Page 32 of Fury (The Dark Angel’s MC #3)

Fury

I gently run my lips over Skylar’s forehead as she runs her fingers through Tate’s hair, who hasn’t woken up in the past hour we’ve sat here, waiting for news on Mama Lopez, and is still lying on my chest.

Dad offered to take her about half an hour ago, but I refused. I can’t have her out of my arms, needing to feel her light breaths against my skin so I know she’s okay, that I know she’s alive, she’s safe.

My daughter was taken, and my woman put herself in danger to save her. I don’t think my heart rate will come down anytime soon, and having them out of my sight, well, it’ll be hard, especially Tate.

“I’m sorry,” Skylar whispers in the quiet room, “I shouldn’t have run away when I knew in my gut the scene wasn’t what it seemed.”

“It’s okay, precious,” I whisper, but she shakes her head, and I state firmly, “It is, and Tate being taken was not your fault, so stop blaming yourself!”

I feel her tears drop on my arm, and I press my lips against her forehead harder.

I know she feels guilty, but she shouldn’t.

Even women who trust their men one hundred percent would struggle with what she walked in on and the fact she’s only just started trusting me again after I lied to her after I basically used her for the club.

I’m not surprised she walked away but what I am amazed about is that she knew what she saw wasn’t what it seemed after she had calmed down.

“I don’t want to be insensitive, but I need to know. You call her mama, Skylar,” Blade whispers after a few minutes of silence, and Ivy, Raya, and Lake all tense while Skylar doesn’t lift her eyes off Tate and keeps her head on my chest, my arm tightly over her shoulders.

Anna has been in surgery for over an hour, and no one has said a word to Sky about her connection with Anna. Don’t get me wrong, Blade and Brick haven’t stopped staring at her, Blade more so because she called Anna mama and every little thing he’s said about his mother has come back to him tenfold.

Things have begun to make sense in his eyes, but he needs to know how they became close, and he knows he won’t get it out of me.

“Please, Skylar,” Blade whispers again, and she sighs as she looks his way, but again, not moving her head off my chest.

“I call her mama, Leo, because she is my mama, has been since I was eight years old after she stopped Melissa from hurting me when I said I wanted to get to know you ,” she admits, and his mouth parts in shock while I swallow at the look, Brick has going on.

Hurt, betrayal, confusion, and a little bit of pride that his wife took on his daughter, who was conceived through infidelity, something most women would walk away from.

“My wife has been bringing you up?” he confirms with a tightness in his voice, and Skylar glares his way.

“Did you really think I saw a cent of the extra money you paid Melissa at Dark Angel’s Girls?

Did you really think Melissa wanted a child without the benefits?

” she asks with sarcasm, and Brick's face reddens as Sky states, “Every doctor’s appointment, every graduation, school plays, shopping trips for clothes, lunch money, Mama is the one who was there every step of the way, not Melissa, my mama!”

“When you threw the stapler at my head, it’s because she told you how she was treated, right?” Blade confirms, “That is why you got so angry?”

I scoff as Sky instantly denies, “No, she did not. For years, she was trying to encourage me to have a relationship with her son, and I wanted that more than anything.”

“Then why didn’t you give in?” Blade asks quietly, hurt lacing his voice, and Sky admits, “Because Melissa was going to claim rape against Brick. She even had fake evidence,” shocking him and Brick while the brothers look at Sky with their mouths hanging, and I hold her closer to me to support her.

I add, “Anna was going to take Skylar,” gaining their attention.

I continue, “She walked into the trailer adamant about hurting Melissa for what you and she did, Brick, when she realized Melissa was actually abusing Sky and was adamant about taking her. But Brick, Anna loves you something fierce. As soon as Melissa threatened rape, she had no choice but to leave Skylar only with a threat of her own if she ever hurt Sky again. She went back the next night and sat in her truck watching to ensure Melissa wouldn’t touch her. ”

I press my lips against Sky’s head as she gently rubs her hand over Tate, and she rasps, “I climbed out of my bedroom window when I noticed her truck, and I apologized for being born,” Blade flinches while Brick looks down in shame.

Sky continues giving her attention to our daughter and continues, “Mama wouldn’t allow me to feel bad about my existence.

She climbed out of her car and told me I had nothing to apologize for, and I hugged her tightly,” she looks at Blade, “and that was it, I knew she was supposed to be my mama, and she was every day since.”

“So all the shit the brothers and women at the club spewed?” he says, and she shrugs, “Was just that, shit,” she chuckles darkly, “Heck, she got accused of trying to start a war when she punched that jackass, Brock,” Luna flinches, but Sky finishes, “He threatened to have me one way or another and mama hit him for it.”

He drops his head to his chin with a sigh while Brick tilts his head and confirms, “You hate me because I didn’t want you, right? My wife had nothing to do with keeping you back?”

Ivy snorts but coughs to cover it, making Psycho raise a brow at his woman while Skylar doesn’t look at him, and I swallow hard, knowing she doesn’t want to break Anna’s trust.

“It isn’t,” I admit to him, “and the reason isn’t down to me to tell you why. I mean, did it make her apprehensive with you? Yeah, it did, just like it would anyone, but it isn’t the reason.”

Brick’s jaw ticks, and he opens his mouth to say something, but the door opens, and a doctor in scrubs walks in, causing Skylar to jump up and rush towards him. Blade is right behind her, along with Brick, and I slowly stand with Tate in my arms.

The man looks around the room with tired eyes, taking in all the leather before he says, “Anna Lopez’s family?”

“I’m her daughter,” Skylar announces, and the man nods as I stand beside her, Blade instantly putting his hand on Sky’s shoulder.

