I watch Faith go back up the hall and then up the stairs. I wait to hear the door close and it does in no time. From the look on Faith’s face I know she is having a tough time accepting what Cooper and Sean have told her. I can’t blame her for that. Everything she has ever known has now been replaced with another point of view and she is conflicted with which one to trust. She will stay in that room and let every word that came out of these men’s mouth soak in. If I was a man that loved her wouldn’t I be there trying to help her? I am not a man that has a softer side. My job is to protect her and that means getting more information.

“Alright, Faith is gone, what are you not telling us?” Shine asks staring straight at Cooper.

“Let’s go into my office.” Cooper picks up the safe box and we follow him to his office. When we get to the door Sean steps between us and Cooper and puts a code in the door panel, so it will open. I raise my eyebrow to Shine and Rebel. They are just as surprised. Sean pushes the door open and Cooper walks in, we follow, and then Sean steps in and shuts the door behind us. Cooper open a closet and puts the box inside and then comes and sits behind his desk. “Sit down gentleman.” We sit, and Sean sits on the edge of Cooper’s desk.

“We need to get back on the road so just get to the point.” Rebel tells Cooper.

“Alright.” Cooper levels us with a hard look. “Everything I told Faith is the truth, but it is not the entire story and I am trusting all of you to keep this between us. I know you will need to inform your brothers but be sure you trust who you share with. There’s a lot more here than just pertains to your lives. Will you agree to that?” The three of us look at each other but Shine is the only one to speak.

“We won’t agree to a damn thing until we have all the information.” Shine says with determination.

“Can we agree that we will all keep those two sisters safe?” Sean asks.

“That we can agree on, but we need to know all the threats.” Shine is firm with that.

“We came to my office because no listening devices will operate in here. That’s how important this is to keep quiet and just so you will know we are being honest with you, we are all working with the NSA here.” Cooper says with a straight face and I see no deception at all. This day just keeps dumping surprises on us. “All of you have been on the radar of many government agencies but we couldn’t intervene because there is one person that needs to be taken down. The government has been after him for years, but he keeps slipping through our fingers. He’s the one calling the shots for both the Hell Keeperz MC and the community. He’s also their bankroll and he has a beef with the former president of the Demented Revengers MC, Jethro Duncan, and with Javier Sanchez, I believe that is your father, Rebel.” That has our attention.

“You need to explain that.” Rebel is sitting on the edge of his seat. Rebel and his dad had a difficult relationship when Rebel was old enough to realize that the bruises on his ma’s face and body came from his dad and that his dad only came home when he damn well felt like it. Javier liked to chase ass and he didn’t keep it a secret. Audie, Rebel’s ma, loved her man and stood by him in thick and thin until his death. It was a death he deserved. He wasn’t only heavy-handed with Rebel’s ma but with Rebel also and no child deserves that.

“I am giving you the facts as I know them, as an NSA agent, I am given the information as they see I need it or a need-to-know basis. Most of this intel was just given to me last night, so I have not had the opportunity to investigate it myself. I won’t swear to it but the information I get is accurate most of the time.” Cooper tells us with little emotion.

“How and when did you become an agent?” Rebel asks Cooper.

“We were contacted by the NSA right after we moved here. They wanted the location of Darren. We were bound by blood to protect our brother, so we did. Our mistake. When the two women were taken and assaulted we contacted the NSA and they gave us immunity of past laws we broke and made us agents. We already had training from the military. Now we are used by many agencies to take care of things that they don’t want their hands on or want no blowback on themselves. The NSA knew where the community was for a while and with the new satellite technology they have now and then, they were monitoring the goings on in the community. Somehow some of the things slipped by or the government just didn’t care.” Sean answers. “They want the contacts the community has. Who bought the systems and files for the apps they had so they can file a case together and file racketeering and organized crime charges. That way even if the leaders of the groups get out of prison they will have grounds to keep them under surveillance without a time limit and get a broader range of information they can use. The government is trying to be able to use surveillance to watch people and use it in court legally. There are too many cases getting thrown out of court when a shark lawyer finds loopholes in search warrants and where the information comes from. The NSA has known everything that the Demented Revengers MC has been up to, but they are not after you. You are doing their dirty work and cleaning up people they can’t use and protecting innocent people. I would be sure everything is in order just in case they try to use the information to their advantage. I never said that though. Sometimes the government is as bad as the dirtiest thug on the streets. It is all about their bottom line and their target. Then there are the good guys that are only doing their job and not liking it but having to do it anyway.”

