Chapter 12
KEVLAR
Never before have I ever been so happy to see Rosemary walk away as I am right now. She doesn’t need to be here for what’s about to happen. Fuck, if it wasn’t hard to restrain myself as I have so far.
“You want to use electricity?” Wolf asks once the door closes behind Rosemary.
“No.” This fucker was going to feel pain by my hands no other way about it. Rex is a delusional fucker thinking I tainted Rosemary by fucking her.
Fuck that.
Fuck him.
He’s about to learn real quick what happens when you mess with me or the club.
There’s a reason the club had dubbed me with Fist while I was a prospect before earning my road name.
I thought I’d be Fist to the club, but I earned my name as Kevlar with that shit that happened during Jade’s situation.
But that part of me is still there. I’ve always been a fighter.
My dad taught me to fight when I was just a kid.
I’ve learned everything from karate, jujitsu, boxing, hand to hand.
Anything and everything I could, he taught me.
It was a way of discipline. To learn to control my anger.
It works for the most part, but as my mother once told him, it also makes me a danger to myself.
She knew as mothers, good moms who give a damn know.
“Oh fuck,” Aries mutters and announces, “he’s going to fight the bastard.
” Aries has known me for years. We grew up with each other.
His parents actually live off-grid in the same area as mine.
Where I was an only child, Aries has two sisters and a brother.
I always thought he was lucky to have siblings.
One of his sisters is in New York working as a photographer, while the other is still home with their parents.
His brother disappeared, and no one knows where he went off to. No one’s heard from him in a year now.
“I’ve heard what he can do in a ring.” Wolf chuckles as a few of my other brothers grumble.
“Let’s get to it then,” Viper commands harshly. “Maybe he’ll spew some more shit while getting his ass handed to him.”
“Fuck all of y’all,” Rex snaps. “You’ll regret messing with me.”
“Shut the fuck up about regretting shit,” I snarl, stepping into the cell, closing it behind me. The jarring sound of it locking doesn’t even phase me. Not in the least. It’s simply a cage fight. One that will end with Rex’s death.
It’s kind of ironic, really. The bastard who helped in all of this is going to die the same way my woman’s been forced to kill other women. You could even say it was whimsical, a twist of fate.
“You think you can beat me?” Rex sneers, stretching his neck out, and bobbing his head side to side while hopping around, shaking his hands. “I’m a professional fighter. You’re nothing more than a measly biker.”
“Measly biker.” Aries chuckles. “This douche doesn’t know what he’s up against.”
“Come on, big guy, you want to talk shit, go ahead and try me. Hell, if you beat me, maybe you’ll live to see another day,” I drawl, knowing good and well he won’t be beating me.
Rex rushes me, and so it begins. With each punch he throws, I block, landing one of my own.
I don’t bother playing around. I’m not in the mood to joke around and spar.
No, this fucker is going to die at my hands.
Visions of the other night, seeing Rosemary the way I did, the dead look in her eyes, it’s enough to cause me to go insane.
Beating Rex bloody. His body crumples to the floor, and I straddle him, only to bash his face in until he’s no longer recognizable.
Aries and Wolf pull me off of Rex’s dead body, both men struggling as Viper gets into my space.
“Kevlar, you good? Calm back down, brother.”
Nodding, I let out a heavy breath and shrug my brothers’ grips away. I don’t need them holding me back. I am able to control my blood lust, as Aries likes to call it. Flexing my fingers, I glance down to examine the bloody knuckles. Some of it is mine where the skin busted, the rest is all Rex’s.
“Better hope his ass didn’t have some disease,” Aries drawls.
“I highly doubt that fucker had anything but a shriveled-up dick from all the steroids he probably took,” Wolf mutters, shaking his head. “This shit’s going to be a joy to clean up. Fucker bleeds like a stuck pig.”
“Get the prospects to clean ’em up,” Viper commands, sounding as pissed as I feel.
We didn’t get much out of him, but I highly doubt he knows anything.
“The guys who brought him down, also brought his laptop and shit,” Vulture announces. “I’ll start diving into it sometime today or tomorrow.”
“Do it tomorrow,” Cyprus remarks. “I’d say today, but we’ve got some other shit to handle first things with the businesses. If we don’t get that handled, then we’re up shits creek.”
I nod, agreeing with him. I’d prefer for Vulture to be looking into what Rex had on his laptop, but Cyprus is right, we got other shit to handle as well. We’re a new club and need to get money rolling in sooner rather than later.
“Yeah, we’ve got to go see to the progress and see how long it’s going to take so we can open,” Viper says, also agreeing.
“Kevlar, you go see to your hands. Then check on Rosemary. Make sure she’s good.
Her dad and brother, lucky enough, didn’t fight us on taking her away, but I know they wanted to.
Cobra’s already texted me asking for updates. ”
“I think if they didn’t have shit going on they had to get back and handle, they’d be here all up in our business,” Cyprus grumbles.
“Cobra gave me the fuckin’ heebie-jeebies.” Aries snorts. “That fucker’s eyes alone are enough to give a bastard nightmares.”
“Shut the fuck up.” I cast my brother a sideways glare.
I don’t want to think of anything else but getting to Rosemary.
That includes her damn brother. I know he’s talking about when it comes to Cobra’s eyes, but he isn’t here now.
They left the situation to us, and I intend to see to it, and I will.
I’ll handle this shit going on and what I’ve got to do for the club.
Viper, Cyprus, Wolf, and I are supposed to go meet with Matteo in a few days.
He’s Noelle’s cousin, as ironic as that shit is.
When we’d all found out, it was a mind fuck for sure.
My VP’s ol’ lady didn’t even know her own history, not until recently.
Even still, she lived in terror for years until Cyprus pulled his head out of his ass where she was concerned.
They don’t talk about what all happened, but I was there to see it for myself.
It’s their story to tell, not mine. I’m just glad they’re both in a better place.
Even Bride, Cyprus’s little sister he has custody of.
She’s been thriving the last couple months here in Mississippi.
When we moved here, we agreed to help Matteo with his business endeavors, but we weren’t getting our hands dirty with the hardcore drugs.
Guns, we’ve got no problem with. Women, to a certain extent, we’re here for it.
But what we won’t do is put up with drugs and sex slaves.
When it comes to women, it has to be their choice, nothing more.
I give my brothers a two-finger salute and make my way out of there toward the clubhouse. My cock hardens at the thought of seeing Rosemary again.
I wonder what she’ll think seeing the blood on my hands. She’ll know what I’ve done. I won’t hide it from her. It’s not who I am. I don’t have it in me to keep secrets like what I did just now. She’s what’s important.
If she can’t handle it, then I’ll do what I have to make sure she’s never affected by the harsh truth that lies within me. I’m a killer through and through. I’m the person that she’s not, and because of that, I’ll fight to keep her from ever becoming like me.