I know my future because I’m creating it. -Anonymous
Butch
Two days. It’s been two days since I had that beautiful vixen coming undone in the palm of my hands – literally. She’s the only thing I’ve been able to think about. The way her eyes roll back just when she’s at her breaking point, how she bites her lip and that soft, sinful moan passing through those delicate lips. No matter what I do, I can’t seem to get her out of my fucking head.
“Butch!” I hear Reed’s fist slam against the table, and just like that my attention is brought back to where it needs to be. “Good God. Pay the fuck attention! I can’t keep repeating this shit over and over again. Don’t make me come over there and rip that patch off you!” Reed huffs, glancing around the room, meeting the eyes of every brother. “That goes for every person in here. You’d damn well better pay attention to what the fuck I’m saying.”
Every brother in the room goes quiet, all of us staring at our Prez. “We failed. Do you hear me? We failed her when we shouldn’t have. Which is exactly why we have to do better.” He states, rising from his seat at the head of the table, pacing along the front of the room.
“Shit. I can’t believe we’re all huddled in here because no one planned a baby shower for Daisy. Shouldn’t Elena have done that? Why is it our responsibility?” Slasher growls, rolling his fist into a ball.
I chuckle instantly. Slasher has been hanging around our club the last few months. He says that he’s a Nomad and he swears by that single lie that he tells himself every day. I call it how I see it and seeing how he hasn’t left the past few weeks I’d be saying he’s practically a member of the club. I’m not chuckling because of that though, I’m sitting here in my seat snickering because the idiot doesn’t know what he just did. Daisy is the heart and soul of our club. She is the Peanut Butter to our Jelly sandwich. No one fucks with Daisy, and seeing as how she’s been through the ringer, Reed is damn sure to give this girl the baby shower she’s dreamed of. Even if Ryder has already made his grand entrance.
“What the fuck did you just say?” Seamus snaps, rising from his seat so quickly that his chair screeches against the wooden floor.
“I said. Why. The,” Slasher can’t finish his sentence before Kyle whips his fist around and slams it into Slash’s face. Half of us laugh, and the other half glare at Slash like we could kill him on the spot. I’m one of the fuckers who’s laughing, enjoying the show that’s being played out right in front of my very own eyes.
“Enough!” Reed roars, slamming his fist down on the table. “We’re planning a fucking baby shower, and we’re gonna do it right. You understand me?”
The door comes flying open and in comes, Elena with a look like she might put the fear of God into every single one of us. “I am all for planning this surprise baby shower for Dais’ but if you keep opening your big damn mouth then it’s not gonna be a surprise,” she whisper-yells at her husband.
“Shit. I’m sorry, Siren.”
“You damn well better be because I’m fucking pissed. Seriously?” Elena turns to look at the rest of us who line the room. “You couldn’t keep his big mouth shut. You of all people?!” She snaps at Seamus. “You big idiots wanted to make it up to Dais by throwing her a surprise baby shower and not asking me, Jenna, Michelle or Mar’ for help, and I let you because that’s exactly what I did. I allowed you do something that should’ve been mine to plan but here you are, yelling so loud that she could hear you all the way from Bubba’s about her SURPRISE BABY SHOWER.”
“We got this Elena, don’t you worry. It’s gonna go great. Daisy won’t know what hit her, she’ll be thrilled with all the shit we’re planning,” I tell her, offering a confident smile that I hope will calm her down a bit, and luckily it does.
“Fine. She’s fucking raving about you being there for her when all of us weren’t anyway. I can’t fucking believe we missed it!” I can’t believe they all missed it either. It would’ve been nice having some damn help talking sense into the woman. Thankfully, we got to the hospital just in time.
“I can’t believe any of the shit that’s going on lately, to be honest,” Reed comments, getting back into his seat. Elena walks over and sits on his lap, looking out to the rest of us. “Do we have any updates?” He asks, eyes immediately drifting over to Dmitri and Seamus.
