Chapter One Lash
My name is Toby “Lash” McGraw and I am the Vice President of the Devil’s Chaos MC.
I am one of the few younger generations of the MC that has an ol’ lady and wife.
My woman, Sophie, has been my entire world since we got together when we were 14.
Both of us grew up in the club, my dad being the former Vice President and Sophie being the club princess who’s dad was the President until about three months ago.
Sophie’s eldest brother Luca or as we know him Terror just became president when tragedy struck our club four months ago.
Four months ago when my mother-in-law was picking up our twins she was killed by a rival gang that has been giving us trouble for the last year wanting to encroach on our territory and trying to take our business.
They decided to hit us where it hurt by taking out our first lady and then when they got her they kidnapped our twins Dash and Dallas, they are just four years old.
My little boy and my little girl were taken and I have been going crazy trying to find them.
Sophie has basically been grieving and has been having an extremely hard time with everything that has gone on, which is understandable, but the silent treatment she has given the club has been hard on all of us.
She still lives in our home on club property, but because of how our compound is set up there is a separate driveway and it is far enough away from the clubhouse that she does not have to interact with anyone.
Which for her is very difficult, she has four brothers in the club, her dad is the former president who gave his president patch to his oldest son, Terror, when his ol’ lady was killed.
So now he is just a member and because he is part of the older generation he is kind of retired, but is working hard with Wizard to try and find the assholes who have Dallas and Dash.
Sophie’s three older brothers are both council members in the club.
There is Terror, Tanner “Thorn” who is the Sergeant at Arms, Levi “Hurricane” who is our enforcer, then her two younger brothers who are twins Cannon “Twister” and Cane “Dragon” are just members due to being young and having patched in more recently than the rest of us.
She also has two younger twin sisters, Peyton and Parker.
Then the babies that were surprised for her family Davis and Tillie.
She has such a large family within the club and also with all the brothers that are not blood who care about her and have been a part of her life for years, that it is so hard for everyone to see her like this.
She basically has kicked me out of the house where I can only come to see my other kids.
We had our first baby at 17 and got married at 18 after I got my patch and we both graduated from high school.
So our oldest boy Declan is 10 years old, then there is Daisy who is 8, Dare who is 6, our twins Dash and Dallas are 4, and our youngest at the moment is Delaney and she is 2 years old.
Sophie found out shortly before the events of four months ago that she was pregnant again, so she is now about five months pregnant and we should be finding out what we are having coming up at our next ultrasound.
She thankfully still allows her father and siblings to come over to see the kids, but everything is really strained.
She is really struggling with the fact that a rival club took our kids and took her mother from her.
She thinks that this would not have happened if we had just given these people what they wanted.
But there would be so much more damage if we just give into them.
This rival club is toxic and they are doing a lot of messed up things that even we think is not okay and try to protect our city from.
Her sisters that are not members spend the most time over at the house, they know that she is struggling and she won’t let me be there for her like I want to.
Right now, I am sitting at the bar at the clubhouse waiting for church to start.
I have been constantly working with Wizard, our tech guy to see if he can find anything about where my little boy and little girl are being held..
They send us messages every month with a picture to let us know they are still alive.
In the picture they are being held in cages and look dirty each time we get a new one.
They have given us a deadline as to when we need to give up the territory they want to encroach on as well as our docks we use for our not so legal business with the Moretti Family or they say they are going to sell my babies to the highest bidder.
So we have been trying to find a clue as to where they are being hidden as well as who the heck in our club is a traitor.
So, Wizard is looking through everyone’s records including the brothers, the prospects and the club whores.
This morning I woke up to a text saying that they found the kids, so church today is going to be a discussion about what we do next.
I know they have someone monitoring several properties now that they got an anonymous tip on where to look.
It really was a lucky break after what appeared to be nothing for months.
I want to get out of here and over to my house to see if I can see Sophie and the kids.
I know my oldest three are currently working with my mama on their school work and will have to be home in a few hours.
Delaney I get to see more often now because Sophie refuses to send her anywhere, so we have set up a daycare within the clubhouse where some of the older ol’ ladies help watch her while Sophie is at work.
My beautiful woman owns her own business, she owns a tattoo parlor that the club has a stake in, despite having our own tattoo parlor.
Sophie did not want to work at our tattoo parlor and wanted to make her name out of the club, which I understand, plus I work at that tattoo parlor and she wanted to be her own boss and not want to have to work under me.
I was not opposed to her working at Chaos Ink because I would love being around my woman every day, plus more of a chance to bend her over my chair and fuck her when we didn’t have clients.
But my woman is stubborn and wanted to create something of her own so she started Daisy’s Ink about seven years ago.
Before everything happened, I would go over there and bend her over her chair, even let her ride me, or even put her up on the wall in her space.
She has asked me to not come around for the time being and I am trying to give her space except for when I go to the house, but it is getting to be too much, I miss my wife.
So I’m looking forward to getting out of here and going over to my house.
Today is her day off, hoping that we get done with church before the kids can get out so I can talk to my wife, maybe get her to let me hold her for a little bit before we head out and hit up these warehouses this club is at.
