– Jax –
“Are you fucking kidding me?” I ask turning to face Ice, he just leans against the bar smirking at me “Don’t be like that brother, I thought our reunion would be a little better than this, you know? Just like old times” He says lifting his beer to his mouth, by now Gunner has made his way over to us to see the shit show about to unfold.
Shark Eyes walks down the staircase to the basement and I see the girls leaving with the kids taking them upstairs, Gunner walks over to Ice and stands next to him I watch as he stiffens slightly before turning his attention back to me.
“Listen, I don’t care who you think you are in the outside world, out there you can be whoever the fuck you want to be. But let me tell you, in here, you’re not my brother this is our world and we go by different rules, the first rule is respect your fucking president and his old lady” I hiss through gritted teeth, Gunner pulls out a leg from a wooden chair that was hidden under the back of his cut and swings it into the back of Ice’s knees making him drop to the floor with ease.
He doesn’t try to get up he just kneels there with that stupid look on his face, “The second rule, you will not bring your bullshit in here as you have with the rest of the fucking sister clubs, we have enough shit to deal with we don’t need some pissants shit on top of it” Gunner swings the wooden leg again this time hitting his upper back and shoulder.
Ice’s face slightly grimaces in pain and his smirk slowly starts to fall, if he thinks this is the worst he’s in for hes severely mistaken. “The third rule, you will respect every single person in this fucking club, I don’t care if it’s a fucking prospect. You’ve already shown me that you are unreliable and untrustworthy, you will prove your trust to everyone here, in fact, you will start as a prospect and earn your way in. You should be oh so thankful that my lovely wife changed my mind about the jobs prospects have, but I think she might make a few exceptions for you”.
Gunner swings again and hits the other side of his back, “The fourth rule, everyone in this fucking club knows exactly what happened back then. I was 17 years old, I didn’t fucking claim her I just didn’t want to share her with any of you dirty fuckers. Things change in all those years, back then? Yeah, I liked the sweet and innocent ones, it’s easy to take away other peoples brightness and ruin them. I enjoyed draining them, I enjoyed ruining their innocence. Then a few years later it changed again and I just enjoyed ruining anyone I could get my hands on, I enjoyed watching them cry and beg for me to love them, I enjoyed making them think they could ever change me it was a fun game to play”.
“But then you see I met Harley, my sweet sweet Harley and she turned me, my life and this club upside down. This time she was the one to play games with me, and fuck me did she play some games but that only made me want her more, I enjoyed the chase because the catch was even sweeter. Her sassy little attitude, her amazing fucking body full of curves and scars, the beautiful artwork that covers her deliciously smooth skin, the stretch marks on her ass and tits, the stretch marks on her stomach from growing our children, those big beautiful fucking eyes and her long blonde hair that I just love to pull on when im fucking her. She is forever mine as I am forever hers”.
“You see, she is everything I have ever wanted in a woman. And if you think that even for a second I will let you take her away from me you are going to be in for a world of pain. Because trust me ‘brother’ I will fucking slaughter ANYONE that tries to take her, ask anyone in this club, ask the bodies buried in the paddocks out the back. Ask our rivals that thought it was a smart idea to take her from me, or even worse, hurt her.”
“You so much as look at my woman or anyone else’s woman the way you have been I can promise you, you won’t be here to see the next sunrise. Learn your fucking place” This time Gunner hits him on the back of the head, Ice’s head slumps down before he slowly lifts it back up to look at me, I smirk at him this time.
“See, you’re already learning what respect is, I didn’t have to tell you to look at me, you did it on your own accord. You may have been here all those years ago but you made the choice to become a nomad, to have no home and to travel, so you will start at the beginning again like all of us. First thing is that patch needs to go” I say pointing to the tattoo on his bicep, he moves his head to look at where I’m pointing.
“Once you’re in, we will give you a new one. I’m sure you have been told about how we remove them around here. Now, I’m going to go and go my darling wife to stop carving up bodies in the basement so we can do this, Gunner tell everyone I want them in the garage in an hour” He nods his head before swinging the wooden leg one more time hitting the back of Ice’s head again but hard enough to knock him out.
I let out a loud sigh and run my hands through my hair, as I turn around and make my way over to the stairs down to the basement I hear Gunner yell out “Goodluck brother, she’s going to eat you alive”, “Go fuck yourself” I call back. The sound of metal clanking together and muffled groans and screams become to get louder as I get closer to the door, it opens and Shark Eye’s comes out looking slightly flustered, I reach into my cut and grab a cigarette lighting it up.
