“Mister, I’m just tired of seeing them step on everyone.Sick of them killing people rather than make anything right.Then they just walked away.They never get arrested or stopped,” she said wearily.“My mom was a victim from the day Gabreil first saw her.He decided she was going to be his lover and she didn’t get a vote on whether she wanted to be there or not.He never bothered using protection so when she got pregnant with me, he didn’t bother caring about his responsibility either.No, he just walked away.She tried, she really tried to care about me, but every time she looked at me she saw him and his callousness.He never cared for her or me but he wouldn’t let us go either.The day he snapped her neck he just walked out of the apartment like there was nothing left for him within those walls.”
“Where did you go after that?”Ridge asked her.
“My mom’s sister came over that night.She found me and mom in the apartment and after she called the cops, she took me home with her.My Aunt Mary raised me, she tried to make me see that the Sanchez’s were people I should just stay away from, so I always watched them from afar.I never let them see me but I still watched and learned about them.Because I knew that one day when I was grown, I was going to bring that whole family down.I was going to spit in my father’s face and call him a loser.”She sighed heavily.“Ricco took that day away from me but I can still bring the rest of them down.”
Hot Rod shook his head at her hate and vengeful heart.He understood it, but he knew it wasn’t healthy.He walked closer to the sling trap.Taking his knife out of its leather sheath, he cut the ropes that held it in place.
The woman hit the ground with a heavy thud and then she slowly raised her head to glare at him.
Chapter Three
Not seeming to seethat his move was the worst way to get her out of the sling, Hot Rod just put his knife away then held out his hand to her.
Crank, Ridge and Titus shook their heads at his actions.They knew how he was.Straight to the point and never sorry about it.
She gave him probably the dirtiest look as she growled low then put her hand in his.
“So what’s your name, honey?”Hot Rod asked her as he tugged her up to her feet.
“Nita Rivers,sweetheart,” she snapped.“So maybe call me Nita, not honey.”
“Nita?”Crank asked.“As in Anita?”
Nita shook her head.“Not Anita, Bonita.But I always hated that name as it was Gabriel’s mother’s name and I wanted nothing to do with that family at all.”She shrugged.“I was told Gabriel himself gave me the name.He came to the hospital the night I was born.When I was older, my aunt told me that he stayed long enough to fill out the paperwork then he left.He didn’t even see my mother or me, he just wanted his name on the birth certificate.My mother didn’t want child support from him but later on, the state went after him for support not my mother.I guess he figured if she was dead, she couldn’t claim it.Guess he forgot that he signed the certificate and she didn’t.He didn’t hang out around her after I was born.No, he moved onto maybe fifteen or twenty female victims, cause they weren’t willing girlfriends, that is for sure.The man was a disgusting POS.”
Hot Rod just shook his head again at her fiery hatred.“Come with us.You can’t stay out here in the dark.”
She took a few steps to the nearest big tree and retrieved her backpack then slung it over her shoulder.She joined the guys.
They all turned to head back to the clubhouse.No one said a word as they moved along.Only when they reached the fenceline did Nita clear her throat and asked what had been on her mind, “So, what’s gonna happen to me once we get there?”
Hot Rod turned to face her.“I suppose it all depends on what you can tell us about the Sanchez crew coming this way.Bouncer isn’t going to believe your story much, as soon as he hears it.”
She glared at him.“You are going to deliver me to a man who doesn’t know the first thing about me?And you’re going to tell him because I once carried the name Sanchez I must be a spy for that fucking family?”
Hot Rod just stared at her then he shook his head.“No little girl, I don’t think any such thing.You aren’t a spy, not in my books.But even you have to admit you have a connection to that family, maybe not one of your own making.But Gabreil is still your father, Eduardo is still your grandfather.So until Bouncer realizes you aren’t part of them, he’s gonna pin Gabriel’s mistake on your shoulders.That’s just the way he is.”