“We are after Deacon, Timothy House, of the Possessed Blood Soul MC. He is picking up where his dad left off. The BlackPath MC that is working with you, have had dealings with this club before. Deacon was raised by his mom and never had ties to the club and that is why he has her maiden name as his last name and he had no ties with their club until after his father’s death. The Possessed Blood Souls MC and the Hell Keeperz MC have joined forces and that is why they just keep coming. Butcher was the original president of the Hell Keeperz MC, but he was also connected to the community. His brother, Alvis, was one of the five founders. That is why Hack, Glenn Mills, had the presidency of the Hell Keeperz MC until his death. He was Butcher’s son. Shocker there, they shared Alvis’s woman and she gave birth to Butcher’s son. Now they are all dead except for Deacon and he is running the show from that end. The community has deep ties with this club now and their pretense of doing the right thing has been shot to hell and Alice knows the NSA is after them. She is desperate and out of control, but she is the one in charge. I did not want to hurt Faith with this news, but it is the truth that Alice either wants her daughters back to turn over to our blood in Ireland or she wants them dead because she blames them for the community falling apart and taking her endless flow of money away.” Cooper stops talking, and Sean picks up where Cooper left off.

“Our blood in Ireland have no female heirs to marry off and they have been losing power a little at a time because of it and for making bad decisions. Some of their own sons have switched sides making it worse.” Sean looks directly at me, “If you care for Faith, marry her. Don’t just put your patch on her. Our family will not care at all if she has a patch. They will steal her away and have her back in Ireland before you know what is happening and then they will have her married. They believe once they are married in a church then there is no undoing it. Even if she was able to escape and divorce they will not recognize it. In their eyes the one she was married off to owns Faith from the day she is married, and she won’t only have our blood after her but the blood of the man’s family after her also, until death. It is a matter of honor for them and honor and respect is everything to them. They must keep it to stay alive.” Sean eyes leave mine but go to Shine. “Her sister, Charity, needs to rush her wedding up. She may not be pure anymore, so she is not as big of a bargaining chip, but older men that are widowers do not care as much but they would kill the child and more than likely they became widowers because they killed their wives.”

“Do you have any leads on whether your family knows about Faith and Charity?” Rebel asks.

“These people are not our family. We only share blood with them and that is why we refer to them as blood. We have no use for the way they choose to live with no respect to family. To answer your question, there was chatter between Alice and Ireland, but we can’t be sure of who it was. We keep close tabs on our blood and they have not made a move towards the United States yet, but that does not mean they are not setting up matches for the two girls before they come to get them.” Cooper stops and looks at Shine again. “We know where the community has set up again, but we were told to stand down and not to approach. They still have more contacts that the government wants, and they are giving them leeway to make contact. Last night we were given the okay to bring Deacon down and all his men.” What the hell? Cooper should have started with that.

“Are you going to share that information with us, so our family can quit bleeding for something we don’t even know how it began.” Shine asks with a sarcastic tone.

“You also have not told us how this is linked back to Cap and my dad.” Rebel is barely hanging on to his anger.

“Cap, as you call him, and Javier had some dealings that the Demented Revengers MC were not privy to. It was a private matter of Cap’s. The kind that he did not want his family to know about, especially his wife. Javier and Cap were friends, old drinking buddies, and when this situation came up Cap asked Javier to take care of it. I don’t think that Cap was happy with the way Javier took care of the situation, but it concerned a woman named Patsy Alvis, the younger sister of Butcher and Alvis Mills.” I don’t like where my mind is going with this story.

