You're probably wandering why I took off at 17. My story is not the prettiest. It has its' dark moments where I would have rather died than be here. One look into Everleigh and Blade's eyes changes my mind every time. Lets start from the beginning, shall we?

You see, I always thought my dad was my dad. Come to find out he wasn't. I found out when I looked at my birth certificate and my adoption certificate right before my birthday. In order enroll for my college online classes; I need my birth certificate. Mom and dad always keep all our important documents in the top drawer in the filing cabinet in Dad's office in the house. The adoption papers happened to be right behind it. When I read them over and over making sure I am seeing and reading correctly. Numb is the first emotion I feel, hurt comes soon after, and anger hits my soul like a truck. How could they hide something like this from me?

Does Kaiser know? Would he still love me the same way? Will he still care? Will I still be his sister in his eyes? Those are some of the things that crossed my mind. He was my best friend and my brother. What would I do if he doesn't look at me the same? How would I live without my protector if he was to look at me differently? I don't think I could.

The last emotion I feel is betrayed. I have been lied to my whole life. Not a month or a few years. No, my entire fucking life. My entire existences! I hop on the Harley my dad gotten me and I speed down the gravel driveway. Rocks begins to fling everywhere. You can hear some hitting the trees that line the driveway. 

Did I care?  Not one fucking bit. I am hurt. Mostly, I am scared.

Why am I scared?

Simple, I am afraid my entire family wouldn't love me the same. I would be no one to them. To say that didn't hurt would be a lie. My dad, my mother, my brothers, and this MC; they're my family. Well they were. But, I don't think after this, I'll have a family left. I'm afraid I'll see disgust in their eyes. Would my family be disgusted with me? Would my family see me differently? That's what hurts the most. The unknown.

I watch as a prospect ran inside. If I have to honestly guess, he's probably telling my parents I was just now hauling ass down the long driveway. I pull up at the clubhouse's front steps....

Literally.

"Mom! What the fuck is this!" I yell out.

Busting through the clubhouse's front doors, I can tell my face is hot; I'm fuming. It doesn't say Bryant Archer is my father on my birth certificate.... Duke Jenning is listed. My adoption papers say Bryant Archer legally adopted me.

"Mac, what is the matter?" Mom answers.

Tears are falling off my chin as I thrust the crumpled and tear-stained documents into her chest. When she opens the crumpled mess of papers. She lets out a gasp. Her eyes go the size of golf balls. It is almost comical. Except, my world just changed forever. Because her reaction tells me everything I need to know. That my whole life happened to be a big fucking lie.

I don't understand how Bear could not be my father. WE have the same eyes! The same shade and all. I was hoping this paper was a sick joke. But, no mom's reaction proved my life has been a big fat ass horrible lie.

"Let me explain." Mom pleads with me.

"Someone better explain to me! Why does it say dad adopted me!" I scream out at the top of my lungs.

"Princess...." Dad starts of calling me.

I want to run into my daddy's arm and wake up to this being a dream. My life has been taken completely away from me. What I thought was real happens to be the opposite. I thought the truth was yet, a lie. One big fat ugly lie.

"Please, take a seat Mac. Let your parents explain." Pres says.

"Uncle, you knew?" I question.

Pres had always been like a brother figure to my dad. I always thought of him as an uncle really. But the moment I ask him that question. I am cut deeper than I originally thought. He looks down and that is the answer I needed. Kaiser comes running in moments after me. My face is stained with tears as snot falls from my nose.

"Sis! What the hell? You took off like the ground was lava!" Kai says winded.

"Kaiser, did you know?" I turn around and ask my big brother.

"Know fucking what?" Kai fires back.

"Dad isn't my fucking father!" I yell. My face is red and puffy as tears seem to be never ending.

Kaiser's mouth drops. He looks like he isn't even breathing. My legs give out and my ass hits the floor and Kaiser follows suit and is sitting right beside me. He wraps his arms around my crying and crumpled form.

"Please, everyone leave now!" Pres's voice booms.

Everyone except Kaiser, Dad, Mom, and him are left inside the clubhouse with me.

"I..." Dad begins to speak.

"I want the truth dad. Please!" I whisper out to him. My eyes pleading with my father to tell me the truth.

" Let me tell you a story of my past. All your questions will be answered in it." Mom tells me. Kaiser and I both nod our heads.

