Chapter Ten Rage
One Month Later
I’ve been back from Maine for a little over two weeks now.
When we came back we started up our different security duties again.
I had been placed on tailing Sophie with some of my other brothers.
They upped her security with her being pregnant and knowing that she wouldn’t fight having more than one man with her.
Some of the ol’ ladies like to put up a fight, but Sophie being born and raised in the MC knew that no matter what she wasn’t going to get out of having a few of us with her.
Plus Lash wasn’t going to let her get away with it.
He gets more and more protective of her when she’s pregnant.
I can’t complain though because I love hanging out at Sophie’s tattoo parlor.
She’s got some cool guys that work for her, plus I just love the art.
“Okay thank you very much. I will be there soon.” I hear Sophie say as she is coming out of her office.
I look up as she is moving the phone back to her ear, she must be calling someone else.
“Hey Toby, what the hell is going on? I just got a call from the school and Declan, Daisy and Dare haven’t been picked up. You are supposed to get them, what’s going on?”
There is a pause and then Sophie looks up at me and the brothers as she starts walking out the door.
“Brothers, we are on the move, let’s get to our bikes.” I say and get up to follow Sophie.
“Well Tobs, I don’t know because I haven’t heard anything from Dash and Dallas’s daycare, but the school said no one picked them up. You are supposed to not have late appointments, why is that bitch scheduling you?”
Another pause obviously while she’s waiting for him to answer.
“Well can you call the daycare and see if the twins got picked up and call me back? They would’ve called if they were waiting to be picked up. They know the schedule so if someone didn’t get them they would’ve tried to see what was going on.”
She gets over to her SUV and we don’t hear the rest of her conversation, but she starts up her car and heads out of the parking lot with Slick, Crash, Grim and myself following behind her.
I make a movement with my hands towards Slick and we pass her to get in front of her heading for the kids school.
Once we finally get to the school and have the three oldest kids secured in the car we start heading back towards the clubhouse when my bluetooth starts ringing.
“Yeah?”
“Rage, I need you to pull over. Get the other brothers to pull over.”
“What’s going on?”
“The twins are missing, mama is missing, I need someone to drive Sophie back. She’s hysterical. She can’t be driving those kids and herself like that even if you guys are in formation with her.”
I signal to everyone that we are pulling over in the next parking lot.
“Yeah, I got it.”
I climb off my bike and remove my helmet. Pulling the keys from my ignition I head over to Sophie’s SUV where you can tell she is upset and talking to someone on the bluetooth. I open the door for her and I hear Bulldog on the other end and Sophie is sobbing.
“I need you to let one of the boys take the driver’s seat baby, then I need you to take me off speaker phone. The kids are probably scared and seeing you like this is probably making it worse.”
Before Sophie can say anything I grab the phone from Sophie taking it off the speaker phone.
“Pres, I’ve got her. I’m going to leave my bike at the bank, we can get it later. She’s a wreck, pres. I don’t think we should wait til we get her back to the clubhouse to try and calm her down. I don’t know what is going on, but she is a mess.”
“Son, thank you for taking care of my babies. Listen to me and do not have a reaction. Missy is missing, Stray was with her today, I do not know what happened. I guess Toby called earlier and asked Missy to pick up the kids. Usually we all pick up Dash and Dallas first,
Sophie or Toby called the daycare after she got calls about the other kids not being picked up. I’m assuming she canceled the rest of her day since normally Toby picks the kids up in the afternoon while she’s at work. But from what I am gathering,
Toby got held up at work and asked Miss to pick the kids up. Dash and Dallas’s school told Sophie that I picked the kids up, not Missy. I did not pick the kids up, I”ve been at the office all day today.
Someone has my grandbabies and my ol’ lady.
I need you to get my girl and those babies home safely.
Toby will hopefully be here to help with Sophie.” Bulldog says in reply.
I keep my face neutral and do not react to any of the information that he is providing to me. “Got it pres , I’m on it.” I say and hang up the phone.
“Come on Soph, let’s get you in the passenger seat so I can drive us home.”
She nods her head and the tears coming out of her eyes are killing me.
Sophie is like a sister to me and I hate that she is hurting right now, but I don’t like that something like this is going on and we are out in the open.
I don’t know what all is going on, but I’m sure that Acid has something to do with it.
