Page 63 of Always Yours

“You check in every week,” Katy says, causing me to jump.

I turn around and see Katy and Stitch standing there.

“Of course I will. I have plenty more to teach you. Ella never really cared for knife throwing,” I say with a chuckle before looking over at Ella and winking.

“Well, I might want to learn if I get to try it on whomever this asshole is who thinks they can take my father,” Ella says with anger in her voice.

“I’ll work on it,” I say with a smile.

I turn to leave as I hear Stitch’s phone go off. He lets everyone know that Ink is okay. I close my eyes and breathe a sigh of relief.

While everyone is distracted, I take the chance to leave.

Derek; I’m coming for you, baby.

Chapter Fifteen

Derek

The days drag on. My cough has been getting worse, and my shivers have not gone away. I don’t know how many more days I can take it. Matteo only lets us eat once a day, if we are lucky.

“Boss, can you tell me about Bear? What’s his life like?” Switch asks me.

“He took it hard after you were killed. He ended up stepping down from being the VP. It was a hard decision, but he couldn’t give the attention a VP gives with the grief he was feeling for you. We named Damien, or Twerk, as we called him, the new VP. He’s done a fantastic job,” I tell him.

A look of sorrow passes his eyes.

“You know, we knew where you guys were,” Enzo says interrupting us.

“Oh, and why didn’t you guys come for them?” I ask curiously.

“We knew Lily was better off without this place, and what would happen if she came back. We kept trying to make fake trails for our family to follow. When they had seen your club on the news, they knew we were lying. That’s what had them lock us up. We were drugged and put in here,” he tells me, and the others nod in agreement.

“What about the inheritance?” I ask Switch.

He smirks at me. “I knew what Rebecca really wanted. She had dug her claws into me. They told me about my inheritance but were able to keep me under the radar, or so we thought. Matteo and Alessandro got wind of something and were able to locate me. They healed me up so that I could talk again, and then tortured me to try to find where Lily was. I never gave them anything. I still don’t know why they bothered to keep me alive after all these years.”

“Probably if they ever found her, they could use you to torture her more. Nothing is harder than watching someone you love endure torture.

“As much as I don’t want her to come back to this hellhole, I think you guys may be right. She might be our only hope. Then I would love the pleasure of seeing our father fall,” Dario says.

The door opens and we all go quiet. I watch as Alessandro steps in for the first time.

“We finally have the great president of the Vicious Snakes,” he says with a cruel smile.

“You won’t get away with this,” I spit at him angrily.

“You don’t think I already have? My Liliana should have never left the family. Let alone attach herself to biker trash such as yourself,” he says with a cruel laugh.

“If you think Lily is just going to do as you ask, then you don’t know your daughter at all,” I say, smirking at him.

“She’s just a woman. She will do as she’s told. I already let the rumour mill run, and we should be expecting her in a few days. What a glorious thing to have her walk right into our trap,” he says evilly.

I grin at the fact they are underestimating her just because she’s a woman.

They will be the ones in for a surprise.

“We will have to see about that,” I tell him calmly even though there’s a lot of rage inside.

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