Shady: MC Romance (21 page)

She looked at the sleeping form on the bed and sighed. Who was she? They only knew the name Jas, and that was all. Tami hadn’t known anything else, mostly because the girl had been drugged the entire time Tami had been there. She had woken only a few times to beg Tami to take her out of there.

“Please,” Shady heard the girl moan and Shady stood. She was waking up finally.

“Jas?” Shady whispered and grabbed the girl’s hand as she began to move around. “Hey, you are safe.”

“Safe?” Jas said pathetically. “I am never safe.” She slurred and Shady leaned over and put a hand on her cheek.

“Yes, you are safe,” Shady said. “No one is going to hurt you here.”

Jas opened her eyes slowly and looked around, her blue eyes taking in her surroundings. She was weak, and could barely lift her head. Shady pulled a pillow from the chair and carefully lifted the girl up, pushing it under her. Then she grabbed the glass on the table that held cold water and held it to the girl’s lips. Slowly, the girl drank a sip through the straw.

When she was done, she pulled back. “Who are you?”

“My name is Shady,” she replied and grabbed the girl’s hand again. “We know your first name is Jas, but what is your last name?”

The girl was shivering, Shady chose to not address that yet, she needed to find out more about her before she started going into heavy withdrawals. The doc said it was coming, and if the sheen of sweat on the girl’s forehead and lip were any indication, she was going to start very soon. Shady knew it was going to be miserable, she had seen it plenty of times with her friends on the street. Thankfully, she had never gotten that heavily into drugs, she had smoked pot, and that was it.

“Don’t have a last name,” the girl said through her chattering teeth. “Cold.”

“I know you are,” Shady said slowly and pulled up the blanket. “You are going to feel like crap for a few days, the drugs they had you on are going to mess with you a little until your body pushes them all out of your system. So what do you mean you don’t have a last name?”

Jas closed her eyes and Shady could see the tears leaking out of the side. “Don’t have a last name because no one knows who I belong to.”

“Surely you remember your family?” Shady said.

“Nope, I was told my mother sold me to a guy for a hundred bucks because he liked little girls to call him daddy. He wasn’t creepy or anything, just liked to dress me up and then whack off while I played. First memory I have,” Jas said.

Shady frowned and leaned back. “Then?”

“Guy died, choking himself, the cops came and put me in the system. Lived with some church family for a few years, got sick of them and left.” Jas groaned and tried to push herself up. “Lived on the streets since I was twelve. Guys nabbed me a while ago, promised that if I ran errands for them they would pay me. It was a trap and they locked me up.”

“Where was this?” Shady asked and took a washcloth and put warm water on it from the small basin she had gotten before, and washed the girl's face slowly. Jas shivered again more violently this time and Shady ignored it.

“Dallas,” Jas said and then frowned. “Why, where am I?”

“Nevada,” Shady said and the girl moaned and put a hand over her face.

“Shit,” the girl whispered. “Sadie.”

“Sadie?” Shady asked.

“A girl I was watching, she is eleven, ran away from her stepfather,” Jas said.

“Where is she?” Shady asked.

“Last time I saw her she was going to get some food and bring it back to the house we were squatting in,” Jas said slowly. “Shit, I think they got her too.”

“Let’s concentrate on you and then we will see about her,” Shady said and then stood and grabbed the bottle of pills the doctor had left. “This should help with the detox.”

The girl looked at Shady warily but she took the pill. “I guess if you wanted to kill me you would have already.”

“I just want to help you” Shady whispered and watched as the girl swallowed the pill.

“Why?” Jas asked and leaned back against the pillows, her eyes getting heavy again.

“Because I was like you, and someone saved me,” Shady whispered but Jas was asleep, or at least that is what she thought, but the girl heard her and ignored it. The woman was wrong, no one knew what she had been through, and no one cared. Jas just had to get strong enough to leave.

*****

“Come on, Shay, you need some rest,” Slider said softly into her ear. She had fallen asleep in the chair watching Jas. She stirred and looked at the girl who was still sleeping.

“How long was I out?” Shady asked.

