Ghost

 

 

I walked straight through the clubhouse and to our room where I knew my girl would be. She was curled into a protective ball and I could see tearstains on her beautiful face. My fear for her turned into anger toward him. Who the fuck does something like that to a person, it’s bad enough for her to know her mother is gone, but for it to be shoved in her face…literally is the most disgusting thing one person could do to another. Not being able to stand seeing her this way, I remove my boots and my cut and slide in the bed next to her.

 

She immediately moved into my embrace and woke up crying. I couldn’t do anything for her other than hold her and whisper how it was going to be okay and how I’d take care of everything. She kept repeating over and over again that her mother was dead. After an hour of her sobbing into my chest, anger radiated every square inch of my body. I was ready to dole out some revenge in honor of my girl. She’s the most caring and loving woman I’ve ever had the pleasure of having in my life, something I didn’t want to see her lose. She deserves peace and happiness, and I intend to deliver those things to her for the rest of our lives.

 

An hour later she’s cried herself back into a fitful sleep and it’s taking everything I have to remain calm on the outside for her while rage that I’ve never felt before consumes me on the inside. I want to demolish everything in my path, but knowing destruction of our property is not allowed, I have to hold it all in which isn’t making things any better for my mental state of mind. Three words kept playing in my mind—maim, kill and protect. I’m gonna maim and kill that motherfucker and protect her from everything that could harm her in life. Especially him! I don’t just want to destroy him, I want to obliterate him and everything he holds dear. A man like him only cares about a few things, mostly money and power. I intend to remove both of those from his life before I take his breath from his body…permanently. I loathe this man with every fiber of my being. Not sure how much longer I can lay here and keep it all in, so I’m relieved when there is a knock on my door. I’m not sure how long I have lain here and stewed in my anger and revenge plotting, but the knock on my door means there’s information. I need it, I want it, I desire it, I crave it. Knowledge is key for taking care of business, and I am no longer able to be Brady right now. Ghost has taken over and I don’t want Bristol to see me this way. I get up and put my boots and cut back on and head out the door. Justice is waiting for me on the other side.

 

“We have information that needs to be brought to the brothers immediately. Emergency meeting now, brother.”

 

“I need one of the girls to go sit with Bristol, I don’t want her alone right now,” I tell him as I head to the common room to see if they’re in there. I’m soon thanking my lucky stars when I don’t see just one of them but both of them sitting on the couch talking quietly together.

 

“Ladies, could one of you go sit in my room with my girl. I don’t want her to be alone when she wakes up.” Neither one of them says a word, they just stand up and give me a head nod in acknowledgment and take off towards my room. Satisfied that she won’t be alone, I make my way to meet my brothers.

 

When I walk into the room I can immediately feel the tension that is present. It’s so thick you could cut it with a knife. From my observation, it seems only Wasp, Tic, Justice and Tazer know for a fact what is going on, the other brothers are like me and just feel the anger in the atmosphere around us. This is going to be one fucked-up meeting from the look my brothers are sending my way. They are all angered on Bristol’s behalf and I couldn’t love my family any more in this moment. The love and devotion we have for each other and the Ol’ ladies is something people have had to capture in books, but until you’ve lived it you have no way of understanding the depth of devotion we have for each other.

 

Wasp bangs on the table. “Bringin’ this meeting to order,” he calls out. “We have some important information that has been discovered and it’s time sensitive and we can’t put this off. We have a traitor among us boys.” You can hear the collective cursing and sighs in the room. I think we all had our suspicions that something bad was going on around here. None of us were able to put our finger on what that was exactly. “Calm down everyone and let me fuckin’ finish!” Wasp screams out, his patience it seems is pretty thin at the moment. Can’t say that I really blame him, he does carry the weight of the entire MC on his shoulders, and this must be tearin’ him in two. “It isn’t a brother, it’s a fuckin’ bitch.” It dawns on me immediately who he’s referring to and I’m ready to get my hands on that stupid cunt! I should’ve knows something was up with that shady bitch and how she kept attempting to attach herself to me and make Bristol feel unworthy of the position she so deserves as my Ol’ lady.

