how about you go talk to your Uncle Cade while I talk to Uncle Ryder, okay?”
“Okay, mama.”
Cade comes over and helps him get off the bed before taking him over to where the other boys are.
“Alright, now talk to me Liza. What’s going on?”
“I just, what are you guys doing here? I thought it wasn’t safe. You know with Vandal and whoever he is working with? What if they followed you here? What if they know you are traveling to see me? What if—--”
Before I can get another word out Ryder interrupts me.
“First of all, I’m telling you this not to scare you, but to keep you semi informed since we have failed to or refused to over the years. We wanted to keep you safe physically and mentally. But I think we need to be a little more open. Vandal, he left the day you did. We don’t know where he is.
We think after the party he went back to the home he kept you in and found out you were missing and hightailed it out of there. I’m sure he was afraid you would come to the club. He wanted to avoid what happened to the other traitors we had.”
My head is reeling, “What do you mean other traitors?”
“There were several brothers, club girls and even ol’ ladies in on a lot of shit we did not know about until after you escaped. I guess you can call it some intuition on our part that we trusted these mother fuckers and didn’t look into them well enough.
But as for being safe to be here that is why we left Harlan. It would look suspicious if the VP left. We all are on a club run. Glitch made it look like we had business we needed to attend to on this side of the country.
It worked in our favor that not that long ago we got a visit from the former prez, who from my understanding is that little guy's grandpa.”
He looks over at the boys on the couch and smiles.
“We wanted to see you in person. Know that you were okay. There is only so much you can communicate in those short conversations we have over the phone. Plus it is that frequent. We wish we all could come, but you were right our club is being monitored by the Bellandi family.
We figured out real quick that that was who Vandal had partnered up with. The flesh trafficking that you had overheard them talking about is something they are very big and into. They have a faction of their family in Nevada.
From what we were told by some of the other traitors they were going to help Vandal oust Grim. They weren’t really counting on the fact that he had a very big obsession with you. They thought he was going to give you up, but he didn’t keep to that end of the plan.
He wanted to hit our families where it hurt. Our women.”
I nod my head, “That sounds like every bad guy's mantra. I mean that’s what’s happening here from what I heard. Guess it’s a good thing I’m no one’s woman.”
Ryder gives me a side eye and scoffs, “Yeah, you want to tell me how you ended up with Dragon? And honestly little sister if you think you are not his woman you are in for a rude awakening. That man would kill for you.”
I let out a dry laugh, “Yeah, okay. It doesn’t matter. Honestly, when we got together it was just some fun. I met him through a couple of friends from school. His sisters were at school with me. We had a couple of courses and became friends. Dragon and his brother,
Rage visited campus a couple of times to check on Peyton and Parker. One of those times we met and I guess we made an agreement that we would exclusively get each other off.”
Ryder visibly cringes at that.
“Oh don’t act like your some fucking choir boy Ryder. You have two fucking kids and you’re single.”
“Yeah, well I don’t need to hear about my sister deciding to have a fuck buddy. When did it become serious?”
I scoffed again and shook my head, “It was never serious with him, trust me. I had to go get tested after I found out I was pregnant. I walked in on him with another woman, in the house he told me he never brought women to. The house he gave me a fucking key to.
Let’s just say I did not tell him when I found out I was pregnant because he said a whole fuckload of shit that fucked with my head. I was angry and hurt by another fucking mc man.”
I sigh and lay my head back on the bed, “I should’ve known better. I never should’ve gotten involved with another MC or another biker boy. I mean I saw his family and just assumed they were different. But turns out that isn’t the case,
I mean you should see the fucked up shit that is happening with my friend Rose and the guy she thought she was in a relationship with. It’s just like in your DNA or whatever code you guys use to not be able to be with one woman.”
Ryder looks at me and shakes his head, “You know that ain’t fucking true. You’ve seen how mom and dad were before he died. You fucking have seen how Rhett is with Holly. I know that Harlan and Paige didn’t work out, but there was never anyone else for him.
My relationship with Tessa was never anything other than a string of broken relationships. We would break up and get back together, yes we have two kids, but our relationship was toxic. I still never cheated. Don’t sit here and tell me all MC guys are the same.
You had a fucking up thing happen to you, we get that, but don’t group us in with Vandal.”
I look at Ryder and I start to chuckle, “You don’t know do you?”
He gives me a confused look, “Know what? Vandal did a bunch of fucked up shit to you, you don’t have to give me all the details, but I can put together that you’re turned off of MC guys because of the fucked up shit he did. I don’t even want to say the words out loud.”
“Oh my gosh, Ryder, you don’t even fucking know. Yes, Vandal did a lot to me and some of the messed up shit that goes on in my head is a direct result of that. Yes he messed me up and will forever be my nightmare, but he isn’t the only MC brother in that club that fucked me over.
I mean yeah he did the worst thing possible to another person and seriously needs help, but he isn’t the only brother who made me want to stay away from MCs and the men in them.”
“Okay, you have to tell me what the fuck youa re talking about.”
“How’s Colton, Ryder? Still loving that diner you guys own?”
Ryder looks at me confused and then you see it like a spark flickers in his eyes.
“You’re telling me that T-Bone is part of the reason you want nothing to do with MCs? I thought you guys were really serious? I mean when you went missing he was beside himself.
He still has no clue what happened to you or where you are because we have kept everything about finding you between a select few people. Didn’t want to let others in on it because we didn’t know who all we could trust.”
“Well you are wise not to trust him. I went to meet him that night, the night I was kidnapped. I walked into the diner and didn’t see him, so I walked back to the office and found him fucking Polly with the big fake ass tits over the desk. They didn’t see me, so I ran out.
That’s when Vandal grabbed me. So yeah, a lot of fucked up shit happened that night. I had to live in that mess for a whole year before he got sloppy. Now I’m here and I found a man that also decided to tear my heart into more pieces after I thought I was finally rebuilding it.”
Before he can reply the door opens and Glitch and Dragon come back in.