Chapter Nine
The afternoon dragged on as men were sent to the roof and several of the brothers went from window to window.
Fox sat quietly and watched his monitors for anyone coming up the road.
Suddenly, a flashing alarm went off from his PC and Fox checked the cameras. He studied it carefully and then closed his eyes for a few seconds. Finally, he looked up at Pope and gave him a nod.
Pope gazed up at the ceiling and heaved a sigh of relief. Then he headed toward the back door while texting one of the men on the roof. Going out the back door, he paused and just waited for the men, coming in the back way to reach him.
A dozen men pulled up to the back door. The leader took off his helmet and stared at him for a moment then he grinned.
Pope just shook his head at him and commented, “Hell Hollis, the only change I see is you let yourself get old.”
Hollis “Bishop” DeLong grinned back and leaned his elbow on his bike’s gas tank. “You should talk, Lansing. You ain’t no young rooster either, in fact, you went grey a long time ago, long before I ever did.”
The two brothers just stared at each other for a moment.
The men around them just remained quiet.
Finally, Pope smiled as he walked over to him and held out his hand.
Bishop grinned and shook hands with Pope. Then he stood up and dragged his brother into a back cracking hug.
Pope pulled back from it. “Trying to break my spine or fucking what?” He then looked at the men Bishop brought with him and nodded at them. He reached up and brushed his full beard with his hand. “I called you because we got big trouble coming. A foul MC that wants to wipe us out.”
Bishop frowned. “And just who does this guy think he is?”
“Demon Clusoe, Demon’s Rage MC and the other is Satan from Devil’s Spawn.”
Bishop hissed and shook his head. “Satan, are you sure?”
Pope nodded. “Yeah, Demon is recruiting Devils’ Spawn to run the drugs that they plan to design. Both of them are nothing but bad blood.”
“How the hell did you get involved in their chaos?” Bishop asked.
“Well, that’s a long story and you guys have had a long ride. Come inside and we’ll talk. We’ve got a lot to tell you.” Pope turned and headed back inside.
Kicking stands down and dismounting from their rides, the others followed. When everyone sat down and hello’s were exchanged.
Callum brought out the beer and everyone settled down.
Finally, Pope began telling the story, “Two nights ago we had a rowdy group down at the bar, three of them sat at a table and acted like they owned the place. When last call was announced the three just got up and thought they could walk out without paying their tab. Well, we don’t run the place like that.
Callum told them that, then an older guy sitting at another table came over and told the guys to pay their bill.
The three guys glared at Callum but they did pay it.
A little while later Torin heard a noise from the basement and he went down to find a busted case of beer.
He found a young woman. She’d been roughed up a bit.
Seems she was on the run from her family.
Afraid they were after her and she had every reason to be.
Turns out her brothers were the three guys that didn’t want to pay their bill and her dad was the older man that told them to just pay. ”
Bishop frowned. “And just who is her dad?”
Pope shook his head, “Demon Cluso, leader of Demon’s Rage.
Torin was gonna bring Daisy back here to get her fixed up, two bikers hit the front of the building with a spray of bullets.
They shattered every window and took off.
We left a few brothers there to make sure everything was safe.
Torin and Daisy were in the back when two riders roared up the alley.
Then Daisy took a bullet in the side for Torin and when he got her back here that’s when Daisy told us what was going on. ”
“And just what was going on?” Hacksaw wanted to know. Hacksaw was Bishop’s oldest son and also his chapter’s VP.
Pope sighed and said, “Daisy is Demon’s only daughter and after he left his woman to the gators Daisy became his servant, not his daughter.
He used and abused her for the last eleven years and she finally got away from his house.
She also copied his files, hoping to put him in jail.
Him and her brothers. When she tried to get away, one of her brothers tried to stop her with a knife to her side. So now her own family is hunting her.”
“And have you seen these files?” Bishop asked his brother.
Pope nodded. “Yeah, and I called Thumper in. He should be here soon enough with more men. He’s gonna be able to take the whole damn MC down with what she’s got. Not only that but the Devil’s Spawn as well. Demon thinks he can open his own drug lab and Satan’s gonna distribute them.”
Bishop just stared at his brother then looked around at his own men. Then he looked back at Pope. “We’ve been hearing rumors about that very thing where we live. We just never knew how or who would be that fucking stupid. Now it all makes sense.”
Callum nodded as he finally spoke up, “They found out who we were and even came here once to try and take us down but Daisy warned us what her brother liked to do and sure enough he tried to lob a grenade over the fence. One of our guys on the roof stopped it with a bullet. It still blew up. It didn’t do any real damage to us, but the shock of the explosion blew her brother unconscious.
The others scrambled like cockroaches when you turn the lights on.
” He shook his head. “We collected her brother and he’s in a cell.
Daisy warned us that her dad would be back with even more men to get him.
Satan might come too, along with his men.