Right now we don’t have any other enemies.
After I get Sophie into the passenger seat I turn around to the other brothers with me.
“I’m going to drive the SUV back to the clubhouse. I need one in the front and two of you in the back. Be on the lookout for anything strange. I do not know what all is going on, but our First Lady is missing along with Sophie and Lash’s twins. So we are going to get her and her kids home safely.
We are going to stay vigilant and make sure this family doesn’t have anything else taken from them today.”
The entire ride Sophie does not stop crying and I do not know how to comfort her.
I’ve known this girl since I was eight years old and she is married to my best friend, but I just don’t know what to say to her at a time when I don’t have all the answers and I don’t know if it is going to be okay.
I wish that I could just take away all the pain from this woman who has been there for me through a lot of fucked up shit, but I can’t and I don’t know how.
I reach over and grab her hand with mine giving it a squeeze.
“I love you, Soph. It’s going to be okay.”
I sneak a look at her and she is still just looking out the window with tears running down her face, but she squeezes my hand back.
“I love you too, Caleb.” She whispers.
We finally get back to the clubhouse and I watch as Noah, Terror’s oldest, comes out with Davis and they come to the SUV and help get the kids out of the car.
“Aunt Sophie, I’m going to take all the kids to my house, okay? I will make sure nothing happens to them, I promise.”
Sophie pulls Noah in for a hug and I don’t hear what she whispers to him, but he nods his head and takes the kids by the hand and begins walking over to the golf carts on the side of the clubhouse.
“Come on Soph, let’s get you inside the clubhouse so you can sit down.”
I hope that Lash is inside when we get there, but I don’t see his bike so that hope is really shattered. I don’t know how far away he is or how long it will take for him to get here.
Thankfully it only was a few minutes after we walked inside, I held Sophie on the couch while she cried and kept asking me where her babies were.
I hate not having the answers and honestly, I hate the fact that these mother fuckers are going after our children and our women.
There are so many people in the clubhouse that I feel like I can’t breathe.
These many brothers are normally not here all at once, the ones with families that don’t have homes on the property also have their children and their women waiting to find out what is going on.
Lash comes running over towards Sophie, but she doesn’t let him grab her before she is standing up screaming.
We are all standing here watching as Lash tries to get Sophie to calm down and he is not having any luck whatsoever.
Finally we watch as Bulldog walks up to her and pulls her into his arms and she starts hitting him refusing to let anyone from her family comfort her or hold her.
Until finally Lash comes up and pulls her away from her dad and she falls to the ground in his arms sobbing.
All of this is just so heartbreaking to watch.
The room is so fucking somber. It doesn’t take long before Sophie is back to yelling at all the Jacobson men in the room after learning the truth about the Acid MC and it all being hidden from her.
I don’t know how long everything goes on before Sophie and Lash leave and the prospect comes in yelling at all of us to get to the gate.
I watch as Bulldog bolts out of the room faster than I have ever seen a man move before in my life.
We all run out and when I get to the gate I see Bulldog holding Missy and screaming for her to wake up.
I am hit with memories I have tried to block out and never think about coming to the surface as I watch the scene unfold.
It’s like suddenly I am not at the clubhouse anymore and I’m all the sudden that eight year old boy again.
My heart starts pounding in my ears and I start to back away slowly from everything that I am watching. I need to get out of here.
The next thing I know I am standing outside Rose’s apartment, I don’t know how the fuck I got here. Everything is just a blur and almost like I did this on impulse. All I know is that I need to be here, I need to see her and none of that makes sense to me.
I ignore the vibrating of my phone as I knock on her door. I hear giggling coming from the other side and footsteps as they walk to the door. When the door opens there she is, in a tight tank purple tank top and gray pajama shorts.
“Rage, what are you—-”
I don’t let her finish her sentence before I slam my mouth down on hers and push her back towards her apartment.
When we are passed the entrance I slam the door shut with my foot and bend down and grab her ass.
She instinctively wraps her arms around my waist as I pull her up into my arms.
I don’t even register that there is another person in the room as I walk her towards her bedroom.
“Well alright then, I guess I will save you some Chinese.”
I hear from a woman in the other room, I assume it is her friend that is currently staying with her, but I don’t fucking know.