Chapter Twenty-Eight Liza
“Perché le faresti una cosa del genere? Sarà lei la prossima Donna. Non capisco.” Why would you do this to her? She is going to be the next donna. I do not understand.
“Ha parlato male di te e di nonno. Nessuno parla in quel modo del Don e del suo erede. Nessuno parla della nostra famiglia come ne ha parlato lei, padre.”
She bad mouthed you and nonno. No one speaks about the don and his heir that way.
No one speaks of our family the way that she was talking about us father.
“Il ragazzo si è svegliato e ti ha visto picchiare sua madre; come pensi che potrà mai fidarsi di te, adesso? Non è cresciuto in questo ambiente. Ho bisogno che si fidi di me per poter procedere con i piani. Ora è sotto shock.
Ho dovuto portarlo fuori dalla stanza affinché il medico potesse visitarla. Il suo viso è irriconoscibile. Questo non fa parte dell'addestramento: non si picchiano le persone fino a far loro perdere i sensi. Come farà a capire cosa ha sbagliato? Come avrà la possibilità di rimediare?
Dobbiamo coinvolgerla gradualmente per farla ambientare. Non è così che si fa.”
The boy woke up and watched you beating his mother, how do you think he will ever trust you now?
He has not been raised in this life. I need him to trust me to move forward with plans.
He is now traumatized. I had to move him out of the room so the doctor could check her over.
Her face looks unrecognizable. This is not part of the training, you do not beat them til they black out.
How will she know what she has done wrong?
How will she get a chance to do it right?
We need to bring her in gradually to make her acclimate. This is not how you do this.
“Non mi importa: quella stronza doveva imparare la lezione. Troveremo il modo di gestire lei e il ragazzo. Non tollererò più il modo in cui ha parlato della nostra famiglia; in pratica insinuava che, una volta che il nonno se ne sarà andato,
Lorenzo prenderà il suo posto e quel traditore ci porterà via tutto ciò che abbiamo costruito e che rappresentiamo. Deve imparare a stare al suo posto prima che succeda tutto quello che riguarda la mamma.”
I do not care, the bitch needed to learn her lesson.
We will figure out how to handle her and the boy.
I will not tolerate how she spoke about our family again.
Basically insinuating that once grandfather is gone, Lorenzo will step in and everything we have done and stand for will be taken away by that traitor.
She needs to learn her place before everything happens with mama.
“Non spettava a te deciderlo. Lasciaci soli. Devo parlare con il medico e non voglio che tu resti qui. Va'.” That was not for you to decide. Leave us. I must talk to the doctor and I do not wish for you to be in here. Go.
The door slams and I continue to pretend that I am unconscious.
I am terrified. I do not know where Walker is, my whole body hurts and I do not know or understand what those two men were arguing about.
Again, I should’ve fucking learned Italian.
No doubt these assholes will try and teach me so I can help this psycho run his new empire once that crazy father of his steps down.
“Will she be alright, doctor? Also did you complete a physical while she was unconscious.”
“Mr. Bellandi, I did check her and make sure she is okay, but I believe she should be taken to a hospital for scans and bloodwork. I can only tell you what I see and that is just bruises.
I feel very uncomfortable even being here and helping you with this goes against everything that I took an oath for.”
“Would you like us to collect on your debt sooner? We cannot take her to the hospital, I do not wish for her to escape or for anyone to find her.”
“Then there is nothing I can do for her. I do not know the extent of her injuries. I don’t have the equipment necessary to make sure she has no broken bones or a concussion. Any brain bleeds for the hits she took to the head.
Briarfield Regional Medical Center is close by and I believe that it would be best to get her brought in there. You can have her registered anonymously. I work there I can make sure you are brought to the VIP wing and everyone there will not know who you have here.”
We are in Briarfield? Fuck. The hospital he is talking about is the hospital I work as a nurse at, Peyton works there as well.
I only pray this man is so stupid that he will agree to this, bring myself and Walker there so that someone can get word out to the brothers that I am there, or I can attempt to get word out that I am there.
“Fine. We will take her to the hospital. I will get someone to drive us.”
