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“Your father wouldn’t have known if I didn’t end up pregnant with you. He hadn’t touched me in months; a woman needs attention,” she says in a cool tone.

“Wow, you guys are more fucked up than I even thought,” I say with a tired sigh.

“I think it’s time we teach them a lesson,” Dario says, narrowing his eyes at our parents and Matteo.

That’s just what we do.

We spend the next hours taking turns in torturing them as their screams fill the air. They had picked a house that was so far out in the middle of nowhere that no one would hear them. The location worked very well for us.

It’s not like anyone would stop us anyways. They fucked up too many people's lives for anyone to care.

It was only a matter of time before everything they did came back to bite them in the ass.

I am enjoying making them pay.

Chapter Nineteen

Lily

Two weeks later…

I sit by Derek’s bed and don’t bother wiping the tears that fall. It has been a couple weeks since I had found him and brought him in.

He hasn’t woken up at all, and it breaks my heart every time I see him. I just want him to open his eyes and look at me. I want to tell him that I love him and that he can’t ever leave me.

Over the years, we had our troubles. We often had enemies attacking the club, trying to take the Vicious Snakes down, but we always came through on the other side.

There were times he made me mad, or I made him mad, but we never could stay mad for long. We belonged to each other completely.

When Ella showed up at our club looking exactly like Bianca but with Derek’s eyes, I knew that we had finally found the lost child we had been looking for all those years.

Derek had spent so many years and resources looking for his child, only to come up empty over and over again.

That night he found Ella, he cried harder than I had ever seen him cry. He felt guilty for the missed years, but I made sure he knew it wasn’t his fault. Bianca had taken her from us; the fault was entirely hers.

We had been through so much. I don’t know who I would be without him, and I’m not ready to find out.

We had taken my mom, Alessandro, and Matteo into the basement at their safehouse where my father and Matteo conveniently used for their own twisted tortures.

We made sure they felt every bit of pain, but we haven’t killed them yet. They deserve to live with everything they had done. Katrina had spent the most time in there getting revenge for what my father did to her mother, and how many times he had raped her. I could see the anger in her eyes. The rage.

There was so much built into that woman. I could also see the way Dario was staring at her. I could tell he felt a longing for her, but I don’t know if he will act on it. Everyone feels for the woman after what Alessandro and my mother put her through.

We sent most of the brothers back, but Bear, Trigger, Torch, and Steal had stayed behind. They wanted to wait until Derek was awake. Bear and Trigger wanted to be near Nick to make sure nothing happened to him, and they wouldn’t be able to keep it a secret from Sophie that he was alive. We all wanted her to find out when she could actually see her dad.

I don’t think she would really believe that her father was alive unless she saw him with her own eyes anyway.

I have had plenty of time to talk to Nick. There was so much he had missed out on, and he wanted to know everything he could.

I showed him pictures on my phone of the kids, grandkids, and everyone at the club I had photographed throughout the years.

He cried a lot for what he had lost. I couldn’t blame him. Every time I thought about it, I wanted to hurt my father and kill him over and over again.

I figured we would keep him alive until Derek woke up. Then we could take Derek home and live our lives in peace.

I would no longer have to be looking over my shoulder worrying that they would come after me.

My brothers had already started taking over everything and cleaning up the city. The families can run their own territories again without my father getting in the way.

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