“Anyway, Katie you were going to say?” I know after I tell her I’m going to get that poor kid look.
“I don’t have any family. No one will be coming.” I hesitate to look at her, but when I do I see no pity in her eyes.
“You have no one? What about friends? You said you had to work tomorrow.” Lillian is grasping for straws. Stacy is my only real friend and she is twenty years old with two children and a husband, so I would never impose. Mr. Brown is a kind man, but again, he has his own family. We don’t have that kind of working relationship. I keep my job by working hard and showing up every day I’m scheduled to work. On time every time. I do the jobs everyone else hates and I don’t complain. I’m lucky to have a job. Especially one with insurance and that works around my college schedule.
“No, ma’am. My boss is all business and my only friend has a full plate with two children. I go to TJC and work on a horse ranch. If I don’t work, I will lose my apartment and have nothing to eat, so I will be going to work. Do you have a phone I could borrow? I will pay you for the call as soon as I can get my ATM card.” Maybe she’ll see I’m telling the truth. Jethro is looking at me like I’m out of my mind. Now that I really look at him, he is scary looking. Handsome but scary. He’s wearing black jeans and a black tee and has some kind of vest or something on with patches on it.
Lillian looks at her Jethro and then back to me. “Jethro, can I speak to you outside for just a minute? When we come back in you can use my phone.” I don’t know what’s up, but as long as I can use her phone, I’ll wait. Not like I’m going anywhere right now.
Chapter 2
Lillian
Jethro is already giving me that look as he comes out of the door. He knows what I’m up to, but I don’t care. Katie needs someone to take care of her and I want to be that someone. I need some female companionship. I’ve always wanted a daughter. We couldn’t have our own children. We just weren’t blessed that way. We’ve as much as adopted Billy and Gage. Why not a daughter? The only females around our place are club girls and I don’t go there. None of the brothers have old ladies. I know I can talk him into it and Katie needs family this close to the holidays. No one should be alone during Christmas. I wonder how many holidays she’s spent by herself.
“Don’t start, Lil. We have the boys, and this girl has her own life. Besides, she is so innocent. She probably doesn’t even know what a motorcycle club is. She won’t understand our lifestyle. We’ll help her out and then she can get back to her life, and we can get back to ours.” Jethro looks like he just solved everything.
“Jethro, please. You know I always wanted a daughter. You have the boys and your brothers in the club. We can teach her and bring her into it, slowly. It’s not like I am asking if she can be one of the club girls, or someone’s old lady. She needs us. She’s too young to be all alone and have to work so hard. We can help her. We have so much and we can afford to it.” I give Jethro my saddest eyes. The ones he can never say no to. “Please. She can make our family better.” He will give in to me.
“Lillian, if I had known when we met you would bring every stray home, I would have built us a motel instead of a house with a kennel in the back yard for all the four legged adoptions. What am I going to do with you? We have to check her out first. I’ll call Zig Zag to get on it. It’s your job to talk to her about it. Woman you drive me to the verge of insanity, but I couldn’t live without you or your big heart. Last night when I got that call and heard you were in a wreck, my heart stopped and I couldn’t breathe. You are my life woman.” Jethro takes me in his arms and hugs me so tight I can barely breathe, then he kisses me until we are both breathless. “I’m going to go find Con and call Zig Zag. Shine will be here soon to relieve Con and I will let him know everything. I’ll see if we can find some descent food around here for her.” He slaps my backside and turns to leave.
“I love you, Jethro. I’ll show my appreciation later. You’ll see, she’ll make our family whole.” I give him my biggest smile.
“Babe, our family is fine, but you’re usually right about these things.” He has a sexy smile on his face. “And I know you’ll show your appreciation, you always do.” With that he walks away, looking so sexy doing it. He is the love of my life.