please help, i signed a non-disclosure and non-compete agreement and don’t know if it’ll bite me

I’m going to slightly change the details just in case. But:

I signed a document with my previous employer saying i would not shoot photos of plants for other companies or their clients. This company shoots multiple photos of plants for a larger companies.

They treated me horrible, i quit, the larger company reached out wanting to hire me directly to just shoot photos of their plants.

How far do non-compete agreements go? Can i get in trouble for being hired onto their team and shooting photos of their plants?

Note, this company was extremely toxic. They paid me late a few times. After i quit, the accused me of not returning items and wanted me to pay 6k but then i got video evidence of them retrieving said items then they dropped it. Generally egotistical CEO of a small business.
location: Kentucky