“Darlin’, you’ll earn it and you are worth that and more.” Cap thinks I am worth something. For some reason that brings tears to my eyes.
“Katie, follow me and you can rest until I get us something to eat. With all the excitement we forgot to stop. I’ll get a brunch figured up.” I think I just want a nap. We leave the men behind and go up the stairs to the bedrooms. I never expected a room so big and extravagant. This one room seems bigger than my whole apartment. Over by what I guess is the closet door is three boxes and a trash bag of my things. My clothes are on the bed. I see it has its own bathroom.
“Are you sure you want me to stay in here? It is very nice and so big.” Lil is looking at my clothes on the bed.
“Yes, this room looks out over the back yard and our pond. It’s very pretty early in the morning and late in the afternoon. I’ll ask Con where they put your other clothes.” She taking my clothes and hanging them in the closet.
“It looks like this is all of them, except for the ones I had in drawers.” I go and look in one of the boxes and then another and there they are. “It looks like everything is here.”
“This all your things? Okay. I will hang the rest of these up. You make yourself comfortable and when I finish I will get us some brunch.” Lil finishes and looks back at me. “Well, that’s done. I’ll send one of the men after you when brunch is ready. Rest.” Then she leaves me. So I lay on the bed and give in to my tiredness. All this just has my head on spin and I need sleep.
Chapter 8
Shine
Lil is coming down the stairs with a not so happy look on her face. In fact, it is a pissed look, as in, no one better mess with her look. She comes right up in between Cap and myself and says in a hushed voice. “That girl does not have a pot to piss in. She has less clothes than Sylvia does.” Sylvia is Lil’s Pomeranian. Lil dresses her up for every holiday. “Jethro, we are buying her some clothes and I won’t take no for an answer. Women need clothes. She only has three pair of shoes and one of them is a pair of rubber boots. Christmas is two weeks away and we are spoiling her. She needs it and that’s my last word on it.” Lil is on a mission.
“Lil, you need to calm down. Christmas is the perfect time to buy her things and I figured out a hell of a long time ago women need clothes by our credit card bills.” Lil has always been a little spoiled by Cap, but her shopping sprees are legendary. She bought a diamond dog collar for Sylvia and Cap hit the roof.
“I couldn’t believe when we went to her apartment and that was all she had. I thought we would be there a few hours packing and cleaning, but we were out of there in one hour. Her apartment was small and very clean. She only had a daybed to sit and sleep on. She had three glasses, two plates, and two bowls in her kitchen cabinet. The only food she had was noodles, peanut butter, and cheese and mac. The girl lives with the bare minimum.” Con is concerned, you can see it on his face. “Do you want us to go get her truck from the impound if they have released it?”
“Yes. She probably will want her things out of it. No need to let the wrecking yard have it.” Cap is right on that.
“Lil, I am going to let you have my credit card so you can get Katie whatever she needs. Con is the furniture in the apartment?” He’s nodding his head yes.
“Yeah, but all there was is the daybed, a table she had beside her bed, a dresser, and a microwave. She didn’t even have a chair. You saw what was there.” That is not going to do. My girl deserves more.
“Shine, we have plenty of furniture in storage from when I redid all our guest rooms last spring. I think I even still have a sofa, recliner, and a kitchen nook set.” Lil never throws anything out. This time it will come in handy. “We are going to make sure she has a real family Christmas. We need to get a real tree cut and make sure we do the whole nine yards this year. I don’t want her apartment done too soon. That way she can’t hide away from us. She thinks she can’t fit in here already, so I don’t want to give her a place to hide. We’ll get all the brothers involved.”
“Lil, you know the boys aren’t going to turn down good food. You also know that means bringing her to the club.” Cap is just warning Lil, but I can tell by the look on her face that is not going over too well.
“Jethro, I am telling you and Shine that I will take care of any bitch that tries to mess with Katie. She is going to be family and they better be warned. I will cut a bitch real fast.” Lil is serious.
“That’s my little hellcat. Calm down, Lil. Shine will take care of it.” Cap likes Lil’s feisty side, but it scares the hell out of me. I know she would cut a bitch or anyone else who goes after her loved ones and Katie is definitely that now.