Chapter 15 – Beast
I pulled into the clubhouse and parked in front of the door, backing into my spot. When I came in the front door multiple sets of eyes turned to look at me, giving me a bad feeling.
“Joker, Irish, Tiny, what’s up?”
Joker answered for the group. “Hey Pres. We have a bit of a problem. We need to talk.”
“All right gentleman, follow me.”
I led the way into my office, Joker right behind me and Tiny pulling up the rear, making sure to close the office door behind him. I sat behind my desk while they took seats around the office.
Looking between them, they all looked anxious and that couldn’t be a good sign. Every member of the MC was former military so if they were anxious about something it wasn’t a good sign.
“So, who’s going to tell me what the hell is going on?”
Joker looked to Tiny as if to give him the go ahead.
Tiny leaned forward in his chair with his elbows resting on his thighs. “Well, I was out on my bike early this morning heading home from my night out. When I started going past The Black Angel I noticed that something didn’t look right. The exterior lights were all off so I decided to pull in to check it out.”
The Black Angel was the club’s strip club. It was the only gentleman’s club in town and made a brisk business.
“When I pulled up to the front of the club, I noticed that the front door was open and I knew that Reaper was on duty tonight and he never would have made that mistake. Before going in, I called Techy to get him to check out the security cameras and he said the cameras looked normal, but the front door was still closed on the feed so obviously that was a problem as well. I did a perimeter check while waiting for backup. When Irish showed up we went into the building and it was destroyed. All of the bottles of booze had been smashed and most of the tables and chairs were wrecked as well. There was spray paint all over the mirror behind the bar.”
He paused to let me take it all in. My hands were shaking and my jaw was clenched so hard I thought I might chip a tooth. I was pissed! “What did the spray paint say?”
“That’s just it, all it said was LEAVE.”
“What the fuck?! Who the hell thinks they can threaten us? Everyone knows this is our territory, we sure as hell aren’t going anywhere.”
Joker was my Vice President, so I turned to look at him for answers.
“I don’t know brother, I’ve not heard of any new players in town. The only thing that makes sense is that someone is trying to move in on us. I’ve got some feelers out on the streets and have a call in to the Cursed Bastards. I’m hoping to hear back from Axel soon.”
The Cursed Bastards MC were based in the next town over. We had worked with them in the past, so hopefully they would be able to help us out with this situation.
“All right, anything else?”
Irish spoke up this time. “We’ve got the prospects already at the club getting it all sorted. They are going to clean everything up and set aside any furniture that is still useable. We also have an order in to replace all of the liquor before we open tonight.”
“Okay. We thinking whoever this is are a threat? Do we need to have a lockdown?”
Joker responded, “nah, I don’t think so boss. I think it might not be a bad idea to have some boys on the old ladies and kids, just keeping an eye on things, but I don’t think we need to have a full lockdown yet.”
“All right. I want patched brothers helping with the security of the families. . Each man can take care of their woman and the unattached brothers can take the kids, getting them to and from school and being stationed outside the schools during the day until we get some more information. If there’s not anything else, I’m going to do some of my own calling around to see if I can find anything out.”
Tiny and Irish got up to leave, but Joker remained seated. “You okay Beast? I know you’re not as calm as you seem.”
“Yeah Joker, I’m nowhere near as calm as I seem. I’m so pissed off I could cause some damage. It’s taking everything I have to still be sitting here. I need this shit figured out. We don’t need this right now. I
f somebody is threatening us, they won’t be around long enough to follow through with it.”
“I got you brother. I’m going to head over to meet Everly and let her know that she is not to go anywhere without me.”
He got up and walked out the door, leaving me to try to calm down enough to think straight. Brenna is safe at the hospital so I can put worrying about her on the back burner for now. I’ll deal with letting her know about the new security measures when I bring her lunch. For now I’ve got to start making some calls to some of the contacts I’ve made over the years to see if I can come up with anything.
Being a former Navy Seal, I still have some friends from the service. Some of them moved on to work for the feds so hopefully they will have some information about what may be going on in my town.
Pulling out my cellphone, I look up the number for Knight. He was an intelligence officer in the service and now works for the FBI.
“Hey Beast, what you up to brother?”
Even with the situation I’m finding myself in, just talking to Knight makes me smile. “Hey Knight. Got lots going on brother. One thing specifically that I needed to talk to you about.”
“Oh so you’re just calling me to use me? It’s okay, I get it. You just don’t love me anymore.”
Knight was great at making me laugh. He always knew what to say to cut the tension. “Oh shut it asshole. We’re having a problem here in town. Someone broke into The Black Angel last night and destroyed the place leaving a message written on the mirror. It just said LEAVE. As far as we know there are no new players in town, but I can only assume that someone wants to move in on our territory and this is their first salvo.”
“Damn Beast. You guys have had it good for years. Everyone in that town knows not to bother you. I haven’t heard anything, or else I would have let you know already. I’ll do some checking and put the word out to some of my colleagues to see if I can find anything out. Give me a couple of days and I’ll hit you back.”
“Thanks Knight. I appreciate it. When you going to retire and finally come join the Death Dealers?”
Knight chuckled. It was a bone of contention between us and had been for years. I knew he’d eventually join the MC, but until that time I was going to bust his balls every time I spoke to him.
“Yeah, things are going good here, but you might be right for once. It might be time to consider a change soon.”
“Holy shit! Did you just acknowledge that I’m right? About damn time. Thanks for looking into this for me man, I appreciate it. I’ll speak to you soon.”