Page 11 of Lash’s Love

Sophie looked over at him and shrugged her shoulders, “Macaroni and cheese, Deck.” All the kids look up and stare at what is on their mother’s plate and a chorus of ewwwwwws come around the table.

“Mama, that is not mac ‘n cheese. Why in the heck would you eat that?” comes from Daisy next to me.

“Yeah mama, dat nasty. I wik mac cheese, dat no mac cheese.” Says Delaney from next to Sophie.

“Hey, leave my dinner alone, this is what the babies want.”

All the kids stopped eating, but the twins looked from me to Sophie. I forgot we had not mentioned to the kids with everything that was going on that we were having another set of twins and that this time they are two little boys.

“BABIES?!?!?” Declan, Daisy and Dare yelled together at once.

Delaney just looked confused and shook her head at everyone, “Duh, mama hab baby in her tummy.”

I look up at Sophie and she is looking at me with a smile on her face and she nods her head as if to tell me I can go ahead and tell them what is going on, I guess that is my queue to let her continue to eat her nasty meal.

“Yeah guys, we are sorry with everything that has gone on the last couple of days. We forgot to tell you that mom is having twins. We did find out when had an ultrasound done before Dallas and Dash were going to be released from the hospital.”

“Yeah, we seen the babies on the tv. I sad cause they are brudders and not sissies.”

“Heck yeah! More boys! Okay, I was worried we were going to have more girls in this house and I think that the three we have are more than enough. I mean if we could make it so we don’t have any more girls, that would be great. They take way too long in the bathroom in the morning, if Daisy is anything to go by. She’s eight and she acts like she has to impress people. Plus I don’t want to have to worry about any more girls and guys getting the wrong idea. I mean, dad, there is this boy at school that talks about how cute Daisy is all the time. I have to threaten him to keep him away from her.” Declan states.

I knew the boys would be thrilled, I mean to be fair we have a lot of testosterone in this house. I’m sure when they all hit puberty we are going to be in for one hell of a ride.

“Daisy isn’t allowed to date til she’s thirty. So good lookin’ out Deck.” I say and Sophie just snorts from across the table. I have no room to talk whatsoever when it comes to any relationships my kids have, they are too young to realize it now, but Sophie and I are very young to already have six kids and two more on the way. At 27, we’ve definitely got a big head start of most people our age. Getting pregnant with Declan at 17 was not planned, but thankfully we both have two families that are very understanding and helped us through that first year. I’ve always known Sophie was it for me and I haven’t looked back since. My love for her is intense and infinite.

“Daddy, I can date whenever I want. As long as I keep it strictly hand holding. We don’t have to do the kissing part until we are like 11.” I think I am going to have a heart attack, did my baby just tell me that in three years she is going to start kissing boys? At this point Sophie is silently laughing so hard that her shoulders are shaking as she continues to eat her nasty as fuck mac ‘n cheese. Giving me no support whatsoever with this conversation.

“Little Bloom, you better not be kissing any boys in three years do you hear me? You only kiss somebody when you’re married. That’s why mama and I do it.”

She gives me a look that I swear says I’m dumb. She is too young for that fucking look.

“Daddy, if that were true then I wouldn’t see Uncle Cane and Uncle Cannon kissing people all the time. Or even any of the uncles at the clubhouse. I know they aren’t married to those ladies that walk around there.”

At this point in time I think I am going to murder some of my brother-in-laws. Not to mention any of my brothers at the club. How in the hell are kids so observant. Maybe I can keep them away from the clubhouse forever and she will never figure out what those women are for. Then she will never realize you don’t have to be married to do all the things with boys.

“Well Daisy, they are all naughty and probably going to get all sorts of icky germs from those people. You don’t want to get icky germs do you? Cooties are no joke, little bloom. So do daddy a favor and never kiss a boy until you are married or ever. Otherwise, we will have to send Declan after them, maybe even Dare.”

“Fine.” she huffs at me and continues to eat.

After that conversation I’m going to need a beer. My kids are too young for this shit. I don’t want to hear any talk of girlfriends or boyfriends anytime in the near future.

Chapter Twelve

Sophie

A week has passed since we brought the kids back home and Toby has been living at home with us again. Dash and Dallas have gone twice this week. The other kids start tomorrow which will be nice for all of us. Everything has been going smoothly this week and despite some occasional nightmares from the twins everything has been going alright. I am glad they have someone to talk to when things get bumpy.

