Chapter Fifteen Lash
The crazy bitch with the bat turns towards me and starts swinging her hips as she walks. Acting like anything she does is going to get me to forget what she was about to do to the only woman that I have loved.
“Lash, baby, I’m so glad you’re here. I mean I wish you could’ve come a little later after we discarded your little problem over there, but I already got rid of the bastards she was carrying. I even called someone to go to the hospital to pick them up and sell them to the highest bidder.
Figured we could do that with the other six nasty monsters you had with this filth.”
I turned my gun towards her and she froze, “Lash, baby, what are you doing?”
“You’re going to want to stay right where you are. You’re also going to want to stop talking about my wife and kids like that. If anything happens to those two babies, I will gut you myself.”
I look over and see the three men that were with her are on their knees being tied down by some of my brothers and Doc is over by Sophie examining her with Bulldog hovering over her.
“We need to get her to a hospital. She’s bad, I can’t do anything here.”
I look back at the psycho bitch and she has a smirk on her face, I pull the trigger and shoot her in the leg. She lets out a feral scream and falls to the ground. My brothers run over to her and tie her up as well.
“Bring all of them to the cabin. Make sure you have a patched brother sit and guard over them. We have to make sure the prospects can be trusted. We will deal with them after we get Sophie taken care of.”
Terror states. You can tell he is trying to keep it together seeing his baby sister in such a state and I am trying not to throw myself over her while Doc looks her over.
She looks really bad. She has bleeding coming from her head, her face is bruised and if I didn’t know it was Sophie, I wouldn’t know it was Sophie.
They had her tied to a table, why the fuck did they have to beat her.
She just had surgery, it looks like her stitches may have even opened up because she has bleeding coming from her abdomen.
She wasn’t any threat to them like this.
I swear once we get answers from that whore im putting a bullet in her head.
After I make sure everyone is all tied up I holster my gun and run over to Sophie. I’m afraid to touch her. I don’t want to hurt her. I can feel the tears burning in my eyes.
“Sophie, baby, hang on okay. We are going to get you help.”
“We’ve called our contacts at the police department and they are sending an ambulance to pick her up and bring her to the nearest hospital to get her treated right now. Hopefully we can move her to one closer to home and closer to the new babies.”
Bulldog says as he comes down and grabs my shoulder also trying to not touch her.
As we sat and waited for the ambulance to get there, Doc continued to monitor her with the supplies he brought with him in the van.
She hasn’t woken once and that makes me nervous.
Doc thinks that she could possibly have a head injury and her body is a mess.
While he was examining her he found that her incision for the c-section in fact had opened.
He’s packed and applied pressure to it. He also found bruises all over her and thinks they might have broken her ribs.
The thing that made me want to go kill that woman and her stooges was someone had stabbed her.
Doc doesn’t think that anything vital was hit, but he won’t know until he gets to the hospital.
It does pay off having a brother who is a doctor.
Finally after what feels like forever the EMTs come rushing in with supplies to move Sophie.
They tell me that due to her condition I cannot come with them, but should meet them at the Hale Memorial Hospital 10 minutes away.
That is the closest hospital to where we are and they want to make sure she gets looked at immediately.
Since Doc is a doctor they have allowed him to ride with her and them to help keep her stabilized.
The ride to the hospital with my brothers beside me felt even longer than waiting for the ambulance to arrive at our location.
I was dying inside, seeing her the way she was and knowing all the injuries she may have.
It makes me angry that someone would do something like that to her.
That because someone feels like the club is theirs or that I am theirs, they tried to destroy this beautiful woman.
A woman who’s love saved me every single day.
She says it’s my love that has made our life possible, that the love I have for her is what keeps her going and thinking she is worthy of everything, but it’s not.
It really is Sophie’s love and strength that keeps our family together.
Knowing she was still breathing was the only thing keeping me from going back to the cabin and doing the same thing to those sons of bitches who did this to my woman.
Even knowing that three of them were men and can’t have babies I still wanted to cut them like they had Sophie cut.
I want to remove vital organs like they did to Sophie to have our babies removed.
I’m hoping there is no lasting damage and that the doctor at the hospital did do his job when he removed my children.
From what we heard when we arrived they wanted to use her to breed other people’s babies.
It’s sick, it’s disgusting and I want to hunt down every single person who thought they could do anything like that to my Sophie.
Finally hours later Doc comes out to the waiting room dressed in scrubs.
“Hey let’s go talk in another room so we can have some privacy.”
So Bulldog, Terror, Hurricane, Thorn and I follow Doc towards another room they have off the waiting room for what I’m sure they use to give families bad news.
We brought so many brothers with us not knowing what we were walking in on.
Most of the council brothers are here, we also brought some patched brothers and a couple of prospects with us.
So the room was full of Chaos, plus the people that were in the waiting room for their families.
It is times like these I am thankful for such a big club.
That we are able to take a good chunk of us out to get shit done, but leave everyone protected at home.
Doc closes the door after all of us walk in.
“So we did have to operate on her. She’s in a coma right now, medically induced.
Her body has been through a lot in a short period of time.
She needs to heal and we don’t know how long that will take.
She has a brain bleed that we are monitoring.
I’m assuming from what we saw when we arrived she was either hit in the head with the bat the crazy bitch had or someone did hit her multiple times with their fist.
Nothing surprises me with this messed up club we are dealing with.
Women and children do not appear to be off the table.
We went in and fixed up the c-section area.
The doctor did a good job thankfully when operating on her, but obviously the incision opened again, everything looks good for her that way.
I’m sure they made sure to be extra careful because they intended to use her and needed her uterus and fertility when they were going to sell her.
