Chapter Eight Lash
I watch as Sophie finally falls asleep in the kids bed with them cuddled in her arms and for the first time in four months I feel like I finally can rest, but I need to let all the men know to go home.
That we will be staying the night and everything looks good with the twins.
Tomorrow I will have to find out if we eliminated all of these fucking ass holes.
Tonight, tonight I want to hold my woman and the babies that I haven’t been able to hold in four months.
I pray that what has happened to them will not scar them.
Me: Brothers, please head home. We are staying the night.
The doctor said the twins look good despite what they have been through..
They are running their tests to make sure everything is good, but from what they can tell they have no concerns.
Just a little underfed and a little dehydrated.
We will be home tomorrow for those of you who want to stop by.
Right now Sophie and my sweet angels are sleeping in my arms.
Thank you all for everything. We have an amazing family.
I then pull up my text chain with my father-in-law so that I can send him a message separately.
Me: Hey, if you want to stay you can head to the room. Sophie gave the all clear. We want you here if you want to be here. I know that Davis and Tills are staying with Luca or Tanner. But if you want to head home to them, that’s fine too and we can see you tomorrow as well.
I don’t have to wait long before I get a response.
Papa J: I will head back now. Davis and Tillie are staying with Luca tonight. I messaged Davis and he is fine with me staying, and says he wants me to be here to make sure the twins are good. The brothers are heading out so once they leave I will head to you guys.
With that I do send one message to my dad to make sure my other kids are okay.
We didn’t tell them what was going on tonight because we did not want to give them false hope if something went wrong or if something had happened.
We were trying to prepare for the worst, which is horrible to have those thoughts about something happening like this to your children.
Which is why now I have more men on my family every day.
I know that Devin has some undercover police officers that work with the club on members of his family since we seem to be the primary target.
I guess that would make sense since it is Devin he blames for not having access to what he believes belongs to him.
As I am sitting here thinking about everything that has happened in the last two years with this horrible rival club Devin walks into the room as quietly as he can.
“Now that is a sight that I am thankful to see. How is she?”
I look over at him and give him a slight smile.
“She seems to be better now that she has been able to put them in her arms, I think this is the first time she has slept this soundly. She doesn’t know that when she would go to bed at night I would come home to keep eyes on her. She never slept well, I could always hear her tossing and turning.
She agreed earlier today to go to counseling for herself and for us. As well as getting all the kids in therapy. She just told me that she has appointments scheduled for the kids. I did tell her that under no uncertain terms I was coming home.
I think I am going to take time off from work to be with the kids and her. Probably won’t go back until after the baby is born. We need this time as a family. I am hoping I can convince her to take this time off as well.
Maybe try and work her up to talking to more of your family and to go to the clubhouse so that the other brothers can see her.”
“I think that is a great idea, Tobs. I just hope that one day she can forgive me for keeping secrets from her, I hope everyone can forgive me for keeping some of this to myself.
Maybe one day I will be able to forgive myself for letting this happen to my family and taking my children’s mother away from them.”
With that he takes a seat in the chair next to the bed and puts his hand on Sophie’s hand that fell to the side of Dash.
“You should rest too, Toby. I will look over them. I’ll wake you up if the doctor comes back in.”
I nod my head and then I lay my head back on the bed with my girls and my boy in my arms and close my eyes.
Thankful that they were able to give us a bigger bed so we could all be close.
I don’t know how much time has passed or if any time has passed at all, but the next thing I know I hear a conversation taking place between a sweet little voice and her papa.
“Papa, I wuv you.” I feel movement on the bed and I open my eyes to see Dallas wiggling over to Devin.
“I love you too, baby girl.”
“I mished you. MiMi she save me and Dashy. I sowy papa.”
She grabs him by the cheeks and places a kiss on his lips and his eyes have tears swimming in them.
He pulls her into a hug and buries his face in her neck and you can tell by the way his shoulders are shaking he was crying.
I felt Sophie move and I looked down at her and she was awake with tears falling down her cheeks as well.
I grabbed her chin and placed a kiss on her lips then used my hand to wipe the tears from her cheeks.
I placed my forehead on hers and she closed her eyes and took a deep breath.
We all figured that Missy had to have done something to make sure those kids stayed safe, we might never know what all happened.
I just hope that we got all these fuckers and found that dumb ass Acid because he needs to die for what he has done to our family.
A little hand comes up and touches my cheek and I move my head and see Dash looking up and myself and I moved my head down to put a kiss on his cheek and Sophie reached down and pulled Dash into a tight hug.
He giggled a little bit and then looked up at Sophie again.
“Mama? We gonna have more brudders?”
I looked at him and chuckled, of course the boy would want more brothers. When I mentioned that Sophie was having a baby. With that Dallas and Devin look up from where they have been cuddled in his chair. Dallas climbs back on the bed and into Sophie’s lap.
“No Dashy, no mow brudders. We need sissies.”
I feel like for the first time in months I can breathe, I can laugh and I can just live.
I plan to make sure that my family stays safe and I plan to get my family back where we were before this horrible thing happened to us.
I take a moment to be thankful that kids are resilient and despite everything that these two have been through they seem to be okay.