“You should bring her son, he will probably be worried and if you are trying to build trust it will be great for him to be with her.”
“Alright let’s go. Get everything set up and we will meet you there. If I did not care so much about whether or not she was badly injured I would just let her heal here, however, it appears my son went overboard.”
I am so thankful that apparently he did not do any sort of research on me or anyone in the club because he does not seem to know that we are associated with the club that donates and is on the board of that hospital or that I work there.
I am surprised that this doctor suggested to him that he bring Walker.
I don’t know who he is, but if he knows who I am then I am so very thankful that he is doing this.
“I will give her some pain medication before I leave. It will keep her unconscious most likely, but at least this way she will not be in any more pain. It is wise of you to take her in especially if you plan on having her around for a while, Mr. Bellandi.”
“She will be around for a long time, doctor. She is my future wife.”
The next thing I feel is a prick of a needle in my arm and everything goes dark again.
Beep.
Beep.
Beep.
What the hell is that annoying noise? I just want to go back to sleep.
My body hurts so bad. I struggle to open my eyes and I feel like I can barely open them when I do open them.
I look around the room as much as my head will allow me without much pain and I am currently alone.
Everything starts to come back to me and I realize where I am and what has happened to me.
I don’t know how I am going to get word to anyone that I am here if my body feels the way that it does.
The door opens and I see Dr. Mercer walks in. What the hell? He looks up and sees that my eyes are open and he sighs in relief and looks at the door before closing it.
“Thank fuck, Liza.”
“Wha-what is going on?” I stutter out. “Why are you here?” My voice sounds wrong and my throat hurts when I speak.
“Don’t talk too much, that little Lorenzo fuck did a number on your throat. Along with the rest of you.”
“Are you the doctor that was at the place they were keeping me?”
He looks down and when he looks up he almost looks ashamed.
“Yes, I owe them a lot of money. I had issues gambling years back, part of why my wife and I divorced. But let’s not talk about that right now. I got them to bring you here so that I could get word to someone to let your baby’s father know where you were. Plus you are in bad shape.
I would have never been able to treat you at their home.”
“Where is Walker?”
“Vittorio has him out in the cafeteria. Another one of my ideas, I am hoping someone sees your boy and reports back to someone.”
“Thank you, I guess.”
“I have a lot to tell you, some of it isn’t going to be great. I want to tell you some of it before he gets back because I do not want him to know and I don’t think you do either.”
“How bad is it?”
“Liza, did you know you were pregnant?”
My heart rate picks up, I try to move my hand to my belly, but when I look down it is in a cast. Declan moves towards the bed and sits down in the chair next to me.
“I need you to breathe and calm down, the baby is fine. We are going to have to do more tests, but I have been checking your levels and you are still pregnant. We are going to need to do an ultrasound, but I need to get him to leave. I do not want him to know you are pregnant.
I’m afraid of what he or any member of his family will do to you. It’s not his baby, right?”
“No. It’s Dragon’s.”
He nods and I almost feel bad because Declan and I had been seeing each other, but we were never anything really serious. I was honestly just trying to make myself feel like I could have someone normal in my life and not another biker after everything that happened.
“Okay, well I will try and figure all that out for you, try not to worry. It will be alright, if that baby is anything like you it is a fighter. From what I can see not a lot of damage was done to your abdomen anyway. But it is always better to be safe than sorry. You have a concussion,
a broken cheek bone, both of your eyes are swollen. It does appear that at some point you attempted to fight back and that is when he broke your wrist. He did some damage to your throat, it looks like he choked you a few times. So you have some extensive bruising and that is why it hurts to speak.”
I nod my head, “Does Chaos know I am here?”
He looks at me, “Peyton comes in shortly. I plan on having her run an errand up here. Hopefully she will see either Walker or you and get word to them. I would do more, but the man has also threatened my family. But I promise you, I will not let them take you from here.
I will make sure your family gets you.”
“Thank you.”
“I’m going to give you some pain medicine that is alright for the baby.”
I nod my head and I regret it almost immediately because it hurts so much.
“I will find a time to get an ultrasound done to look at the baby and how far along you are.”
With that he gets up and walks out the door.