“Did you find somewhere to stay?” I ask.
For a few weeks he pitched up at my place but then one afternoon I woke up after a heavy night of booze and women to find he had gone. That was a month ago.
“Here and there,” he mumbles.
“I’ve got something going on at the moment and I want you to be a part of it. You’ll make some quick cash and I can offer you a room.”
I wasn’t too sure about the room, but for Tommy I would find him somewhere at the Johnson place, there is plenty of room anyway.
“Like what?” he asks, suddenly interested in why I am here.
“Me, my brother and a couple of his friends, are starting up our own motorcycle club. You still got your Harley?”
He looks at me like I’ve asked a ridiculous question.
“Micky, my brother’s friend can get us work, it’s not exactly fuckin’ legit or anything but it’s not like we’re fuckin’ angels, is it?” I laugh.
This gets a smirk out of him and finally begins to talk fluidly.
“I can’t tell you much more unless you wanna come but I’m heading back after this so I need an answer now.”
I’m not giving him the chance to think things over. I know him and I know he needs this as much as I do.
I’m confident my brother and the others will be on board when they meet him.
“Why not,” he sighs, putting the cap back on the bottle, “Where we headed?”
I smile and stand up.
“Follow me. We’ve got one last stop to make and then we’ll be on the road.”
Our last stop was in fact to Benny. Benny is a good kid, quick on his feet and quick with his fists. He can hold himself in any situation and he gets by knowing everything about everything. I needed him to hook me up with some tables and stools and he didn’t let me down. He was my first stop when I got back. I told him what I needed and offered to take him back to Willows Peak if he came up with the goods and man did he came up good.
Tommy and I on our bikes and Benny in the truck with the furniture that he acquired very cheap roll into the Johnson place just after eight pm.
Like always, it’s already busy and people are still turning up and paying to come in.
Tommy follows behind me to park in my usual spot beside the house and Benny parks up next to the outbuilding Mark and Oak have been working on this week. I instruct them start to taking the furniture in and I will be back soon.
Feeling pretty good with myself I go in search of Mark. Half jogging to where our guys normally plot up on weekends like this, I come to a stop when I see Rayna in Mark’s arms and nuzzling into his neck as he talks with Micky. Before I left town she hadn’t seen him for a few days when he laid into that guy in front of her. She didn’t say anything about it but I assumed that she didn’t want to know him after that. Obviously, I assumed wrong.
Fuck her, if it’s Mark she wants, he’s welcome to her. Who needs to fucking change for a chick anyway. Who cares if she is the most beautiful woman I have ever laid eyes upon. I don’t need this shit. Mark catches me standing here and from his face I know their relationship has changed and she is now his. Fucker must have waited for me to leave before making his claim.
He jerks his chin, wanting me to go over and without dwelling too much on her, I will admit I am jealous and the thought of being around them makes me want to punch something until my knuckles split open and blood pours from my self-inflicted wounds.
I stay where I am and when he realizes I’m not going over, he detaches himself from Rayna’s perfectly supple body and walks towards me.
“I wanted to talk to you before you saw us together,” he begins, looking back to Rayna, “I know you have a thing for her but I really like man and she likes me too.”
“I kind of guessed it was you she likes, don’t worry about it. I have plenty of pussy to choose from here,” I smile, but it doesn’t reach the truth. He sighs and stares me down before accepting my word.
“Are you not coming over?” he asks.
“Nah, I just wanted to let you know I’m back, come and have a look what I’ve got us.”
He follows me and takes in Tommy and Benny when they come into sight.
“Are these your guys?”
“They’re not mine but yeah, I know them. And look,”
I take him inside the outbuilding and show him the goods I have acquired thanks to Benny.
“Where and how did you get all this from?” he asks, cautiously.
“Do you really want to know?”
“No, I suppose not as long as it doesn’t come back to bite us on the fuckin’ ass.”
“That’s the attitude,” I laugh, slapping him on the back.
I call over Tommy and Benny and make the introductions.
“Has Michael filled you both in?” he asks them.
They both nod and wait for him to speak. This riles me, not only did he get the girl while I was away but he seems to have taken up as our fucking leader.
“No offence to my brother but if you’re acquainted with him then I’m guessing you don’t sell bibles and bake fuckin’ cookies?”
I haven’t seen Mark like this before. He has always been forward in finding out what he wants to know, but the way he is holding himself and speaking makes me feel like he’s superior to us. Maybe it is his natural personality built into him from his Marines days.
“I’ve only been to county once,” Benny tells him and looks darn fucking proud of the fact, as if he should have been there many more times.
I see the flicker of amusement on Mark’s face as he thinks the same as me and then looks to Tommy.
“What about you?” he asks him.
“No, sir. Not once.”
Mark is taken aback with Tommy’s manners and then laughs out loud. I should have known everyone would look up to Mark, no matter where he is or who he meets it is always the same.