All six of the kids are staying with my dad, Davis and Tillie while Toby and I head to couples counseling. I have yet to have individual therapy, so who knows how this is going to go. We have been trying to make things as normal as possible for the kids, but it is hard when there is still all this hurt and anger that I am carrying. I know that Toby is also probably angry with me for how I reacted, but he would never tell me that. He would do everything he can to make sure I don’t feel his frustration and his stress. I am hoping with therapy and this new found counseling situation he will be able to open up about all his feelings towards everything as well. I have never been more thankful that Devil’s sister is a therapist and has took all of us on to help us move forward in this.

The ride to the therapist office is quiet, Toby’s hand resting on my thigh as we drive down the road with a couple of club brothers driving in front of us. I normally would think that this whole thing is ridiculous, it is ridiculous that we need to have an escort on the way to a doctors office because of the fact that some psychotic person has yet to be caught. When Toby told me that they have not been able to find the higher ups in the crazy MC that I am sure is up to way more than I have been told. But what the club and my sweet husband here does not know is that I have been digging into things, that I have been trained by members of the Sirens to help me learn more about computers than I originally have known. The anonymous helper that sent them information about where the kids were and where their other safehouses and shit were that all came from Nyx, one of the Sirens. She has been the one that has been the most helpful in everything we have been doing to take down Acid’s MC.

I can now hack into lots of systems and using their techniques, strategies and programs I can do way more for the club then I thought possible. I asked for them to teach me all of the skills that they can teach me, but they are waiting to teach me any of the physical skills and techniques until after I have my babies. Toby doesn’t know that I reached out to my Aunt Sera after the kids were taken to get her to give me information to contact the Sirens. Many people do not know much about who the Sirens are and what they do. I’ve heard rumors around the clubhouse and from my brothers about them, so I decided that I could go and ask my aunt who is a badass valkyrie with the Untamed Rebels MC and find out what she knows. If anyone knows anything about another badass group of women it would be one group of badass women

Well she had contact information for one of the assassins that will sometimes help the club with kills and interrogations. So I reached out and just when I thought I wouldn’t get an answer multiple reached out including the woman that founded the Sirens herself, Alessia Romano. She is a member of a very influential Italian family, married into another one here in the United States only to have five kids and then get divorced. It is amazing that she reached out, but she felt for me. I had left that message telling them that I wanted to feel more empowered. So Alessia set up time for me to start their recruitment lessons. Had I thought about becoming a trained assassin before all these things happened? No. Do I think this is going to help me in the future? Yes. We haven’t started anything physical yet due to my pregnancy.

But the things they have already started training me, if my brothers knew, if Toby knew, if anyone knew the things that I have already learned in over four months, I don’t know what they would say. Toby would be angry with me for doing these things without telling him, but this is for me and for my kids. I know that I am a strong business owner and my children would be proud of that by itself, but I want to be more than that. Eventually I’d love to use these skills to help the club, maybe one day they will let that happen. Alessia has talked about the possibility of me helping her at their base of operations here, but we are still discussing it. She has loved how quickly I have caught on to everything they have taught so far.

So far they have been teaching me psychological training which includes reading microexpressions, emotional mirroring, empathy manipulation, predictive behavior analysis, and trauma pattern recognition. Then I have also started on interrogation disciplines which includes female-oriented interrogation, male-oriented interrogation, soft extraction and hard psychological extraction. The things that I have been excelling at are the technology and cyber skills which include phone cloning, basic hacking, digital disappearance, surveillance systems, and device bugging. I’ve also been learning some tactical intelligence skills like pattern recognition, op planning, distraction theory and asset handling. They offered to teach me their social engineering which is friend simulation, authority camouflage, romantic manipulation, and confidence extraction. I kind of shot one of those down and asked to learn everything, but the romantic manipulation. They have a long list of other things to learn and I cannot wait to learn more, but now with all of us staying home instead of going to work. I know that I will have to discuss with them a way to move forward with more training. I want to do everything they have to offer. I want to be able to complete as much as I can. I am not delusional for thinking that I will be able to get away with all this without telling my husband, but for right now this is going to be my little secret.