“Cap! Fuck brother.” His voice again damn. “Look, Viper, I know you like got fucked up and all but dude you’re ruining my wicked thoughts of what I wanna do with Saylor.” I say to him shooting him some daggers of my own.
“Yeah, exactly my point. Last time I checked we weren’t alone in this room and you’re like not meant to be playing with fire, cause your wish to be shot may just come true.”
Rising my eyebrow at him a smirk on my lips. “Oh, yeah, about that, all is good in the MC land, brother. I claimed her ass stood up for what I wanted and I’m yet to be shot or beaten. Your death-defying act of jumping in front of bullets kinda took all the anger of me takin Saylor without retribution. I know it will be coming. No way Ace will let me take his daughter without some sort of blood.”
Viper looks at me blinking and then Saylor. She nods then looks back to Senna who just smiles. His eyes close, “I should have stayed in a coma. This shit is crazy.” He pushes out releasing a deep breath.
“Well, brother, it’s about to get even crazier.” Chewing on the inside of my lip, pulling my phone from my pocket.
“How so?” He asks me his eyes remain shut as I text Vix and Lane a short and simple message. He’s awake best you get here ASAP
“Just wait for the others, brother, and I will reveal all.” Pushing my phone back into my pocket I turn my eyes to my lady love. Watching her watch the world consumes me. She looks like she is carrying a world of hurt and anger inside her prefect body. I must remember that she’s holding up so much of her own shit and needs me to take the wheel of this world that is fast losing us both inside the webs that is an MC with a hit on its back.
Flame and I uncovered some fucked up shit. I want to blow up the world just as much as he does right now, but I feel the ladies in this room wanna fuck some of their own shit up first. They just lived through a possibility that one of us, a person they love more than themselves, could have died. We have lost and lived we are an MC for fuck sake, but no one has fired blatantly at us in such an unashamed manner before. They hoped to disarm us in such a way before and to someone as close as this. A bullet meant for a founding member that in turn his son took.
Waiting has never been one of my strong points. I tap my fingers on my boot, I tap my other boot on the floor, my mind wonders and my skin crawls with impatience. Fuck man how long does it take for you all to arrive. Like I called church. Yes, I am not the Prez. or the VP but still them fuckers have been MIA and I have taken shit into my not so controlled hands.
Waiting and still waiting…….. Tick tock goes the clock…..
More waiting…… Tick tock goes the clock. I watch as the hands mesh and mold together chasing each other around a never ending circle….Tick tock goes this god damn clock!
Seconds become minutes and minutes have now rolled into an hour. One whole damn hour since I let them all know I had info and was calling urgent church at Viper’s hospital bed. Like he’s awake and his father the one he took the bullet for is MIA.
“Right we are here what’s so damn important,” Ace’s voice cuts through the air thick with warmth and hospital grade bleach.
“Well hello to you too,” I spit out at him. “And hello to the man of the hour.” I gesture my open palm in Viper’s direction as the ladies get up to leave. Abe walks in and kisses the top of his wife’s head as she leans up from kissing Viper. His hand, huge and road worn, squeezes Viper’s shoulder. He grimaces under the strength.
“Son, good to see you’re awake.” Man, of few words. Senna kisses Viper’s cheek as he nods to his father.
“I won’t be far away. Just out there,” she breathes out to him. “Babe, go and breathe in some air or something. I’ll be fine.” He tries to offer her a full white toothed smile, but it’s weak and pained.
“I’ll be just outside,” She says to him her hand hovering over his shoulder.
“Ok, babe,” Viper whispers out as she walks out. Say kissed me before walking with her twin, it takes all of my control to not slap her ass as she walks past. It looks delish in tight black jeans paired with a worn pair of grey, unlaced boots; her AOS white Tee and a red, flannel, long sleeve top which is unbuttoned. That women is a dish I can’t wait to devour and tonight, now this asshole is awake, she will be in my bed under my sheets with my cock inside her.
Ace and Abe sit as the other members fall inside the room. It soon becomes filled with the smell of leather, smoke, beer and gas. I look over the brothers. Flame sits down next to me and winks at his brother with coke laced eyes.
“So out with it, Capone, we are all here,” Ace barks out. He looks hungover and stressed. I had overheard the twins saying he hadn’t been home in days and their mother was worried. The detail on all the women had increased and was beginning to put her on edge.
“All right, all right,” I bite back at him looking at Flame who turns his cap backwards and leans down on his knees.
“So, Flame has been holding more shit down than any of us since this shit fest broke lose. I have taken on as much of Viper’s duties as I could while being here with the girls and all.” Nods leave them as they eye Flame and I. making me nervous after all these years and battles, I still feel the weight of their judgmental stares.
“And?” Ace says. I look at Abe who flinches at the tone Ace is using.
“This isn’t who we are,” Abe says quietly that if I wasn’t looking at him when he spoke, I wouldn’t have picked it up.
“What?” Ace booms out, the anger bouncing off the walls in this hospital room.
“This.” Abe runs his hand over his face. “And this is what exactly?” Ace bellows again with so much anger. “This mess, this destruction, the divide between us and them, the dam war that is happening. The fact that my son got shot fixing a fuck up caused because we didn’t listen to him.” Abe bites back at Ace harder and it sends an uneasy chill through the air. Viper sucks in a deep pained breath as Flame sits up in his chair. I shift my weight forward in case I need to leap between the two. Ace steps forward, you can feel the rage bubbling from him as Abe matches his oldest friends stance. Shit’s about to blow up and I need to divert it and fast.
“Look!” I snap out. “Listen here. I have no clue what has happened with you guys but we have a war coming and you need to listen up for fucking real this time.” Looking around the room at the men I would lay my life down for.
“The Devil Knights, they are the ones behind all these attacks, paying off the Mexicans, the warehouse shooting. They are even setting up the meth houses that we blew up. It was been them for months now. They have been watching, planning, attacking. They have been gaining info on us and detail that I have no clue how they have gained. Flame and I have been digging and watching and we even got Blade to hack their computers, their phone, all the technology that they use. We have him inside it creeping through and watching, looking, reading. Flame and I even went in. Broke into their homes, cars, club, warehouse, even bikes, and placed cameras inside and even placed tracking devices on their bikes and cars. Even transport vans that we found at a warehouse that they have hidden out of town. They also have a shed on the river that they use a lot in the early hours. We have been following them, hunting and stalking their asses. What we have come up with isn’t at all pretty. What they intend to do to us is even worse. They want San Antonio and Hope Falls and will stop at nothing till they have it. They knew taking out Abe would send Viper into a blood bath of revenge and in turn leave the club vulnerable without the enforcer at its side. Him taking the bullet fucked their plans royally and now they are re-grouping and planning another attack, but we will be one step ahead as we also now have cameras on them. They got info on us somehow and if it was easy for us to get to them like Flame and I did I wonder if they don’t have the same set up on any of us and our buildings. It’s that or we have a mole.” Leaning back on the chair I tap a smoke from my packet knowing I can’t smoke in here but needing to do something with my hands while I watched them all take in what I had just said.
Viper was laying back in his bed his eyes shut, and worry etched on his forehead.
“Well this is interesting isn’t it?” Ace says breaking the silence.
