“I’m listening,” she said when he paused to sip his coffee.
“I have gone to both Flynn and Kessler with this idea, and though they aren’t happy about it, they can’t really say anything bad about it.”He grinned as he shook his head.“I didn’t give them the opportunity to turn this deal down, I told them what was going to happen, and they were either on board with it, or I would turn in my shield and go it alone.I’m asking if you would like to join me.We would take our time getting to know each other as we set this up, but you would be in on the ground floor.We would do this together.”
“What is it?I can’t give you my answer unless I know what I’m getting myself into.”
“I’m starting my own motorcycle club.”
Chapter 7
“Excuse me?”Petra askedafter several minutes of silence.“Are you turning in your badge?Don’t you work for both the DEA and the ATF?”
“Yes on working for both agencies, no to turning in my badge.The guys I mentioned earlier?”
“Yes, what about them?”
“They also hold a badge with either the DEA or ATF.You yourself are ATF.What I proposed to them was that the six of us men, still fully badged members of those government agencies, form our own motorcycle club.We will do what other clubs do, you know, have pig roasts, dice runs, parties, poker runs, to earn money, and we will be inviting the local one percenters.However, once we get established, eventually, we will be setting up the one percenters.”
“How?”
“I know a man, I don’t know if he’s retired completely or not, but he also carries a badge.Again, I’m not sure of which agency, or if he’s local to where he lives.He owns a bar, and he is willing to receive the shipment of drugs, or guns, or whatever the one percenters want, except for women and children, we will not be trafficking them, but then after they pick up the goods, I just have to make a phone call and let the rest happen.”
“Ah, let me see if I have this right.You and the guys you mentioned are starting a motorcycle club, and you’re going to take out the one percenters.Well, not really take them out, physically, but set them up so that when you call Kessler or Flynn, then they can do a raid on their place.”
“Correct.We’ll still have our badges, and we’ll only use them when it is absolutely necessary.We will live our lives like everyone else, run the motorcycle club, and just live our best lives.I’m not saying we’ll clean up the biker world overnight, it will be a marathon, not a sprint, and we’re not going to want to make too many arrests close together.”
“Avoid suspicion?”
“Correct.”
“Okay, what will you call yourself?”
“Tainted Shield MC.”
“Ooh, I like that.Because of the badge slash shield you carry, and it’s tainted around the edges.I know mine is because when I was with Devil’s Scorpions, I smoked pot.I never did the hard stuff, but I did indulge in a few joints every once in a while.”
“Me too, and then when I beat the shit out of Slim for hitting you, my shield became a little bit more tainted.Hell, I’ve been a cop for over twenty years and I’ve seen a lot of shit go down.I’m disillusioned by what Kessler and Flynn thing we should do while undercover.They’re not there, they don’t know the shit we have to go through.Upper brass pisses me off when they try to tell me and others how to act while undercover with these hardened one percenters.They don’t give a fuck if they are arrested, they run the streets like they don’t have a care in the world, and no one can stop them.I’m here to stop them.But like I said, it’s not a sprint, it will be a marathon.”
