by Cilla Lee
“Yeah” Dad says answerin’ his phone
“Dad is Lilly with you”
“Why the fuck would she be with me?”
“She's missin’”
“How long” he asks me
“Over an hour” my heart racin’ (where the fuck, are you Lilly)
“Where'd she go?”
“To the Grill to get the shop lunch Socket said she picked the order up and left but she hasn't made it back to the shop yet”
“Fuck, meet me at The Grill and we'll go from there”
“Ok” I hang up and head out to my truck, I turn and look at Colt but he shakes his head (fuck). I grab my keys and head out Colt on my heels and Tucker closin’ the garage doors
“I'll follow you” Tucker says
“Where headin’ to The Grill first and we'll retrace her steps”
“Ok Brother” he says runnin’ to his bike. By the time I get to The Grill my heart is beatin’ out of step my hands are sweatin’ and I can hardly breath
“It's ok Brother we'll find her” Colt says to me. When we pull up I see Dad Socket and Cuff waitin’ we jump out Tucker pullin’ up behind us
“Well” I say and they shake their heads
“Nothin’ man spoke to Manny inside said she picked up the order and left”
“When?”
“Twenty minutes after we ordered”
“FUCK” I yell
“You sure she’s just not out shoppin’ or some shit” Dad asks me
“No Lilly wouldn’t worry us like this and she wouldn’t turn her phone off”
“Let’s spread out get the other Brothers lookin’ the women to, we'll find her son” Dad says and I nod (please be alright baby) We search the whole fuckin’ town twice and come up with nothin’, Tink won't stop cryin’ and I feel fuckin’ angry worried useless, I can't stop prayin’ that she'll be alright.
*
By the next mornin’ there’s still no sign of her, Razor calls in Nico for his help “Fuck can't you guys keep your women safe” the fucker says and Colt holds me back from layin’ the motherfucker out
“Are you ganna fuckin’ help or just swing your dick around asshole” I say to the smug fucker
“Calm your jets, I'm here to help, so Razor gave me the information over the phone and Seth tapped into the security at The Grill like the guy said she walks in picks up the order and walks out”
“We know that did you find anything else” Razor asks him
“Not yet but we will” I pace for the next hour as I watch Cuff and Nico's man Seth work on their computers tryin’ to trace her phone
“Here man drink this” Colt hands me a shot and I down it
“Fuck man what if we don't find her” I hear someone gasp behind me and I turn to see Tink shakin’ her head
“Don't say that Stryker” she says, tears runnin’ down her cheeks I pull her to me and her sobs become louder and she grips my shirt like she needs a tether to keep her here. I know that Tink can get lost in her own mind when she's drawing and when she gets upset, she can just cheek out so I hold her tight rubbin’ her back
“We'll find her Tink don't you worry” I tell her as Colt looks at me shakin’ his head
“Maggie can you take Tink to my room”
“NO” she yells I need to be here if you find her”
“Tink”
“No Stryker I need to be here please” and the look of desperation makes me give in
“Ok Tink ok”
“Dad” I say and hand her off to him and he pulls her to him and she latches onto him and sits next to him
“Brother” Colt says but I shake my head
“Where ganna find her” is all I say (we have to she's my future)
****
Lilly
I wake up tired to a bed my head killing me, I pull on my arms and legs to see how much room I have but the bindings are tight “ARGH” I yell, I look around and notice that it's night out (shit how long have I been here) the room is dark but I can still make out the things in the room a dresser a curtain hanging off the hook peeling wallpaper and a door, a tear slides down my cheek when the door opens in walks Rochelle smiling “Well well well look who's awake” I rub the tear away on my arm there's no way I'm giving this bitch the satisfaction of seeing me cry
“Rochelle what are you doing?”
“I'm getting my man back”
“And how are you going to do that?”
