Chapter Nineteen Lash
Days have turned into weeks and weeks have turned into months.
The kids have been doing school with my mother, the twins have been released from the hospital, so our suite at the hospital has turned into a room where we moved Sophie too.
Bulldog and my parents have been helping massively with the kids, especially Lucas and Leon.
They have been doing really well and are meeting their milestones better than expected for premies.
Now they are two months old. They had taken Sophie off the medication that kept her in a medically induced coma last week.
The brain bleed is gone and we don’t know what is taking her so long to wake up.
The scans and everything appear normal, so now it is just a waiting game.
I am trying not to worry, but it is hard when your heart and soul is lying on a hospital bed and not waking up after two months.
We are living at a hospital and I have finally gotten Declan to hang out with my family at the hospital suite because Sophie is there.
He sticks close and does his school work when he needs to.
So I have been out hunting with my brothers.
So far we have found some stragglers of Acid’s MC.
None of them are talking about where to find him or the council brothers and he seems to have a tech guy that helped hide his location when he messaged his daughter.
Which we discovered after much ‘convincing’ on our part to have Lips tell us. She decided to be one crazy fucker and she dragged other clubgirls into it. So we have the three men that took Sophie, Lips, Cherries, and Lollipop at the cabin.
They were in on it and we have discovered that the receptionist that used to work at the tattoo parlor who kept fucking with my schedule was part of Acid MC.
We have yet to track her down, it is like when Lips got taken she went into hiding.
Acid has stopped reaching out to Lips’s phone so we think he knows she was caught and doesn’t appear all that worried about his daughter.
Apparently he cares more about taking our territory than his precious little princess, who turned real quick on her daddy.
She let us know that there were a lot of insiders in our businesses that were helping leak information to Acid.
Even people at the kids’ daycare and schools.
Even doctors at the hospital here in town are in deep with him because they owe him money.
I guess it is a good thing we have kept Sophie in Briarfield.
Those people were picked up by our friends in law enforcement.
Turns out Acid wanted to take all of my kids that day he took the twins, but he ran out of time when he found out that Missy was on the move to start picking everyone up and he wanted her more.
Turns out he was doing it for his hag of a daughter because she has some crazy notion that if they got rid of my children and eventually got to Sophie that I would go to her.
She thinks that if Bulldog didn’t have the president gavel in the first place I would be with her and not with Sophie.
She’s fucking delusional. It shows in the way she behaves every single time we go down to interrogate her.
She tries to sound sexy despite the fact that she is basically living in her own piss and shit.
We don’t hurt women, so we have Nyx, an interrogator from The Sirens here.
The Sirens are a group of Assassins, we don’t know how many there are, we know most of them by reputation.
Nyx usually is brought in as the last resort, the final whisper, she handles those who won’t talk.
She also ensures they don’t ever talk again.
I don’t think Lips is aware that Nyx is here to do what we won’t do and that’s to end her.
She acts like we brought her a friend. I don’t know how some of these bitches are not bright at all.
We have still not even bothered with the other bitches we brought down.
I mean I guess if you are raised by a psychopath you turn into something different yourself.
Lips was very open with Nyx and at times I was forced to leave the room because I wanted to strangle her or put a bullet between her eyes.
She talked about how she got off on the torture she did of Sophie.
How she loved the thrill of stabbing her and hoping that she would do lasting damage if not kill her.
She told us how her father wanted her alive and wanted her in fine condition so that they could use her to give men babies.
She talked about how that did not make her happy because she wanted to get rid of Sophie forever and then get rid of my children.
She’s given us a lot of information about her father, the aunt that she grew up with.
You would think with the amount of information she has given us just because she thought it saved her ass, we would have something by now and a location for her father.
However, we don’t. As much as she knows about daddy dearest there are still things apparently her daddy didn’t want her to know.
Nyx is with her today and I am sitting this one out, however, Slickback has been sticking close to her.
I think that they have something going on, she has been here now for a couple of months and they appear to be inseparable.
I guess we will see what happens. The rest of us brothers are in the common room, I’ve finished up stuff in my office as I walk out towards the bar area and bump into Terror.
We both look over at the bar and see Dragon sitting at the bar with his head in his hands and a beer in front of him.
Whip and Twister are sitting next to him, Twister, his twin brother, is whispering something in his ear.
We see Dragon shake his head, but he never lifts his head up.
“What’s going on?” Terror asks his brothers.
“Dragon just found out some shit that’s got him all fucked up.” Whip answers for Dragon and Twister as Twister turns and looks at his older brother.
“Yeah you want to sit down? We will move over to a table. Come on Dragon, let’s go.” Twister says as he grabs Dragon’s arm to pull him off the stool. Reaching he grabs the beer for his brother and we head over to a table in the back away from all the other brothers and club whores.
“So tell us what’s going on Cane.” Terror says, looking at his little brother hoping for some answers.
Dragon looks up and his eyes are red like he’s been crying, “You remember Liza? The woman I was seeing? Had those two fantastic boys?”
“The one you pushed away because of the shit that happened to your mama?” I ask.