We don’t know about that yet. But Daisy warned us that they might try and burn us out. ”
Bishop turned his head and snapped his gaze over to Pope to ask, “Did you turn the underground pipes on?” He knew about the system Pope had here.
“Yeah, they’ve been going for a while now. The trees are all getting watered.”
Bishop nodded. “Good. Did you call Cardinal in too?”
Pope nodded. “Yeah, he’s on his way and Fox has a cousin with another MC, so we might get a few of them too.”
“Ok, so with all of them and Thumper’s group we’ll have more men if we need them.” Bishop looked around. “Where is this Daisy you talk about?”
Pope motioned toward the hall. "She' s recovering from that bullet and knife wound. Torin’s been staying with her.”
“Can we talk to her? Like is she well enough to have a conversation?" Hacksaw asked.
Pope nodded. “Yeah, she’s a tough little scrapper for sure. I’ll have Torin bring her to us.” He sent a text to his son.
They all sipped at their beers and discussed possibilities of the coming battle for the next several minutes.
After about ten minutes, they all saw Torin carrying a woman down the hall and into the main room.
Bishop watched as his nephew carefully set the woman gently onto a chair then sat down beside her.
Daisy looked around the room and noticed the other men. She leaned in close to Torin and whispered, “Who are they?”
Torin smiled and said, “These are my family members, my Uncle Bishop and my cousins Hacksaw and Bronc and their men. They live in Louisiana. They aren’t going to hurt you.”
Daisy gasped and went pale. She looked up at Bishop and whispered, “You all live in Louisiana?”
Bishop crossed his arms over his chest and nodded at her. “We do and we’ve heard about your family. Your dad and your brothers at least, but we didn’t know they had a sister.”
Daisy nodded. “I don’t suppose you did. If you know anything about my family then you also know my father and his temperament.
After I was born my mother had complications and she couldn’t have any more children.
My father hated that. He also hated the fact that he couldn’t get rid of me.
He held out until I was ten before he did anything about it.
He took my mom out for a drive one day and he came back alone, saying a gator had dragged my mom off and he couldn’t stop it.
After that, he and my brothers turned me into a maid and a cook.
Just a servant, mind you. It wasn’t until two days ago that I could get free of them. ”
Bishop’s eyes filled with rage. “I’ve heard of Demon Cluso and his brats. And none of what I’ve heard is good.”
Daisy stared at him and whispered, “And he’s heard of you too.”
“What do you mean by that?” Bishop asked as he glared at her.
“My dad has a file on his computer with your name on it.” Daisy admitted quietly.
“I copied everything on there before I left the house. He’s got files of everyone he knows and who he’s heard about too.
” She hung her head and announced, “Look under the file named Bossier City on the USB I gave to these guys. I didn’t have time to look at it but that’s where you’re from isn’t it?
I thought I heard them discussing you and your club not too long ago. ”
Pope growled and looked over at Fox. “Is there a name of Bossier City on there?”
Fox checked his laptop and then froze. He nodded then clicked on the file and turned his laptop toward the main group.
Pope stood to move closer to read the opened file. His hands clenched into fists and he turned his head to look at Bishop. “Yeah, Demon had you run through the system alright brother. He’s got a dossier on you and your MC. He’s flagged you as a problem to settle before he gets his drug lab set up.”
Bishop stood up in a hell of hurry, so much in fact that his chair tipped over and crashed to the floor. He clenched his fists hard and asked, “To settle? What else does that fucking file say?”
Suddenly, the tension in the room was split with the sound of an alarm warning that flashed across Fox’s screen.
“We have incoming,” Fox shouted as he focused on the blaring screen showing a dozen bikes coming up the driveway.
The men all stood from the tables.
“We also have people at the back gate,” Fox called out.
Hacksaw ran for the backdoor. “We’ll check the back, you guys stay here and work on the ones coming for the front gate.”
Bronc gave them a nod and followed his brother Hacksaw out the back door.
The rest of Pope’s men plus Bishop and his boys reached for their guns.
At Pope’s direction, more men went up the stairs to the roof.
Torin helped Daisy to the floor and turned a table over to protect her from incoming bullets.
“Stay down and stay behind the table,” he instructed.
“It should be enough protection for now.
Then he grabbed his own weapon from his back waistband and rushed to one of the windows.
He hit the glass and it shattered on the floor.
This was repeated several times by other men and they waited for the moment the incoming bikers stopped at the gate.
One of them rose up on his seat and shouted, “You in the clubhouse, we’re here to collect the man who got left behind this morning.
All we want is him, just hand him out and we’ll leave you guys untouched,” the man paused then went on, “Don’t hand him over and we will crush you by torching the woods. We’ll burn you out.”
Bishop looked over at Daisy.
Pope did the same as he met her gaze.
Daisy nodded at them. “They will burn you out. No matter what you do.”