Chapter 26 – Brenna
As soon as I sat down Everly was on me with questions. “So, how are things going with you and Beast? I’m guessing by us being called in here we aren’t likely to be able to go out for our girl’s night, so we might as well do some gossiping while they’re in their meeting.”
“Sounds good to me. How are things going with you and Joker? You about ready to start planning the wedding?”
Everly just gave me a look. She knew I was avoiding talking about me and Beast. I wasn’t one to talk about my feelings much, but she always pulled it out of me. Obviously giving me the out she responded, “things are going fantastic. You and I already booked the venue. The next thing we need to do is go dress shopping. I’ve called around to a couple of shops and made a couple of appointments, but I wanted to double check with you what days worked best for you since I know that your schedule is always different.”
Everly took out her phone and pulled up her calendar app. I pulled mine out as well and we found a couple of dates that worked. Over the next hour we set up appointments to look at dresses and went on Pinterest, searching out different ideas of what she would want and what I would wear as her maid of honour.
The doors to the meeting room opened and some of the club members came out, but Joker and Beast weren’t among them.
“I wonder why not all of the guys came out of the meeting room” Brenna speculated.
I looked to see who was missing and it seemed to be the officers. “How much has Joker told you about how the club works?”
“We haven’t really talked much about the club. Why, am I missing something?”
“Well, during one of our conversations I asked Beast for a bit more information about how the club works. All of the full-fledged members are what are called fully patched members. Of those patched members some of them are what are called officers.”
“I knew about the fully patched members and that Joker is the Vice President and Beast the President, but I didn’t know that there were other members with titles,” Everly responded.
“Yeah, I’m not sure what all of the titles are, but if I understood correctly, they are the ones who run the club, making sure everyone is safe and that things run smoothly.”
A few minutes later, more members came out of the meeting room, but Beast and Joker were still in there.
Everly got up from the couch and walked over to one of the guys who had just come out. “Hey, Irish, what’s going on?”
The man that Everly called Irish was a very good looking man, had to be over six feet tall with tattoos running up both of his arms and bright red ginger hair. He stopped talking to another member upon hearing Everly speak to him and turned to us.
“Hey Ev, we’re going to be on a soft lock down for now. I’m just getting together with Tiny to get a schedule made up of guard duty shifts. Reaper is sending the prospects on a run to the store for supplies.”
I spoke up at this point, “is there anything we can do to help?”
Irish turned to fully face me and god his eyes were mesmerizing. They were bright green and just shone in his face. “You must be Brenna,” he said, while sticking his hand out for me to shake.
“I’m sorry, where are my manners. Irish, this is Brenna. Brenna, this is Irish.”
I grasped his hand and gave it a shake. “Nice to meet you, Irish. Like I said, is there anything we can do to help? Just sitting around here is not my style, so anything you need us to do, just ask.”
He looked at me speculatively before answering. “As a matter of fact, there probably is something you guys can help me with.”
He stopped speaking and looked over our heads as if searching someone out. Suddenly he let out a shrill whistle and yelled “Nick, get your ass over here!”
I turned to look behind me and saw a young man coming towards us. He was obviously younger than the rest of the guys, I wonder if he is one of the prospects.
Moments later my question was answered. “Brenna, this is Nick. He’s a prospect and he’s going to show you around the kitchen and storage area. We need to get a list made up of any kind of supplies you think we might need for the next two weeks. We don’t want to have to go shopping again if we don’t have to in that time.”
With that, Irish turned his back on us and walked over to the bar and sat beside another member who was leaning over a piece of paper, jotting things down on it.
Turning to Nick, he was waiting patiently at our side. I turned to Everly, “what do you think? You ready to get into things and help out?”
“Sounds good to me. Nick, let’s start with the kitchen.”
Nick smiled at us and started walking towards the back of the clubhouse. He came to a set of double doors that seemed to swing both ways, just like you would see in a restaurant. When we walked through the doors, I stopped in my tracks. This kitchen was definitely not what I was expecting.
First of all, it was huge! There was a ton of storage, what seemed to be a sub-zero fridge and a stove with eight burners, two ovens, and a grill in the middle of the cook top. “Holy shit, this is the kitchen to end all kitchens.”
Everly laughed at me and stepped around me, moving further into the kitchen. While I slowly wandered around the kitchen checking things out, she took charge. “Okay Nick, I will need a couple of pens and some paper so that we can go through the fridge, freezer and cupboards and figure out what we may need. Before we start though, I have a quick question. Are there any dietary restrictions we have to take into consideration?”
“Dietary restrictions? No, all the guys love meat and as far as I am aware there are no food allergies.”
Coming up to the doors of what I assume is the pantry, I heard the doors to the kitchen open and close, I assume the sound of Nick leaving to grab the supplies Everly requested. When I opened the doors, it turned out I was right and it was the pantry, and a walk in one to boot. The shelves weren’t bare, but they definitely needed restocking.
Everly came up beside me, “you going to stop drooling over this kitchen any time soon?”
I turned to look at her and she was looking at me with a smirk on her face. “Oh shut up. I know I don’t have a lot of time to cook, but I do enjoy it and this is a kitchen that dreams are made of.”
We both went into the pantry, that really needed reorganizing, and started to sort things so that we could figure out what would be needed and what kinds of foods they seemed to like.
Nick came back in to the kitchen and handed over the pens and paper we requested. “If you ladies don’t need me right now, I’m going to head back out to the bar area and see if the brothers need anything else. Just let me know if you need anything and when you are ready to move on to the storage room.”
We turned back to the task at hand, talking and laughing as we went along.
When we were finished in the pantry, we came out and sitting at the island just staring at us were Beast and Joker. “How long have you been sitting there staring at us?”
Beast got up off of his stool and walked over to me, grabbing me by the hips and pulling me into him. I looked up at him, seeing Everly walk past me towards Joker, and went up on my toes to give him a kiss.
“We’ve only been here a couple of minutes. Thank you for pitching in. It means a lot.”
Looking into his eyes, I could see his sincerity. “Of course I’m helping out. Irish said we were going to be having a soft lock down. I’m not sure what that is, but I assumed it meant that it was important so Ev and I wanted to help out and make things easier any way we could.”
Beast grabbed my ass and pulled me even closer into him, leaning his head down and taking my lips with his. He pushed his tongue into my mouth starting to take the kiss deeper when we heard the clearing of a throat behind us.
I reluctantly stepped away and to the side. Everly and Joker were still in the room with Ev tucked under Joker’s arm just smiling at us.
“Hey Brenna. How’s it going?” Joker asked with a knowing grin on his face.
I walked towards them and stopped in front of Joker, my cheeks reddening as I looked up at him. “Hey Joker. Things are great thanks.”
Beast came up behind me and wrapped his arms around me, resting his chin on the top of my head. It always made me feel so comforted and protected when he did this. He was so much bigger than me that it was like being wrapped in a cocoon.