“How are things?” I ask as I take a drag, “You’re lucky I went in there, you would have been her next victim” He replies patting me on the shoulder as he continues up the staircase, I take a deep breath as I open the door, and the scene I’m met by can only be described as a serial killer’s wet dream, a disfigured man hangs in the middle of the room blood pooling at his feet and his littered with a thousand cuts as Harley and Blaze circle him like wild animals.
The mixture of smoke and Iron are an all too familiar smell that only awakes the demons in my mind. “Kitten” I call out, her head snaps in my direction and I look over her quickly, her skin is covered in small droplets of blood, like red freckles and a cigarette hangs out of her mouth. Blaze doesn’t stop what he was doing before but Harley slowly walks over to me until we are face to face.
I open my mouth to speak but she shrugs her shoulders “I know” She replies non-chantant, “Dad told me, I’m sure he told you just how lucky you are puddin” She laughs to herself as she takes a drag, I do the same before sighing “Look, I know your dad told you but I want to explain it myself” She just smiles and nods her head as a reply, “Tonight at home”.
She spins on her heels and turns back to face Blaze who is too busy cutting away at the man’s flesh to notice that I’m in the room. “Blaze am I good to leave you be? I want to get cleaned up and get Elijah ready for bed” He finally looks up and notices me, he nods his head my way with a goofy smile on his face as I nod my head back. “Sure thing Harley, go play family” He replies as he gets back into his work, “Need you in the garage in 40 minutes brother” He looks confused but nods his head anyways.
I throw my arm around Harley’s shoulders and lead her out of the basement and back up the stairs, “what’s going on in 40 minutes?” She asks looking down at the blood on her hands, “A very special surprise kitten” Is all I reply as we walk into the kitchen. Gunner is in there swearing to himself as he fills up multiple baby bottles one with formula and two with breast milk, “Jesus fucking christ why is this so hard” He mumbles to himself.
“Gunner you’ve made a fucking mess,” Harley says as she walks over to him, “Damn Harlz, you look like you’ve been through some shit,” He says scanning over her as she goes to over to the sink to wash the blood off of her. I walk towards Gunner and grab the bottle off of him “Why is there so much formula in this?” I ask looking at the thick mixture, “I forgot how many scoops I added” He replies more to himself.
“Oh for gods sake” Harley says grabbing the bottle from my hand and cleaning it before making it herself, “Where’s our boy?” She asks looking over to Gunner. “Upstares in your old room” He replies, I nod my head to him as Harley grabs ahold of my arm and drags me out fo the kitchen and towards the stairs. “Did you talk to Ice?” She asks quietly as we walk down the hallway, “Something like that, he’s… resting before my big surprise” I reply smiling down at her.
“if you killed him before I got a chance to have at him we are getting a divorce Jaxon,” She says sternly stopping in her tracks, I laugh and turn around to face her “I know better than to do that kitten, he was just told the rules and it must have been exhausting for him” She raises her eyebrow at me but starts walking again until we reach our old door, she quietly opens it and peaks her head in before opening the door fully.
Betty and Isabella sit on the bed reading a story to Elijah, Isabella acts out the scenes to little red riding hood as Betty reads along, how ironic really? Little does our sweet boy know that his mommy and daddy are the big bad wolves. Betty stops reading and looks up at us greeting us with her wide smile, “Hey ma, hey ass-kicker” Harley says sitting down on the bed next to Betty while messing up Isabella’s hair. “Hello darling, and what have I told you about calling her that? She’s starting to say it now” Betty scolds as she passes Elijah over into Harleys arms.
Isabella jumps off the bed and runs over to Harley’s side, “Hi Harl, we read stories to the baby!” She exclaims excitedly. “Shark Eye’s told me about the meeting, come and drop him off when you’re ready” She says quietly while patting my cheek, “Thanks ma” I reply she claps her hands and turns around to Isabella. “Now come on little miss, we have some teddies that need to be organised for a tea party tomorrow” Isabella giggles and runs out of room yelling bye as she passes us.
Betty says goodbye and leaves Harley and I by ourselves, I walk over to the bed and sit down next to her. “I heard what you said about me,” She says smiling down at Elijah as she feeds him a bottle, “Gunner texted me,” She says passing her phone to me, multiple messages from Gunner appear on her screen I read one out loud “Oh god, now he’s going on about how he pulls your hair when you two fuck, I didn’t need to know that Harlz,” I say laughing to myself.
“He’s an idiot, Shelby’s told me more than that about their sex life. Anyways, what is this surprise?” She asks looking down at Elijah, “Well, all I can say is your years of training and experience in skinning will be coming in handing tonight”.