Ari

Peyton went back to work today and Ellie is still with locklynn, so it's just charlie and I at home, along with whatever members of the mc my dad has on the property.

"Ari?" I hear Shane, a prospect call out from the front of the house

"In the living room" I shout back

"Hey, you had a delivery" He says when he walks in with vases of flowers. He sets them on the table.

"Thank you" I tell him as he leaves the room. Dad make it clear to his boys to give me my space. So they just check in every few hours, but for the most part stay invisible to me.

The big bouquet has red camellias, red roses, and baby's breath. The smaller one has lilac and yellow lilies.

I see a card in each of them and pull the one from the large flowers first

Angel, Good morning my beautiful girl. I hope your day is full of smiles. I hope you know how loved you are. I hope you're remebering the good and not the bad. My greatest hope is you're remebering us, the true amd undeniable love we share even now, you are and always will be the best thing in my life. Always and forever your Sebby ❤️

I take a shuttering breath and wipe the tears from bellow my eyes before grabbing the letter out of the smaller bouquet.

Princess charlie, Good morning sweetheart. I hope you have a great day filled with fun and laughter. I hope your bright light never dulls. I hope you feel the love that surrounds you. I can't wait to see what the future holds for you. I want to tell you thank you charlie. Thank you for saving your mommy when I couldnt. I promise I'll try to live up to your stories. Forever and always, Your prince sebby ❤️

Fuck my life now I'm sobbing. He's not just trying to get me back. He want us he wants me and charlie.

"Mommy otay?" Charlie asks from her spot on the floor where she's watching a movie.

"Yeah baby, mommy's okay. Look at the pretty flowers sebby sent us."

"For me?" She asks with a wide smile.

"Mmhmmm, one for you one for me. Do you want me to read you what he wrote for you?"

"Pwease" she says coming to sit next to me. After I read to her I look at her and I didn't even know her smile could get any wider. "My prince sebby"

I can't even answer her my throat is clogged with so many emotions. Maybe it was a bad idea to read her the note, to feed into the prince sebby idea I put into her head. It could never work.

Seb moved on. He has daisy. He has his own life apart from me now. It's been years. I have been holding onto anger at him, at my dad, eli, Parker, everyone really for giving up on me. I really don't blame them though. I shouldn't have expected everyone to put their lives on hold. What if I was dead, I would have wanted them to be happy.

The phone ari gave me before she left for work buzzes on the table. When I flip it over I see it's my dad. "Hey, dad."

"Hey sweetheart."

"What's up?"

"We have him" he sound hesitant like ge doesn't know if he should be telling me this or not.

"You have marcus?"

"Yeah, ari we have marcus"

"H-how?" I cry

"A friend from new York found him and had him delivered."

"I'm coming" I state after I'm able to pull myself together.

"Ari. Sweetheart. I don't think that's a good idea. I just wanted you to know." He sighs

"Dad, I need to be there. I need to see him for myself. I need to know he is feeling a fraction of the pain he inflicted on me."

It's slient for a long moment before ge responds. "Fine, your car is still in the garage. Charlie has a carseat already installed"

"Thats all great dad, but you're forgetting one small detail."

"What's that?"

"I don't have a license, remeber kidnapped at fifteen held hostage for three years?"

"Fuck, yeah, okay. I'll call one of the guys there and have them drive you in your car here."

"Thanks dad."

"See you soon. I love you ari."

"I love you too" I tell him before hanging up the phone.

After getting charlie and myself ready we head out to the garage where Shane is waiting "hey" I say as I approach him.

"Hey" He smiles at me. Shane is actually very good looking. He's tall and built with golden hair and icy eyes, I'm sure he has no problem with the woman. I have wondered since I met him a couple days ago why he joined the club. He could literally be on the cover of magazines.

"Thanks for driving us."

"It's not a problem." He winks at me and opens the back door so I could put ari in her carseat. "This is a nice car" he says after I take my Seat on the passenger side.

"It was my fifteenth birthday present. I have only drove it a couple times to practice, before..."