“By killing you of course and then being there for him” I start to laugh and she storms up next to me and punches me in the face “YOU FUCKING BITCH WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU LAUGHING AT” she yells at me tasering me again and I black out. I don't know how long I was out when I wake up again and the sun is coming up and I look around and Rochelle is standing over me
“Rochelle just let me go”
“You made me kill my baby” I look at her
“What?”
“I had it all planned Stryker would find out I was pregnant and we would get back together than you came along and ruined it”
“Rochelle, it wasn't his baby”
“SO, HE WOULD HAVE LOVED ME”
“No, he would have hated you more”
“YOU DON'T KNOW THAT”
“Rochelle, you and I know Stryker he's not a guy you fuck with”
“He loved me until you came and ruined everything and now my babies gone and you have to go so I can get him back”
“What are you talking about how is your baby gone”
“I had a termination done” she says
“Why would you do that?”
“Because it wasn't his, but once you’re gone we can have our own baby together and get back to where we were” (god she’s lost her mind)
“Rochelle please just let me go” she starts to pace back and forth
“No, you need to go” she’s twitching as she talks and I wonder if she’s on something
“How could you get rid of the baby why would you do that it was still part of you”
“BECAUSE IT WASN’T STRYKER’S” she yells
“So”
“So….so I planned everything put holes in all of his condoms and still nothing” I watch her pace the room murmuring to herself (she put wholes in all of his condoms)
“I PLANNED IT” she screams at me and comes over and punches me in the face and stomach over and over I brace myself for more but she stops and storms out of the room crying, I take a deep breath my stomach cramping from her blows
“Fuck I need to get out of here” I whisper to myself. I pull harder on the cuffs they pinch my wrists making them bleed (fuck) I look down at my legs and there tired by ropes, I rub my foot on the bed (thank god, I wore my chucks today) my shoe comes off and I can slip my legs out of the ropes (ok legs free) I look at the bed head and it's a tubular metal frame and. I lift my arms up and bring my arms together and sit up I search the floor to use anything and notice that the bed is an older style with springs, I stand up and pull the end of the mattress up and pull one of the springs off and it falls to the floor with a loud bang and I freeze (fuck) I listen but no one comes up I grab the spring that's fallen under the bed with my toes. When I get it, I straighten the round end and start to work on the cuffs, I have no idea what I'm doing but I move the spring inside the lock for ages when it gives way and I smile and bounce on the bed but catch myself before I make any more noise. It takes another half an hour before the other one give way and I'm free (yes) I grab my shoes and pull them both back on and get up quietly and head to the window to see where I am.
All I see are trees, trees and more trees (shit I must be up in the mountains somewhere) I slowly open the window and listen, the wind through the trees is all I can hear but I see my car (yes) I search my pockets for my keys (idiot why would you have your keys) I berate myself the bitch walked out in the middle of the road and I had to slam on my brakes to not hit her (should have ran the fucking bitch over) than she tasered me (the fucking bitch) I walk to th
e door and slowly open it, I can hear someone talking down stairs and I make my way down the hall checking each room for anyone else (nothing thank god) the first step creaks and I freeze again but I can hear Rochelle talking maybe she's on the phone. I put my foot on the second step and slowly make my way down the stairs.
I see my purse sitting on the coffee table my keys next to my bag, as I get to the second last step Rochelle comes around the corner and we come eye to eye and she pulls out a gun from her back but I grab her arm and a shot hits the roof, we wrestle to the ground both of us fighting for the gun that has slipped out of her hand. I punch her in the stomach (this is a fight for survival) she grunts when I hit her and her grip loosens on the gun, but so does mine and it goes flying across the room under the sofa. I punch her in the mouth and crawl to the sofa and reach under it and grab the gun, I spin around fast but Rochelle's gone (shit). I stand up and put my back to the wall and look around the door like the cops do in movies, I listen to see which directions she gone in but the house is quiet
“Your dead bitch” is yelled out but I'm not sure where she is, I make my way around the wall and try the front door but it's locked (shit) I move towards the end of the hall when the door flies open and Rochelle runs at me screaming. I raise my hand and pull the trigger at her but miss (fuck) she runs at me with a knife in her hand and our bodies crash together and we fall to the floor “you fucking bitch” she yells and where back to wrestling again, I feel a sharp pain in my side and look down. Blood is seeping through my shirt
“You fucking bitch you cut me” I yell at her, she smiles and I grab her hair and slam her head to the ground. She kicks me and I fly back and hit the wall she reaches for the gun that I dropped, I run into the living room as a shot hits the wall just above my head (shit). I run through the room through another door and end up in the kitchen, blood now soaking my legs and I put pressure on the wound.