“You’re a damn liar!” Shine stands from his seat and yells at Cooper.

“No, I’m not. I have all the proof you need. I am not going to try and fill in any of the rest, get it from Cap himself, but do it discreetly. There is no reason his wife should get hurt after all these years. I know around the time this happened Cap had lost his sister and it hit him hard, but the story is his to tell and I respect that. So, ask him.” Cooper says in a calm voice. “That is all I have. We need to finish Deacon. Another man that was a big player in the community was Samson Harmon, the husband of Hope, the third sister. We haven’t gotten a report that he is dead so beware of him. That man is pure evil, and he was promised Faith to become another wife for him but was outmaneuvered by Nic’s family, and he was not happy about it and from recordings the NSA has gotten they think Samson is Alice’s right-hand man now and waiting to get Faith back and start repopulating the community. They want Connors blood to still run through the children. Tell this Brody to keep Charity close because that child Charity is carrying does have Connors blood.”

“It will be at least a week to get into position to take Deacon down. We are careful and leave nothing to chance after that if the government does not give us the go-ahead to give you the location of the community then we will do it anyway and you can put this to rest. We start tomorrow.” Sean tells us.

“We need that information now.” Shine is pacing the floor. I know he is beyond livid. “Maybe we will just beat it out of you.” Cooper and Sean, both laugh hard. “We want in on all of it. If the other club is going down, we want in. They have invaded our club and harmed our family and they owe us retribution. I am not asking, I am damn well demanding that we take these sons of a bitches down and burn them to the ground.” That stops the two men from laughing.

“Are you saying that you won’t be there to see that Alice goes down? That is how we feel about all these damn people that have done nothing but cause havoc in our lives for the last few years. We should be able to see that this is finished with our own eyes and get all the answers.” Rebel backs Shine up.

“We can do it with your help and us working together or we will do it alone and you can clean up the dead bodies. Your choice.” I let them know that all three of us agree. Cooper looks at Sean and Sean shakes his head. Cooper smiles.

“That’s what we hoped you would say. This will take our surveillance to more like ten to fourteen days. We will need to watch both groups and coordinate our men together. They will need to be taken down simultaneously, so no one gets away but to be clear the main objective is to arrest these people, not kill. Each one that is brought in will get booked and questioned. If they have information that the government deems important then they may be offered a deal. Some may never serve any considerable time in prison behind bars and may become a problem for you down the road. Once we arrest the criminals we have no say in what happens to them. Do you understand what I am saying without saying?” I look at Shine and he nods his head. Of course, we know what they are saying, shoot to kill or at least injure, so we can give them the message of don’t fuck with us, now or ever.

“Go home and discuss this with your brothers and we will be in touch when we have everything in place to start the surveillance. Pick your men well. Here is a file on your traitors in your clubs. Zig Zag is our man. He has never betrayed any of you and I can’t discuss him with you, but he will know that you know everything, so have that talk with him. He is important to taking these people down and just know he has been keeping you safe. No one needs to get a warning of what we are doing. They have had that edge for too long. Take care of your family issues quickly and Con, consider what we said to you about Faith, and warn Charity’s man to do the same. We will be in touch to see if Charity will agree about the DNA test and if you do not do right by Faith and that test shows either of us is the father then we will be there to bring her home. We will keep her safe.” Cooper glares at me. I want to go across his desk and hammer his face, but we are too close at getting what we need to stop this damn war. I look at Shine and he is livid over the Zig Zag situation.

“I will take care of mine. You take care of your end of this and don’t worry about Faith.” I tell the two men.

“Con, get Faith so we can get on the road.” I don’t wait for another word. I walk to the door and get out of that room. I need to stretch my legs out on my bike and get some wind in my face to think this out.