He nods in understanding before backing out of the garage. It feels strange to be in a car this is only the second time I have in three long years.

The gates open when we approach them and we're waved in by another prosecpt. The number of bikes in the lot has doubled at least since last time I was here. I take a nervous breath as Shane parks my car. He immediately gets out of the car and comes to my side to open my door for me, once im out he goes and opens Charlie's door for me. "Thanks" I say softly to him.

"A beautiful woman should never touch a door handle." He smiles at me again

Is he flirting with me?

I grab a sleeping charlie out if her carseat and Shane grabs her diaper bag. "I'll take that" I hear a familiar voice say. I turn the see seb standing there, and it causes butterflies to take flight in my stomach.

"Huh?" I ask him.

He narrows his eyes at Shane "the bag." He nods at Charlie's diaper bag. Shane hands it over before seb moves his gave to me "Hey angel, do you want me to take her?"

"No. I got her" I tell him and start walking towards my dad who's standing by the clubhouse doors. Seb falls in step with me placing a hand on the small of my back "Thank you for the flowers" I say quietly.

"You're welcome. I hope you liked them"

"They're beautiful"

"Hey sweetheart" dad say when we reach him.

"Hey, dad."

"I had eli call locklynn to come by so she can keep an eye on charlie. I figured you'd be most comfortable with her doing it since pey is still at work."

I nod my head in agreement. Thankful he thought about it because my brain has been so scattered since the phone call I hadn't thought about it.

"Ari" locklynn says with tears in her eyes when I walk in. I haven't seen her since I have been home, she looks the same though.

"Hi" I smile at her

"I missed you so much" she says and pulls me into a hug.

"I missed you too." And I really did locklynn was like a sister to me. She was there since the first day I was at my dad's. "Do you mind keeping an eye on her for me?"

"No problem, ellie is eating lunch then we'll go outside and play."

"Thank you" I tell her passing over a still sleeping charlie to her.

"She's beautiful ari" she coos

"Yeah, she really is."

I see seb putting down Charlie's diaper bag by the couch. "Ready?" Dad asks hesitantly.

"Yes" I tell him firmly. I am ready. I'm ready to stop being afraid. I'm ready to sleep without nightmares. I'm ready to stop getting panick attacks. I'm hoping this will help with all that. What I'm most ready for is for my daughter to be safe.

I follow my dad outside to the building behind the clubhouse with seb following close behind. Jasper is standing outside and opens the door for us. When we step in I see Eli and Parker standing with thier back towards us. When the door closes they both turn our direction to reveal marcus tied to a chair.

"There's my pretty little whore" marcus smiles sadisticly at me.

"Watch your fucking mouth" seb growls at him.

Marcus' smile widens "you must be seb. My girl here used to scream for you to help her when I was shoving my cock In her" He laughs.

He wasn't lying I used to scream and cry for seb to save me, hoping by some miracle he'd hear me.

"You're going to be the one screaming here in a minute you sick fuck" Eli seethe in his face.

"What's wrong seb? Still angry I took her virginity. You snooze you loose. Look on the bright side kid, now she has all kinds of experience."

Seb lunges forward but is grabbed by Parker and he whispers something into his ear, and seb takes a step back.

"You really gonna kill your grandpa kid?" Marcus turns his focus to eli

"No, I'm not going to kill you. Sebs going to kill you, but I'm sure as fuck going to torture you for what you did to my sister."

"She's not your blood, but charlie is. You going to kill your nieces daddy?" The tone in marcus'voice is one of amusement.

My body stiffens before I speak. "You don't know that charlie shares your DNA. How many men did you send down there? Any of them could have gotten me pregnant. But let me make one thing clear none of you sick bastered are her father. She is mine and mine alone." I try to keep myself under control but can feel my anger bubbling to the surface.

"Seven" He smiles. I look at him questioning what he's talking about "seven men have been inside of your pussy." He states before looking back to seb "Sorry buddy but you can be lucky number eight"