“I’m not no sir, Tommy. As you can see this place is a work in progress. You’re welcome to help out with fixing it up and there are rooms upstairs for you to crash in. My friend, who you’ll meet later has lined up some work and there will be cash to be made if you’re up for it. In return, all I ask is that while you are here you keep off of the cops radar and stay loyal to us. Some of the work may require more than brain power and more force. If you don’t think you’re up for it, leave now.”
Mark doesn’t say anything else or wait for them to agree, he walks away and leaves us standing watching his back disappear through the door.
“You guys up for it?” I ask them.
“Hell yeah,” Benny says.
Tommy nods and looks around.
“What else are they plannin’ on doin’ here?”
I walk them through the building telling them what I was told before I left. I leave them upstairs going through the empty rooms picking one out each and Benny already informing Tommy he can get the beds and shit in the morning. To be honest, I think Tommy is happy to be away from everyone and everything he knows, it doesn’t matter if he has a bed or not.
Joining the party I bump into the pretty little red head I have had the pleasure of being inside over the last couple of months. She isn’t as beautiful as Rayna but she is good enough to distract myself with. Nice, little body on her with huge tits and a nice ass I can grab onto with locks of bright, red hair.
I couldn’t tell you her name but then her name isn’t what I want right now.
“Hi, Michael,” she chirps, hanging onto my arm as I pass by her and her friends.
“Hey,”
She only comes up to my shoulder so it gives me a good advantage of being able to see down her top, which isn’t hard as I don’t think it is meant to cover up anything.
“You staying tonight, darlin’?” I ask her, removing her off my arm and slinging my arm around her neck.
“Yeah,”
“Go and get us a couple of beers and then come find me over there,” I point to where my brother is and she scuttles off.<
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Mark is telling the rest about Tommy and Benny. He doesn’t notice me until I sit across from him and drag his bottle of beer from him. He finishes speaking with them and then gives me his attention.
“Micky has set up a meet with Denzel Parker, we ride out to see him first thing Monday. Are you good with that?”
I am speechless for a minute, I assumed Oak would be his right hand guy, not me.
“Sure, are you sure you want me going with you?” I ask him, “Are you not afraid I’ll fuck it up somehow?” I add, just for good measure.
“Of course not, I want you there beside me. We’re in this together, remember?”
I nod and drain the rest of his beer.
“There’s a few guys who’s approached us to stay on after the party ends tomorrow, we’re going to see how we get on with them and find out how loyal they can be. We don’t want or need anyone we can’t trust. The kind of work we can get could put us away for years at a time occasionally so we need to trust who’s watching our backs. These two you brought back with ya, would you trust them to keep your ass out of jail and out of the ground?” Micky says.
I think about it seriously and nod again, I already trust them with my life if it came down to it.
Rayna and Flo join us at the same time the red head comes over with our drinks. She sits herself on my lap and wriggles about to get comfortable, the sight of Rayna in her short shorts and tight cut-off tee and the feel of a nice ass pushing into my groin is making me hard.
The red head feels it and gives me a promising smile and an extra little wiggle.
“Hi Michael, I didn’t know you were back,” Rayna smiles brightly.
“Only just, how you doing darlin’?”
Red head throws me a glare for calling her darling but she can fuck off, I’ll call whoever I want whatever I want.
“I’m doing good, did you get what you needed on your trip?”
This bullshit talking is making me angry. I want to be telling her about it while she lays in my arms after I’ve took my time pleasing her body after being away from her for a few days, not talking to her while she is cuddling up to my brother. The son of a bitch doesn’t know how lucky he is.
“Yeah, thanks. Come on red, let’s get out of here.”
I pull red head up with me as I stand and don’t bother to say we’re leaving, walking off gives that away.
“I’ve missed you, Michael.” Red head says, as we head up the stairs to my room in the main house.
Tonight will be the last time I sleep with this chick, she is getting a little too clingy for my liking, missing me? We’re only a hook up at a party for fuck sake.
“Yeah, I’ve missed your tits,” I grumble, pushing through the door and backing her towards the bed.
Mark
“Who’s the red head always hanging around Michael?” I whisper in Rayna’s ear.
“I think her name is Kitty. I’ve seen her around town but I don’t know her well,” she tells me.
I’ve seen them together at a few of our parties and I hope for Michael’s sake that it works out well for him. With Rayna and I together now it might not be such a big deal for him.
“She looks like she has it bad for him,” she adds.
“Let’s hope he has it bad for her,” I grunt.
I drain the rest of my beer and toss the bottle in the heap of bottles that have been steadily piling up tonight.
“I’m going to grab another beer, do you want one?” I ask Rayna, pulling my arm from around her shoulders and standing up.
“Sure,” she smiles.
I head for the shed we keep our supply of beer and liquor in and I can feel someone following me.
Turning sharply when I round the corner, it takes a few seconds for my stalker to catch up. When he turns the corner I’m two seconds away from hurtling him against the wall before I see that it’s Oak.
