I couldn’t wait to get her drunk and find out the truth. It was pretty rare a bunny would turn into an ol’ lady, but it did happen from time to time. My mother was an example of that…although she’d never really held any power being the Prez’s ol’ lady because he’d never loved her, he just knocked her up and fed her enough drugs that she did things for him.
“Kay,” I called her over. She came over to me and leant down on the bar. “Who’s the bunny with the red top?”
Kayleigh looked over and when she turned back to me, she was rolling her eyes. “Ugh, one of the newer ones…I think her name is Caroline. Everyone’s been calling her Caramel.”
I must have made a face because everyone laughed.
“Don’t worry about her, Rebel would never look that way at her,” Kayleigh said. “She hasn’t learned the pecking order yet, I don’t think.”
“I’m not worried,” I told her, with a smile. Kayleigh’s widening smile told me she knew exactly what I meant. “But as you said…she hasn’t learnt her place yet…maybe she just needs a gentle little lesson.”
“Not even one night here as Rebel’s and you’re already planting your foot down,”’ Shona laughed. “I love it.”
I cheersed my sisterhood and kept an eye onCaramel. God, the names these bitches came up with were ridiculous. The music was pumping loud with more and more bikers joining the party. It got to a point when we couldn’t hear each other so we went outside. I saw the Sergeant-at-Arms Bear talking to a woman I hadn’t seen before, and who was most definitely not his woman.
“Who is that?” I asked the group. They turned to see who I was talking about and turned back.
“Tierney,” Shona told me. “She’s Bear’s sister.”
“Oh…I thought he was doing the dirty on Orla for a minute.”
“Never,” Ryleigh said, resolutely. “The Ghost Rebel men don’t do that. Heis a good brother though, even though their relationship was strained by his cunt of a mother.”
“Oooh, sounds like I’m missing out on the tea,” I remarked. “Spill.”
“Bear is the illegitimate son of Peter O’Leary who was under Donald’s men. Dempsey who you know as Viking is his brother and Tierney is his sister who were Peter’s wife’s kids. They didn’t grow up together. Bear’s Mum was a club bunny who tried to get Pete to leave his wife and kids but he never would so Louise wouldn’t allow Bear to be part of the kids’ lives.”
“Sounds like a grade A bitch,” I said.
“She is,” Shona said. As if on cue, Orla came up the stairs from her tattoo parlour off to the side of the compound.
“Who’s a bitch?” she asked with a smile. “Can’t be me…surely.”
“Oh just your darling mother-in-law,” Shona added with a smirk.
Orla’s smile dropped and she groaned. “She comes around here again, and she’ll be getting a tattoo right over her forehead with what she is.”
“And what’s that, Or?” Ryleigh asked, giggling.
“Cunt,” Orla said and headed inside. We all started to laugh just as Bear came up the stairs to where wewere sitting on the benches that wrapped around the clubhouse.
“Shona, mind keeping T here company?” he asked.
“Of course,” she reached out to Tierney who gladly took her hands. “Come and sit, tell us everything about what’s happening in your world.”
Bear nodded his thanks before he headed inside. He was so different to Orla, in every way, where he was quiet and reserved, she was open and crass. I loved her. She reminded me of an old friend I had while I had been allowed to go to school.
“So…” Ryleigh smirked at Tierney. “Tell us how things are with you and Brogan.”
Tierney sighed and rolled her eyes. “Nothing is happening. We broke up.”
“Wait…you and the cop?” I queried. “I have so much to learn here, don’t I?”
Everyone laughed, even Tierney, but I could see the pain behind her eyes.
“That was the problem. He worked too much, never had time for me, always put himself in danger that he shouldn’t have been in.”
“That’s the name of the game, darling,” Shona said. “Every time those boys go out on a run, or to battle another rival MC that pops up, they always do itwithout fear and we never know if we’re going to see them again.”