"When I was little, I was born on the wrong side of the tracks. I was born to a prostitute. She visited the local MC in Vander every weekend. She got knocked up and had me. I grew up quickly and had to learn to raise myself. My mother died when I was 18 from an overdose. The town pitied me because my mother never knew who my father was. I became the club's entertainment. I was a stripper there. I became a club bunny or as some people know it. A sweet butt. Except I only truly every done anything with one man. Before I had walked through the club's doors for a job. The VP's first love took off. Annabelle.." She pauses for a moment before speaking again.

"I was warned not to play with that fire because once she comes back, I would be tossed like trash to the side. I didn't listen and within a matter of months we hooked up. We had our thing for two years...." My mother pauses and looks down at her wedding ring. She begins to tinkle with it as she takes in a deep breath. Moments later she begins to speak again and each time she spoke her voice cracked more and more. My heart broke each time. Knowing she's hurting by reliving her past.

Her trauma.

Just so she can answer the one question I asked.

"I thought..... I thought we would have been together. Marry have children. However, he just used me to get sex and whatever else. Just to forget about her. Two year after she left. He came waltzing in the clubhouse with her attached to his arm. He looked me in the face.. Emotionless.. Announces that his long-lost sweetheart, the President's sister, was his ol' lady. I started to drink more each week. Each week he was parading her around. Two months goes by and he drops to one knee and proposes to her. With me being front and center in the group of members. Weeks later I found out I was four months pregnant.... With you... No one knew he was the father. I said it was from a one-night stand. Once I had you everyone started to noticed you had some of his features. Even him. So, I packed up and moved here with you. I worked at Mac's Bar and they let us stay in the apartment above the bar." She pauses. Tears are now rolling down her face. Tears are welling up in Dad's eyes. Kaiser gives my hand a light squeeze which I repeat his actions back.

"Your dad, Bear has tried for months and months to get me to go on one date. Just one with him. I always refused. Since his mother watched Kaiser and you in their house. We were always together. He was the one who helped you learn to walk. I saw the love he had for you in his eyes. I agreed to one date, knowing it would be more because I was falling for Bear. Eventually Bear and Pres learned who he was and a week later Bear had adoption papers signed and everything. You went from McKenzie Isabella Compton-Jenning to McKenzie Isabella Archer. We didn't want to hurt you or confuse you. So, we decided to keep it a secret. Locked away in our hearts. To save you from any hurt he would cause you." She finishes explaining.

Kaiser and I both have tears streaming down our faces. Dad walks towards me and crouches down in front of me. He wipes my slobbery and soaking wet cheeks with his huge, tattooed hand. His voice cracks as he talks.

"No matter what this piece of trash paper says McKenzie. You are my daughter. Blood or not. You are an Archer and you always will be. You are the toothless girl, who had me wrapped around her little fat chubby fingers. You're the girl who ran to me when she scraped her knee. The same little girl who came running to me with her paper, showing me that she got 100 on her test. The same very little girl who asked me to go to her father daughter dance. That same freckle faced girl who came crying to me when she had a nightmare. That same little girl who asked me to teach her how to ride a Harley. You are the same girl who ask for her father daughter days. No matter what Princess, I will always be your father. I pray one day you will forgive us for deceiving you. I love you Mac with my whole heart not just a piece of it. You, McKenzie Isabella Archer are my world. You always have been. You always will be." My dad tells me while having his own tears spewing down his face.

"I. You. Dad?" I couldn't get my questions out properly. Yet still dad knew what I am trying to ask.

"I'm always your dad. Your father Mac. Always."

My leap into my daddy's arms and cried into his chest. My 6'5 dad stands up carrying my 4'11 frame around the clubhouse, like he used to when I was upset. Once I finally calm down and my well built dad's arms have gotten tired. He gently places me down. Kaiser is hugging our mom when I turn to see where my big brother is. Kaiser quit hugging mom and comes and grabs my hand. He guides me towards the door, so we can head back home. Our house is behind the compound, in the back of the land. Before I reach the door I turn towards my father.

"I love you daddy!" I call out to him with a smile that didn't reach my eyes.

"I love you too, Princess." He calls out.

"Pizza?" I ask from the doorway.

"I'll be home with pizza in thirty." He says with a silly grin.

I hop on my Harley while Kaiser hopped on his. We sling gravel every which direction and haul ass back to the house. Dad is on the clubhouse's porch just shaking his head as our mother is yelling at us.

"Slow your asses down before I beat you senseless!"

All you could hear back as a response is Kaiser and I laughing our asses off. Dad didn't lie because he walks in the door with mom thirty minutes later with a stack of pizzas in his hand.

Maybe, just maybe I could learn to forgive my parents. Just maybe.

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