Falcon
I went through with it. We finally slept together. She had begged me for it, and I gave myself to her. It had been a glorious moment in time. There was an undeniable connection between us now. We were together, but we couldn’t be. I knew we couldn’t be, and I felt like part of her knew it, too. She must have known it all along. It had to have been obvious to her that all someone like me could have wanted from her was a chance to deflower her.
I couldn’t keep lying to myself about it, though. I wanted so much more from her than that. I wanted her, not just her ass. It was a pretty sweet piece of ass, but I wanted everything that was attached to it, as well. The sex alone wasn’t going to be enough to satisfy me, and I wasn’t even thinking about the information I was supposed to get from her tonight.
As we both lay in her bed afterwards, side by side, both of us still reeling, I played the scene back over in my head. It had been so much more intense than I had expected. She had been so tight and so delicate that I hadn’t expected to last long inside of her, and I couldn’t wait to have another chance. I wanted to feel her around me again, wrapped tight around my shaft. I wanted to feel her body quake beneath me as she reached another orgasm. I wanted to take her there over and over, again and again.
I knew, however, that what I was about to have to do was probably going to cut out any future chances of sleeping with her again. What I was about to do was probably going to signal the end of our relationship, just as things were really getting started for us.
I didn’t want to ask her any more questions about her brother. I didn’t want to know if she knew anything at all about his business. I wanted to go to sleep next to her beautiful naked body with our fingers intertwined between her soft, tender breasts. I wanted to hold her against me in the darkness of the night, in the silence of her bedroom with only the sound of our breathing to fill the emptiness.
I could just go tell the guys she didn’t know anything. They probably wouldn’t have believed me. They would have known I was lying to them to protect her, to protect Leo’s sister. Hell, she probably didn’t know anything anyway. I never really intended to get any information out of her even as I came over to the apartment as a surprise visit. I just wanted to get her in bed and leave her when it was all over, and I couldn’t even pull that off without getting involved.
I was in too deep now. I had grown attached to her. We’d fucked, except it felt like she was making love to me while I was trying to take her virginity and wreck her tight little hole for anyone else. If anything, I’d prepared her for more sex with me. She was an eager little thing. She wanted to know what she was doing was the right thing to do in bed. I couldn’t have asked for a better partner than that. I wondered if there was anything she wouldn’t do for me, and that was a dangerous train of thought, as I’d learned from previous relationships.
I felt her beginning to drift off to sleep, and I knew I had to do something to get the information I needed, or to at least see if she knew anything. “Hey, Clementine,” I said softly, nudging her in her sleep.
“Yeah?” she said sleepily, still only half with me.
“I have to ask you a question, baby. Are you awake?” I asked, keeping my voice low. I didn’t really want to wake her up enough to answer the question I was about to ask her. I didn’t know if I even wanted an answer to it.
“Yeah, I’m awake,” she said, still mostly asleep.
“Where does your brother work?” I asked her. “Where is his office?”
“I don’t know, but sometimes he meets clients in an old warehouse in the old garment district,” she told me. “Why?” she yawned.
“I’m thinking about going to see him up at his work,” I told her. It wasn’t a total lie. The MC was planning on going to see him on the job, so to speak.
“Okay, just let me know before you do,” she said, and she rolled over to face me, burying her face in my chest.
I kept my arm around her naked body. I stared at her soft, smooth, tender skin as she drifted off to sleep finally. I knew I needed to leave to deliver the information she’d given me to the MC so we could finish planning our ambush, but I didn’t want to leave her lying there like that. I didn’t want to get up from the delicate body lying next to me.
If anything, I wanted to kiss her again, this time from head to toe. I wanted to slide myself back into her. I wanted to wake her and have sex with her again. I wanted to roll her onto her stomach and slide into her from behind. I wanted to do so many different things to her body.
I didn’t want to fuck her over, and that had been the plan the whole time. I wished she hadn’t been able to answer my question. I wanted to be able to do it all over and not get an answer from her. I wanted to forget the answer she gave me.
Part of me wanted to just go to sleep next to her and get up before her in the morning to leave her lying in bed alone while I hurried back to HQ to tell the guys where we could find Leo and his men on Saturday.
