Kraken (Hades Abyss MC 4): (Mississippi Chapter)

by Harley Wylde

  “It’s just odd. I killed their President, and we haven’t heard a damn thing from them.”

  “Maybe they hated him as much as your wife does,” he said. “There tends to not be much loyalty amongst men like those. No doubt someone was ready to step into Deuce’s shoes.”

  It was possible, but my gut said trouble was coming. “Why did you send us there? I know it was to broker a deal, but no offense, Pres. I call bullshit. We’ve never dealt with men like those, so why now?”

  Titan twisted his beer bottle on the table, rotating it several times. “A friend called in a favor. Wanted to know if the Sadistic Saints were as bad as he feared. Should have told you what was going on, or let the club know, but there are some secrets I can’t share. They aren’t mine to share. If I’d thought you’d be in any actual danger, something you couldn’t handle, I’d have been more forthcoming with the information. Never counted on you finding Phoebe there, or killing their Pres.”

  A friend? I didn’t like it when Titan got cryptic. There was more to the story, but I knew the Pres wouldn’t share unless he was ready. The fact I’d been able to save Phoebe from the hell she’d been in made me grateful he’d sent us there, even if I didn’t understand why he’d done it.

  I cut my gaze to Titan and saw him watching Cowboy’s girl again. “Pres, you keep watching Danica like you are, and Cowboy is going to take issue with it.”

  Titan ran a hand over his beard. “Yeah. She’s just… different.”

  I eyed the young woman, trying to figure out what Titan saw in her. She had a girl-next-door kind of pretty, and a great smile. I could see the appeal, and I knew the Dixie Reapers were connected to several clubs through marriages or siblings, but I didn’t see Cowboy taking it well if Titan made a move on his kid. Didn’t matter if she was fully grown or not. I saw what he did, though. Innocence. We didn’t see much of it in our world.

  “Just tread carefully, Titan. When it comes to their women and kids, the Reapers will gladly bury anyone who fucks with their families. You break that girl’s heart, and it won’t just be Cowboy coming for you. It will be all of them.”

  “Which is why I’m sitting over here,” he said, taking a sip of his beer. “She might have grown up in this world, but I don’t think she has what it takes to be an old lady. Especially one to a President. I’ll look, but I sure the fuck won’t be touching.”

  The doors to the clubhouse opened and two women stumbled in. My body tensed as I scanned the room, wondering if anyone else had noticed. Titan had. He stood and started striding across the room, and I was fast on his heels. We’d declared the clubhouse a no-fly zone tonight for the club whores, but it seemed these two hadn’t received the message. And once I found out who let them in here, I was going to kick their ass.

  Titan grabbed Carla, but before I could get my hands on Dee, the woman flung herself at me. Her lips smashed against mine and her hand went straight for my dick. I wrenched her away from me and spat on the floor to get her taste out of my mouth. I shoved her, but she came right back, trying to wind herself around me.

  “Enough!” I pushed her away again. “What the fuck are you doing here?”

  “That’s what I want to know,” Titan said.

  “Kraken.” I froze at the soft voice and turned my head to see my wife and daughter coming toward me. “What’s going on?”

  “Someone forgot to not let the trash in tonight,” I said.

  Dee gasped and narrowed her eyes at me. “You didn’t seem to mind my presence when I was sucking your dick.”

  I’d never condoned violence against women, but I smacked her. Not enough to do any damage, but it sure the hell got her attention. Her eyes went wide and her jaw dropped. “You will not ever speak to me with such disrespect again. In fact, you’re banned from coming here. Next time I see you at the compound, the little love tap you just got won’t compare to what happens to you. You disrespected me. My club. And my family.”

  Phoebe came to stand next to me, her presence soothing the beast inside me. Titan grabbed Dee and hauled her outside with Carla. I scrubbed at my mouth with the back of my hand, not wanting any part of that woman’s germs on me. Yeah, she might have sucked my dick before, but the women at the clubhouse disgusted me now. All I wanted, or needed, was my wife.

