Chapter 23 #2
Forty-five minutes later, we’ve got our guys in place.
Havoc and I have been working on ideas how we can surprise them and it go undetected.
Brass has some of the guys looking like construction workers on the side of the street with cones out measuring something.
Reaper has a crew with a van that looks like an internet company working on the pole three houses down.
Havoc and I are planted in the shed behind the abandoned house.
It looks as though the slightest breeze will have it come crashing down.
“Incoming,” we hear through our earpiece from Hawk.
Havoc wiggles his eyebrows, “Showtime,” he whispers.
We watch as the bitch steps out of her car just as Mayor Burns pulls in right behind her. They make small talk as they enter through the side door and out of sight.
“You ready?” I ask Havoc.
“Let’s do this.”
We make our way out and carefully retrace our steps through the knee-high tall grass towards the back windows. The house is a shack and has been empty for some time. Blankets cover the windows so it’s hard to see in or out. As we squat down under the main one, we can hear their conversation.
“What’s new?” I hear Dennis ask and can see a sliver of them from a gap in the window and blanket. He’s on his phone while she’s working to get his belt off.
“The bitch is back home from what the guys are saying. Stone hasn’t been at the clubhouse much, must be tending to her,” Tessa, the rat, informs him.
“Don’t call her that,” he snaps at her, and the way he says it gets my hackles up.
“I don’t know what y’all see in her? She doesn’t seem so special that y’all are tripping over each other.”
“It’s not your concern what I want with Raegan. Your job is to get me information on that band of thugs and for you to suck my dick,” he tells her then pushes her to her knees. She happily obliges. “Now suck so you can get paid.”
For the next few minutes he asks her questions, and she pulls off his micro dick to answer. She doesn’t have any information because our brothers are loyal to the club and don’t discuss business with outside people.
I nudge Havoc ready to bleach my eyes after having to witness this lame performance.
“Showtime.”
We come around the side of the house to the door they entered is and shoulder our way through it. The noise jolts them apart. Dennis scrambles to pull up his pants, while Tessa stands and backs away to the corner of the room with her hands up.
“He made me,” she starts pleading, knowing what’s coming for her.
“I see our mayor is out with the people of our town doing his civic duties,” I say as Havoc and I start to box them in. Movement from the door shows Reaper, Chains, Brass, and Twitch. The rest of our brothers are out holding their spots as a lookout for us.
“This isn’t what it looks like,” Dennis tries to say.
“It sounded like you’ve been trying to get information on my club and on my Ol’ Lady,” I snarl.
“Stone, he—” Tessa tries again, but I slash my hand through the air stopping her.
“You should know what happens to rats and those who fuck with us,” I tell her then look over at Dennis. “I’ve been biding my time for this day.”
“You’ll go to jail if something happens to me. They’ll never believe I did anything,” he tries to put on a brave front, but I can tell by the falter in his voice he knows his words don’t hold water.
“Twitch,” I say and my men grab and hold both our guests, covering their mouths.
“That’s where you’re wrong, Mayor Dennis.
” I can’t help the sinister smile that forms across my mouth.
“The deed to this house is in your name. When they find you and this whore here, they’ll start digging.
They’ll find out that you had a secret love nest for your affairs that no one knew about. ”
Twitch walks over and hands me a shaving bag.
I zip open the bag pulling out a tourniquet and syringe.
My brothers pull Tessa to the floor while Dennis watches; his eyes bulge when I pop the cap off.
Brass ties a band around her upper arm right above her elbow, and I wait a few moments before I stab the needle down into the pulsing vein.
She’s trying to squirm and squeal as I decompress the toxic amount of heroin into her vein. It doesn’t take long before her eyes glaze over and her body gives in to the hit of dope.
Dennis starts really trying to put up a fight, but my men are no match for his pansy-ass.
Standing to my feet, I walk over and face the man who helped destroy my wildcat’s childhood.
He deserves everything that’s about to happen to him.
My thoughts stray to the day that he put his hands on her and a red haze flushes over my eyes and soul.
“Ever wonder why those bogus charges over the years never stuck?” Dennis is shaking and sweating as if we were in a sauna. I lean in like I’m telling him a secret. “The police department and most of the judges are on our payroll.”
I nod for Reaper to remove his hand from over Dennis’s mouth.
