Page 18 of Fury
I nod, knowing he’s right.
While Psycho was in a coma, Skylar spent every day at the hospital with Ivy, watching Hudson with her, and every day she ignored Brick, me, and Blade. When Blade asked if she’d speak to him, she told him she wasn’t ready, and that was months ago, and she still won’t talk to him.
“For what it’s worth, I don’t think Anna is the reason why she wants nothing to do with you and the club. I think something else is keeping her away, she’s too caring to just block you out over your mama” Luna adds, “She tried to save me remember?”
Blade nods, and I swallow hard.
Brock was about to rape Luna in an alleyway near campus when Skylar walked past and stopped him, not realizing he ended up raping her anyhow that evening.
Blade tortured the fucker before Luna, the brave woman, inflicted every pain he inflicted on her over the years in front of everyone, Anna ensuring she got her closure. Something no one wanted her to have, not wanting to have a death on her hands but Anna knew better. It was then she apparently saw the love her old man had for her because he allowed her to take Luna to the torture chamber in the basement, calling him his given name once before distancing herself again.
Luna chopped his dick off and forced him to choke on it, and she still sleeps at night like a baby, her demons slayed by her own hands.
“Son,” Brick says as he walks into the garage, getting me outta my head, and I internally groan.
I barely speak to the man, and he’s lucky I haven’t rammed my fist into his face for the shit he’s caused over the years regarding his daughter. It hasn’t stopped him from trying to speak to me, mainly to see if Skylar had spoken to me which she never had.
All Skylar talks to is my daughter and Ivy apparently.
“Have you seen your mama?” he asks Blade, and I look at him with a furrowed brow because that is not what I expected him to ask.
His face is tight, and anger etches off him.
“Not since yesterday. Why?” Blade says while Luna adds, “I saw her this morning in the kitchen cleaning up the mess the brothers made while the club girls painted their nails. She said she had some errands to run today before she cut a bitch – her words, not mine.”
If Brick didn’t look ready to smash this garage apart that my daughter was currently in, I would have snorted.
Brick jaw ticks, and I tilt my head and ask, “What’s wrong?”
He sniffs hard and admits, “I think she’s seeing someone…”
My mouth parts in shock while Blade instantly denies, “No, she isn’t. For years she’s had a chance to cheat after that prospect, but she hasn’t. She’s been focused on me, on the club…”
“Until she lost her old lady cut, you mean,” Brick reminds Blade, and he flinches and admits, “And I made a mistake with that Dad. I was angry for Luna. She called her a patch chaser, a liar, and hit her.”
Luna snorts, “While you stood back and allowed it, believing it yourself, so get off your high horse, Leo. You were to blame in that scenario, not your mama, who has been my rock since finding out about my trauma.”
Blade scowls at her while Brick shakes his head, running a hand through his hair with frustration as he says, “I’ve messed up a lot over the years,” he side-eyes me, “but I love your mama.She’s been pulling away over the years I know this, I’ve felt it. I’ve treated her like crap over jealousy, causing her more pain than she caused me, allowing the club to make her an outcast but I can’t lose her.”
I swallow hard at his truth, but I can’t feel bad for him.
I know he’s the reason why I met Skylar, but deep down, I know we would have met one way or another. We are destined, and his forcing me to lie to her is what broke her trust in me.
“Mama isn’t having an affair, Dad. She’s probably got herself a job, you know the thing she stated she wanted not long ago,” Blade says, and his dad sighs, instantly denying, “We’d know if she had a job, Blade. Venom placed an alert to flag up her phone and card.”
“Unless she has another phone and card you don’t know about,” Luna adds, and I nod in agreement.
For hours on end, Anna disappears and has done since finding out about Skylar, like being around Brick hurts her too much, but then again, he did tell her him fathering another child had fuck all to do with her, and she should stay out of it.
She’s just doing as he asked.
Sighing, I say, “If she has a job, then that is probably her way of coping with the fact you belittled her in front of people she saw as family and because you selfishly told her to get over the fact you fathered a child with someone else all because she made a mistake,” he scowls my way, but I shrug and remind him, “You push her, she’ll run a fucking mile, everyone already knows she wants out, if she didn’t she would have taken your cut back. Let her have her life while trying to make things right with her.”
“And what about her seeing someone?” he asks, “I heard her the other day on the phone, she said ‘I love you,’ for fucks sake!”
I roll my eyes as Luna snaps, “She says that to me on the phone, and I’m pretty sure I was talking to her the other day about paint ideas for the nursery, so it was probably to me!”
Brick drops his head in defeat while I shake mine. He’s making up shit in his head out of fear.