“Bitch I know where you are your blood trail is too easy to follow” she yells and I look down and theirs a blood trail everywhere (god dammit), I rummage through the draws looking for a weapon (nothing, fuck). I plaster myself up against the wall as I hear her coming closer to the kitchen, the door slowly opens and she looks around at the floor but the blood trail is not so clear it's just everywhere
“I know your here bitch you’re going to pay for making me kill my baby” she yells out, my heart is beating a hundred miles a minute making the blood flow out of me faster but my adrenaline is up keeping me moving. I slow my breathing trying to listen for her
“Come out come out where ever you are” she says and I move my back further to the wall, I can feel her getting closer when I see a broom handle in the crevices behind me. I grab it and lift it up as she comes around the corner and I bring it down hard and fast as she pulls the trigger over and over, I swing again and she drops the gun screaming with the pain. I swing again and again and she drops to the ground covering her head, I keep hitting her over and over the fight for survival over riding my need to get this bitch back. It's the blood that stops me and I look down and see Rochelle's head bleeding blood coating the floor (shit).
I drop the handle and lean against the wall for support and look down, I'm covered in blood from head to toe and I'm not sure who's blood is who's (fuck). I lift my shirt up and notice three bullet holes in my torso and one knife wound to my side (Oh god I'm going to die) my knees feel weak but I make my way past Rochelle's body and slip on the blood pool, I can feel how much blood I've lost, I feel dizzy and cold all of a sudden, light headed and I pull myself up but it takes me a few times to get my feet underneath me so I crawl to my bag for my phone. It's off and my fingers fumble with the buttons, my head feels so light and I feel sick my phone turns on and I dial Stryker with the last of my strength
“BABY WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOU?” he yells but my mind is weak and he feels further away
“Stryker” is all I manage to say as blackness comes to my eyes and I feel myself falling... falling into the depths of nothingness.
Chapter Thirty-Nine
Stryker
“BABY” I yell into my phone but there's nothin’
“Give it to me” Cuff says and plugs my phone into his laptop, I watch as the scream fills with numbers letters and fuck knows what else
“She's at the old miller house” he says and I run for the door all the guys behind me. Colt and I drive fast gunnin’ the engine as fast as I can (fuck baby please be ok) as I turn into the driveway I race down the track to the old miller house that Mr miller killed his whole family in back in the seventies because he lost all of his money, wife and four kids gunned down by a coward who couldn't face the world. I see Lilly's car and pull up beside it
“LILLY” I yell as Colt and I run for the front door but it's locked, Colt and I look at each other and step back and then shoulder the door together and the door frame splinters apart and we fall into the house. I see Lilly layin’ on the ground and I run to her “Fuck baby, wake up” she's covered in blood, I shake her but she doesn't make a noise. I lift her up and we race to my truck, Colt jumpin’ into the driver’s side while I hold Lilly. We pass the others as we head back towards town and I see some of them followin’ us
“Fuck Brother she's bleedin’ everywhere” Colt says lookin’ at Lilly, her head lulls to the side and she’s not movin’
“I FUCKIN’ KNOW JUST DRIVE”
“Where man we can't take her to the hospital like this” I look at her face
“We have too”
“Stryker man”
“JUST FUCKIN’ DO IT” I yell and he puts his foot down and heads towards the hospital, I cradle the love of my life in my arms as she fades away from me (please baby don't leave me please) I feel tears slide down my cheeks as we pull up to the ER and I run in with her lifeless body in my arms.