“Please, I’ll—”
“You put your hands on my woman and hurt her,” I say, looking him dead in the eyes.
Before he can utter a useless excuse, I swing my arm around as hard as I can. His head snaps to his right shoulder as I feel a satisfying crunch ripple under my knuckles. His knees give out but Havoc and Reaper hold him up.
“That’s for Raegan and all the pain you caused her,” I grit.
Over on the floor Tessa starts to convulse as she makes gurgling sounds. A white foam starts bubbling out of her mouth as my brother steps away to let nature take its course.
“No, no, please,” Dennis gains our attention as he watches what is going to be his fate.
“Get her naked and lay her over there,” I instruct then turn back to our guest of honor.
“It didn’t have to be this way, Dennis. When you became mayor, I reached out, but you thought we were beneath you.
You worked all these years to try to build a legacy that people will talk about for decades, but in reality all their going to remember is a cheating, drugged out guy who was once the mayor, who died in an abandoned house. ”
Reaper places his gloved hand back over his mouth and moves to lower him on the ground while I grab the other tourniquet and syringe from the bag.
Handing the band over to Brass, he ties it around the same way as he did Tessa’s to Dennis’s arm.
The mayor starts pulling hard against Havoc and Reaper’s hold, but he is no match for these guys.
Popping the cap off, I thump the needle to shake up the liquid inside for show.
I’d love to draw this out and torture him for hours, but the longer we’re here, the likelihood that someone might see us. And we can’t have that.
“Rest in Hell,” I say standing over his pathetic body, but I crouch down and hover over him. “There’s No Exiting this Dead Road.”
I plunge the syringe down into his main vein and feel a weight lifted as the last of the drug enters his body. We wait a few minutes as his body starts to react the same as Tessa’s did. We watch the life leave his eyes and a calmness washes over the room.
“Make this look like a love nest,” Havoc says as I stare down at the dead bodies on the floor. There isn’t anything I wouldn’t do for my brothers, my club, and my woman and that includes murder.
Once we feel like it’s believable, we gather up all our stuff.
“Let’s get gone, brothers,” I say and we disperse from the house. The guys head out to the waiting crew who were our lookouts.
Havoc and I retrace our steps to our vehicle past the field in the backyard.
“Damn, that felt good,” he says as he starts up the truck.
“Hopefully, this means we’ll get some breathing room for a while.” I blow out a deep exhausted breath. The last few weeks have been a lot of burning the candle at both ends, and I’d like to relax, if only for a couple days.
“Think I’m going to sleep for a solid week once we get back,” he comments as we get on the highway.
“The men aren’t going to like it, but we need to clear out the Sweetbutts and get all new ones.”
He grunts, “Was thinking the same thing. Hawk can start vetting the ones who stick around more frequently.”
“I’m sure he’s gonna love one more thing on his plate,” Havoc chuckles. “Bet it’d go over better if you tell him that Raegan will help.”
I reach over and sock him in the arm.
“Don’t mention Hawk and my woman working together.” He laughs at my grouchiness.
Hawk can’t hide his big crush on Raegan. The brothers think it’s hilarious, but it annoys the shit out of me.
“What’s going on with you and Sutton?” I ask, since it’s the first time we’re getting to chat about this subject.
Havoc blows out a breath then shakes his head.
“Man, I wish I knew,” he says, and you can hear the frustration in his voice.
“What’s the problem?”
“Well, first, she’s Raegan’s friend…”
“So, that shouldn’t matter as long as you’re over my woman—”
“I am,” he quickly says. “She won’t give me the time of day, but when she does, it’s incredible.”
“And…”
“And I…have Zane to think about. It’s not just me, plus my ex is a psycho. Not to mention Sutton has weird ass religious parents.” He pauses for a second. “I really like her, man, and when I first saw her it was like something shifted in me.”
“Sounds like you have a lot of excuses to me,” I tell him as we get closer to the clubhouse.
“Fuck you and your fucking happiness. Not all of us are lucky to have a Raegan as an Ol’ Lady,” he argues trying to sound bitter, and it makes me laugh. He’s come a long way accepting Raegan and I being together.
“Say what you want, but I saw the way you looked at Sutton when we pulled them out of that lake. Don’t hold back over some bullshit excuse, because it’ll only lead to misery and heartache. If she’s worth it, then burn down the world to have her.”