He laughed loudly.“If she did that, I would be dead.”
Nita gasped then slapped his arm.
Chapter Eight
Back at the Clubhouse...
Ironman looked at the siblings and asked, “What else can you tell me about your Uncle Tomas?”
Lily shrugged.“Our grandfather used to talk about being raised in his father’s house.Jesus Sanchez was not a very kind man.In fact, he was an outlaw back in old Mexico.He raised Tomas to be just like him but our grandfather got out of there as soon as he could.He tried to go the straight and narrow but his own father refused to allow that.Grandfather finally fell under his pressure and raised our father and our uncles in the ways of his own father.”
“In other words,” Canto picked up the conversation.“He started a new branch of the family who are still below the border.Then our father and his brothers started the next generation of that same family.”
Lily looked at her brother and shaking her head she added, “I never wanted to be this person.But I never had a choice.Canto didn’t have much of a choice either, but at least we weren’t as bad as Ricco and Gabriel.But only because we chose not to be.We stood to gain a brutal death if we refused a task.In front of the family, we were just as bad as they ever were, but we never succumbed to the devil that rode them.”
Canto shook his head.“But it took its own kind of toll on you didn’t it?Every single time you pretended to be obedient to father’s wishes you would go to bed and puke.Sometimes all night long.”
Lily looked surprised and stared at her brother.“How the hell did you know that?”she asked.
“You forget that my room is next to yours.I used to listen to you on those nights.You usually just cried but there were times when I listened to you puke your guts out.”
Ironman stared at her face then he shook his head.She certainly wasn’t the complete badass creature she was reputed to be.Her life had been harsh; he could see that.He wondered how she balanced all of that.Then again, as her brother pointed out, she really did not handle it with total bravado all the time.And who could blame her?
An hour later...
Lily couldn’t rest.Her world had changed in just the last few hours.No more Eduardo or Ricco.No more Joel.That might be the best part.No marriage to that monster.He had tried to get at her for sex a few times already and she managed to evade his advances if you could call them that.More like an attempted sexual attack really.
She might face jail in this, but hell, she did not care.When she got out, she would actually be free.If Uncle Tomas survived this, he would not insist on her being a part of the cartel family.He was totally old school like she had told the bikers today and women were not allowed to be members in his part of it.Canto could slip away with her too, she hoped.But what if Tomas wouldn’t allow that?
She sighed and prayed that they would both get free finally.Yes, she prayed.In secret.Always had.Her mother taught her to do so and she also warned Lily not to allow Eduardo to catch on to that.He detested the church.Lily thought it was because he was truly the devil, but her mother said he never like the idea of being subservient to anyone, even God.
Now Lily got a feeling...The same kind she got when Eduardo had men watching this place.She looked over at the wall clock to check on the time when she caught movement outside through the window.She saw a man standing just beyond the fenceline and two other men stood with him on each side.
Lily froze and stared at them.It was her uncle and his two guards.
He had spotted her for sure as he glared at her then he slowly raised his hand and drew a line across his throat.