 

“It’s that stupid bitch, Tasha, isn’t it?” I ask as I stand from the table. I need to move, I can’t just sit still right now. I have so much tension in my body that needs releasing, and I’m not sure how to accomplish that at this point in time. So, I begin to pace around the table and my brothers are watching me. I know that they’re worried because I can be unpredictable in my anger at times. Right now, however, I need to be in complete control.

 

We don’t take out women or children as a code of honor, but this bitch has put us all in danger—especially my woman. I’m not sure what we’re going to do with her. Wasp takes the words out of my head and speaks them aloud.

 

“We don’t take out women or children, however, in this case I think we need to make an exception. We can’t sit back and allow this type of betrayal in our club. Let’s talk this out and see what the majority feeling is on how to take care of this.”

 

“She’s more dangerous to us right now than any enemy we are facing. She could take down the entire club with just one phone call,” Justice says.

 

There are murmurings of agreement all around the table, myself included. I have to forget about the fact that she’s a woman and remember that she’s the enemy, regardless of her gender.

 

“Then it’s settled, we take her out. My question is, who can do it knowing she’s female?” Wasp asks us all the question.

 

“I’m the enforcer, and it’s my woman, I’ll do it,” I say to everyone.

 

“I’ll be by your side,” Justice says, “You won’t be doing it alone.”

 

“Thank you, brother,” I tell him.

 

“Then it’s settled,” Wasp says, “Ghost and Justice will take care of it. Meeting adjourned.”

 

We all walk out into the common room together and see her sitting at a table in the center of the room. We walk up to her and surround her where she sits.

 

“Tasha,” I call out to her. She’s looking a little pale as she sees us all surrounding her with no escape in sight. “We need you to come with us,” I tell her.

 

“Sure thing honey,” she says to me and I can hear the nervousness in her voice. “What’s going on?” she asks me as she gets up and stands.

 

“Justice and I need a favor, could you just follow us please?” I ask, not wanting to give her any idea that there is something seriously wrong. Justice looks at me and takes in my expression and knows what I’m up to.

 

“We could really use your help darlin’,” he says to her in his gentle voice none of us are used to. Alerting the other women to an issue at hand, they look at us but we give them nothing.

 

“I thought you ladies were going to stay with Bristol?” I ask them.

 

“She’s taking a shower, then coming out to join us,” Kori answers me.

 

Justice grabs a hold of Tasha’s arm and leads her to the basement. I haven’t been down there since all the fiasco surrounding Riley’s kidnapping and dealing with Justin, Wasps brother. I can still remember doling out punishments during that time, I haven’t been down there since then and the situation is different, but will see the same ending. I follow Justice and Tasha down the basement and mentally prepare myself for what is about to take place. A sense of calmness washes over me since I know I’m doing this for my club.

 

For my woman.

 

For her safety.

 

For our family.

 

Once we reach the basement Tasha says, “Are you boys into kink or something?”

“Ya, somethin’,” Justice answers as he drags her towards one of the rooms we have down here. I see all the color drain from her face, I can see in her eyes that she knows she’s been busted.

 

“Look guys, why don’t you tell me what’s going on so we can get out of here. This place gives me the creeps,” she says to us. Once we’re completely in the room, Justice walks her over to the only chair in the room and shoves her into it. Then he starts talking to her and I take my position, leaning up against the door. I cross my arms over my chest and cross one leg over the other. This is what I call my no bullshit stance.

 

“So, Tasha, let’s get to the point and not bullshit one another. We know that you’re in bed with Johnny Valdez. What I want to know is what all does he know about us and what is it exactly you’re supposed to do here?”

 

“What...what, what do you mean?” she stammers out.

 

“Don’t fuck us around here, Tasha!” I scream at her. “We know about your messages with him, we aren’t in the mood for fuckin’ lies,” I tell her.

 

“Oh god, oh god, you don’t understand! I don’t have any choice.”

 

“What do you mean?” Justice asks her.

 

“He boug…bought me from my dad, I have to do what he says or he’ll kill me,” she stammers out. Justice and I look at each other, both of us knowing this is a real possibility. It is his MO after all.

 

“What does he want?” Justice asks her.

 

“Bristol,” is her only response and it’s the only word I needed to hear.

 

“You are to stay in here until we figure out what the next game plan is,” Justice informs her and I know we need to take this to the guys before we take this woman’s life. She may very well be another one of his victims.