Chapter Twenty Liza
My work day has been hectic and I feel like I haven’t had a moment to just sit down and take a break.
I have been shuffled around multiple floors at the hospital today because some of the nurses have called in because a stomach bug has been going around.
They’ve asked me to stay later today and I checked in with Dragon to make sure that he was okay to grab the boys.
I knew he would do whatever I needed him to do because he’s trying not to step on my toes.
He is trying to prove to me that he’s here and he’s not going anywhere.
He seems to think that is the problem and I am probably not helping matters anyway by continuing to fuck him.
Also fucking him unprotected is probably even dumber than sleeping with him to begin with.
It’s not like I can’t get sex anywhere else if I wanted to.
I’ve been seeing a doctor that works here for a couple of weeks now.
I haven’t said anything to anyone because I don’t want it to get back to Dragon.
I know that it will start more shit with him.
I know it is also wrong to sleep with Dragon while I am trying to date someone else.
We really aren’t dating, we have had a couple of lunch dates and hung out while having coffee.
We haven’t even kissed, but he has made his intentions known.
I just don’t know what to do with everything going on in my life right now.
“Hey, I heard you’re staying for a sixteen hour day. You want to head down to the cafeteria with me and get something to eat?’
I turn and smile at Dr. Declan Mercer. He is thirty eight years old, so there is a big age gap between the two of us.
I just graduated with my nursing degree and am twenty two years old.
He has been nothing but nice to me since I started working here and honestly, he is a very hot man.
He’s a trauma surgeon, he is 6’ 2”, with an athletic build, dark brown hair and the most beautiful green eyes.
We talked a lot since I am a trauma nurse in the ER.
So we had conversations when I started working here.
So I learned a little about his life before we went on our lunch dates.
He was a college hockey player, which is not in the realm of someone I’ve ever dated. Not that I’ve dated a lot.
After I moved here and was pregnant with the boys, I didn’t really go out with anyone.
Then after I had them, I did date a little bit, but nothing too serious.
I had trouble being intimate for awhile after everything that happened to me, then I met Dragon and he made me feel safe and trust again. That is until he shattered everything.
“Hey, Monroe, you okay?”
“Sorry, I got lost in my head there for a minute. I would love to get something to eat with you, I just have to finish this chart. I feel like I haven’t eaten since this morning.”
“Alright, well page me when you’re headed down and I’ll meet you down there.”
“Sounds good.”
He turns and walks away and I hear a throat clear and I look up and make eye contact with Peyton and Whip.
“Hey Pey, I thought you were off today?”
“Yeah, I am, but I thought I’d stop in and say hi. Whip wanted to tag along. Sooooooo are you going to clue me in on what the fuck is going on with you and Dr. Mercer? Seems a little too comfortable if you ask me. I know you haven’t been hiding anything from us.”
I sigh and look at her, “Listen, I didn’t want to make a big deal out of it. It’s nothing really. We have just been on a few lunch and coffee dates while we are both at the hospital. It is nothing serious. So don’t go telling your fucking brother.
All I need is more of you fucking Jacobson’s in my business.”
Peyton looks offended and I honestly didn’t mean to offend her, but I really don’t need her or Whip going off and telling Dragon that there is something going on with a doctor at the hospital.
I will never have a moment of fucking peace again.
I’m trying to move on and move forward. Which I know is fucked up becasue I’m currently living in his house, but I did that for the boys.
If and when I meet someone else, I can simply come up with a plan that works for everyone.
Obviously if shit gets serious I will have to stop fucking Dragon and honestly, if I start sleeping with someone else that would end anyway.
“Well, sorry. Just thought you would share that shit with friends, but whatever. We are going to head out. Don’t want to hold you up.” Peyton says as she turns and walks away.
Whip is still standing there and he turns his head watching as Peyton walks away. He turns back to me and looks at me.
“Liza, I know you’ve been through a lot of shit and you are working through whatever the fuck happened with Dragon, but don’t take shit out on your friends and the people who care about you. I’ve been there and done that and it was not a fun ride back. All anyone wants to do is help you.”
I scoff, “Yeah I got you. You and your MC boys are tons of help.”
“I don’t know what all happened to you Liza, but I do know you are MC blood and you're a princess. I know your family never treated you wrong, so I don’t know why you would group all of us in with a couple of rotten fucking eggs.”
He turns away and walks out after Peyton before I can say anything and yeah I feel like a fucking bitch, I shouldn’t have said that.
I am grumpy, I’m tired and I’m sick of everyone just butting into my business.
When I became friends with Peyton and Parker I never knew that it would grow into having all these additional people who claimed they saw me as family.
When I first moved here I was all alone, until I met Rose.
It was just her and I against the world for the longest and then we welcomed the Jacobson sisters into the mix.
With them came a whole big group of people after I met Dragon.
Having all these people know me and know my past makes something inside of me feel like it’s going to explode.
The more people who realize I am from Skullz, the more word will get back to the people that I have been trying to eliminate from my life.
The dark memories begin to pull me in, even though I try to shove them away.
“Why haven’t you handed over the bitch yet?”
“I decided I will grab you someone else, she is mine. I plan on keeping her here.”
“You do know if she stays here there is a chance your brothers will discover her correct and you will be outed to them.”
“I don’t plan on staying here much longer. I have a few more targets that your Don wants me to acquire and then I plan on leaving. She will be coming with me. As for my brothers finding her, none of them know about this home. It was something under my mother’s name.
They do not even know that she was an Italian.”
“Fine. But I would like a taste. Since you are not putting her up for auction, I wish to get my piece of her now. She is frankly beautiful. From everything you have said, her pussy is divine. I want to sink my cock into her. I’d like to be alone with her for the first time.”
“That is fine Marco. You can have her, I have no problems sharing her for the time being. But once we are back home, she will be just mine.”
Before I knew it the man gripped my hair and walked me into the room that I am normally tied up in. He threw me on the bed and proceeded to tie my arms and legs to the bed.
“Please, don’t do this.”
“Oh beautiful puttana, I love it when they beg.”
The man ripped off his belt and began whipping me with it.
When he had his fill with that and I was in tears I felt him hover over me on the bed.
The night lasted hours, until the sun came up.
Sometimes it was just the man who went by Marco and other times it was both of them.
That was the night that I decided I wouldn’t fight, that I would make Vandal trust me and I knew he would slip up.
I snapped out of the memory and immediately felt like I needed to go to the shower and scrub myself, taking a deep breath I ignored the urge and continued filling out the chart I was working on.
I needed to stop thinking about those monsters.
I try so hard to keep them out of my mind, but sometimes memories come back and that was not the first time that man paid me a visit in that year that Vandal had me.
All I know is that I need to stay strong for my boys and not let the past catch up with us because if their biological father finds out about them, there will be no stopping him from trying to take them from me.
A half an hour later I am down in the cafeteria sitting with Dr. Mercer eating a salad and talking about his three children. We are both bragging about our kids when a shadow comes over the table. When I look up my heart stops. Dr. Mercer looks and gives a smile.
“Hi, can we help you?”
Dragon doesn’t answer and keeps his eyes on me.
“What’s going on here?”