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Mama Lopez got stabbed protecting Skylar. Lacey, Tate’s biological mother, had kidnapped the girl and demanded Sky show up alone. Despite knowing it was a trap, she, along with Mama Lopez, went after informing the club where Tate was being held, and crap went down.
Lacey ran for Sky with a knife when she was focused on grabbing an unconscious Tate, and Mama Lopez jumped in front of her, getting stabbed. The knife nicked her lung and while she was in surgery, an emotional Sky decided to admit to Brick and Blade that Mama Lopez not only had been bringing her up since she was eight after finding out she had a family but that Mama Lopez was raped and didn’t cheat liked the club believed.
Brick begged for forgiveness when Mama Lopez was in the hospital, and she agreed as long as Skylar gets to know Brick and Blade, something she was reluctant to do because of how they treated Mama Lopez. I don’t really blame her. I haven’t spoken one word to them, and I won’t.
Mama Lopez was always there for me, and they’re idiots.
Sky is giving the men a chance while she and Fury are becoming closer, so close, it wouldn’t surprise me if he proposes as soon as he helps Tate with her fear of the brothers.
A prospect was the one who drugged her, and now she fears the cuts, only allowing Blade, Brick, and her daddy near her while wearing them.
I sigh and I say, “I’ve tried to speak to Dad, but he’s digging his heels in.” I swallow hard and look at her, and I admit, “Viper’s been accusing him of setting him up.”
Ivy frowns and asks, “What do you mean?”
I wince, “Apparently, in Viper’s head, Dad set it up so he’d meet me and I could take his precious leather and all his money.”
Ivy’s cheeks redden as she growls, “Are you kidding me?!”
I shake my head while taking a sip of my drink before I reply, “Nope, though I would love to know how Dad could have arranged our accidental meeting. I was working and wasn’t even looking at him when I nearly crashed into him, and honestly, if he had his cut on, I would have apologized and continued on my merry way.”
Ivy sits back in her chair, rubbing Hudson’s back as she huffs, “He’s letting his fears of women only wanting his cut to take over. I mean, it would make sense, his mama was a club girl only wanting a patch.”
I shrug, “It doesn’t matter, though, does it? He said I was his forever and all he’s done is tear my heart out, calling me a whore when he knows he’s my only.”
“I’m in love with you, Lake,” Jaylen whispers and my eyes tear as I wrap my arms around his neck, my legs tightening around his waist and as my heart pounds in my chest knowing what I’m about to give him, I admit on a whisper, “I’m in love with you too.”
He places his forehead against mine and murmurs, “Are you ready?”
I nod without hesitation, and without breaking eye contact, he thrusts forward.
I gasp as a sharp shooting pain fills me as he tears through my virginity, and he slams his lips against mine, swallowing the sound as he bottoms out but freezes while I tense.
I kiss him back, hoping it’ll distract me from the pain, and he pushes his tongue into my mouth that I open instantly, tangling my tongue with his, in a slow, deep kiss that makes my clit pulse…
He lied, he didn’t love me because if he did, he wouldn’t have reacted how he did. He wouldn’t have torn my heart out and accused me of things I haven’t done.
Months he spent with me, and not once did he let slip that he was a brother.
“Is there any coming back from this for you two?” Ivy asks quietly, and I swallow hard, the lump forming in my throat difficult to swallow over.
“I don’t think there is,” I admit with sorrow, my heart breaking, “There’s too much hurt and pain between us and the anger that’s inside me, it isn’t worth trying to rekindle things because we’ll turn toxic.”
Ivy sighs as she turns her head and kisses her son, and I look down, hoping my tears disappear instead of falling.
I hate him, I really, really hate him. My anger is overwhelming. It’s consuming, and right now I need to focus on school. I’malready a year in, and with my shifts it’s hard, so I can’t fall apart and have it out with Viper. I can’t let this anger go and allow the pain to come out, pain I know will destroy me.
He left me, he made up crap about me in his head, and ran with it, and in my mind, there is no coming back.
My work pager beeps, I check it before wincing, seeing it’s an overdose five minutes from my location. I quickly grab my receiver on my top and state, “This is 8921, we’re now enroute, ETA six minutes,” as I stand and quickly round the table, kissing Ivy’s cheek, then Hudson’s as Ivy asks, “An emergency?”
I nod and reply, “Yeah, I’ll message you,” as I quickly run out of the door with Callum right behind me, the woman he was chatting up shouting, “Call me!”
This, this is what my main focus needs to be on, not a man who broke my heart and gaslit me, and hopefully, the anger will disappear in the future without the pain coming out.
Chapter 4
Viper – Age Twenty Seven