Part of me knew I wouldn’t be able to wake up early, so I had to leave now. I had to get up without waking her and leave. Whether I went home or went to headquarters didn’t matter, but if I fell asleep, I would be stuck next to her indefinitely.
“What have you done, Falcon?” I asked myself quietly.
I slowly pulled my arm from around her and slid off the bed, careful not to wake her with the shifting weight on the mattress. I stood up next to the bed and looked down at her breasts with her little pink nipples. I looked at the perfect curve of her ass just waiting for my hands to grab her again and spread her open one more time.
I looked at her face, so sweet and innocent, so trusting. I had done just what I told Leo I was going to do. I had taken her virginity, and I was leaving her. When she woke up in the morning, she would be crushed. I knew that, but there wasn’t anything I could do about it now. There was no way to take back anything that had happened.
I couldn’t shake the feeling that I should have left something beside the bed, like money or a note, but it wasn’t supposed to be that serious. I decided it was time to go before I did something stupid, like climb back in the bed with her. That would have been disastrous.
I went into the living room and got dressed as quietly as I could. I took one look around her apartment. Leo was just trying to take care of his little sister by paying her bills and threatening guys like me who would have taken advantage of her. Too bad I had taken advantage of her, and I did it specifically to get back at him.
I couldn’t blame him for taking care of her and looking out for her, though. I would have done the same if she were my sister. I couldn’t think about it anymore. I needed to leave.
I quietly unlocked and opened her door. I slid out and closed it behind me. I hurried to the elevator and took it down to the first floor.
When I got downstairs, I texted Nathan.
Got the info.
Good job, he texted back almost immediately.
Are you at HQ? I asked him.
Of course. Still working on plans for Saturday. Coming this way?
On my way now, I messaged him back.
Good deal. See you soon.
I put the phone back in my pocket and hopped in the Cadillac. I pulled out of the parking lot and started toward HQ. I knew Nathan was going to want to have a meeting about the new info right way, but I needed a shower and a change of clothes first.
I could still smell her on me. And while Clementine Richards smelled delicious, and while her scent made me want her that much more, I couldn’t stand the guilt that came with her smell after using her the way I had.
I was going soft. The simple fact of the matter was that I had planned to harm her even when I was still in prison. It wasn’t a new plan by any means, so I needed to suck it up and stick to the plan. I had done it for the MC, and my loyalty to Rogue Demons trumped everything else, especially superficial attachments to sexual partners.
The only reason I was out on parole was because I’d kept my nose clean while on the inside. Now it was time to get dirty again. It was time to take my MC, which had started falling apart without me, and turn it back into the organization it had been.
It was time to get back to work. I was through with her, and it was time to get through with her brother once and for all.
When I got back to the old firehouse, I parked and cut off the car. I sat in the darkness and listened to the silent night all around me. I could hear the distant traffic of the interstate. There was the occasional car passing by on our street, but for the most part, the city was quiet. I could remember a time when it wasn’t so quiet out there, even in the dead of night. The city had been an extremely violent place when I was growing up.
When I joined Rogue Demons and worked my way up through the ranks, we had used our control of the city streets to get the violence out of our city. We had made some pretty tough decisions in those days, and it had earned us quite a reputation. It seemed to me that we were entering a time of hard decisions again.
Rogue Demons controlled the flow of merchandise through our city streets and, by doing that, we also controlled the violence. Crime had been at an all-time low five years ago, and I was determined to get back to that point, but it was going to require some sacrifices on everyone’s part.
I closed my eyes and listened to my breathing. I searched within myself for that hard hearted asshole I once was. I needed to bring that part of me back as a way to protect myself from what was coming, because it was going to be big. Tonight, I had simply taken the first step in getting rid of our biggest rival. He wasn’t going to go quietly. No one needed to expect that from him. What we should have expected was a lot of violence and a lot of death. There would be fighting and bloodshed, and both sides were probably going to lose a lot of good people.
I opened the car door and stepped into the night. The air was still outside. The whole world was still and silent. It was eerie how quiet it was.
It was merely the calm before the storm, and I knew I needed to take advantage of it to prepare the MC for what was coming.
Falcon
I entered HQ through the front door and found Nathan sitting around with the rest of our leadership members. I nodded toward the stairs to let them know I had some information we needed to discuss in private. They followed my lead.
