Chapter 16 #2
Sunday morning and I have Victoria in the kitchen with Bethy. Corey is outside playing with Star. I’m not asking because I don’t want to know what shit she is getting him into. I’m now heading into church before we have training.
Axel is sitting with the gavel in his hand, and quickly slaps it down, opening the meeting.
“I don’t need to cover everything this morning, brothers,” Axel states clearly not wanting the meeting to go over how all the businesses are running.
“Carrie has been doing some convincing, and it seems it has paid off. Herb, Jorge, Terry, and Lucas have agreed to join the club. I don’t think we need to have them prospect because we’ve known them a long time, and they’ve helped us many times.
Do you all agree with that? Give me a show of hands.
” We all lift our hands knowing that the four will be good brothers to the club, and it brings them closer while something is going on.
“Okay, let’s have BS sort it out as he used to be in charge of prospects, and now he only has Jack we can give him something to do.” Axel chuckles at his own wit, and I have to tell you I see more than one brother roll their eyes at him.
BS takes his pencil from behind his ear and a small notepad out of his kutte pocket writing some note for himself. We all watch him replace the notepad and pencil then look back at Axel who has a huge smirk on his face.
“Right, show of hands and we need unanimous. All four, Herb, Jorge, Terry and Lucas, to be full brothers.” Again, all hands shoot into the air.
“Okay, PT, sort them out with leathers. Make sure they know the rules, BS, and they need to be here in church next week. For now, let’s leave them without a club name, but think on it brothers, because we can give them one whenever we are ready. ”
Some of the brothers throw names around, but not putting one out for a vote.
I sit back and listen to everything, but say nothing.
Meat is next to me. He has his arms folded over his chest and says nothing.
Target is on the other side of me, sitting calmly, hands linked in his lap.
Wings is giving me a look that tells me he wants to speak to me later, so I give him the smallest of nods to let him know I understand.
“Now, something is stirring around the wood yard, but as yet we don’t know what or why.
Specs is keeping a close eye on it, as are Delta and Bones at BaronsSecure.
All we can do is wait and see what happens.
” Axel looks around, and when nobody comments and all he’s getting is nods of heads, he continues.
“Anything else anyone wants to bring up?”
“Yeah,” I state loudly, “I want to order a property patch for Victoria.”
Chuckles flow around the room, and some start with clever remarks about my dick being in someone’s purse now. I ignore them because nearly half the brothers have an ol’ lady at this point.
“Okay, let’s vote on this. Does anyone have an objection to Victoria being an ol’ lady?
” Axel asks, and I look around the room, making sure that if anyone objects they feel the hurt after church.
When nobody says a word, it’s opened up for voting.
“Right brothers,” Axel smirks at me, “show of hands for Victoria being Chaos’.
” A unanimous show of hands flows and I give my brothers a nod of thanks.
Target slaps my shoulder while grinning at me. That only leaves Wings from the group of us that were and are brothers in arms without a woman. We’ll be giving him hell about that for quite some time I’m sure.
Axel slaps the gavel down to get our attention, as we have all dropped into conversations.
“Stop with the gossiping. We have this issue with Victoria. Bethy is here and safe. Victoria is safe as she’s with Chaos and has Jack tailing her.
I want a group of you to go see Art and if necessary this fucking wanker, up his own ass pretend Senator.
Make it clear to him he fucks off, or he visits our shed, or better yet he can meet Jaws. ”
Mumbles of agreement flow around the room, and I’m sure there will be quite a few brothers who want in on this. It’s a good excuse to go on a road trip.
“I’ll organize it, Pres,” Buzz states, and we can all see he is itching to get involved. Things have been peaceful lately and I think he’s well ready to get his knuckles split and bloody.
“That’s fine, Buzz. Let’s get to training.
Oh, Meat, Target, make sure Victoria and Bethy are training.
None of this sitting on the sidelines.” Axel looks at me and I nod as I fully agree.
We’ve already seen that the women need to hold their own if and when necessary.
None of us would want them to be sitting ducks.
Meat grunts to acknowledge Axel, and Target responds.
“No problem, Pres. We’ll make sure all the women are training.
Victoria started at the range. We know she had a carry permit previously, so she’ll get one here with no problem.
Winter has her and Jack crossbow training, and it seems Jack has a knack for it. ”
I don’t think it will be long before Jack becomes a full brother, and he’s going to be a damn good one. As soon as Victoria is safe Jack will start working with me at the range. I’m actually looking forward to training him as he’s like a sponge. He sucks in everything we teach him.
“Everyone keep me informed of any changes within the club. Chaos, get your woman settled with a job. She’ll not want to stay if she feels she isn’t fitting in.” Axel gives me an intense look, and I nod.
Specs, however, surprises everyone when he speaks. “I’d like you to consider Victoria working here with me. We have more going on now. It would be good to have someone who can work alongside me and create programs that would make it easier to follow things.”
“I’ll speak to her, Specs. I reckon she’d like that.” I get a satisfied look from Specs, and turn my head to look at Axel, who sees it's under consideration. Turning to the room, Axel slams the gavel down. “Church dismissed.”