18. Incubus
INCUBUS
Okay, why these jagoffs picked this area I have no idea because the piece of shit road is not intended for any vehicles, especially bikes.
Thank God we all keep our rides tight, otherwise we’d be losin’ parts for goddamn sure.
As we make our way to the meet, I’m sick to my stomach just because I know my ol’ lady has been put through the grinder and sent to hell, and I don’t have any idea how to act when we finally see each other.
I’m a crazy fucker, who usually couldn’t care less about what others have gone through.
Well, except my immediate circle, which of course includes Stella.
I mean, she’s been beaten, brutalized, drugged, and raped.
They’ve fucked with her in so many ways, I have no idea where her mind is gonna be, let alone all of her emotions.
No disrespect, but my woman is Italian and on a good day those emotions can rock my world or send me running.
I think the only thing that has made it interesting is we haven’t lived together for long periods of time, as we are both strong personalities, wanting our own way and hate being told what to do.
I see Cobalt and Psycho grab their brakes after the turn, so everyone starts to brake.
When I see why all my brothers are slowing, it has me losing my ever-lovin’ fucking mind.
There are two women straddling what looks like kitchen chairs, butt-ass goddamn naked as the day they were born.
Their feet are tied to the legs while their hands are handcuffed behind them.
I see a pickup truck, van, and not sure, some fancy as fuck vehicle about twenty-ish feet behind them.
In a small group there are, I think, five people standing together, four of them men holding automatic weapons and the other a female.
As I get closer I feel like I’m gonna vomit because the woman is actually the raging bitch named Felicity.
She’s dressed to the nines, like she’s going to a club, instead of facing the Devil himself.
I’ve not seen her since that night I got off of my emergency room shift on time and I rushed home to spend time with my wife.
What I found altered me and my outlook on life forever.
Walking up to our bedroom I heard noises, and when I opened the door my eyes needed bleach for what I saw.
My wife was riding my father reverse cowgirl style.
And when the bitch looked up and saw me she reached out and, in a singsong voice, told me to join them.
Gotta give the old man some credit because when he caught my eyes I could see a second or two of guilt, then it was covered up with his usual jagoff look.
I don’t know why but he always had to have whatever I did, so guess I should have expected what I was seeing.
Coming back to the present, that was the last time I saw the bitch who is slowly moving toward, well, not sure if she’s going to Stella or coming to me.
Either way, I don’t want or need her anywhere near my wife.
I shut my bike down and jump off. My intention is to get to Stella but the sound of an automatic going off has me come to an immediate stop, which has a relayed effect to everyone behind me.
I watch that cat-and-mouse smile of Felicity’s appear on her face, and I know this isn’t gonna go smoothly at all.
“Well, well, well, if it isn’t my husband, Cullen.
What’s wrong? You don’t look happy to see me.
I mean, it’s been a long minute but you used to rush home to get me naked and fuck me hard all night long.
Why are you now staying all the way over there?
Could it be because of this woman between us?
STELLA…is that why you never came back to me?
Yes, I had a little slip but, Jesus Christ, I’m sure you did also, working with all of those nurses, doctors, and hospital employees.
Every woman there literally got wet when you walked by.
Are you telling me you never took advantage of any of that free as fuck pussy? ”
As she’s talking, I watch her getting closer and closer to Stella, who is with the other woman.
Wait, I know that tattoo on the top of her left shoulder.
What the fuck, is that Milly? Why in God’s name is she beat to shit, tied naked to a chair, looking totally freaked out and scared to shit?
I remember her when Felicity and I were dating.
Even then my future wife was sadistic, I should have recognized it but was letting her lead me around by my dick.
None of my brothers are doing anything. They are waiting on me, so I start to slowly move forward, hands up, though I’m packing so much it ain’t funny.
Felicity doesn’t take her eyes off of me as she licks her lips.
Back in the day, my dick would already be hard seeing her pink tongue, but now I feel absolutely nothing.
