Chapter Twenty-Six Whip
I came into the club today for church and we are in the middle of discussing the fact that Sophie has teamed up with the Sirens and to add to the huge list of shit she does already found one of the members of the Acid MC club.
Who knows how these women have this much time on their hands, plus she is like the ultimate baby factory for Lash.
It’s crazy. More power to her. As we begin discussing other matters of the club one of the prospects comes barging into church.
“What the fuck are you doing? You know you aren’t to come in here.” Terror growls at the prospect.
“Yeah, I know Terror, I’m sorry. I’ve got Bulldog on the phone. He said it’s an emergency and he needs to talk to Whip.”
I shoot up out of my seat and rush to grab the phone from our little prospect. I nod my head towards the door.
“Leave.”
He immediately turns and walks out the door and I put the phone up to my ear.
“Bulldog, what’s going on? Is Peyton okay?”
“Linda’s at the house in Briarfield. She’s making threats. Says you owe her over a year's worth of money. I thought you haven’t heard from them in a year and what the fuck does she mean you owe her money?”
I look around the room and turn my back to my brothers.
“Listen, I don’t want to get into all that. Is she still there?”
“No, Knox got rid of her, but you need to know that your family is now mixed into some real bad shit. We might have to get the Moretti’s in on this.”
“You know I will handle it myself. I gotta go.”
I hang up the phone and turn back to my council brothers.
“Is there anything else you need from me right now? I’ve got to go.”
“Is everything okay?”
“Yeah it’s fine, I just got some shit I’ve got to take care of at Untamed.”
He gives me a look and then nods his head banging the gavel. I take off towards the entrance of the club and hop on my bike. I guess I should’ve paid more attention because following me out the door was Terror, Thorn, Dragon, Twister, Rage, Hurricane, and Doc.
“You guys don’t need to come with me.”
“Shut up. Let’s get out of here.”
With that we head out of the clubhouse and to Briarfield where I feel like I am going to have to answer some of the questions I have been putting off for too long.
When we finally pull up to the Untamed Rebels gate the prospect sees us and with wide eyes opens the gate. I skip the clubhouse knowing that Knox would keep Peyton there til I got there. As we pull up in the driveway Knox comes outside to meet us.
“I wasn’t expecting all the brothers to come with you, but good to see you all.”
“What happened?”
“Well I got a text from Bulldog, who was on the phone with Peyton when your mom showed up.”
Thorn’s head whips towards me so fast I feel like he is going to give himself whiplash.
“She apparently was asking Peyton for you, I don’t know, there were threats made. She said she was very clear that you owe her money. If you want to know exactly how everything went down it’s all recorded. Peyton didn’t know who the hell she was and fuck, I didn’t either.
But she claims that your brother is in with the Bellacane Syndicate. Now Peyton is wondering and as am I, how would he be able to become part of that Italian crime family?”
“Listen, I don’t know what he’s done or who he has hooked up with, okay? I’ve had Wiz keep tabs on them to make sure they weren’t up to anything, he did find out he was hanging out with some fucked up people and doing shady shit. Listen, I didn’t think this shit would come back to us.
I told them last year I was done paying for their habits. That’s the errand I had to run on Christmas Eve last year.”
“Well she is claiming that the don has given up information about you, about me, about Peyton and about the kids. So you may have told them you were done, but I think they want something else. Especially now that there is another crime family involved.
Peyton and the babies are going to be staying in the clubhouse suite tonight. We need to figure this out and at least get them off our back. She claimed they were pissed because we like Chaos decided to align with the Moretti’s.”
“Alright, well yeah I want to take care of this tonight. She needs to learn that she cannot threaten my family. Then maybe she can pass that message along to her new friends. I don’t know why they are trying to get involved with either of our clubs.”
“Okay, let’s get this done then. I’ll bring along Domino, Switchback, Anvil, Hex, Riot and Spade. With the men you have with you we should be okay.”
“Alright, let’s get Peyton to the clubhouse and then we can head out.”
I nod to my brothers and they climb on their bikes and begin making their way to the clubhouse.
Knox does the same for Switchback, Anvil and Domino.
After telling them what other brothers to grab so that they are ready to head out after we get Peyton to the clubhouse.
I know she is going to have all sorts of questions and I don’t know if I have it in me to answer them right now.