**
I stand at her grave and look down and I feel nothing, Colt puts his hand on my shoulder and I look at him “You ok” he asks me and I nod
“Yeah” is all I say lookin’ back at the grave and I smile
“What the fuck are you smilin’ at dipship” Tank asks me and I look at him
“Just glad she's dead is all”
“You cold hearted fucker” I wink at him and look at Rochelle's body
“Fuckin’ cunt got what she deserved” they both shake their heads as we watch Jaxson and Jordan cover her up
“I'm out need to see my woman” I tell them and walk to my truck, I only came out to make sure that bitch is dead. Walkin’ into the hospital room Lilly still unconscious, Tink’s in the chair next to her. She hasn't left since Lilly's been here, she looks up at me as I enter
“Hay” she says
“Hay Tink how's my girl” I ask her but she still looks worried
“Doc said she's good” I smile knowin’ how fuckin’ lucky we were that we got her here so fast. The doctor said any more time and she wouldn’t have made it
“That's good, how are you?”
“I'm good” she says but doesn't take her eyes off of Lilly
“Tink why don't you go home” she shakes her head
“I can't I need to be here when she comes to”
“Tink she's fine”
“Then why don't you go home and I'll stay” I growl at her
“Exactly so shut up and stop telling me to go home” I sit in the chair next to her and we both just watch Lilly. I sit up tryin’ to get comfortable and look at Lilly, she's just layin’ their lookin’ at Tink and I and I jump up the chair slidin’ back and hittin’ the wall
“Baby” I say sittin’ on the edge of the bed
“How did I get here” she asks her voice all croaky
“Got you here just in time baby, almost lost you there” she closes her eyes, when she looks up again all she says is “Rochelle”
“She's dead baby” she looks at Tink who’s now standin’ tears streamin’ down her face
“Come here” she says to Tink and she comes closer so Lilly can hug her
“I thought I lost you Lilly” she says but Lilly just shushes her smoothin’ her hand over her hair
“Hay” Tink looks at her
“I'm fine ok” Tink nods her head, Lilly looks at her arm with wires and tubes a blood bag hangs on one of the poles and a clear liquid on the other
“I'll get the doctor” Tink says and walks to the door and looks back smilin’ I sit next to Lilly and she turns to look at me
“How did you find me”
“Cuff baby, traced your cellphone when you called me”
“Rochelle just stepped out into the road, I had to brake than she tasered me” I feel my blood pressure go up
“Baby if you didn't kill that cunt she would still be payin’ for what she did to you” I tell her, Lilly looks down at her body
“She shot me” I look at the bandage that you can see near the neck of her gown
“Yeah baby three times and a stab wound”
“Fuck I feel like shit Stryker”
“Baby it's ganna take a few weeks to get back to normal, so just sit back ok” she bursts into tears and I pull her to me
“She said she killed her baby”
“Shit baby Rochelle was fuckin’ crazy” I tell her and she nods
“Your safe baby” I say over and over lettin’ her know, no one will ever hurt her again.
**
Lilly was in the hospital for four weeks before they let her out, everyone had come to see her and her room looked like a florist shop with flowers toys and cards. She looks like herself now and she's smilin’ a lot more but when everyone is gone and it's just her and me she lets her pain out. She's started havin’ nightmares and wakes up screamin’, I hold her until she calms down but every scream breaks my heart. Watchin’ her goin’ through this shit and I can't do anything to help her I felt fuckin’ hopeless. I tried to talk Lilly into talkin’ to someone but she refused tellin’ me that if she said anythin’ to anyone the club would get in trouble. I knew where she was comin’ from we took care of our own business, so I called up Niya maybe she could ease Lilly’s anguish.
‘Niya girl I was wonderin’ if you could come to the hospital for me I really need to talk to you’
