Chapter 17 – Beast
When we got back to the hospital, I turned off the bike and got off with Brenna. I grabbed her around the waist and brought her up to me so I could give her a kiss goodbye and let her know about the extra security.
I leaned in to give her a peck on the lips, but that first taste of her wasn’t enough. I pulled her more fully into me and ran my tongue along her lips asking for permission to enter. She wrapped her arms around my neck and opened up for me, giving me everything I wanted.
Pulling away from her, she was breathing heavily and looking down at her feet. I put my finger underneath her chin and lifted her head up to look at me. “Baby, I’ve got some news about the club. Someone broke into The Black Angel last night and destroyed it. We are taking some precautions to make sure everyone is safe in case it is a threat. You are safe when you are at the hospital, but I don’t want you going anywhere without an escort. I will be here to follow you home and will bring you back and forth from work whenever you have a shift. If I can’t make it to pick you up I will send you a text message with the name of who will be meeting you, as well as their picture if it’s a brother you don’t know.”
She was looking at me with wide eyes, obviously not expecting what I just told her. “Okay Beast. You sure I’m okay at the hospital?”
“Yeah Bren. If I didn’t believe you were safe I would have a brother here to watch out for you. You’ve got to trust me baby. Can you do that?”
Brenna nodded and went up on her toes, giving me a soft kiss on the lips. “Of course I trust you Beast. You would never do anything to put the baby at risk.”
I leaned my forehead against hers and looked into her eyes. “Don’t you get it Baby Girl? It’s not just the baby I would never let anything happen to. You are an important part of my life. You have been since before I found out about the baby. Why do you think I came over that night to see you? I couldn’t get you out of my head.”
“Okay, I’ll see you at 7:00. I have to get back to work.”
“Okay, wait for me inside the hospital. I don’t want you coming out by yourself.”
She turned around to walk back into the hospital, adding a little sway to her steps, trying to entice me, the little minx. I watched her ass until she entered the building and I could no longer see her.
Getting back on my bike, I headed back to the clubhouse. Arriving, I noticed that most of my brothers were there. The lot was full of bikes.
Walking through the front door there was no partying going on. Everyone was looking serious with groups of brothers at different tables, each group seemingly discussing serious matters.
Walking up to the table with Joker and Irish I stopped outside their circle to listen in on what they were discussing. Joker was leading the discussion.
“I heard back from Axel and they haven’t had any problems with new players in their town. He’s going to pass the message on to his boys and put some feelers out in their area to see if they can come up with anything.”
Joker turned to me when he was finished talking. He always knew when there was someone behind him. “You got anything Pres?”
I walked back from the group and putting my fingers between my lips, whistled to get everyone’s attention. “Brothers, we have a lot to discuss. Is everyone here?”
Brick stepped forward “Yeah boss. Everyone but the prospects is here.”
“All right boys. I’m officially calling church then. Let’s head in.”
I turned around and walked towards church. It’s a room where we have weekly meetings and only patched in members are allowed to enter it.
Sitting at the table, I waited for the rest of the brothers to enter, Tiny, as the club enforcer, entering last and closing the doors behind him.
I slammed down the gavel, calling church to order. “As you are all aware, someone went into our place of business and left us a message. Now, we don’t know how big of a threat this actually is because we don’t know who is issuing it, but I am making the assumption that someone or a group of someone’s thinks they can take over our town. I’ve put a call in to my contact at the FBI to see if he can find out any information. He’s going to get back to me in a day or two.
Joker has heard back from Axel who hasn’t heard anything either, but he is going to see if he and his boys can come up with something.
We are not going to go on lockdown yet, but all of the women and children will have someone on them at all times. They are not to be left alone.
Does anyone have anything to add?”
Techy spoke up first. “Well boss, I’ve been searching around on the dark web, seeing if I could see any chatter about possible newcomers to the area. It’s surprisingly quiet. I’ve got some programs running as we speak, searching for key words so we can hopefully get a lead.”
Reaper was sitting beside Techy and was the next to speak up. “I’ve been out on the streets all morning. None of my contacts have heard about anyone who has it out for us, but there has been an uptake in dealers on the East side of town. This might be where this new group intends to try to push their way in.”
“Okay. Anyone else got anything to add?”
Nobody spoke up so I picked up the gavel to call an end to church. “If there are no other issues we will call church to an end.”
Right before I slammed it down Doc spoke up. “Before we end Pres, what is the plan once we figure out who is threatening us?”
I put the gavel back down and sat back in my chair. “Well Doc, I guess it depends on how far they take it. If they leave it at this one act of destruction I’m sure we can come to an agreement about them leaving town peacefully. However, if they progress in their threats, that will be a whole other matter. Nothing will be done without a vote.”
Doc nodded, accepting what I told him. I picked the gavel back up and knocked it down ending our meeting.
I walked back to my office with Joker following behind. I grabbed us both beers from my fridge beside my desk and handed him one before sitting down.
“So, how did it go with Everly?”
“Not too bad, considering. She’s not impressed that she can’t go anywhere without a brother with her, but once I told her how serious I was she accepted it. I told her that even with all of this going down, I’m still only giving her three months to get everything set up for the wedding, which was a whole new argument. I don’t care what it takes though, I’m not letting this bullshit interfere with me marrying her.”
I leaned back in my chair and took a sip of my drink. After spending the last couple of days with Brenna, I’m starting to understand how he feels more and more.
“I hear you brother. With everything that’s going on with me and Brenna, I am starting to understand how you feel.”
“Yeah? How are things going with you two? How did she take the news?”
“Well, we went out for lunch today. I figured we should probably get to know each other better. When I dropped her back off at the hospital I let her know what was going on and she was actually quite accepting of it.”
“I’m glad you’re happy man. Did you guys discuss when you were going to tell your families?” He asked with curiosity.
“Nah, we were too busy learning about each other. I figure we’ll wait another few weeks before we tell anyone else. Brenna was saying that she needs to make it until she’s 12 weeks before telling anyone. So, once we pass that we can tell our families.”
“That makes sense,” he replied. “I can’t imagine you telling your mom she’s going to be a grandma and then something terrible happening. She would be devastated.”
I agreed with him. My mom had been through enough. She’s one of the toughest women I know, but breaking her heart like that is not something I will ever do if I can help it.
Joker and I had a few more beers and discussed some different possibilities of who could be messing with us. Soon enough it was going to be time to meet up with Brenna and I needed to go grocery shopping. There were no prospects available to do it so I’ll just do it myself and drop them off before I go to meet up with her.