In the boardroom, we closed the door and sat around the table. We were all exhausted, but it didn’t look like anyone was ready to call it a night yet. Certainly we were going to have to sleep at some point between that night and the raid on the warehouse.
“Thanks for meeting on such short notice,” I told everyone, kicking off the meeting.
“We didn’t expect to see you back so soon,” Thomson said. “I figured you’d still be in bed with Leo’s sweet little sister. Hell, I wouldn’t have gotten out of bed with her,” he added, laughing. The guys agreed, all laughing with him.
“Well, what’s done is done, and I got the information I wanted from her, so I figured it was time to head back. I figured staying in bed with her would have been a sign of feeling. What I did to her tonight was just business, guys, and when she wakes up in the morning, it won’t take long for Leo to find out,” I explained. “When he does find out, we’re in trouble. You know that, right? So it’s time to use the information I got to give us a head start on him.”
I looked around the table as the humor of Thomson’s statements wore off in the face of what lay ahead of us. The coming confrontation was over five years in the making.
“So, you went through with it?” Nathan asked, echoing the question that was on everyone’s mind.
“Yes, I went through with it. I went over to Clementine’s apartment and slept with her. I took Leo’s little sister’s virginity and left her lying in bed asleep. When she wakes up in the morning, she’ll be surprised to find I am not there with her. She’ll realize what happened, and she’ll probably call her brother to let him know. Leo has already threatened to turn me in for violating my parole, but I’ve already made an investment to make sure that his words fall of deaf ears,” I explained. “Plus, I’m counting on him being too pissed off to be satisfied with just putting me back behind bars.”
I should have felt better about what I did, but I couldn’t help but feel pretty horrible for the amount of pain my actions were going to bring Clementine. She was innocent. She had done nothing to deserve what I had done to her. But that was how it worked. It wasn’t my responsibility to let her know what kind of monster her brother was or to explain to her how her relationship with him put her in danger. All of that was going to come out in the wash now. I’d pulled her into the conflict between Rogue Demons and Leo Richards, and it was only a matter of time before she realized her brother wasn’t a saint.
“So, was it any good?” Thomson asked crudely.
I let my lips curl up in a dark grin. “Yes, it was good,” I told him. “It’s a shame I was only doing it for work. I’d like to keep that sweet little piece around for more.” I was thankful for his question. Watching the smiles on their faces as I answered him, I remembered where my priorities were. Clementine was simply just another girl, and she could have been more useful than I’d given her credit for in the beginning.
“You know,” Thomson added as if reading my mind, “you could probably keep her around and use her to spy on her brother now that you’ve worked your way in far enough to sleep with her. You could probably destroy any loyalty she has for Leo.”
“He makes a good point, Falcon,” Nathan agreed.
“I think you guys are missing the point,” I told them, laughing.
“Which is?” Luther asked.
“I got some information that will help us when we crash Leo’s deal this weekend,” I told them. “Once that happens, we won’t need to keep Clementine Richards around for anything else,” I added.
“Okay, well, let’s get down to business, then,” Nathan suggested.
“According to Clementine, and remember, she doesn’t know a whole lot about what her brother does, she thinks he runs a legitimate business. But, she says there’s an old warehouse in the industrial district that he uses. She referred to its location as the old garment district, so that might help us identify the building where the deal is going down.” It occurred to me that I had failed to ask if she knew which old warehouse. The emotions I had allowed myself to feel had clouded my judgment, leaving me to act hastily in all of this, but that missing piece of information would be easy enough to find.
“So she didn’t know exactly where?” Nathan probed.
“Like I said, Leo hasn’t exactly been that open with her about what he does. She thinks he runs a consulting firm and they sometimes use this old garment warehouse for meetings. I don’t know if she thinks it’s still vacant or what,” I explained.
“Wait, there used to be a clothing manufacturer right across the river from my place,” Nathan chimed in quickly.
“That could be what she’s thinking about.” I laughed as I added, “she was already half asleep when she told me, so let’s take that into consideration, as well.”
“Yeah, it’s still vacant, so I’m sure it’s the perfect spot for someone like Leo to arrange deals,” Nathan told us.
