“You want my blessing?” I laugh, is he for real?
“Not a chance, I don’t want her with anyone here, least of all you. Do I make myself clear? I’m not asking you to stay away from her, I’m telling you,” I warn him, “And you must face the consequences of your actions. Each brother will take two hits out on you and then we’ll forget about this.”
“Michael, don’t do this. I think he gets the message,” Oak pipes up.
“Then this is making sure he fully understands. You have known her since she was in Rayna’s belly, you want someone like him with her?”
He doesn’t say anything and it makes my point.
Making the brothers do this will make them see nothing gets past me and that I rule this club the way I see fit.
One by one each brother steps forward towards Cas and sings their fists into his jaw and ribs. When it’s Sparky and Slade turn, they look sick but they do as instructed. By the time they have finished and it’s only me left, I clear the distance between us and bend down on bended knee where Cas is slumped on the ground.
“I really do like her,” he mumbles.
I drive my fist into his already beaten face and wipe his blood off my hand on his jeans.
“Do you love her?” I ask him.
“Huh?”
“I asked if you love her.”
He stares me in the eye and I can see his internal debate but I wait patiently for his answer.
“No, I don’t love her.”
“Then stay away from her or I’ll strip your VP patch and throw your ass out of this club. I mean it Cas, stay away from her, and make sure she stays away from you. I don’t care how you do it, but do it.”
Leaving him on the ground, I leave the garages and breathe deeply.
I can’t afford for anything to get in my way to ending the Raging Riders. The charade in the garages just now had to be done.
Listening to Alannah cry most of the night made me feel like a complete bastard, but this morning she’s acting like nothing happened.
Through the whispers in the club I heard Cas took it to the extremes and was fucking some whore and made sure Alannah walked in on them. Yet you wouldn’t think that looking at her smiling on the back of Sparky’s bike about to leave for college.
“Micky would be proud of her leaving for her last year at college,” Oak grumbles to Pope, choking up himself.
Sparky rides them off and everyone but Kitty and I stay outside.
“You haven’t mentioned Micky yourself in a while,” she whispers.
“There’s no need, when Lana finishes the year at college she won’t be coming back here. If there’s a chance her being away from us will bring Hunter out of the shadows to get to me then so be it. As for Micky, I’ve got something real special planned for him.”
“Care to share?”
“Next time he stops by I’m going to give him a message to deliver one way or another to our enemy. Details of our run. Not only will they kill him, they’ll make sure the Lost Souls know he died a rat. No one will give a shit he’ll be dead.”
Flo never survived after suffering from Cancer, the day after her funeral Micky came to me and went nomad. He only stops by here a few times a year so if he disappeared no one would notice for a while.
“And then it will be over?”
Wrapping my arms around her, I pull her in and kiss her neck softly.
“Yeah babe, it will all be over.”
When Alannah finishes the year it will be show time and after twenty-one years, I will finally have peace knowing everyone who had a part in Rayna’s death will be as dead as her. Killing Hunter and taking down the Raging Riders will only be a bonus.
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