Brody and I decide to take his jeep back to the armory, so they wouldn’t hear my bike. We have been watching. I have seen two signals and I signaled both back. One was Zig Zag and the other Shine. They have the same suspicions about something going down here. I told them about Red Cap’s capture. The blind spot for us is where Red Cap and Samson took the girls out tonight so that is where we are going in. Zig Zag is taking the front door and we are going in the back. We don’t know how we are going to get inside. Those walls aren’t going to be easy to penetrate. I just hope, it is still just Samson. It’s time and I move in with Brody. I see Shine coming in with Rebel and Cooper behind him. We step out of the light, behind some trees.

“Where are the rest of the brothers?” I ask Shine.

“Zig is going to go through the front with Sean and his boys. I sent Cue Ball to get Red Cap and take him to the shed. Hawk is waiting on him there and they are going to take care of the issue with help from Crowder. Salty is with Ma, Gracie and the kids. Katie is with them. Dawg Man is with Gladys and Charlie. We have everyone covered, but where are the sisters?” Shine asks.

“In Faith’s room. Brody left Charity his spare gun.” Shine take out his phone and starts texting.

“Spinner is on his way there now and Tip is going to help in Winnsboro. From our head count there is a couple of prospects in their rooms sleeping, Kaden, Lil, and Cap left in that armory.” That’s not where we left everyone when we left.

“Gracie wanted to go home. Salty volunteered to go with them since he was back. I thought it would be better that way, so I told her to go but stay inside. Katie decided to go with her.” Not a decision I would make but it’s Rebel’s ol’ lady. “I’m glad I did now.”

“Hawk will get answers from Red Cap. When we go in here try to take this man alive. We need to find out if this is the end of it.” Shine tells us. I check my weapon and walk towards the door. Shine is behind me with the rest staying behind watching our backs. I put my hand on the back door and it isn’t locked. Samson wants us inside. That raises the hair on the back of my neck. He has something he wants us to see. The kitchen is dark, but I feel along the wall and flip the light switch on. What I see stops me in my tracks. Lil is in a chair and gagged and she is passed out or she was knocked out. Cap’s face is beaten to hell and Kaden doesn’t look much better and then I see the piece of steel leaning against the wall. This mother fucker took a piece of steel to Cap and Kaden, both. They are both tied to chairs, but both are conscious.

“Finally! The cavalry has arrived. Do you see that Kaden? Your filthy biker buddies are here and for what? To save your sorry ass or is it Cap who they are here to save? We know it isn’t Lil. Hell, they barely care if she exists, but she will still protect them with her last breath.” This is Samson and he is stark raving mad. “Do you know that Lil here, could have gotten away but she wouldn’t leave her Jethro. A woman with such good qualities but no self-respect. The man cheated on her, and had a child with another woman, and lied to her about it, for years, but she wouldn’t leave him to save herself. That is a quality woman but wasted on filthy bikers.” Samson is standing right behind Lil with a knife to her back. “I wonder if she bleeds red.” I need to divert his attention.

“I thought you were after my woman. Faith remember?” Samson’s eyes come to mine. I see Zig sneaking on the other side.

“Faith is my woman. She was promised to me if I took Hope first and then Darren double-crossed me. Hope was a weak woman, always so compliant. All she cared about was making her pop and ma proud. They had her brainwashed good. Charity was tainted and would have taken too long to break, but Faith, she was the right balance of beautiful, smart, and a little sassy. We will make beautiful babies.” Samson keeps babbling but then I see Lil making slow moves. She’s playing possum.

“Don’t you mean that you took the sister that would let you? We know that Charity wasn’t interested in marriage and Faith would have never accepted anything you offered her because she hated the way you treated Hope. You killed your children along with your wife.” Samson starts laughing.

“There’s no telling who those children belonged to. I shared my woman bare, no contraceptives. I wanted Faith and I will have her.” It’s all I can do to not kill him now, but I know we need answers.

“Why Kaden and Cap? What did they ever do to you?” Samson looks at me.

“Why not? Cap used my aunt Patsy and he needed to know how that felt. I used him to hurt the only thing he does love the Demented Revengers MC and we did a fucking excellent job of it. They bled, they lost family and we took their reputation away from them. I think that is a win for us. Kaden, well, he is a cop, but he never arrested a biker but one, Red Cap. You all are still too dumb to get it. Everyone in the Hell Keeperz MC and the community are related one way or another. That was our masterpiece. We were making our own bloodlines to be superior. It’s that plain and that simple. We sold government technology, we sold drugs where we couldn’t be detected, and no one could touch us. We sold people or traded them. There was nothing we couldn’t accomplish and if we could keep our bloodline strong then no one could stop us. Faith, Red Cap, and I will carry on the bloodline.” In a flash, Lil knocks her chair over and I see her derringer, she always carries with her, in her hand and then hear the shot go off and then the second one. Samson is left in the floor and he is bleeding from his back.

“Never bring a knife to a gunfight, asshole.” Lil says, and I catch the smile on her face.

“Lil, you alright doll?” Cap says, even if I can’t make out what he says.

“Right as rain, handsome, and looking a sight better than you.” That has us all laughing. I move to get Lil up and Shine is untying Cap. I see Brody helping Kaden up.

“Brody, I don’t know if I still have it in me to do your job or not.” Brody laughs. “But I am ready to try. Maybe Matthew can give me some pointers.” I know everyone is just trying to lighten the tension.

“He’s dead and can’t say I am sorry. He was just crazy. Spouting about bloodlines and shit.” Zig Zag puts in. He kneels beside Samson. “Will the government pick him up too?”

“They should be here within the hour.” Cooper lets us know.

Cap is up, and he has Lil in his arms or is he leaning on her. “This is what life is about boys.” We all look at him. “Surviving The Chaos Of Life, one day at a time, no matter what life throws at us.”