Chapter 25 – Beast
Waking up to Brenna being awake before me was a nice experience. She usually gets up a few minutes after her alarm goes off and her stomach has settled down, but today there was no alarm set since she has the day off. I had planned on taking advantage of her before either of us got up for the day, but she made those plans change.
Neither one of us had anything going on today, so I figured a day spent in bed was on the agenda. I rolled us over so that she was lying on top of me and after a few minutes she started to crawl up my body, causing my cock to harden at the visual playing in my head of her on top of me, riding us both to completion.
Before she could reach my mouth with hers, my phone went off. With a groan, I grabbed her by the ass and sat us both up, while grabbing for my phone behind her. I wouldn’t normally answer my phone when in this situation, but with everything that is going on with the club, I had to answer.
“Someone better be dying, or else someone will die.”
Brenna straddled her legs around my hips, rubbing herself over me, trying to torture me with a look of glee on her face, showing me she knew what she was doing to me. I slapped her on the ass and pushed her down on me. It stopped her moving, but it definitely didn’t help calm me down.
“Sorry Pres, but you need to get down to the clubhouse now.”
It was Tiny on the other end of the phone. The tone of his voice told me that something was wrong and I was going to be pissed.
I tapped Brenna on the hip, indicating that she should get off of me and stood up from the bed, grabbing my clothes off the floor.
“What’s going on?”
Hearing my tone of voice, Brenna grabbed some clothes and started throwing them on. Good, she would be going with me. I wasn’t going to be leaving her alone, especially if something had gone down with the club.
“There was an attack on the garage early this morning. I got a notification from the security app to let me know that the fire department had been called. When I got there the garage was up in flames and the firemen were trying to get the fire under control.”
“Shit okay. We’ll be there as soon as possible.”
I hung up the phone and looked up to see Brenna standing there all ready to go, shoes on and purse slung over her shoulder. “What’s going on?”
“We need to get going to the clubhouse. Someone burned the club’s garage down.”
I finished getting ready and grabbed her hand, pulling her behind me to the truck. It’s like Brenna knew how serious this was, she was just sitting there quietly, looking out the window as we drove. Thankfully the clubhouse wasn’t far from her house.
When I pulled up to the gates, they were closed and I had to honk for the prospects to open them. Obviously Joker had let them know that we were to use all precautionary measures.
The gates opened directly after my honk and I drove through, parking in front of the doors, noting that the bikes of all of my brothers were already here.
Brenna waited for me to help her out, which I appreciated. I didn’t know what, if anything, was going to go down, but I wanted her between me and the clubhouse. I opened her door and helped her out of the truck, putting her in front of me with my hands on her shoulders, making sure to keep myself at her back at all times.
Opening the door, none of the brothers were in the common area, obviously they were already in church waiting for me. Brenna pulled away from me and started walking over towards the couch where Everly was already seated. I grabbed her hand and pulled her back into me. “You okay out here?”
Brenna grabbed my face between her hands and leaned up to give me a peck on the lips. “I’ll be fine. Everly is here and we were planning on seeing each other in a couple of days anyway so we’ll just catch up. You do whatever you need to do.”
She turned away and wandered over to Everly. I watched her until she sat down before heading into church. All of my brothers were sitting there talking, but as soon as I walked into the room and shut the doors behind me, they shut up and turned to me. I sat down at my chair at the head of the table and looked around at everyone. When I got to Joker, who was sitting right beside me, he had a look of pure rage on his face. The garage is his baby, he takes great pride in running it and it has such a huge following across the country for our work with custom builds.
“So, break it down for me. What are we looking at?”
Joker takes a deep breath and turns to face me fully. “Well, the damage is severe. All of the cars in the bays are destroyed and will have to be taken to the scrap yard. We will have to wait to see if we will be able to fix the building or if the engineer says the whole thing is a wash and we will have to tear it down and start from scratch.”
“Okay, have we heard anything from the fire inspector?”
At this point Techy chimed in. “The preliminary report shows that it was arson. Our electrical was all up to code and there was evidence of an accelerant. They will be testing it to get some more information about it, but if what I’m suspecting is right, they aren’t going to figure out who did it.”
“So what are we thinking?”
Tiny, as the club enforcer, took this opportunity to voice his opinion. “Well, I’m thinking that whoever gave us the warning at The Black Angel is stepping up their game. There’s no evidence, but with it being a case of arson, it’s a strong possibility.”
Son of bitch! We are no closer to figuring out who was trying to mess with us and they are becoming bolder with their targeting of our businesses. The Black Angel may have been their first move, but this most recent episode is not the second time something has happened. Some of the brothers have been experiencing acts of vandalism against their personal property as well.
“All right. Any information coming in off the streets? I’m finding myself getting more and more pissed off with our lack of leads.”
Looking around the table, my brothers are all looking around at each other, none of them seeming to have any answers.
“From now on, no one goes anywhere by themselves. All of the women and children are to continue to have someone on them and we are going to pull all of the families in for a soft lock down. They can still go to work and school, but no outings that are not 100% necessary. Irish, Tiny, I want you to get together and set up a schedule for brothers to go out and scour the streets to get some information. As well, all brothers will be helping out the prospects with security.
I’d like the officers to stay behind, but the rest of you are free to go. Stay close, Tiny and Irish will have your shifts set out and given to you soon.”
I took my gavel and hit it on the table, officially ending church. Once all of the brothers left, I turned to address my officers. “I’m sick and tired of the bullshit. We need to figure out who is doing this, and I mean now. They are getting bolder every time they act.”
“I’m not sure what else we can do, Pres. We’ve got feelers out around town, you’ve got both Knight and Axel seeing what they can find out. Until they make a mistake, we are shit out of luck” Joker responded.
I knew he was right, but that didn’t ease my mind. If anything, it pissed me off even more. We ran this town and the fact that someone or ones were getting away with messing with us, did not look good.
“All right, Irish and Tiny, I’ll leave you boys to get the schedule done up. Reaper, set the prospects to getting this place ready for the families to come in. They’ll need to do a grocery shop and an alcohol run. We want enough to last us the next two weeks.”
The men got up to leave, with Joker remaining behind. He was my best friend and my sounding board so I wasn’t surprised that he decided to speak to me privately.
“You got something you need to say to me?”
Joker took a minute before answering. “Not anything I need to say, just wanting to make sure everything is good with you. I know you’ve got a lot on your plate, what with Brenna and the baby on the way. How’s she handling it?”
“She’s being a trooper. She’s not giving me shit about not going anywhere alone and as soon as she heard me on the phone this morning she was dressed and ready to go before I even hung up the phone. We are supposed to be going to her parent’s tonight for dinner, not sure that’s a good idea with everything going on.”
“You need to go man. We’ll have a prospect follow you guys out there and sit on the house while you’re inside and then he’ll follow you back.”
It was a risk, but I think Joker was right and we’d be okay. “Okay. I’ll double check with Bren that she’s still wanting to go and then I’ll pull one of the boys to follow us out.”