Chapter 7

Brute

I had a feeling this conversation was going to take place, but I’d hoped it wouldn’t have been this soon. Knowing Rudy, I’m lucky it didn’t happen yesterday.

My brothers and I take our seats at the table. Mitz stands behind me with her hands on my shoulders. I have Red on my left with Poison and Banshee beside him with Taz on my right. The Chaotic’s take the available seats, except Spook. He seems to be the watcher. He takes it all in, processes it and then relays his opinion.

Rubbing my palms on my jean-covered thighs, I begin. “Greer called me months ago needing a place to hide out. I sent some of my brothers to collect her. She came with nothing. No ID, no bags of clothes, no makeup, absolutely nothing but the clothes and shoes she had on. A month or so after she’d gotten comfortable here, she reached out to Mitz.” I look to my ol’ lady hoping she’ll finish.

She nods and starts telling her side. “Greer asked me to take her to a doctor, but just not any doctor, a woman doctor. I didn’t see any issues with that so I took her to my doctor. When we went to the doctor’s office, the information Greer filled out on the form was unbelievable.” Mitz’s eyes begin to water. “It didn’t bother me that she’d put false identifying information on it, but the extent of her medical history. Greer’s been pregnant five times since she was fifteen.” Mitz jumps as Rudy slams his fist on the table. “She’s had three abortions, two miscarriages and the last miscarriage, she had to have emergency surgery because it was a tubal pregnancy. Before they could get her to surgery her tube burst.” Mitz wipes her eyes and clears the lump out of her throat and continues. “I asked Greer about it when we were in the examining room waiting to see the doctor. She told me that after her surgery and the removal of her tube, the doctors told her there was a slim chance of her conceiving a baby. She said she found out she was pregnant the week before she put plans in motion to leave.” Mitz is shaking and I pull her into my lap. She buries her face into my neck and cries.

I glance around at the men in the room. “Greer had a very hard pregnancy with Ryland the further long she got. I think a lot of the issue was stress. Greer was always looking over her shoulder if we went anywhere or she wouldn’t leave the clubhouse at all. We finally had to sit her down and get answers. I’m not going to tell you everything that we discussed. I can’t lose her trust completely. This is her story to tell, but the important shit is that Dimitri Gustave is an influential man in Nevada. I had Einstein discretely look into him on the dark web. He’s got judges, police officers and even some well known senators on his payroll. He offers then what they can’t get, but also allows them the secrecy of their sick fetishes coming to life.”

“Has he been looking for Greer?” Rudy asks. “Is that why she’s changed her hair and name?”

I nod. “About a month after she left, Farrah and Dimitri put out a missing person APB on Greer. I had a man I know get an ID made up for Greer changing her last name to your sister’s. We laid low for a while until she went into labor with Ryland. In order to keep it hush-hush, a woman I know at the hospital made it look as though Mitz and I were adopting Greer’s baby since we can’t have our own. So there’s a fake birth certificate at the hospital, but Greer has the original one in the safe. We’re hoping with the name change there won’t be any suspicion, but we can never be too careful.”

I let them all soak in this information, but before I can continue Spook pipes up. “Even with changing the name on the birth certificate, is there anyway they know she was pregnant before she left? These people sound controlling enough to pinpoint if there was anything off with Greer. If Trigger could recognize her and he hasn’t seen her in years, I don’t think this change is effective.”

“I agree.” I state. “But, there’s nothing else we can do but wait it out to see if anything about Greer starts floating around on Einstein’s end.”

Rudy joins in. “Okay, we’ve got to make sure that no one’s able to lay a finger on Greer and Ryland, but most of all the Chaotic’s need to go back to Cumming and back to business as normal. Dimitri could’ve already had eyes on us and me coming here twice in twenty-four hours is enough to raise suspicion. Trigger, Queenie, Beanie and I will leave, but I’m leaving Spook behind. Give him a Prospect kutte and put him on Greer duty, along with whoever else.”

“I can do that. I think it should be radio silent for a while other than you communicating through burners with Spook.” I respond. “If we come across anything I’ll let you know.” I go to set Mitz on her feet and rise to mine when Rudy stops me.

“Thanks, Brute, for looking out for my daughter and granddaughter. I’ll forever be in your debt.”

As Rudy stands, I bring him in to a hug. “You don’t have to thank me, Rudy. She’s just as much a part of my life as she is yours. I wouldn’t have been able to live with myself if I wasn’t able to get to her.”