  “Baby, about Dee…”

  She shook her head. “You weren’t a saint, Kraken. I didn’t exactly come to this relationship a virgin, and before you go off on how it wasn’t my choice, I know that. Doesn’t change the fact you weren’t my first. We both have people in our past. As long as you haven’t been with her since you brought me here, then I don’t care what she has to say.”

  “Don’t know what the fuck I ever did to deserve you, baby girl.”

  She leaned against me. “But just so you know, if I hadn’t been holding our daughter, I’d have grabbed the bitch by her hair and dragged her out of here.”

  I tried to hold it in, but I couldn’t. I burst out laughing. This woman. I never knew what to expect from her, and she amazed me every fucking day.

  Titan came back in, dragging a Prospect by the collar. He tossed Sean onto the floor. “This one let them in, after given orders not to do so.”

  Phoebe stiffened next to me. She pulled away and moved closer to Sean with Ember still clutched in her arms. I watched as she knelt in front of him.

  “I don’t know why you let those women in, but I don’t want them near my daughter. There are children here. Why would you do that?” Phoebe asked.

  “You were supposed to get upset and leave the clubhouse,” Sean said.

  Wait. What? “Excuse me?”

  Sean looked up at me, paling. “They have my cousin. If I didn’t flush Phoebe out where they could grab her, they said MaryAnne would take her place. She’s only sixteen, Kraken. She went missing two days ago. I have to get her back.”

  I didn’t have to ask who he meant. The Sadistic Saints had made their move. It was sneakier than I’d expected. They’d seemed like the type to storm the gates. If what Sean said was true, we had to get MaryAnne back. There was no fucking way I’d let anyone suffer the way Phoebe had, and I knew my woman wouldn’t want that either.

  “Looks like we need a plan,” I said.

  Jordan elbowed her way through the crowd. “Then let’s make one. I may not know who these men are, but it’s clear the girl doesn’t need to be with them. Let’s get her back.”

  Havoc stepped up behind Jordan. “Whatever you need, let us know.”

  Titan looked around the room. “I need the bunker supplied. Enough to last a week for all the women and children present. I hadn’t thought to move them down there tonight, but it looks like we’re out of time. And, Jordan, don’t even think of fucking arguing with me. You’re going on lockdown with the others.”

  Jordan crossed her arms. “Fine. But I’m not going to be unarmed. Someone has to protect them if the rest of you fail.”

  Havoc snorted. “Do you really think they’re getting past me? Or Kraken? He took down their President, by himself. But we can’t have all of you running around here, out in the open. It would be a distraction, and you damn well know it, Jordan.”

  She sighed and nodded. “Fine. I get it. I don’t like it, though.”

  Phoebe cuddled against me, and I wrapped my arm around her waist. My woman might not have the in-your-face strength Jordan did, but she was pretty damn perfect. With everything she’d suffered, it amazed me she’d even tried to talk to Sean, point out the error of his ways. Might not have been a fist to the face, which would have likely been Jordan’s method, but she hadn’t backed down.

  Now I just needed to take care of the fuckers trying to take her from me, because no one was going to steal my wife and daughter.

  Chapter Seven

  Kraken

  Instead of calling Church, once the women and kids were safe, Titan met with all of us in the main room of the clubhouse. Even the Prospects needed to hear his plan. He leaned against the bar, ankles an
d arms crossed, as he surveyed the room. I stood at his side with the VP. I got the feeling the Sadistic Saints would strike again, and it was coming soon.

  “I appreciate all of you coming here,” Titan said. “While we did want Kraken’s woman to feel like she wasn’t alone, you know there’s more going on. The Sadistic Saints want her back.”

  “When you say back…” Cowboy trailed off. “We don’t know the entire story. What are we getting involved in?”

  I glanced at the Pres before taking a step forward. “Phoebe’s family sold her to the Sadistic Saints. They raped and tortured her, treated her like a whore. I not only got her out of there, but I claimed her. And I left a little message for them by way of killing their Pres.”

  Titan snorted. “And he carved his message on the man’s torso.”