“I’m her husband. How is my wife, doc?” Brick says, and the man clears his throat.

“The knife nicked her lung,” he admits, and I quickly wrap my arm around Sky’s waist before she can fall as her legs give out while holding Tate with my other arm.

“We managed to patch it up, that was no problem, but her heart did stop while on the table, and CPR was given,” he continues and Sky’s body shakes as he looks between everyone, “She was very lucky, and we expect her to make a full recovery.”

“Can I see her please,” Sky chokes and the man gives her a small smile and says, “Of course but only three at a time for now. A nurse at the desk will take you to her when you’re ready.”

I give him a head nod in thanks and turn towards my girl as he walks out, but she turns towards an already struggling Brick and tears his world apart as she admits, “I hate you because when Melissa’s boyfriend tried to rape me at sixteen, I had found out that he raped Mama first and you stood there and watched. ”

He looks at her sharply at her accusation, but she doesn’t back down as she says, “You thought she cheated on you. The whole club thought she deserved the punishment that you willingly slept with Melissa and made me but do you know what I know Brick?” she steps forward, “I know that Melissa and Peter set it all up so you’d cheat on Mama.

He managed to get her after she had just gotten out of the shower and he raped her and you her husband who swore to have loved her yet flirted with Melissa for weeks before she came up with the plan to get your leather, even made out with her.

Something mama isn’t aware I know of, stood in the doorway while she choked for help, believing she would do that to you. ”

“No,” Blade choked out in denial and looks at me, and I admit, “Anna told me everything. It’s the truth, he raped her brother,” and he turns, linking his fingers behind his head, breathing heavily while everyone looks at Sky with guilt and shame, all believing Mama Lopez would hurt Brick that way.

She curls her lip at Brick and sneers, “You told her you felt vindicated that you got Melissa pregnant because she wouldn’t give you another child, but guess what, Brick?

Mama was pregnant when Peter attacked her, and she lost it while you stood there believing the worst of her, and she lost any hope of ever having another child.

That is why I hate you, why I refused contact with Leo, who never had his mother’s back! ”

Blade turns and croaks, “She caused a lot of shit over the years, Sky. I-I thought –”

Skylar scoffs, cutting him off, “Because she knew Brick wouldn’t let her just leave!

He destroyed her, broke her, then allowed her rapist to walk free only to then nearly rape me!

” she looks back at Brick and says proudly, “And as soon as he gloated to what he did to her when he confirmed that the rumors of how her family had been treating her weren’t rumors, I killed him! ”

“Fuck…” Viper whispers while Ivy, Raya, and Lake look at her proudly and quite frankly terrifyingly proud that has me eyeing them with caution.

Damn, I wouldn’t want to meet those three in an alleyway.

“I did what you failed to do, all of you!” Sky snaps before she turns and locks eyes with me, and I smile a little as I tilt my head to the nurse and mutter, “I’m right behind you,” and she nods before looking back at a destroyed and guilty-looking Brick and Blade, and she says, “I want nothing to do with either of you!”

Turning, she walks quickly over to the nurse's desk, and I sigh, not looking at anyone, and follow, not even making eye contact with Mama because I know without a doubt that she’ll try and take Tate, but again, I don’t want her out of my sight.

I hear boots following, and I instantly know it’s Blade, and we follow Skylar and the nurse through brown double doors and down a hallway.

The nurse gives us a small smile as she gestures to the door on her left, her eyes taking in our cuts with lust, but we ignore her and walk into the room behind Sky, who bursts into tears as she rushes over to a still Mama Lopez who looks pale.

Fuck.

“Mama?” Sky cries, gently cupping her mother’s cheeks, and I tilt my head, sadness flittering through me, knowing I can’t take her pain away.

“You should have told me…” Blade whispers, and I look to see his eyes on his sister and mother before he looks at me.

“It wasn’t down to me to tell you, Leo, and you know this. You just want someone to blame,” I confess, and he looks down. I mutter, “You made a mistake. You had to take over from your dad, so you saw everything his way and made a mistake. All you can do now is fix things.”

“You tried to tell me, though, a little bit,” he reminds me, “you could have just said everything,” and I sigh.

“I did, but only because I didn’t find it okay with how Anna was being treated, and at that time, I thought she had cheated on Brick once .

The brothers fuck around every day on their women and were being hypercritical, and then Anna told me the truth, knowing I wanted nothing more than to earn Sky’s trust back.

Every time you said something stupid about Anna, she would flip because she’s her mother as much as she’s yours,” I say as Sky’s sobs can be heard, and we look towards her, and my heart sinks.

She’s lying on the bed, her head on Mama Lopez’s shoulder, holding her tightly.

“Please wake up, Mama, please,” she sobs, and I grind my back teeth.

“You need to go slowly, don’t push her, and for fuck’s sake, beg Mama Lopez for forgiveness,” I mutter before walking into the room, not able to stay away from my girl any longer.

I take a seat on the chair next to the bed before putting my hand on my girl's calf, showing her I’m here while keeping my other arm around my little girl.

Blade moves to the other side of the bed and kneels, grabbing his mother’s hand and drops his head before the door fills and I look to see Brick, but he doesn’t enter the room.

His eyes stay on his wife and complete utter fear etches off him but I don’t know if it’s because he could have lost his wife to death or because he thinks he’s lost her in life.

The next few weeks are going to be a roller coaster, and Brick, Blade, and the club have a lot to fucking make up for while hoping Skylar gives them a chance because not having her in your life, well, it’s a travesty, one I learned the hard way by putting the club first, something I will never do again.

She and Tate are my main focus from now on, even if it means leaving the club.