“A nice man? You mean an asshole who thinks that because he uses his fists, he can control me? I am not going to stand there and take it. If you like him so much, you take him. I am not going anywhere with you. I have a man who knows how to take care of a woman. Get lost and on your way. I don’t want to see your face again,” I say with more confidence than I feel, but if she taught me anything over the years it was not to let the enemy see through you. I spent years faking that I was happy with her and Vince. I can fake that I don’t want to run away from her in this moment.
She points at me and gives me a threatening look. “Listen here, you little bitch. You will do as I say. I didn’t waste all this time raising you so that you can throw it all away on some biker. The only reason that I stayed with your father is because he was supposed to inherit his parents’ money. The asshole didn’t mention that they left it to you right after you were born. I haven’t waited all this time for you to inherit it for me to lose out on my payday. I got your father out of the way and I will do what I can to get my hands on that money,” she says with the most evil look in her eyes that I have ever seen.
I don’t know how she does it, but Lily moves fast. The next thing I know, she has my mom by the throat against the wall. My mom is trying to claw at her arm with her fake nails, but Lily gives a scary smirk.
“Listen here, you gold digging bitch. I don’t know who you think you are. You fucked up big time messing with my best friend and now you want to take his little girl away from here? All because of some money?” Her face changes into a knowing smile. “Who do you think suggested that they leave the money to Sophie? So that when she was old enough, she could leave you. She wouldn’t be under your watch. There was no time limit. All she had to do was come back here and sign. You don’t know how many years I spent searching for Nicolas’ killer. I wanted to look them in the eyes and make them feel the pain that I have felt since he died and have them beg for death,” she says lowly.
I was so concentrated on what Lily was saying that I didn’t hear the men come out from Church.
Bear and Prez come up behind Lily and grab my mother by the arms. I don’t feel bad about what’s going to happen. I couldn’t care less. She took my dad away from me and couldn’t show me an ounce of love since he died, all because she wanted money.
Uncle Bear told me about it when I came back, but I wasn’t ready to sign. I wanted this whole mess with my mother and Vince over with. I’m so glad that I decided to wait.
I feel Colton wrap his arms around my waist. “Are you okay, baby?” he asks in his deep voice that I can’t seem to get enough of.
I nod my head weakly. “Yeah, I think so. I can’t believe that she would just show up here,” I say.
I feel him nod his head. “I know, baby, but Prez has been waiting for her to make her appearance because Lily has had unfinished business with your mother for a long time.”
I blow out a breath and look at Lily as she turns around and looks at me intensely. I give what I hope is a reassuring smile, and she smiles back. You wouldn’t think that only moments ago she was the scariest I have ever seen her with the sweet smile that’s now on her face.
“No one fucks with my girls. I have your back and I had unfinished business. Your daddy was my best friend and I have been waiting for her to come to me,” she states.
“I know, and I wish that I could feel bad about the shit she’s about to go through with everything that she just confessed but, honestly, she never really felt like my mother,” I say with a shrug. How can I feel sorry for my mother when she’s treated me like the dirt on the bottom of her shoe for as long as I can remember?
“Well now that she’s here, we just need to worry about your ex. He isn’t going to have it so easy,” Colton states. I nod my head because I know that there’s nothing that I can do to change the fate he will face if he comes here.
My mother will get off easy compared to him.
The longer that he takes to come for me, the more worried I become. I know him. By losing all my friends, not that I had any really, I was able to study him and know his routine. He wanted to make sure that his life was all I knew so that I could become the perfect wife, but that’s going to bite him in the ass. All I need to do is think.
Chapter Nine
Trigger ‘Colton’
Three weeks later
It has been three weeks and I finally have ownership of the house. Sophie refused to put her name on it at first.