She had been stabbed about three times, her spleen and liver were punctured and we had to repair those.
Everything looks good now with those. She has four broken ribs, I’m assuming from a beating they decided to give her.
She has a broken arm and defense wounds on her.
It looks like she fought back, but when it’s four to one and that one just had surgery I can’t imagine it was a fair fight, even if it was our Sophie.
We will keep her in a coma as long as it takes for that brain bleed to heal and are monitoring her to make sure that nothing comes from that bleed.
I think if you want to transport her, I’d wait.
I know you probably want her close and her to be close to the twins, but right now we need to make sure she is in a better condition before we move her to another hospital.
We need to make sure she is more stable.
But if I can offer you some advice Lash, she would want you to see your babies.
She’d want you to be with your babies. They are probably all terrified and I’m sure they want to be with their mama.
I think you should spend more time that way and we can keep people with her round the clock until we feel comfortable moving her.
She would beat your ass if she knew that you didn’t go to those boys or that you left her kids unattended.
You guys are already on rocky ground with everything going on.
She’s already got so much anger towards the club, this isn’t going to help anything.
I actually think when she wakes up she is going to be angrier than ever with who did this to her, who she was acting for and the fact that they took this time from her with her babies.
She warned all of us about Lips numerous times and we didn’t get rid of her, sometimes I think these women see more than we do.
So don’t make it worse by being a stubborn asshole and not doing what you know she would want and that is being there for her babies.
All of them, including the ones you guys just had.
You need to give them names, you need to kangaroo with them, they need to know you if they can’t know her right now.”
All of this is too much, she was put through hell in less than 24 hours and I can’t help but feel anger towards everyone right now too.
I know he’s right and I know I should be with the kids because Sophie would kill me if I didn’t make sure they were alright.
It feels wrong leaving here. It feels wrong walking out the door when your heart and soul is in a hospital bed clinging to life.
“Will you stay with her? I want to go in and see her for a little bit, but will you stay with her and have a couple of men stay with you as well. I’ll come back periodically, but Doc’s right I have to go check in on those boys. I know they were early,
but I’m hoping not too early and they are okay with just a little stay in the NICU. I still want to make sure they are alright. I need to go get my kids and make sure everything is alright with them. Will you watch our girl, please?”
I look at Bulldog and he nods his head at me.
“You know I’m not leaving her. I already called Cane and he’s going to have Tillie and Davis stay with him for however long this takes. I feel like a shit father,
I’m letting all my kids down left and right. Especially not being around enough for Tills and Davis. They will come and visit whenever they want to. Until we can move her, hopefully to Richmond.”
With that I nod and look at Doc, “Can you take me to see her please? I want to let her know she’s safe and I’m here for her.”
I follow Doc out of the room with Bulldog walking next to us as we go behind the doors to what I am assuming is the ICU and we head to a room. Doc lets me know that this is her room, until they feel like she is stable enough to get a room on a private floor.
“Wash your hands when you go in. We want to make sure we prevent any infection as best as we can.” Doc lets us know.
I know that Terror is talking to the brothers about who can stay here with Bulldog and monitor to make sure everything is okay.
I walk into the room and see my sweet Soph on the bed with wires everywhere.
My heart breaks. This should’ve never happened to her.
She’s my queen, the club's princess, my everything.
She means everything to me and to the club she grew up in and I know all the brothers are worried.
All of them are ready for this to be over because now this is a second attack on our family.
This time by a bitch we let into our home.
I take a seat next to her bed and try to be careful of the bandaging and the wires and grab her hand.
“Baby, I need you to fight for me. Fight for the kids. We can’t live without you. I want you to know you’re safe now. I’m going to make sure this never happens to you or to our kids ever again. I’m going to kill them all.
They are going to regret the day that they thought they could take you from us. They have no idea the storm they unleashed. I promise they are going to pay for what they did to you, to our boys, to Dallas and Dash. I’m going to go to be with the kids,
I’m going to take care of everything just as long as you promise me you’re going to be alright. You’re going to fight. I need you to do your part. You’re safe, I remember the names you wanted for the boys, I’ll make sure they get those names. Right now they are safe with Peyton and Knox.
I’m going to go get them and bring them home to their siblings. I love you with everything that I am. You are my heart and soul. You know if you leave me, I will be a shell of a man, hollow. Missing the parts of me that make me who I am. The parts that softened me,
the parts that taught me how to love and that loving someone like you made me stronger than I ever thought was possible. My beautiful best friend, I have loved you my entire life, since before I can even remember it’s always been you.
I’m going to trust your daddy to take care of you while I’m taking care of our babies, but I promise I’ll be here visiting. So you better open those beautiful blue eyes soon. I don’t want to miss another second with you.”
With that I stand up and bend over gently kissing her forehead, her nose and then her lips. I walk out of the room and see Bulldog waiting patiently for me.
“Take care of her. If she wakes up, you better call me first thing. If she shows any signs of waking up, I better be called. I will be back as soon as I can.”
He comes up and pulls me in for a hug.
“You know you don’t have to worry about her, I’d lay my life down for any of my kids. Get to your parents that’s where the kids are, your old man said they are scared and worried about their mama. They know something is not right because she is normally home.
I think Peyton is working something out with the hospital in Briarfield to make it easier for you to be there. It sounds like we might just eventually want to transport Sophie there, we can travel the 30 minutes to see her when we need to. So after you take care of those kiddos of yours,
get to that hospital and find out how your boys are. Peyton has told me they are strong, which doesn’t surprise me, look at their mama.”
With that he smacks my back and walks into Sophie’s room.
I walked to the waiting room and walked past my brothers.
“Let’s fucking go!” I yell over my shoulder and head to my bike.