“So we have to bring them into the limelight and then they will pay,” Sam said.
James shook his head.“No, we do the exact opposite.”
Bane agreed, “You do not take it to the public.We search his house and if we find the evidence as in a paper trail that tells us what he’s been doing.We then shut him down without announcement to the world.We do it quickly and quietly.That way, we make sure these men on the other end of the deal will think twice before they make any moves to find out what happened to him.This is how you take these fuckers down.”
James nodded as he jumped in with the rest, “If he’s received money already without producing any product, tempers are going to flare and they will believe he stiffed them.”
Bane shrugged.“Then even if they look, they won’t find him of course.But they are the kind of men who will put a price on his head.And that won’t be paid until the powers that be see his head separated from his shoulders.But by then, he’ll be long gone.”
Deke studied him for a moment then said, “You sound like Owens is just going to disappear into the ether.”
Bane stared back and quietly explained his plan for this monster of a man, “He is.When I get done with him, he’s going to beg for death.I intend to remind him of a few sins he committed, I will make him state the names of his victims.He will have to come up with many just to keep his fingers on his hand and his toes on his feet.Then when he is done repenting said sins against innocent people, his suffering will end only by death.”
Deke just stared at him for a moment then he shivered slightly.
The room went quiet as all the men here remembered who Bane always was.And they believed every word he uttered.
Mountain broke the tense silence, “I heard that you have changed in the last two years, Mr.Jessin.But as I look at you now, I don’t see that change.”
“What?”Bane demanded as he raised his hands in defense.“This man has been responsible for men losing their lives.Honorable men of the military.Left widows and orphans in his wake while he raked in the fucking cash.He literally had blood spilt just for the green.He was judged and sentenced once already and he then stepped out free again.So are you suggesting that when we catch him, we give him mercy?I don’t think so.”His hazel eyes rimmed with gold for a few seconds.Then he blinked and the rage left his eyes.
James stared at him then he looked around at the Sin’s.“Bane needs no defense, but you men do not know what all he has accomplished in the last couple of years.With our team, we have stopped Armageddon, literally.And I mean the real end of the world as we know it.They planned to destroy the crops, the water systems, the land and then release an army that did nothing but kill.That mission stands out as the scariest one we ever took on.Most cases we do not speak about but that one would have killed you and yours as well as everyone else.He and the VIM saved your hides along with our own.Had Bane not been the man that he is, I wouldn’t be standing here right now.But neither would all of you.Take it for a solid, stone-cold fact.”
The Sin’s Bastards MC men all stared at him with curious expressions and a few gave respectful nods.
Bane shook his head and added, “But don’t mistake his wonderful speech of defending my honor as a statement that I will show men like these mercy after they have drawn innocent blood.I am sure none of you would allow men like them to get away with it either.”
Deke, Mountain and Sam, all had done that very thing.So had a few others there...Put monsters down when it was needed.
Sam, of all people, stepped forward and told Bane, “I share that opinion.Men who kill and maim innocents deserve no mercy.Ones who allowed our soldiers to die and our veterans to be dishonored, they too deserve no mercy.”
Bane gave him a nod and looked around at the other bikers.
“No Mercy,” Deke agreed.
“No mercy,” Mountain added.
“NO MERCY,” the other MC men all stated in unison.
~*~
Charlie scoffed evenas he winced as he told James, “No, you have Midland eyes.”
James shrugged.“Well, that’s because Tucker Senior was my father.”
Charlie sighed.“No, he wasn’t your father.I am.Aubrey had my children,mysons.I told you she was conniving.”
James paused at his admission.There was no way Charlie was his and Tucker’s dad.Just no way.And Tucker had the proof.He rocked back on his heels and asked, “Is that what you think?That you fathered me and Tucker.Is that what you’ve thought all this time?That Tucker was your son all these years and that your brother stole him from you?Man, you are the real fool here, Charlie.Tucker was never your son.And the fact that your raped our mother eight months before we were born is one of the sins my friend Bane here is going to teach you be sorry about.You see, we believe when a woman says no, it fucking means no.”
Charlie shook his head.“I don’t know what she’s been saying all these years but she came to me that night, not the other way around.I admit that I was half in love with her at the time.But sleeping together only made it right.”
James leaned down and informed him, “No Charlie, she told you no, that she wasn’t going to dishonor her marriage, not for you, not for anyone.You’re the one who wouldn’t accept that.You see Tucker has her diary.She wrote about the attack that night and she prayed that the baby wasn’t yours.A blood test after he was born, confirmed it.”
Charlie scoffed at this.“Then how was it nobody knew about you until four months ago?Huh?Tell me that, smart ass.”
James glared at him as he explained it, “Nobody knew I existed because one of the nurses in the maternity ward took me from the room right after I was born and she left me in the park in the next town over.I was found and because no one knew about my kidnapping I was put in the foster system.I was adopted three months later.The nurse was an old girlfriend of yours, you might remember her, Jenna Blackwell.”
Charlie looked annoyed by the name.“Yeah, I remember her, I remember telling her that I hated my brother and wished he would hurt the same way I was hurting.So she took you that night because she thought she was helping me.”
