Page 45 of Venom
Chapter 17
Venom – Two Months Later
I slowly lick my bottom lip, watching as Cherri laughs at something Bunny says while her eyes go to any brother that is sitting around, trying to pick her next target, not caring if they are taken or not. As long as she has a chance of grabbing that patch or worse, more information on the club.
I’m fucking pissed. Instead of trying to get through to Raya, I’m here, watching Cherri’s every move because the bitch is aware of my cameras.
It turns out she’s been more observant over the years than we all thought, and I can’t kill her just yet.
I sigh as I rub my chin. Two fucking months and Raya has all but cut everyone within the club out of her life. Only contact was sending one message to Blade explaining how Cherri is the one who tipped off Kitty of Viper’s whereabouts. That day she turned crazy and demanded we not question how she knew. Fuck, she’s barely even seen Huddy and Tate and of course I haven’t put her name in the database like I threatened two months ago after I returned on a shitty run where the cops pulled our thankfully empty van over on the way home.
I don’t want her to hate me any more than she already does, it’s my worst fear. I want her to see me as her home, like she’s mine, and if she thinks she can push me away now that I have opened my eyes, she has another thing coming.
“Brother,” Medic says as he takes a seat next to me, and I give him a nod in acknowledgement without looking away from an oblivious Cherri, not knowing we know she’s a traitor, though to be honest, we should have seen it coming.
“Any word from Raya?” he asks quietly, and my eyes move to Ivy, who is smiling widely at a happy Hudson squealing and giggling at his father.
Having Medic back after serving for our country is fucking amazing, he’s been missed.
“No, and she’s still ignoring Ives,” I reply just as quietly, “I literally got what I have wanted for years, and I fucking hate it.”
“It’s got to be something more than Ivy not giving her a heads up of your fuck up with Angel,” he says, and I hum because yeah, I’ve already come to that realization.
“I know, I think at first, it hurt her,” I admit as I look at the bald fucker, “She probably felt blindsided and hurt that Ivy didn’t have her back like she has always had hers even after I tried to push to break their friendship. But now, I think there’s something more going on and I’m itching brother because she’s using it as an excuse now.”
He nods before he eyes Cherri, every brother in this room aware of her traitorous ways, and he confirms, “You don’t want to break that bit of trust, do you?”
I look at Cherri and sigh, seeing her trying to hang off my dad’s arm, who looks pissed off, not that I blame him.
“Several times I’ve put her name in the database and several times I’ve removed it,” I admit, “I just know if I take a step over that line, I may never win her over.”
Only Blade and Medic are aware of what I’m trying to do with Raya. I can’t have the club try to get involved, to try and take over. And I really cannot be fucking bothered with the third degree from Ivy and their little girl group they’ve got going on about hurting their friend.
Raya and I have been in the making since the day we fucking met, and keeping them out of it until I can convince her I’m not trying to ruin her fucking life because of her friendship with Ivy, no one will know I’ve taken that leap to make the girl mine.
Though I don't know how no one hasn’t noticed my neck yet…
“Look, why don’t we go find her?” Medic says, and I raise a brow at him, but he shrugs and nods to dad, “Your dad’s now taking over watching the bitch, heck, he might even be able to find what we’re looking for before we kill her, so let’s go find your girl and bring her where she belongs, kicking and screaming.”
I look at Dad, and we lock eyes. He gives me a head nod, confirming he’s now taking over, and I swallow hard.
I’ve sat outside Raya’s door every night for the past two months, even if she isn’t there, I’ve sat there and not once has she spoken to me.
I spoke about our past, our childhood, heck, I’ve even talked about my fears fucking up with the club, especially after the cops pulled over our van on the way home, something we’re now aware was Cherri’s doing.
She’s trying to take down the club out of spite.
Viper made Lake his woman, and she’s not getting any benefits over it, and why would she? She didn’t want Lake. She wasn’t a brother's daughter, and don’t get me started about the fact that not one brother has knocked her up or given her their property patch.
The woman wants revenge for not getting the easy life. Something we didn’t realize until Raya mentioned it, and after doing some digging, I found out she has fucking years’ worth of ammo against the club.
Every dirty deal, every club run done, and the affiliations with the club, every woman or traitor that we’ve killed, she’s got it all on a flash drive, messages between her and Hayden fucking Gillies negotiating millions for it.
After a full club meeting with no women present and the blocker I had in place to prevent anyone from hearing us if the woman had the place bugged. It was decided to watch her to try and find the flash drive. We can’t kill her and risk the chance of it automatically being sent to Hayden with her death, I mean, I don’t think she’s smart enough to plan something like that and the drive is most likely in her room but we can’t risk it, just like we can’t ransack her room without tipping her off that we know about the drive and her sending the information, bringing down the fucking club.
Fuck, even in the messages, it showed Luna is also at risk, claiming she knows she killed Brock, her rapist.
I sigh. I’ve opened my fucking heart to Raya, including explaining about Cherri and our problems, about Angel, but she’s still not letting me in, not even an inch.