He nods his head, looks away and clears his throat, “Yeah her. I ran into her today. It’s crazy that it’s been the first time I’ve seen her in almost seven months. I was shocked as shit. I was even more shocked when I saw she was pregnant.”
“Oh fuck.” Terror and I say at the same time.
“Is it yours?”
“Yeah, she told me that she came here to tell me the day my fucked up plan happened. After that situation she wanted nothing to do with me. Even though she’s eight months along she’s been debating on actually telling me because of the fucked up shit I did and said to her.
I don’t know what I’m going to do. She screamed all this shit at me and didn’t let me get a word in. I fucked up. I thought I was doing the right thing. I didn’t want what happened to mama to happen to her. I mean look at what happened to Soph. I was in deep with this girl.
She barreled into my life and I kept telling everyone it was casual, but fuck I love her. I haven’t been with anyone since her. I can’t bring myself to go there. I don’t know what I’m going to do. Fuck.”
“So what exactly did you do to have her shut you out completely? I mean it’s kind of a bitch move to not tell you, she’s pregnant. Especially if she’s got two kids already. Where is their dad? Does he not know about them either?” Terror asks.
Dragon looks up and glares at Terror, “There is a story behind the twins, I don’t know it all, but I believe her when she says it’s best their dad doesn’t know about them. She said she was going to eventually tell me, but she wasn’t ready to deal with me yet.
I basically made it look like I fucked another woman. I brought one of Sophie’s friends from high school home from a bar one night. She did me a favor, nothing happened, we just made it look like something happened. I never bring bitches home,
Liza knows that she was the first woman I’ve ever had at my home and that it meant something. Well since I knew this chick from when Sophie was in school, she agreed to help me out. Thinking I was trying to get rid of a clinger. We both said some fucked up shit to her.
A lot about how she meant nothing to me, how I’ve been fucking other bitches behind her back, how I’d never settle down let alone with someone like her. That I wouldn’t want kids with someone like her. It was horrible. I wanted her to hate me because I didn’t want her involved or targeted.
Apparently she was coming to tell me she was pregnant that day. She was scared because she did everything alone before with twins.”
“Okay, really Cane? How could you say that to someone you’d been seeing for months? I mean shit brother. The fuck is wrong with you?” Terror asks.
“Listen Luca, I acted rashly, yes. Do I regret it? Yes. I wasn’t thinking clearly after mama, okay? I figured I’d wait for shit to calm down and then go after her and grovel my ass off.”
“So how far along is she?” I ask.
“Shit, I don’t know how many weeks she is, she’s probably about eight months though. So probably due any time. She didn’t even tell me when the baby was due or what she was having.”
“Knowing this family she’s probably having fucking twins. She’s already had one set, poor woman is probably having another set.” Twister mumbles.
“You think?!? Holy fuck, I didn’t even think to ask if it’s just one! Holy shit. I fucked up.”
“Yeah you did, asshole. But you can make it right. You’re such a dumbass.” Terror says.
With that Dragon glares at his brother and looks around at all of us, “You fucking idiots have no room to talk, maybe Twister can because shit when he found his people he turned his player ways around. But fuck, Whip,
you fucked up with Peyton so bad she got with another guy and now you and him are trying to talk her into having a relationship where she’s with both of you, then there is good old Terror here who doesnt have any fucking woman so has no room to talk.
His wife left him with three kids because he got her pregnant at 15 and let her talk him into marrying her and she’s a psycho. Won’t sign your damn divorce papers. So you can’t talk. Then there is Lash over here, didn’t even notice that club whores have been harassing his woman for almost a year,
yeah you guys fucking suck too. Dumbasses.”
“Hey, I’ll have you know, I’ve kind of met someone and I’m waiting to have the divorce papers in hand before I go anywhere with her.” Terror says as he side eyes me.
That is suspicious and then it clicks, he’s been helping out at Sophie’s shop. Making sure everything has been running smoothly along with all the other stuff he does, I thought it was very generous. Turns out he appears to have ulterior motives.
“Please tell me you didn’t, Luca!” I say.
He looks at me innocently, “I don’t know what you’re talking about Toby, but if and when I need to tell you about things I hope you’re supportive.”
“You know exactly what I’m talking about and you know Sophie is going to kill you when she finds out.”
“It’s okay, we are just keeping things friendly right now. I don’t want to take any steps until that she witch signs the divorce and custody papers. I’ll have to talk to my kids too.”
The guys at the table are eyeing us curiously and before anyone can ask my phone vibrates and I see it’s my dad so I pick it up.
“Hey dad, what’s going on? The kids okay? Sophie?”
“You need to get here now. The kids are fine, but Sophie is starting to wake up.”
With that I bolt out of my chair and out of the clubhouse and I hear boots trailing and running behind me.
“Toby hold up! What’s going on?”
I look and see that now all my brothers-in-law have joined me.
“Sophie’s waking up.”
With that I climb on my bike and head to Briarfield’s hospital and hope that my woman is doing well and ready to meet her two new babies.