“Don’t know, we have been here for an hour and you haven’t stirred. Harmony is coming in to take over for a while. Come on, you need to get some rest,” Cajun said on the other side of her.

Shady shook her head. “No, I need to take care of her.”

“You can, when you get some sleep,” Slider said.

“No, if she wakes up and I am gone she will not believe when I say I want to help her,” Shady argued. “Just bring me in a bed and I will sleep here.”

“Shay?” Cajun went to argue.

“NO!” Shady hissed. “I am not leaving.”

Slider stood and ran his hand down his face, they were all exhausted, and this battle was one none of them wanted to have. So the guys did as she said and went out and had the Prospects bring in a bed for Shady. Cajun and Slider brought in another chair so they could both sit guard as well.

It was a good thing to because when the shit hit the fan first thing in the morning they were right on hand to deal with it.

Chapter Nineteen

“LET ME GO!” Jas screamed as she was shaking violently trying to get out of bed. The girl had woken up from a nightmare apparently, and had no clue where she was.

This was the fourth time she had woken tonight. Slider and Cajun had both helped when she had woken. The girl had fought them at first, but then it was like she knew they weren’t going to hurt her.

Shady and the guys tried to talk to her but she was too far gone. She was in the middle of withdrawals and seeing things, she only knew they would take care of her. Shady was prepared and had already gotten the straps needed to keep the girl from hurting herself. It was getting them on that was the problem. Shady should have done it when she was asleep, but honestly, she didn’t want to do that to the poor girl. She had been through so much already.

“We need to tie her down,” Shady growled to Cajun and Slider.

“NOOOOOOO,” Jas screamed and tried to fight harder. The only thing going for the three of them was the girl was still weak, or they would have had a hell of a time getting her restrained. “Please, anything but that!” Jas had screamed and they all felt guilty.

By the time they were done all of them were panting and out of breath, and Jas was kicking and fighting to get free, but she was unable to hurt herself at least. Shady looked at the men and knew they were in for the long haul with her. Damn, maybe they did have her back.

When the girl had woken up again and began screaming in terror the guys had jumped to their feet thinking someone was in the room. Shay had noticed their need to protect Jas already. There was no one but when Jas’s eyes latched onto the guys, she had freaked even more. Shady had tried to calm her down, but she wouldn’t focus on anything but getting free.

“Should we call the doctor?” Cajun asked.

Shady shook her head. “No, been through this before, just need to make it through the first twenty-four hours. Then we will be able to talk to her again. Right now, her body is screaming for a fix. She needs to ride it out.”

“Fuck,” Slider whispered. “This sucks.”

“Yeah,” Shady said and then sat back in her chair and watched. She grabbed a hold of the girl’s hand and held on, talking softly to her. Cajun and Slider both nodded and took up their post again watching to make sure the girl didn’t hurt herself, and no one could get in unless they wanted them too.

*****

“You need to go and get an update,” Shady said to Slider when Jas settled down again. The girl wasn’t asleep, she was staring at the ceiling in the room, refusing to acknowledge them. So far, the colorful array of names she came up with for them had been entertaining.

“I will,” Cajun said and stood. “Want me to bring you back some food?”

“Yeah,” Slider said and looked at Shady who had barely slept at all. “Babe, you need to take a break.”

Shady shook her head. “Not until she is out of the woods.”

Slider sighed and then nodded to Cajun who left the room.

*****

“The Savages came and got Tami. The sister was relieved and very grateful that we found her. Plus, Tonto and the others were pissed when they found out the girl had not just run away like they thought. The Diablos took one of theirs, and they are gonna pay for that,” Creed said.

“We have the Intel the girls gave us from Lola, we know the time and place of the drop. We have five more days until then,” Fork said seriously. “After that, we leave for Mexico to deal with the head of the snake.”

Cajun nodded and looked at the plans the guys had drawn up. They had some serious firepower already on their way to the border of Mexico. They were going to set up in the small town closest to the compound that Reyes was hiding in and gather Intel until they arrived. The guys from Cali were leading the way.