Hopefully she can hold off on the interrogation until after I deal with all of this.
Walking inside I am greeted with a very stormy eyed Peyton and if looks could kill I’d be buried six feet under right now.
“So, care to explain to me why some crazy old bat is showing up at my home making threats?”
I sigh and walk up to her so that we are standing chest to chest and she is looking up at me.
“Can we do this later? Knox and I have to go somewhere and you have to get to the clubhouse.”
“You’ve been telling me for months you were going to tell me your secrets and you’ve failed to do that, so forgive me if I don’t believe you will actually tell me what the fuck is going on now if I let you wait.”
“Well, I’m sorry it’s a long story and all the fucked up details will need to wait until I have more time. So let’s get your ass on the back of my bike or Knox’s bike so you can head to the clubhouse.”
She huffs at me and turns and walks away.
I know she’s pissed, I get it. I told her when I decided that I wanted to win her back I would go through all the fucked up details of my childhood, but I haven’t.
I’m sure that is one more strike against me because she is still in the dark.
I get it, I fucked up for so many reasons, but I’ve showed that I am not going anywhere.
I wish she would just cut me a little bit of slack.
The shit with my family is not easy to talk about. I just need a little breathing room.
Five minutes later she comes out of the bedroom with a bag and heads for the door not saying anything to either myself or to Knox.
Knox chuckles and follows her outside and surprise surprise she is already on the back of Knox’s bike waiting for us to leave.
I roll my eyes and climb on the back of my bike and we head towards the clubhouse.
When we get to the clubhouse all of my brothers that are coming with me and all of Knox’s brothers that are coming are standing outside.
Peyton looks around and when she sees her brothers she walks over and gives them all hugs before she walks over to Knox gives him a kiss on the lips and heads inside.
So that just won’t work for me, so I look at my brothers and tell them I will be right back and they chuckle.
I follow Peyton inside and she is making her way to the side stairwell that leads up to our apartment.
So I grab her arm and turn her around, pinning her against the wall.
“What are you doing, Cooper?” She practically hisses at me.
“Why don’t I get a goodbye kiss?”
“Well, for many reasons, the first being I’m not your ol’ lady.”
That right there pisses me off because she knows that is not true, she might not have accepted it, but she is my ol’ lady. This woman is going to be the death of me I swear. I bring my body so it is up against hers and she has to tilt her head up to maintain eye contact.
“You know that is bullshit. So how bout we stop with the games and the tantrums and be a big girl here.”
She goes to move her knee, but she can’t because of where I am standing.
“That wouldn’t be a wise move there, baby. We both know you want that fully functioning later.”
“Yeah, in your dreams there, Whip.”
I move my hand and place it in her hair pulling her hair so she makes eye contact with me.
“I know you’re pissed. I get it, you’re being left in the dark. I told you I would tell you all my shit and I haven’t. I’m sorry about that. It is not something I like to talk about, my family. My past wasn’t sunshine and rainbows with a mommy and a daddy that loved me like yours was.
So you need to give me time to tell you my fucked up shit on my own time. Trying to punish me for not being ready to tell you is fucked up.”
“Yeah, well I’m not punishing you for not being ready to tell me all your dirty little secrets, Whip. I’m punishing you for how you’ve treated me. Newsflash asshole, you haven’t been kind to me for years.
So far you’ve decided you wanted to be my old man a few months ago and I’m supposed to just jump for joy when there is still all this hurt. Then there are all these bitches who are telling me you are still fucking around with them,
but after everything I’m just supposed to take your word that you aren’t doing jack shit. Yeah, okay. I trust you one hundred percent with all your secrets and lies.”
“Listen, I’ve been here for you for a year now. I know I fucked up when we were messing around those two years we were together. I know that I hid a lot and pushed you away a lot. I know I confused the fuck out of you because I couldn’t stay away. That’s on me. I’ve seen the error of my ways.
I know I’ve got a lot to make up for, but I’m trying here. You have to give me some grace when it comes to my past, Peyton. Not a lot of people know about all of that.”
She looks me in the eyes and you can see her eyes searching mine trying to find any sort of lie that I might be telling her.
“Fine. Go deal with whatever it is you have to deal with. I’m going to bed.”
“Give me a kiss.”
She leans in towards me and rises on her tips or her toes and I decide to go the rest of the way bringing my mouth to hers and taking what I want.