“It’s confirmed that the Cartel is active again, but we knew that already. What we don’t know is why, and more specifically – why now?” Seamus says,
“We may know why they’re back,” Dmitri grumbles.
Everyone’s focus suddenly turns to Dmitri. Obviously, he knows something that the rest of us don’t. “Rafael wants the girl. He’s made it obvious time and time again, what if he’s come back to claim his bride.”
“What girl?” Chaos hisses, truthfully, I forgot the fucker was in here. Chaos is an interesting creature, he’s the blood brother to Pain – our longest reigning Prospect.
“Maria,” Dmitri answers.
“What the hell are you talking about?” Chaos snaps, glaring at Dmitri and then Reed. “What haven’t you told the rest of us?”
Hah. Bingo.
I fucking knew Chaos had a thing for her, could see it plain as day! What I don’t think Chaos realizes is that his brother also has the hots for Maria.
“You said he’s made it obvious. How has he made it obvious?” Pain interjects. He’s always been the more level-headed brother. Even though he’s made a mountain of mistakes, in most cases he thinks about the consequences before he acts.
“He’s made it apparent that Maria belongs to him,” Elena tells the group of us, “which she doesn’t. Maria is a club girl, she’s just as much part of this club as any of us are sitting in this room. Now, we haven’t told Maria about any of this – and we won’t. The only thing that this will do is stress her out and cause her worry, we don’t need any of that.”
“So, Rafael is back because of Maria?” Slasher laughs.
“Are you trying to get your ass beat today?” Chaos growls, putting his hands up over the wooden table, ready to beat Slash’s face in. I don’t blame him either. Slash is a dick most of the time. Even Dmitri hates him, and he’s one of the chilliest guys I know.
“Slash, shut the hell up,” Reed barks.
“We also need to talk about something else,” Elena mutters quietly. “I don’t know how many of you were at Bubba’s a couple nights ago, and I’ve kept quiet about it until now…until I knew for sure, but Bellamy Mason was there, and if that wasn’t shocking enough, she confessed something to me, something that she found out and it was confirmed earlier today. Bellamy Mason is my half-sister. Jimmy was her father.” The room goes silent at her admission.
What. The. Fuck.
There is no way in hell that I just heard her right.
“Oh shit, Siren. Are you okay?” Reed asks, bringing his hand around her, rubbing her shoulder.
“I’m fine, I really am. I think all in all I’m just shocked more than anything. I was a bit rude to her. I feel bad about that now and I will talk with her soon but that’s something to deal with another time. We need to be focused on the threat at hand, so I need two of you to do something for me, a favor of sorts, but I know in my heart that you’ll do this for me. You’re all my brothers. We are a twisted, fucked up family, but we’re still family. Reed has initiated a sort of protection order since the incident with Jenna in the woods and that hasn’t been lifted. While we have protection here…Bellamy does not. I know that maybe our enemies don’t know that she’s my half-sister, but we need to be prepared if they do and that’s exactly why I want two of you to guard her. You will follow her everywhere, you will be her protective detail. You got me?”
The group of us answer with nods and yeses.
“Her tour bus leaves tonight after her show, the next stop on their site says Cincinnati, and honestly I don’t know anything. I’m just telling you what I found out on Google. Do I have any volunteers?”
I think about this for a good second, my mouth flies open before my brain has time to catch up and process what I just agreed to. “I’ll do it.”
Bellamy being Elena’s half-sister complicates things, but it doesn’t take the need for me to see her away. Maybe it should freak me out that I fucked around with Elena’s sister, but who the fuck cares? I just know one thing right now. I want to see Bellamy again, and I can. It looks like I’ll be seeing a lot of Bellamy.
“Slasher. You’re going with him before everyone beats your ass,” Reed tells him, getting a round of applause from the room.
When I exit the room, I’m wearing the biggest shit eating grin on my face. I think to myself, I’ll see you soon, Sugar.