The Savages and the Warriors were going to deal with the local problem before they took off. The owner of the storage place was allowing them access to three of the sheds surrounding the area of the buy for them to hide in. They were making plans on who was going to go where.

*****

“Please,” Jas screamed, begging for the drugs the assholes had gotten her hooked on. Shady ignored her and wiped her forehead again. “You bitch,” Jas screamed. “You don’t even know me, fucking let me go and I will get it myself.”

“No,” Shady said softly and then sat back down.

“I am going to kill you,” Jas screamed.

“Yeah, when you can stand up on your two feet without jonesing for a hit, you can give that a shot, until then, suck it up,” Shady growled.

“Fuck you,” she screamed.

“Yeah, keep screaming,” Shady said, sounding bored. Slider watched her and he knew that she wasn’t as cool as she was letting on. But there was nothing she could do about it right now. The girl was clearly out of her head.

*****

Shady opened her eyes and looked around the room, Cajun had come back in at some point while she had dosed and was quietly sitting in the chair beside her. Jas was still out, only slight tremors shaking her body in sleep.

Shady watched her body as if willing the movement to stop. She was so focused she almost missed the sound of the door click open.

“She settling down?” Slider whispered to Cajun and Shady as he came back in, carrying their dinner. It had been over twenty-four hours and the worst of it was over. Although the girl was still shivering and shaking, she had stopped screaming and pleading for drugs. It had been an intense day.

“Yeah,” Shady whispered. “I hope she sleeps through the tonight.”

*****

“Why do you care so much?” Jas yelled weakly when she woke up in the morning after sleeping all the way through the night. Shady, Cajun, and Slider had actually been able to catch a few winks and weren't completely exhausted like they had been. Shady had taken off the restraints in the middle of the night.

When the girl woke up, she had been confused and not able to remember anything. Shady had just gotten done telling her what happened and how they had brought her back to the clubhouse to take care of.

“You should have called Social Services. They would have gotten me help,” Jas said.

“We did and had the police run your prints. You are not in any database in Dallas or anywhere else. No missing person matches your description,” Cajun said and the girl nodded.

“Yeah, I don’t exist,” she said flatly and Shady growled and took the girl by the hands and looked her in the eye.

“You do,” Shady said fiercely. “You exist.”

Jas shook her head and started to say. “You don’t know…”

“I know,” Shady said, “I know you.”

Jas shook her head. “No you don’t.”

“Yes, and I don’t care. Whatever you have done, I don’t care. None of us do. You are who you are. The lady at Social Services said you could say here. If no one comes forward to claim you, you can stay here. It is up to you,” Shady said and took the girl's hand. “Let us help you.”

Shady had asked the club if Jas had nowhere else to go if she could stay with her. Cajun and Slider had backed her and said they would do what they had to do to help the girl. Everyone had agreed.

“Why?” Jas whispered.

“Because someone helped me,” Shady said. “I was on the street for two years before they found me and saved me. You have been on the streets longer.”

“You can’t save me,” Jas said and looked away from Shady.

“If you let me I can,” Shady said and grabbed the girl’s chin and turned it back to her. “Please.”

The girl looked like she was struggling to get air in her lungs. They all knew it was because she was holding in her tears. The girl didn’t think she was worth the hassle. It was sad, and the trio separately vowed to make sure the girl found some value in life and realized what it was like to belong somewhere.

Jas finally let lose a cry and buried her head into Shady’s neck. The impact nearly knocked her off the bed but she held firm.

Shady closed her eyes and held on as the small girl wept every tear she could. Slider came to the side one side of the bed and Cajun came to the other and the girl looked up at them warily. Both guys shook their head and Slider whispered.

“You have nothing to fear from either of us. We promise you, here, you are safe. There is no one in the place that wouldn't lay down their lives for you if Shay claims you. And just so you know, if she claims you, we do too. We are a package deal.”

It was more than the girl had ever hoped for. All her life she prayed for someone to just care about her, ask her to be a part of their family. Then right when she had been ready to give up, here they were. She didn’t know what to do with this.