Jerimiah ‘Fang’ is introduced in Vicious and Nary's book.
Poppy has always been bullied at school, Jerimiah was part of the popular crowd. Once he befriended her, things changed....their feelings for one another deepened. Sixteen to her fourteen, he recognised his father Switch’s predilection for young girls.
Continuing to hate Jerimiah, because he crushed her tender heart so many years ago, seeing him, she relived the night she’d overheard him talking about her, devastating her. Hurt that he never liked her as more than a friend and that her feelings had meant nothing to him.
She’d heard he was at a party, going in search of him, only, when she found him, she regretted it. Not wanting to go through the front door of the party, she snuck around the side and paused at the gate, looking over. It was then I saw him. He was sitting on a lawn chair with some stupid b*tch I didn’t know on his lap. They were that close I heard everything they’d said.
“You gonna come back to my room?” Jerimiah slurred.
The girl giggled. “Maybe. But only if you can tell me what’s up with you and that red-haired girl.”
“Poppy?”
“Yeah. She your girl?”
“Shit no.”
“Why do you hang with her all the time then?”
“Her dad and mine are in the same club. She follows me around all the damn time, can’t get rid of her. It’s a nuisance really. She doesn’t mean anything to me… but you, you could.”
“Bile rose. I clutched my stomach. Pain from his words cut me deeply over and over.
I wasn’t anything to him.
I meant nothing.
I was a nuisance.
God. It crippled me.
“Yeah?” she giggled.
“Oh, yeah.” He kissed her.
Jerimiah kissed her.
Nothing, she was nothing to him. Sneaking into the kitchen, she went in search of something to drown her sorrows. She wanted to forget his words.
In the walk-in refrigerator, she grabbed the first bottle she saw, unscrewed it and took a big gulp. Then she heard footsteps, slowly, turning, dread filled her.
Switch. Jerimiah’s dad was standing there with a look in his eyes.
For years. He hadn’t known his father touched her. He hadn’t been there to protect her. Too consumed with his own petty worries about Poppy being too young and wanting her but had been too horny and stupid to claim her. His biding his time caused her to be vulnerable to his father. At the time, he was 18 and busy sleeping around to her inexperienced 16.
She returned home to be with her father, Charlie, a member of the Venom's MC, and her mum, Mary who has dementia, each day she’s less lucid. Trouble from her past (Python) comes to haunt and threaten her.
Fang was in love with Nary Mary until she fell in love with Vicious.
Past
(High school)
Jerimiah’s grin as he opened the door to me at his house was bright. It had been over a year since they’d become friends. He’d honoured her rules, of being friends without anyone knowing, until today.
After saving her from a school bully she introduced her friend Manda to Jerimiah. “Jerimiah, this is my friend Manda. Oh, and Jerimiah conned me into being his friend too.”
“How?”
“Our fathers are in the same motorcycle club.”
Jerimiah’s friend’s faces brightened in understanding.
“Guess the cat’s outta the bag now and you’ll have to hang with us,” Jerimiah said with a smirk.
“Ah, no.”
I took a sip of my drink and heard Manda whisper, “Are you crazy?” while Jerimiah’s friends’ expressions went back to being shocked.
“Why?” Jerimiah pressed.
“You’re in year ten. I’m in year eight. That should explain enough. If it’s not, there’s also the fact you annoy me too much.”
Jerimiah chuckled, then ruffled my hair. “You adore me.”
Rolling my eyes, I pushed his hand away. “You wish.”
“F…..’ hell, darlin’. You left me. We were close, and you left without returning my calls and texts. It’s gotta be aired about why you cut me out.”
“Did you really care?”
“Of course I f…..’ did.”
“If you did, if you really did, you would have taken the time to come find me.”
Well… Christ.
I opened my mouth, then closed it.
Her brows rose and she smirked, as if to say, “See.”
“You left me, Poppy. Like I meant nothing to you, and I didn’t understand why. I was hurting, confused, and goddamn pissed that the most important person in my life cut me out.”
“I had my reasons.”
“And I had mine why I didn’t come to you. You know how stubborn I am. I got my back up about you leaving without a bloody word.”
There are flashbacks from present to past. He restrains himself, earning her forgiveness for his past cruel words. They do not immediately fall into bed.
There is the threat of Python and Switch and in his own way, her brother redeems himself.