“Great. Now we know where it’s going to be and we can get to work shutting this fucker down once and for all.” I punched the table for emphasis.
“Now that’s what I’m talking about,” Thomson said. “Just like old times, Falcon. Glad to see you didn’t actually go soft on me, brother.” He stood up and embraced me.
“Thanks for the vote of confidence,” I joked.
“All right, guys, you heard him. We know where it’s going to be. We already have our assignments between now and then. Let’s get to work.” I could hear the renewed vigor in Thomson’s voice. It was good to hear some of the energy and confidence returning to the MC.
“I’m thinking we call it a night and get back to it tomorrow,” Nathan said, getting up from the table and stretching.
I nodded at him and everyone else at the table, letting them know I agreed with sleep. “We need to be prepared when we go into this,” I told them. “He’s going to be ready for us, and at this point he knows we’re not playing games. Get some sleep, guys.”
I walked out with everyone this time instead of lingering behind with Nathan like I normally did. There wasn’t anything extra to talk about. While the leadership team dispersed, I made my way upstairs to where I’d been holed up since I got out. It felt good to see that at least some good was going to come out of what I had done, even if I still had my doubts.
I had the support of the rest of my guys again, the core members of Rogue Demons, and in a couple of days, we were going to reclaim our position. I knew I needed to sleep the last few hours off and get my head back on straight if I was going to lead the MC into what promised to be a nasty confrontation, but I wasn’t sure if I could.
It had been five years, and it was all about to come to an end. Once it was all over between us and Leo, I had to figure out what the hell was going on in my MC. The organization I’d left behind when I went in had balls. The guys who had greeted me when I came out were not of the same caliber. I hadn’t told them everything I’d heard in prison, but even after everything that had made it to my ears, I hadn’t expected to find the core members of Rogue Demons practically terrified of their own shadows.
I had heard about what amounted to a mass exodus of lower level members. Many were arrested or killed for doing things they had no business doing. It was a mess. I had hoped that when I came back out, the worst would be over, and anyone who didn’t belong would have already weeded themselves out.
It seemed I was wrong. Or maybe I just needed to help the remaining members find their confidence and passion again, like with Thomson. Nathan may have been my right hand man and confidant, but Thomson seemed to be stepping up to the plate to help me get the spirits back in order.
I pulled off my boots and hung my vest on the back of the door before kicking back on the small bed in the room I had claimed as my own until everything passed. This wasn’t going to be easy.
I laughed to myself as I imagined the guys trying to go into the deal with Leo and his men. I could see them nervously walking in with their guns drawn. I could see them trying to intimidate Leo and his men instead of shooting them.
The thought crossed my mind to go alone. I couldn’t let them jeopardize my chance at exacting revenge on this asshole, but I also knew I didn’t stand a chance if I went in alone. If nothing else, they could at least draw fire away from me. It was horrible to think like that, but I was on a mission.
From that point forward, any losses would just be chalked up to collateral damage. I had given up a chance with someone I thought I had been developing feelings for. I gave up five years of my life. I spent my time behind bars focused on this moment, on the time when I would get to take Leo down for what he had done to me.
When I was taking the fall, I never imagined that he would have succeeded in breaking Rogue Demons the way he had by taking me out of the picture the way he had. I had expected the guys to step up to the challenge and handle things in my absence. What weaknesses my absence hadn’t exposed or weeded out would definitely be handled over the course of taking Leo down. Anything that managed to make it through the fight with Leo’s men would be handled afterwards.
The more I thought about the attitudes of my fellow Demons, the more pissed off I got about the whole thing. Leo was as good as dead, but I wasn’t going to sit by and watch my MC crumble underneath the poor leadership of bumbling idiots when there were men out there who would have killed to be in their positions. Those were the men I needed in my MC, men who weren’t afraid to take matters in their own hands, men who weren’t afraid to do what needed to be done and who wouldn’t hesitate to pull the trigger when it needed to be pulled.
I smiled into the darkness of my room. It felt good to be back. It felt good to be working again. And it felt damn good to know that despite everything that had happened over the last five years, the MC was still standing.
We were going to ride out in a couple of days to ambush Leo’s men, and we were going to bring Hell with us.