Chapter 3 – Beast
Pounding on my door startled me awake, making me fall off the couch, where I must have passed out. The TV was still on with some kind of infomercial playing. Looking at my watch, I noticed that it was still the middle of the night so I had no idea who the hell would be at my door.
Getting up from the floor I grabbed my gun off the coffee table and walked up to the door with it by my side, finger on the trigger. Stepping up to the door I checked the peephole and discovered Joker standing out on my front porch. “Come on brother, I know you’re awake, I heard your huge ass falling onto the floor.”
“Alright, hold on. You’re lucky I didn’t just shoot you through the door without looking with how fucking early it is.” With that I whipped the door open to see my best friend just looking at me like I was the funniest thing he’d ever seen.
“Well, I’m awake now you might as well come in. Why the hell are you here in the middle of the night anyway? Everything okay with Everly?”
“Yeah, yeah, Red is great. I’m just checking on you. The boys said you left the clubhouse hours ago and you haven’t been answering your phone and that’s not like you. Everything okay?”
“Seriously, isn’t a man allowed to have some time to himself? I knew if there was anything urgent I’d have someone at my door.”
Joker was looking around the room and when I followed his eyes I could see what he was seeing. Obviously I had been drinking myself stupid with all of the empties I had on the coffee table. I had started with beer and when I ran out of that I turned to scotch.
“You sure everything is okay Beast? You don’t usually get drunk by yourself.”
“Jesus did your woman take your balls? Since when do you act like a woman all concerned?”
“Oh my woman can have my balls any time she wants, she knows what to do with them, but that’s not the point. I know I’ve been preoccupied with Red, but I’ve noticed that you’ve been off lately.”
“Man I’m fine. Just got a lot on my plate and need to chill for a bit.”
Joker kept staring at me as if he was gauging whether he should believe me or not. He seemed to be satisfied with what he saw because he gave me a nod and started heading for the front door. “Well, I’ve got a woman warming my bed at home and it’s about time I go wake her up for a little lovin’. You let me know if you need anything brother.”
“Yeah, I appreciate it man, but as I said I’m fine. Just taking some time to myself to relax.”
Joker left the house and drove off towards his house that he shares with Everly and I closed the door behind him. Leaving the empties on the coffee table, I turned the TV off and went off to have a shower before heading to bed. I had to be up in a few hours to get back to work and try to finally get all of that paperwork done.
When my alarm went off at 6:00 am I would have loved to roll over and go back to sleep, but there was just too much to do. Rolling out of bed I put on some sweats and trudged down to the basement to get a workout done before showering and heading into the clubhouse to get my work done.
Since leaving the Seals I’ve continued to do my workouts at least once a day to keep in shape. I couldn’t expect my brothers to follow me as their President if I was weak, in both body and mind.
When I made it into the clubhouse it was still early and the bar area was thankfully empty. I was NOT in the mood to make small talk with anyone this morning.
For once my head seemed to be in the game and I was able to get the majority of my paperwork done before I started hearing movement out in the clubhouse. Most of the club whores lived on site and got up earlier than the brothers who lived here to get breakfast started. The prospects also lived on site and one of their many jobs was to keep the clubhouse clean and the bar stocked at all times.
Looking at the clock, I noticed it was nearing 10:00 am and my stomach rumbled to let me know it was ready to have some of the food the girls were making.
Walking out into the clubhouse, I saw that a few of my brothers were up and grabbing food from the buffet the girls had set out. Picking up a plate, I helped myself to some eggs, bacon, pancakes and coffee.
I sat beside Hawk and before I could even dig into my food, he was on me. “What’s up brother? Everything good?”
I turned to him and put my first forkful of food in my mouth before answering. “Yeah Hawk, everything is fine. What is with everyone asking me if I’m alright? Did we suddenly turn into a group of women?”
“Nah Pres, just noticed you’ve been off lately. Wanted to make sure everything was okay and you didn’t need me to kick someone’s ass for hurting your feelings.”
“Fuck you asshole. Everything is fine, go back to eating your breakfast and leave me alone to eat mine.”
More and more brothers started coming out of their rooms in the back and the clubhouse was starting to come alive.
“Hey Beast, you need anything else?” Looking over my shoulder was Pinky, one of the club whores who lived on site and helped with preparing our meals.
“Nah, I’m good babe, thanks though.”
She grabbed my dish and turned to take it to the kitchen, the sound of my hand slapping her ass was drowned out by the chatting going on.
Turning back to the table I saw that Hawk had finished his breakfast as well and was just looking at me. “What?”
“Nothing, just glad to see you coming back to your old self. You’ve been keeping yourself separate from the girls for a while now and I was starting to worry you’d handed your balls over to some woman or something.”
“Oh brother, you know that’s never going to happen. I don’t want or need an old lady.”
“Yeah, Joker said the same thing and then he met Red and look where he is now. Just saying Beast, you never know what life is going to throw at you.”
“Thanks for the words of wisdom brother, but I’m loving life just the way it is.”
I grabbed my coffee, saluted him with my mug, and headed back to my office to finish up my work.