Chapter One #2
“Someone poked holes in all my condoms. Janessa is claimin’ to be pregnant with my baby.
I know the condom broke that night, but this is ridiculous.
She’s not havin’ my baby. It’s some other guys and she’s just tryin’ to pawn it off on me.
Janessa’s been around the club enough to know we’re not poor men.
The bitch wants a fuckin’ payday and is lookin’ to score one with me,” I tell him honestly as his face turns red and a glare turns in my direction.
“Are you fuckin’ kiddin’ me right now?” Carbon shouts, pushing himself off the door frame and stepping just inside my room.
“No. She just told me downstairs in the common room in front of Rooster, Marie, and Seth. I’m not buyin’ her bullshit or playin’ her games,” I state as the VP of our club shakes his head and disappears from my room without saying another word to me.
Getting off my bed, I leave my room and head for Brick.
If anyone can get to the bottom of who’s been in my room, it will be him.
He’s put all the cameras up in the common room and knows every single angle and the right one to look at for what I need.
The common room is filled with everyone in the club, including the women and kids, and I walk through without saying a word to anyone.
I don’t stop until I’m pounding on his door.
“What the fuck?” Brick questions, opening the door as I almost hit him in the face.
“Need your help. Now!” I call out, my voice hard as I push past him and enter the room without waiting for an invitation like normal.
“Knuckles, what the fuck is goin’ on. This isn’t you. You never just barge in my room or act like this,” Brick says, shutting the door behind him as I hear footsteps in the hallway coming toward us.
“Need you to pull up the camera footage from the hall outside our rooms. Someone poked holes in all of my condoms and I want to know who the fuck it was,” I tell him, pacing his room like a caged animal as rage simmers in my body.
“Are you fuckin’ kiddin’ right now? Does anyone else know? Have any of the other single guys checked their stash?” Brick asks, sitting down at his desk and pulling up the camera feed from our upper hallway where the rooms are located.
“I haven’t told anyone else. The second I found out, I came right here to find out who the fuck did this shit,” I say, not stopping my pacing back and forth across his room.
Brick pulls out his phone and I barely hear his words as he speaks into it. I don’t pay attention as his door opens and others enter the room. While they all crowd around Brick, I just keep pacing. It’s not until Tease stands directly in front of me that I finally stop and look at my best friend.
“We’ll get to the bottom of this, Knuckles.
And you’ll apologize to Janessa. You’re the only one here who doesn’t believe her.
I’m one of the few people here who know your past and understand why this shit is hard for you to believe.
However, if you were ever gonna put your trust and faith in one woman, it should be Janessa.
She’s a damn lawyer and there’s no way in hell she’d lie about somethin’ like this,” Tease says, his voice firm and controlled the way it is when he’s trying to pull me out of my head and get me back on track.
“No one here knows her, Tease. The only capacity we’ve ever seen her in is professional when she’s representin’ one of us.
None of us know her fuckin’ past or anythin’ personal about her.
Yeah, she’s a lawyer, but she just moved here and could be a gold-digger.
Just the same as the rest of them. Nothin’ ever changes with women and you know that as well as I do.
It’s not like you ever trust women either.
I don’t know why the fuck you’re bein’ like this when it comes to me,” I tell my best friend as I turn to walk away from him and continue my pacing once again.
Before I can get more than a few steps, Rooster is in front of me and slapping a folder against my chest harder than necessary.
“Fuckin’ read it. We all know about her past and you’re the only one who doesn’t.
You haven’t been in the meetin’ we had before decidin’ to retain her as our lawyer.
If I remember right, you were on a run,” Rooster growls at me and removes his hand from my chest before turning and heading back toward Brick to find out what he discovers on the camera feed.
I don’t bother opening up the file as I continue to pace.
No one is going to convince me to give Janessa the benefit of the doubt about this situation.
Instead, I get lost in my head once again and pretend I’m in the room alone while Brick does his thing and tries to figure out what the hell is going on with the condoms in my stand.
And if anyone else has something to worry about.
We all enjoy sex on a regular basis and who knows when the condoms were tampered with.
The sooner this situation is figured out, the better it will be for all of us.