All I want to do is grab Stella and get the fuck outta here, but with my ex-wife here the situation has just gotten tricky.
Yeah, if it’s possible to still follow our plan and grab these crazy motherfuckers.
Not sure if she’s an innocent or a distraction, but Milly is also in the mix. Not to mention Felicity.
When we are about four feet apart I hear one of the assholes behind her tell me that I’m close enough.
I take a glance at Stella and all the breath in my body exhales.
It’s way worse than I thought it would be.
She’s dropped a shit ton of weight, which thank God my woman has got some curves, because if she started out model thin she might have been dead already.
There are bruises covering her face, chest, and go all the way down, as do bite marks.
Wait, what the fuck, someone was using their teeth on my woman?
I literally growl, which brings a demented laugh from Felicity.
Stella’s eyes never leave my face as I continue down to her feet, which are swollen and badly bruised.
There are red marks on both her wrists and ankles, and I can tell she’s uncomfortable sitting on the hard chair.
“Let her up, Felicity, right this fucking minute. Don’t play with me, whore, I ain’t the man you knew before, don’t try my patience.”
“We haven’t seen each other in how many years and your first words to me are about her? That doesn’t make me happy, Cullen, and every time you don’t make me feel the love, there will be consequences.”
Before any one of us can do a thing, Felicity raises her hand with some kind of stringy thing in her hand and swings it at Stella, hitting her on the top of her thighs.
Hearing Stella wail has me moving, but the guns go off so I quickly stop.
My eyes see exactly what Felicity had in her hands.
It’s a cat-o’-nine-tails with metal pieces and beads on the ends.
Stella’s thighs are cut up and bleeding but my badass wife, after the first wail, she’s stoic.
I know that will piss off the crazy bitch with the cat-o’-nine-tails.
I’m correct as she swings again, hitting the same spot.
How she does it I have no idea, but Stella says not a word.
All she does is jerk with each hit. I’m ready to pull my gun when I feel someone behind me.
Cobalt leans in, telling me to just pay attention to Felicity and start by saying, “Hello,” so I do.
A light goes on behind her eyes that has the hair on the back of my neck stand straight up.
Walking toward me, she is trying to sashay her bony as fuck ass on a non-paved, rocky road and a few times she almost falls.
I can hear some of my brothers chuckling but I keep my face void of any emotion.
This is not the woman I married and then divorced.
The closer she gets, the more I see crazy all around her.
What happened to her? I mean, before I found out what she truly was, I thought she was innocent, but damn was I wrong.
When she goes to put hands on me I move back, which has her squinting toward me.
“Why are you not letting me touch you, Cullen, you’re my husband?”
I hear Stella growling but ignore her because I think it hits me we are dealing with a psychopath, no, more of a sociopath.
Not sure what has happened in these years we’ve been apart, but it’s split her mind for sure.
Felicity is watching me and gives me a small sad smile.
“You should have never left me, Cullen, because what happened next, I needed you, and you ran off to play soldier. How could you give up such a promising career as a physician and risk your life, for what? A country that left you to die? For such a smart man, you can sometimes do such stupid shit. I mean you left me, went in the military, joined that biker gang, and married this trash. Be thankful I still want you because can you imagine life with her? So boring. Oh, and for sure you need to let this idea of a motorcycle gang go because that will not fit into my dream for us. You need to get back to being a physician, so we can have the life we both deserve. So, now let’s both decide on what to do with these two, because I’m hungry and need to get some food before I get hypoglycemic.
I’m for just getting rid of both of them, or better yet, I know, Lefty knows some guys who are always looking for females to sell.
We could make some money, so kill two birds with one decision. What do you think, Cullen?”
I turn to see every brother looking at Felicity like she’s nuts, which she is.
My eyes land on Cobalt, who reads my mind and gives me a small nod.
We’ve been in sensitive situations before and have trained for this kind of shit when we were in the military special forces.
I do the countdown from five and then it turns into total chaos.