  “Nice!” Havoc grinned.

  “Only you’d get excited over something like that,” Rocky said.

  “The point is I won’t back down. Phoebe is mine, and I’ll be damned if I let those bastards get her back,” I said. “She was scared, abused, and treated like garbage. I don’t even want to think of what they’d do to Ember if they had the chance.”

  “Do you really think they’ll come here and try to take her? It’s one thing to attempt to lure her out of here, but to actually enter the compound and snatch her is another matter,” Rocket said.

  “They’ve let us know they want her back,” Titan said. “Since we aren’t dropping her on their doorstep, they’ll show up sooner or later.”

  “You reinforced this place after Slider came here with his woman,” Rocket said. “There’s no way they’ll get past your security. Or manage to get into the bunker. You’ll need something to lure them into at least trying, or you’ll have to leave a weak spot where they can breach the compound.”

  I scowled at Rocket. “We’re not using my woman as bait.”

  He lifted his hands. “Didn’t say you needed to. But with this place locked up like Fort Knox, there’s no fucking way they’ll get inside. Kind of hard to take them down if we’re in here and they’re out there.”

  “So we leave a weak spot,” Titan said.

  “What about the south corner?” Gravel asked. “It’s far enough from the bunker. We could deactivate the cameras on that end, or at least make it look like they’re not working, and make sure anyone patrolling the area does it at easily timed intervals. It would give them plenty of time to break in.”

  “I’m on it,” Wizard said. “I’ll have those cameras taken care of within the hour. I’ll even head over that way, give them a good once-over to make it look like they’re broken. I can be convincing.”

  “I’ll make a patrol schedule,” I said. “I want at least one Prospect to head down into the bunker until this is over. Everyone else, it’s all hands on deck.”

  Brick snorted. “You’re not in the Navy anymore, Kraken. We aren’t on a fucking ship.”

  I flipped him off. It was no secret I’d been in the military, but only a select few knew I’d been a Naval aviator. When my brothers heard I’d been in the Navy, with my penchant for killing off our problems, they’d dubbed me Kraken. Except I hadn’t struck from the depths of the sea, I’d taken out enemies by air.

  “If there’s anything you need to take care of, any last-minute tasks in case this shit goes south, I suggest you do it now,” Titan said. “These sick fucks will fight dirty, and they won’t be trying to just knock us out. They’ll want to remove us from the equation permanently.”

  “How many chapters do those bastards have?” Rocket asked.

  “Three that I know of,” I said. “The one I snatched Phoebe from, another in California, and one up in New York.”

  “So, none close enough for them to call in reinforcements,” Brick said. “Unless they already did and brought other chapters with them.”

  “Anyone had eyes on them?” I asked.

  “Haven’t seen them around here yet,” Pretty Boy said.

  “That’s because you’ve been too busy keeping eyes on your sister,” Gravel said. “How’s that going?”

  “The Wicked Mayhem are going to handle it. One of their officers is going to claim her.” He ran a hand over his head. “Just hope Ophelia doesn’t get all mouthy and fuck things up. They’re her only hope.”

  I shook my head, not wanting to get involved in the family drama that circled Pretty Boy and his sister. I hoped he was right about Ophelia. I needed his head screwed on straight.

  “Everyone get the fuck out, or stick around and have a beer. Whatever. I’ve got shit to do.” Titan walked off down the hall.

  I hoped his “shit” didn’t involve a certain young woman down in the bunker. I wasn’t about to tell the Pres where he could and couldn’t stick his dick, but I really hoped he wasn’t about to fuck shit up with us and the Dixie Reapers. It was nice having allies, and I didn’t think Cowboy would take it too well if his eldest ended up warming the Pres’s bed.

  Titan was right about one thing, though. There was always a chance we wouldn’t all walk away from a fight with the Sadistic Saints. If this was my last day breathing, I wanted to make sure Phoebe knew what she meant to me. Until Wizard laid his trap, those bastards wouldn’t be coming into the compound.