“What are you creeping up on me for man?” I grumble, catching my breath.
He laughs and holds his hands up.
“Jesus Mark, I just wanted to talk to you on our own.”
I carry on towards the shed and make sure we are alone. We are.
“What do you want to talk about?” I ask, leaning down to grab two bottles of beer from the cooler.
“I want to know how much you trust the guys Michael has brought back with him.”
I can understand why he’s asking me. Michael is my brother and Oak will hold what I say as gospel.
“Michael can be a lot of things but he wouldn’t have it with people he didn’t deem trustworthy in his own way. We trust them until they prove otherwise. I have to give Michael this chance to prove himself.”
I don’t know who I’m trying to convince, him or myself.
“Look, he’s my brother but so are you. You have known us for many years, he is hot headed, not stupid.”
“I don’t know Mark,” he sighs.
“I said we’d trust them until we don’t. I didn’t say we wouldn’t watch them like hawks.”
He looks placated hearing this and I know the conversation is done. He grabs his own beer and follows me back to where everyone is still sitting around the fire.
When I see Rayna disguise a yawn from everyone I can’t help smile. As I get closer I can see the tiredness around her eyes.
I hold out my free hand void of our beer bottles and she lets me pull her to her feet.
“Do you want to get out of here?”
She nods enthusiastically and we make our way through the different groups to the main house.
The house is in darkness but I lead Rayna past the table and anything else that she could bump into without any light helping us, but I didn’t count on a five foot angry chick hurtling towards us. The only giveaway I knew it was Kitty coming our way was her bright red hair.
“Your brother is an asshole,” she shrieks, the pain and tears evident in her tone.
She passes us and slams the door shut behind her leaving Rayna and I alone again.
Before we make it out of the kitchen Michael slowly stomps down the stairs lighting a cigarette, half dressed.
“What did you do to her?” Rayna asks him.
“Nothing she didn’t want,” he smirks, passing us and opening the fridge.
“Michael…”
He sighs and then cuts her off, holding his hand up to stop her from talking any further.
“She’s upset because I didn’t want her to stay the night.”
I release a long, heavy breath. For a split second I thought he may have hurt her. I hate that I could think that of my own blood but with Michael I just don’t know sometimes.
“No wonder she was upset, no girl wants a guy to tell her to leave after they’ve just had sex,” Rayna scolds him.
Before my very eyes and the first time in my life I see him look reprimanded and a wash of guilt covers his face.
“I’ll go find her,” he mutters, walking out the back door.
It strikes me that it wouldn’t have mattered what I said to him. He would have carried on with attitude and arrogance. It was Rayna who got through to him.
“Do you think he will apologize to her?” she asks me.
“He will in his own way. Come on, let’s go upstairs.”
I shove my brother and everything else out of my head and carry on with my girl up to bed.
CHAPTER TEN
Mark
Her skin is soft and smooth as silk, the finest you could ever let slip through your fingers. Watching the sun rise through the uncovered window and stroking her soft arm as she sleeps against me has become the best way to start my day. To find myself this relaxed I normally have to drill my body with hard exercise. Now the mere close proximity of her whenever we’re together is all I need.
“What do you expect to gain from doing this?” she asks, keeping her eyes closed.
She knows a little more than I would like about our plans for the future, not that I don’t want her to know about me but the thought
of her knowing what I could possibly be getting myself into scares me. It scares me because she might not be able to handle it and walk away. With more men staying here and looking to make cash with us, I’ll go as far as I need to keep them all safe.
“I had no clue what I was doing when we came here. It wasn’t only me who felt lost, others felt like it too. Being here, meeting you and everyone else, it feels like it’s where we should be. I want a place where men can come and feel needed, a place they know they can always rely on.”
“The ones who are already here aren’t exactly guys you want to know are they? Why would you want them altogether in one place?”
“Have you ever thought why men do what they do sometimes? I’m not talking about rapists or anything but guys who bend rather than break the laws. They have no guidance, no one to reign them in. There is no one to offer them the respect they need. We can offer them that, we will be better together than individually,” I tell her.
I’m sure I’m not explaining it right because she detaches herself from me and slips out of bed searching for her clothes.
“Where are you going?” I ask, sitting up reaching for my jeans.
“I’ve got to go, my shift starts soon.” She mumbles, yanking up her shorts.
I’m not buying it, she normally doesn’t leave until the last minute before she will truly be late.
“Why are you really leaving?”
“I told you, have you seen my bra?” she deflects, lowering to the floor to search under the bed.
“Here,” I pick it up from the end of the bed and throw it over to her, still waiting for her answer.
“Look, I understand what you’re trying to do here and part of me thinks it’s a good idea for you all but do you understand the extent you will most likely have to go to in order to establish yourselves?”
I narrow my eyes and watch her carefully.
“You sound like you know about this shit.”
“I’ve had some experiences with guys like you and who you’re bringing to town, in the end it will be nothing but blood and violence. You can’t step into that world without it.”
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