Running, I push Felicity to the ground, passing her to get to Stella and Milly.
When I reach them, I literally jump and fall on them, grabbing the chairs as I go down to the ground hard.
Both women are shocked I did that, so neither are saying a single word as automatics start firing and my brothers are returning fire.
The gunfight lasts no longer than a few minutes before I hear moaning and swearing coming from the area Felicity’s assholes were.
As I stand and lift both women up, still in their chairs, when I go to reach for my knife and lock set, I hear a bullet being chambered behind me.
Turning it’s Felicity with a Sig Saug P365 Rose pointed directly at my chest. I hear Stella trying to get off the chair as Milly starts begging her sister to put the gun down before someone kills her.
Yeah, that’s Milly, after everything her sister has done to her she still worries about her.
Difference between a normal person and a sociopath.
I hear Felicity scoff loudly at her sister’s begging, then turns her attention to me after looking behind us.
She must not like what she sees ’cause it gives me a split second to once again leap and grab her gun.
She starts screaming like a maniac, which distracts me so when her knee hits my nuts it’s totally unexpected, and she got a good hit with her bony as fuck knee.
I let go and she raises her gun, not pointing it at me but I’m assuming at Stella.
The pain between my legs has partially paralyzed me, so I stumble toward Felicity just as I hear a gunshot.
My heart literally stops, thinking this vile individual just murdered the love of my life and the reason I continue to breathe.
But then Felicity looks down and I see a hole center mass before she lets out a surprised sound.
Her eyes find me as she whispers something like, “I truly loved you, Cullen. Your father made me this monster.” Then she falls forward, just missing me.
I see Nickel standing directly behind her, a gun in his shaking hands, looking down at her as she struggles for breath.
There is movement all around us but the kid doesn’t move.
I don’t even think he’s breathing. I step over my ex-wife as I see Ghost running toward her.
I grab the kid and pull him to me, holding on tightly just as he lets loose.
I know for certain Nickel has never taken a life, so yeah, it’s gonna affect him, especially a woman.
When he pushes at me I let him go to see his face red, cheeks wet, and eyes on me.
“Oh my God, Incubus, I’m so fucking sorry. I was trying to shoot her in the shoulder of the arm the gun was in. Did I kill your wife, I mean ex-wife? Son of a bitch, what did I just do?”
He drops his head and I hear Ghost screaming to get paramedics, which tells me the bitch is gonna live unless I finish the job.
In my entire life, I’ve killed three women.
One during the war after she forced her child to walk out with a bomb strapped on him.
A second one when she stabbed a fellow soldier and almost killed him.
Mammoth has a wicked scar from that. And third when we were on the dark side, we got a hit for a woman who was selling kids including her own.
None of my brothers could do it, even after we saw what she was doing to kids on her farm.
That one I have never felt any guilt or regret for.
The few kids we were able to save have had a rough life, even though as a club we’ve done everything we can for them.
Before I can even think about what to do, I hear gunfire, which has me pushing Nickel down.
Turning my gun in hand, I come face-to-face with Milly, her sister’s gun in her hand.
Briefly looking down there is yet another hole in Felicity and I’m not sure if she is alive or dead, as she’s turning whiter by the minute.
Ghost is sitting on his haunches, face void of any emotion, staring at Milly with a look in his eyes I’ve never seen before.
Seeing movement, I brace just as Stella jumps my way, trusting that I’d catch her, and I do.
Before I pull her in she’s crying as her hands are touching my face and chest.
“How is Isabella, Cullen? Please tell me she’s okay. I can’t have gone through all of this and have something happen to our little Bella. Tell me?”
I shut her up by putting my lips on her, not the brutal kiss she’s used to but a gentler, softer one.
It shuts her up as I feel hands clutching my T-shirt on my chest. It’s not a sexual kiss in any manner, but her reaction tells me everything.
We are gonna have a lot of work going forward, but fuck, what else do I have to do?