I know that Terror is going to insist on getting more help from other chapters of our club, so it will be more of a waiting game to get my kids.
Which is killing me to think of what they are going through right now.
I’ve already worked out that Delaney is going to stay with my parents at the clubhouse while I go over there for a little bit where there are no kids present and hopefully no one visiting.
I’ve got about thirty minutes before church is scheduled so I am going to sit here and get the prospect to give me a beer.
I look up to see which prospect is currently working the bar and it’s Pete.
“Yo, Pete, can you grab me a beer man?”
Pete gives me a nod and walks over getting my usual and sets it down for me.
I give him a nod of thanks and then take a seat on the stool.
I really try hard not to stay in the common room or at the bar lately because apparently the club whores think that because I have been staying in my apartment at the clubhouse they have free reign with me, thinking my ol’ lady is out of the picture.
So normally when I am here I stay in my apartment or around other brothers particularly the ones working hard to find my kids.
I hear “Hey baby” as I feel a hand try and wrap around my chest.
I grab the hand and throw it off of me not sure which one of the whores it is who is trying to come up to me right now and proposition me.
I turn and look and see that it is Cherrie, she is one of the whores that is trying to start trouble with my ol’ lady.
I have heard from my brothers-in-law that Sophie has told them numerous times that she will be out around town at the grocery store or even at her shop and she’ll run into some of the whores.
Particularly Cherries and Lips. For some reason they don’t seem to understand that I want no one else, but Sophie and she is all I have ever wanted since I was 14 years old.
Plus there is a rule that the taken brothers are not to be messed with unless they approach you.
I have and never would approach them, I do not find it appealing to share with my brothers.
I love them all, but no way would I ever want a whore when I have the sexiest woman alive already wearing my ring and my patch.
We are just having a bit of a hard time right now.
I look at Cherrie with disgust and shout, “You do not touch a taken brother, EVER! I do not want you, I have never wanted you. Stay the hell away from me and stay the hell away from my ol’ lady.
If I hear one more time that you or any other whore here is trying to tell my woman that I am straying and that I have been in any of your nasty ass snatches I will bring it to the table and have you removed! Do you understand me?”
Cherrie nods her head with terror in her eyes and runs away.
“Wow, well I’m glad I don’t have to kick your ass for stepping out on my baby sister, but damn that was harsh.” I hear Thorn say as he comes up to take the stool next to the one I was sitting in. I take my seat and grab my beer and take a swig and look at Thorn.
“How is she doing?”
“You know Sophie, she puts on a brave face for everyone, but she really doesn’t talk to me anymore other than to complain about the whores. She doesn’t believe any of the bullshit they are saying, but it is stressful and with her being pregnant I think your little outburst was necessary.
Hopefully they will lay off her. I don’t want anything to happen to this baby. She is struggling so much without Dash and Dallas, but she won’t lean on any of us. Is she still shutting you out?”
“Yeah, she only lets me talk to her about the kids or be home when the kids are home and awake. I am going to be going over there after church if we get out with enough time to see her before we all have to roll out. I just want my wife back,
I want our kids back too and I think we need to be in this together. I am hoping that I can give her some hope after what we talk about in church today.”
“Does Wiz have any leads on anything?”
“Yeah, he looked into one of the properties they seem to crash at. Seems promising, I hate that it has taken this long to find anything. I know that Morretti helped too.” I look around, “but that is something we probably should discuss at church”
“Man I am hoping we can give her something, but she feels that we all let mama and the kids down. This is not the Sophie we all grew up with. She is shutting down and cutting out her family. I mean even Parker and Peyton don’t get any information from her.
I don’t know if she is talking to Ella and Jamie about anything, but I hope she is. Especially if she is not leaning on you and you have always been her safe place. She just can’t separate you from the club and what is going on right now.”
“I walked into the house the other day and she was talking to Ella on the phone. It was really heartbreaking, I tried to go in and hold her, but the second she saw me she told her she had to go and hung up the phone. Then she put her wall back up. I just don’t know what to do,
but I miss my wife and my best friend. I know she has Ella and Jamie, but she needs me and she is just not letting me be there.”
“Well hopefully after today we can give her some good news and hopefully we can raid those warehouses and find my niece and nephew. We need to get those balls of sunshine back safe and sound. I know they are tough little nuggets, but I can’t imagine how they are going through right now.
Dash is always so strong and protective of his sisters, I am sure he is making sure she is not scared and putting up a fight for those Acid MC assholes.”
“I’m hoping that we get this whole situation taken care of tonight man, I want to go to church, go see my wife and give her a little hope, as well as bring my babies home.
I know that some of our other charters will be here tonight as well as some of our allies from different clubs to try and raid as many warehouses as possible at once so it doesn’t give them time to move if we hit the wrong one. We will talk more in church,
I don’t know who to trust around here anymore.”
Then just like that we hear Terror scream “CHURCH NOW”.
We get up and head to the room where church is held, hand over our devices to the prospect who is watching the door Adam.
We all take our seats and begin our chat.
Hopefully this meeting brings some good news for me to share with Sophie. I want my family back.