woman I suppose is Harley pipes in.
“Babe, you are,” Isaac chuckles. “Get over here and meet my ol’ lady.”
“Whatever,” Harley giggles but comes forward. “You need to feed your kid,” she says but her attention comes to me. The woman seems apprehensive in holding her hand out to me. Almost as if she were sizing me up at the same time judging me for who I am. “Hi, I’m Venom’s sister. Well, not his real sister but he’s adopted me as such and so here I am his sister.”
Clearing my throat, I nod. “Um, hi.” Then I look up to Isaac. “Lincoln is hungry and needs to eat.”
“Yeah, Sweetness, and so do you,” he mutters with a grin.
I nod but wonder if they have anything here, I could eat. The smell of bacon is intense, and it makes me want to throw up. Why? Because I’ve not been able to eat meat since the day my father shoved a thing of raw sausage in my mouth forcing me to eat it.
This isn’t something anyone wants to experience and the reason I don’t eat meat or anything it touches and why I could barely eat the pizza last night without puking.
Isaac pulls me with him and sets me at a table with Lincoln and then leaves the room. Others retake their seats and go back to eating. A couple of the women look to me as if they want to come over and speak but don’t. Instead, they take their spots at the tables where they were sitting before.
Whip is the first to come back and sits at the table on one side of me, I reach out and grab the chair next to me and bring it close enough to put Lincoln in it. He’s glancing around the room in excitement. When he looks to me, he shocks me. “Aya, Daddy’s family is big,” he says loudly, causing several of Isaac’s brothers to chuckle.
“Why does he call you Aya? Aren’t you his mom?” Rachel asks.
I shake my head at the same time Isaac sets a plate down in front of me. I don’t have to look down to see what’s on it and already my stomach is turning. Oh God, I can’t eat this.
“Amaya isn’t his mom but she’s his guardian. She got in last night and we still have a lot to speak about but one of them won’t be about Lincoln’s mom. The bitch, I’ll be speaking to her personally when I call her to ream her a new asshole,” he announces.
Um, what?
He’s going to call Emilia?
Oh boy.
I just know she’s going to show up and charm her way back into his arms again. Then what? I’ll have to watch yet again as she takes Isaac away from me.
Whoa, he’s not even mine. Doesn’t matter what he says, I’m not anything to him. How could I be when I’m nothing. I just need to hightail it out of here and get gone. They don’t need me here and I don’t want to cause them any issues. Especially now with a fifty-million-dollar bounty out for me.
Those men will do anything to get their hands on me and I’m not about to let that happen. I won’t do as they want. I know who it is, and I refuse to work for them. They tried to get me to work for them in the past two years, but I deny them each time.
My work is to help people not hurt them. Well, at least I don’t want to hurt good people, like they do.
Chapter Thirteen
Venom
Sitting next to Lincoln I keep switching my gaze between the two of them. Where my kid is tearing his waffle up and eating the bacon, Amaya hasn’t touched her food.
To say the least she’s surprised me in a lot of ways this morning and none of it she’s said a word about. I sure as fuck wouldn’t have thought she would be the woman Nerd has mentioned, in church, working with in the past. Or that she’s the one he wanted to bring in on finding the men who wanted to auction off the women we’d found months ago.
Let’s just say she doesn’t seem the type, but then again, I can’t be surprised she’s a beautiful woman who is quiet and keeps to herself. For her to do something that could potentially be dangerous, she’s kept herself guarded.
Amaya, at twenty-four years old, seems to have been through more shit than I can imagine, and I