Chapter Twenty-Nine Lash
“Baby, please don’t cry. Listen, I understand all of this. I would’ve understood if you talked to me about it. I know that sometimes I am all ‘alpha male’ as you like to tell me. I just want to protect you. You are my heart and soul. When you were taken,
I didn’t know if I was going to be able to survive it. I can’t be without you. Fuck, Sophie, I would’ve even helped you train. You didn’t need to go out and find yourself some badass assassins to train you.”
“Hey! I mean I appreciate you saying we are badass, but she also needed some friends outside of the club. She’s been struggling with the club. You all know this. She was looking for help outside of the club that she felt trust in.
I do think it is good for her to have women who do the things we do in her corner as well. Her whole life has been about how men are to take care of her and protect her. We have helped her see that she is stronger than she knows and that she can do all the things all you men can do, if not, more.
I swear she is one smart and fierce woman. ” Alessia says to us.
I bow my head to my chest and I want to lose my shit right now.
I know that she is struggling with trusting us.
Even though the club didn’t know about this Acid MC being related to them, but her dad knew that, we did know a lot of what was going on.
It was kept away from all the ol’ ladies and kids because that was what we did, we protected our own from all the fucked up shit our world brings.
We might be a different kind of club that doesn’t actually need the illegal bullshit, but we keep going because that is who we are and the relationships that we have made over the years.
We’ve always tried to protect our loved ones from this life and not share any ‘club business’ because we didn’t want our women and children to be in something so dark and messy.
But we changed that and now we can let the ol’ ladies in on club business as long as it is something we are comfortable with our women knowing.
Sophie has been through so much and so much has been taken from her, more than I could understand because of these people.
I step closer to my beautiful wife and pull her into my arms, resting my chin on her head.
“Baby, I want you to get everything you can and if learning from these women helps you get something you need then I am all for it. I want that for you, I just don’t want anything to happen to you. So please just be open with me and tell me what you are doing.
No more sneaking around or sneaking out, we work together. It has always been us against everything. I know things have happened that have made us lose our way, but please, try and help me get us back where we need to be.”
I then lean down so I can place my forehead on hers, “Plus right now, we really haven’t been careful and you might be pregnant. I know you haven’t had a period. I don’t want this pregnancy if you are pregnant to be as challenging as the last one.”
I say quietly so no one around can hear me.
“I swear you can’t just let me have a break from all the babies can you?” She whispers back and I chuckle. Then I lean away and look around the room at the men and women watching us and obviously feeling like they are intruding on some kind of moment we are having
Terror steps forward and looks at Sophie, “We want you to lean on us too, not just people outside of the club. I know we’ve let you down in so many ways with secrets that have been kept, but we want to change that.
You are our sister and it is our job to protect you and all those kids of yours even though you definitely are overdoing it I mean, when is enough enough with all the babies guys.”
Everybody laughs and I look at my wife who is looking at her big brother with tears in her eyes.
“I’m sorry, I just have a lot to work on. I love you all so much. You’ll always be my family, but I needed someone who understood me right at this moment. I’ve got so much anger and frustration. I’m trying to not be angry with everyone, but it’s hard.
You’ll have to give me time and understand that for the time being I’m going to lean on my new friends here. They’ve been helping me and it’s been like getting pieces of myself back. Pieces I need to feel whole and to help me grow and feel like the woman I was before.
I am not some fragile little bitch who is going to sit around and wait for her knights in shining armor to rescue her. So I will be more open and honest if you guys are. I do not need to know everything going on, but things that are important to our family, I want to know those things.”
We all nod our heads and agree with her.
“What exactly have you guys been doing?” I ask basically to all the women in the room, but look at Alessia because I know she’s in charge here.
She sighs and closes her eyes, “Listen, our business is not normally something we share, but since this is something that also impacts your club, I will share. Since this is something that is important to you we will let you in on some of what we are doing.”
She sighs again and looks at all the ladies in the room.
“We have apprehended Acid’s SAA. We have him locked up here and are waiting for him to wake up before we start interrogation.”
I look at her in shock and then look down at Sophie who doesn’t meet my eye, but attempts to look innocent all the same.
“How exactly did you find his SAA. We have been struggling to find anybody and Wizard is one of the best tech people around.” Terror says as he looks at Alessia and the other women.
“Well listen, you might have an expert in hacking and all that shit, but we do as well and in fact we have more than one.
They are self taught, but also taught by some of the best ghosts out there.
Very good at making things and people disappear.
No doubt your man is good, but my women are better.
We have also trained your woman here to know all that they do.
She went through a fast crash course, but she is such a fast learner.
So maybe she can help your Wizard or whatever.
My ladies have purposefully made it difficult for your man to find anything on any of these men.
We wanted to handle it ourselves. Mostly we wanted to help Sophie handle things with the MC.
We want to bring down the mafia involved without bringing anyone else into it.
My family is a high Italian mafia family, I do not appreciate families that sell in skin.
Not only was I born into a big Italian family, for a time I was married into one.
My children’s father is a Don and in our families we do not sell women and children.
We do not sell skin in any way, there are things done and we are families of criminals sure, but we do not traffic human beings.
Women and children should not be for sale.
Now some of them are traditional in the way they treat women.
I cannot attack a family for having nasty men that cheat on their wives, but I can destroy a family that thinks it is okay to make profits selling any human being.
It is disgusting. So we were going to keep you in the dark, but since you are here and this MC has hurt your family, we will let you in on that half of the fun.
But the Baranov family, they are ours. I know how to handle these families and my girls, they know how to handle these types of situations.”
I look at Sophie in awe of the fact that they have taught her all the computer hacking shit in the small amount of time that they’ve known here.
“What else have you learned baby?” I ask her because I know there is more.
The woman is in far better shape than you would expect after having twins and being through everything she has been through.
I mean yes she’s always snapped back after babies, but she was in a coma and laid up.
I should’ve known that more was going on than her normal workout when she was supposed to be rehabbing.
“You obviously haven’t been taking it easy like you were supposed to with your rehab.”
She looks at me with an innocent expression and I shake my head at her, “Nope, not going to work baby. You better fess up. What else did you learn?”
Alessia chuckles at what she is seeing, “Let’s just say she is a quick learner and I would love to be able to train her more so she could become my next Siren. She was already skilled in some of the combat training, I’d assume she learned that being around her billions of brothers.
She was already skilled with guns, again thanks to her brothers I assume. We gave her some skills with a knife and basically just helped her improve or refresh skills she already had. She's pretty badass. I think you guys highly underestimate her.
A lot of the physical aspects of the training she couldn’t do because she was pregnant. She has been stepping up the physical stuff while she is supposed to be rehabbing. I would gladly let her lead up my Sirens here.”
I look at Alessia and shake my head, I don’t think that will be happening unless she stays here in this fortress and not out there interacting with anyone.
Alessia must notice the look on my face because she begins to laugh, “Yeah, she knew you would never let her out on the field. It takes a lot to be a trained assassin. I’ll just be talking to her before I leave to see if she is willing to help with operations here.
I don’t feel like stepping on Moretti territory often. Leading this facility doesn’t necessarily mean she heads out on any missions. I haven’t really been out in years. You can help and do research from here.
Our systems are much more secure than I would assume your system at home is or even on the compound. It would probably help your Wizard as well.”
Sophie laughs with Alessia and looks at me, “We can discuss it. I do have another business and things I am passionate about. Toby and I will have to talk about what this would mean. I personally love feeling empowered and love that you guys have such faith in me.”