Chapter 11 – Beast
I had been sitting in my office for a few hours, struggling to not text Brenna, and going over paperwork for the strip club. We had both a manager and assistant manager to deal with the everyday issues at the club, but being the President of the Death Dealers it fell on me to make sure that everything ran smoothly. Don’t get me wrong, the rest of the guys helped out however they could, but it was all down to Techy who is the club treasurer and myself to make sure everything was all in order.
A knock on my door, followed by Joker walking into the room and closing the door behind him, had me setting my pen down and rubbing my eyes as I leaned back in my chair.
“Hey brother. I’m surprised you waited this long to come in and see me.”
Joker just laughed and sat in one of the chairs in front of my desk. “I knew you had a ton of paperwork to go through, so I thought I’d let you try to get through some of it before I came in to find out what the hell is going on with you. Now who did you go see earlier?”
“God you’ve turned into a busybody, haven’t you?”
“Hey man, I just know when you’re bullshitting me and it’s my job as your best friend and VP to call you out on it. Finding out something you don’t want everyone else to know is just a bonus.”
Joker is really the only one who can get away with talking to me like that. I know we aren’t a 1% club, almost everything we do is aboveboard, but that doesn’t mean I can be seen as weak in front of the rest of the club.
“I went to see Brenna.”
“What? I thought you guys just hooked up that one time. Why were you running out of here like your ass was on fire in order to go see her? What’s going on?”
“I ended up at her house last night and spent the night. When I woke up this morning, she was getting sick and I was worried that she was ill, but it turns out she’s pregnant.”
I quietly sat there watching emotions flickering over his face, waiting for him to burst out with all of his questions.
“Pregnant!? I thought you’d only been together once. Are you sure it’s yours? Of course it’s yours. What are you going to do and why were you so worried this morning?”
“Are you going to let me get a word in edgewise?” I taunted him.
Joker gave me a go ahead nod and sat there quietly waiting for me to fill him in on all of the details.
“Yes, it’s mine, I never doubted it. That’s not something Brenna would lie about. I don’t know what we’re going to do, but we are going to keep the baby and I will be there for her and the baby as much as I can.”
Joker, being Joker, couldn’t keep quiet long, so he interrupted me before I could finish answering all of his previous questions.
“But why were you so worried this morning? Is everything okay with Brenna and the baby?”
“Yeah, they’re both fine. It turns out she was tired and had a nap with her phone ringer off so she didn’t know I was trying to get hold of her.”
“So, how do you feel about this?” Joker asked.
“Honestly, I really don’t know how I’m feeling about this. I didn’t think I’d ever be a dad, especially not this soon and with a woman I barely know. I think I’m still in shock and it will take a while for me to figure out how I feel.”
Joker and I continued to talk until it started to get loud out in the bar. Telling Joker to make sure to keep this news to himself, we grabbed our beers and headed out to join our brothers for some socializing.
Coming out into the main room most of my brothers were in attendance having some drinks, playing pool and some even helping themselves to the company of the club whores.
Joker and I walked up to the one empty pool tables and started up a game. While I was leaning over to take a shot, I felt someone rub up against my ass, Pinky coming up in my peripheral vision.
Standing up, I turned to Pinky and smiled at her. “Hey babe.”
Pinky leaned into me and looked me up and down, a look of wanting on her face. “Hey Beast. How you doing baby? You want to spend some time with me tonight?”
Gently moving her away from me I saw confusion cross her face. “Nah babe. Thanks, but go see if one of the other brothers is interested. I’m off the market.”
“Off the market, what the hell do you mean you’re off the market?” Doc had come up behind me and had heard what I said to Pinky. Now looking around, I could see quite a few of the brothers looking over to see what was going on. We might think we’re these big macho guys, but we all loved gossip as much as the ladies do.
“Yeah man, you heard what I said, I’m off the market.”
Doc took a step back and put his hand over his heart dramatically. “Holy shit, another one bites the dust. So, who is the poor woman you’ve convinced to spend more than a few hours with you?”
Rolling my eyes at him I went back and took another shot. “I’m really not going to talk about this right now brother. Just know that I’m off the market, and Pinky pass it along to the other ladies please.”
With a look of disappointment Pinky nodded and walked across the room where Reaper grabbed her and pulled her down into his lap while he spoke to Hawk.
Reluctantly, everyone who was watching turned back to what they were doing while Joker and I got back down to playing our game of pool. I would need to talk to Brenna in the next day or so about coming to the clubhouse and letting everyone know that she was my woman and we were soon going to have a family.