Chapter 1 – Beast
Walking into the clubhouse I see my best friend Joker over in the corner playing pool with Hawk. He had texted me the night before asking for a meeting, so after grabbing a beer from Nick at the bar I walked over to the table to catch up with my brothers before Joker and I have our meeting.
“Hey brothers, how’s it going?”
Joker finished taking his shot and looked up at me with a grin. “It’s fan-fucking-tastic brother. Let me just finish up this game, I’m about to take down Hawk, and then we can go talk in your office.”
Looking over at Hawk he had a scowl on his face. He is competitive as shit and looking at the table I can see he’s getting his ass kicked.
“Hawk, brother, what’s going on man? Joker is a shit player, how the hell is he beating you?”
Shaking his head at me, Hawk walks around the table and lines up his shot. “I don’t know man, it’s like he suddenly woke up with skills.”
“Well, finish your game boys and I’ll see you in my office when you’re done Joker. Got some work to get done.”
Turning, I walked down the hall to my office, saying hi to the brothers and club whores as I walk by. I loved being part of our Club, but doing the paperwork that came with it was not my favourite part. Being president, it’s something that I just have to do, but I put it off as much as possible. The unfortunate part about that is now I have a shit ton of work to do and can’t put it off any longer.
I closed the door behind myself to cut off the sound coming from the bar. Thankfully my office is soundproof so that I can work in peace.
I’d been sitting at my desk going over reports given to me by our club treasurer Techy. Usually I can get through this quickly, but thoughts of Brenna keep going through my head. We’ve only been together once, but I can’t seem to get her out of my head. We were planning on spending a second night together, which never happens with me, but Everly’s car was vandalized and that broke up our night. I haven’t heard from her since.
A knock at my door had me looking up, “Come in.” Joker walked through with a smile on his face and a swagger to his walk.
“Looks like someone is having a good day. What’s up brother, what did you need to meet about?”
“Beast man, you have no idea. It’s been a great couple of weeks. When Everly went missing, I thought my life was over, but when we got her back I decided life is too short to put shit off.”
“That’s great man. Does this mean you’re finally going to give your woman her kutte?” Before Everly went missing I called for a vote to make her Joker’s old lady and it was passed unanimously.
“More than that, I’m going to make her my wife.”
“Holy shit!” I didn’t think that either Joker or I would ever get ourselves an old lady, let alone a wife.
“Yeah man, it’s time. I’m wanting to do it at a family BBQ. I thought I would get Queenie to present her with the Kutte and when she turned back to me I would ask her to marry me.”
“Wow, you’ve actually thought this all through. What do you need from me?”
Joker shrugged and looked me straight in the eye, like he was trying to gauge my reaction. “Just wanted to run it by you Pres. I’m wanting to do it sooner than later. I know that Queenie already has the kutte ready to go, now I just need to get the BBQ set. I’m looking at doing it this weekend. Do you have Brenna’s number? I want to invite her without Red knowing.”
I pick up my phone and go through my contacts. Clicking on Brenna’s information I send it to Joker in a text message. When his phone pinged he looked at it and started laughing at me.
“What’s got you laughing?” I looked back at my phone and realized that I don’t have her listed as Brenna in my phone, I have her listed as Baby Girl, which is what I call her.
Looking back up, Joker was shaking his head and smiling at me. “Oh brother, she’s got you locked up already.”
“Bullshit man, no such thing. I haven’t seen her since I brought her to your house. You know I’m a one and done kind of guy.”
Even as the words came out of my mouth, I knew I was spouting bullshit. There was something about Brenna that pulled me to her, but I wasn’t going to be chasing her. If she wants me then she’ll have to come to me.
“Sure brother keep telling yourself that,” says Joker, laughing at me, while walking out of the office.
Once Joker was out of my office and had closed the door, I tried to get back to my paperwork, but I just couldn’t concentrate. I needed to get laid, but none of the club whores could get me hard, and trust me I’d tried.
Since I couldn’t seem to concentrate enough to get anything done, I decided to go for a ride to try to clear my head.
Most people just don’t understand the feeling of freedom when on a bike. The feel of wind on your face, the sense of calm you get where no one and nothing can touch you. It’s the best thing besides fucking to clear my head and since fucking isn’t an option, I was going to ride Brenna out of my head.
Heading out through the clubhouse, Joker was no longer there, but Hawk was now on the couch with one of the club whores, Scarlett, who was taking him down her throat while he sat back and enjoyed. One of the things I’d always loved about club life is that you are free to be the real you and experience life the way you want, not the way society dictates.
When I got outside of the clubhouse, the sun was shining and my baby was sitting there waiting for me to take her for a ride. I had no set location in mind, I just got on my bike and rode.
I’d been on my bike for half an hour and when I pulled over to the side of the road I noticed that I was in front of Brenna’s house. Even when I was out trying to clear my head, I couldn’t get her out of my mind.
Her badass black Dodge Charger wasn’t parked in front of her house, so she was obviously out, most likely at work. Probably a good thing or else who knows what I would have done, most likely something stupid, like knock on her door and fuck her hard against the wall.
Since going for a ride didn’t clear my head I pulled back out onto the road and headed home to drink enough to pass out and hopefully actually sleep through the night for the first time in weeks.