Rebel moved over to his bike, always ready to go anywhere, and I pulled my phone out and dialled Keefe.
As I relayed everything we needed, he seemed hesitant but he knew he could trust us. Once Rebel got there, he would head over here, and we would start discussions. I didn’t want Shona to know what was going on but I knew when she saw Keefe here, she was going to know. I headed inside to warn her, but she wasn’t behind the bar. Kayleigh and one of the other bunnies were tending bar and looking miserable since it was quiet.
“Where’s Shona?” I asked them.
“She’s cleaning out the Nomad lodgings out the back,” Kayleigh told me. “Do you want me to call her?”
“No…ah…this is going to sound bad, but I need her to stay out there for a little bit. Do you think you can distract her enough to keep her out there?”
Kayleigh frowned. I knew she and Shona were close, and she didn’t want to lie. “Uh…is this to keep her safe?”
I nodded, knowing she would involve herself and get hurt, so nodding didn’t feel like I was lying.
“Okay,” she said. “I’ll make sure she steers clear of here for a while. You okay with me getting her drunk and partying while we do it? This place is a bore today.”
“Yeah, whatever,” I said. “Just make sure she doesn’t see anyone in our chapel.”
Giddily, Kayleigh grabbed a bottle of vodka and headed out the back to go down to the Nomad lodging house. Jesus Christ. I was going to be holding her hair back all night by the looks of it.
“There’s going to be someone coming here asking for me. Show him into the chapel, yeah?”
The bunny nodded her head. I really needed to remember names. I felt bad asking her for help and not knowing her fucking name. Not that half the bunnies used their real names anymore anyway. Most of them were running from something, and we were their safe haven. Case in point, Shona.
I headed back into church and sat down. “He’s on his way.”
Keefe showed himself at the door to church just twenty minutes later. He caught my eyes and nodded at me in greeting.
“I’m Keefe,” he said. “I hear you need to talk to me.”
“Take a seat, Keefe,” Ace said. He sat next to Lorcan and looked at me, a little unsure of being in another club’s chapel. “We know you have a loyalty to your own club, but you must know that they can’t carry on this way.”
“I have no loyalty to them,” he said easily. “I had a loyalty to keeping my sisters safe. If I stayed there, I could protect Darby and I could keep my ear to the ground for Shona. You want to take the Destructive Sons down? I’m all in.”
Everyone sat up then. This was our way to win. This was how we were going to take the sons of bitches down.
“Tell us about the hierarchy. Who do we need to take down to weaken him?”
“The hierarchy?” he laughed. “He believes he is God, so there’s no real hierarchy to speak of. But if you want the rundown on who is who, let me tell you. Blunt, the VP, is an asshole who treats women like minions to be used for his own gain. He’s someone you can’t have alive if you want to take down the Sons. He will rule just as my father does. The Sergeant at Arms is my brother Riagan, he’d be next. Then you have my other brothers, Ardal and Bran. They are loyal to a fault. They will never allow any harm to come to him. After that, there is Mac, Weasel and Pep. They’re your first wall to get through, then my brothers, then Blunt. But the whole club is evil, everyone will bear arms. You’d be better off to bomb the entire facility. My suggestion? Make them think you have lost a major shipment, let them think they’ve won over you which couldmean a loss to weapons or drugs for you, and they’ll celebrate. Everyone will be at the clubhouse.”
“Women and children?” Bear asked.
“Never at the celebrations,” Keefe said. “They’re never at the clubhouse, they’re to be there to raise the future generation, but never be seen.”
I hated this fucking club now more than ever.
“Do you think you boys can raid your warehouses and find what we need?” Ace asked Lorcan and Eamon.
They looked at each other and nodded after a beat.
“We need the men,” Eamon said.
“Men, we have.”
“They can’t be from here,” Lorcan said. “He’ll see the Kilkenny patch from a mile away.”
“Our Nomads will be able to head that way,” Bear said. “They are always floating around and going for long rides. It won’t be out of the ordinary. Wolf can lead the attack.”
Shit. This plan was sounding better and better the more we played with it. We’d get rid of the rival MC, and the threat to Shona would be over. The threat to our trade would be over.