  I motioned Patriot over. “I want you to organize some patrol rounds in the south corner using Riley, Sean, and Smoke. Make sure there’s at least a thirty-minute break between their passes through that area. I want those fuckers to have a chance to break in. That being said, y’all try to give me at least forty minutes with my woman.”

  Patriot smirked, but I knew he’d do as I’d asked. I left the clubhouse and went back to the old barn, where we’d hidden the bunker. It had been improved since the last time we’d needed it. A hidden door still led downstairs to the bunker, but now there was a steel door that required not only a code, but another door with a retina scan before you could access the bunker. Every patched member could enter, but the Prospects hadn’t earned the right just yet, which meant whatever Prospect came down here to watch the women would have to be let in by a brother.

  I let myself in and scanned the area for Phoebe. Jordan held Ember as she chatted with Violeta. I made my way through the room and stopped outside the master bedroom. It was meant for the Pres, but I’d known he’d want Phoebe to use it. The sound of a woman crying had me turning the knob and stepping inside. Phoebe curled in the center of the bed, tears soaking her cheeks and the blanket.

  “Baby girl, what’s wrong?” I asked.

  She gasped and jolted upright. “Kraken!”

  I shut and locked the door. “Just us here, baby. You don’t have to call me that right now.”

  “Blake, I thought you were trying to take down the Sadistic Saints.”

  “I am, just not right this very moment. Right now, I’m going to spend some time with a beautiful woman I happen to call my wife.” I sank into the edge of the bed and reached out to run my fingers through her hair. “Why are you crying?”

  “I don’t know. It just felt like everything was pressing down on me. I don’t know anyone here, and while they’re nice, I feel out of place.”

  “Baby, you’re not out of place. This compound is your home, which makes you the reigning queen of this Hades Abyss chapter, since you’re the only old lady right now. Not to mention you’re an officer’s wife.” I leaned down on my elbow and tugged her close to me. She cuddled up to me. “You know, we got the all clear from Bones and didn’t even get to celebrate.”

  She bit her lip and looked like she was trying not to smile. “Blake, did you come down here to have sex before going off to war?”

  “Can you think of a better way to spend the next half hour?”

  Her shoulders shook with silent laughter. I didn’t know if that meant she agreed, or found the situation amusing. Either way, my woman was a temptation I couldn’t ignore another moment. I covered her body with mine, and kissed her long and deep. Phoebe wound her arms around my neck, opening to me.

/>   “Not laughing now, are you?” I asked.

  “Thirty minutes just doesn’t seem all that long,” she said between kisses.

  “Guess we better make the most of it.”

  I peeled her clothes off before ditching my own. Her skin felt like warm silk as I pressed her into the mattress. My sweet Phoebe was every bit as eager as I was, her pussy already slick and swollen. As much as I wanted the moment to last forever, I knew we had limited time. I’d make it up to her later. I shifted my hips, sinking into her wet heat.

  “Blake.” She moaned and dug her nails into my shoulders. “So good. Don’t stop.”

  “I thought you felt good before, but damn, baby. Nothing compares to taking you bare.” I nipped her jaw. “Can’t wait to put a baby in you.”

  “Less talk. More fucking.”

  I grinned and kissed the hell out of her. Her pussy rippled around my cock, making me want to slam into her. I gripped her hip and thrust deep. Her soft cries made my dick even harder. When all this was over, I was going to find a babysitter for Ember so I could keep my woman in bed for a solid twenty-four hours, only coming up for air long enough to rehydrate and eat.

  “That’s it, baby girl. Come for me.” I stroked in and out of her. “Show me how much you love having my cock inside you.”

  She lifted her hips, taking me in deeper. I ground against her, pressing against her clit, and she came apart, crying out my name. Fuck! The gush of her release nearly sent me over the edge.

  “So fucking perfect. Come for me again.”

  She clung to me. Her gaze held mine, all soft and trusting. I’d only had her in my life a short time, but I couldn’t imagine having to go on without her. If anything happened to Phoebe, I’d want to die right alongside her. I took her hard and fast, not stopping until she’d come twice more, then I let go, filling her with my cum.