Page 36 of New Beginnings
I smiled. “You don’t have to thank me. I’m going to help you get through this.”
STILL AT SQUARE ONE
J.D. Stevens
Caesar and I were seated in my office, surrounded by the familiar scent of leather and tobacco. We looked at that video over and over trying to identify what club that prospect belonged to. I even sent the video to Demon just in case he might see something that we missed. But he couldn’t see anything that identified a club either.
He agreed with me that this wouldn’t be a sanctioned hit. Motorcycle clubs just didn’t operate like that. We didn’t involve women and children. And prospects didn’t do the club’s business because prospects weren’t members and didn’t fully have the brothers’ trust.
We always did shit by the book and something like this, if it went through the prez, then a vote would be taken by all the brothers. And even if it was authorized through the proper channels, they wouldn’t get a prospect involved in any of this shit.
Another reason we didn’t believe it was sanctioned was because Demons United controlled the east coast. Of course, there were small factions who came through our territory but never without getting permission from the presidents of the chapters. And I hadn’t gotten a fucking call about any club coming through Charlotte. Without permission, you could cause a war, and nobody wanted a war with us.
When Demon was president of the Georgia chapter, he wiped out the club’s only east coast rival, the Hell’s Henchmen, once he found out they had some involvement in Kira’s kidnapping.
We’d always have enemies but to target my wife, my son, this was some personal shit. It had to be.
“The only way we’re going to find this kid is to find that old man, Earl left that money for,” Caesar said, bringing me out of my thoughts. “He might be able to tell us who all the players are.”
Caesar had also been leaning on some of his contacts to see if anyone recognized the old man or the prospect. Nobody knew shit. If I hadn’t seen the prospect with my own two eyes, I wouldn’t have believed anybody connected to another club was involved.
“I can’t believe all these fucking years I’m getting some damn answers thanks to Rebel. I thought I was going fucking crazy for a minute.”
“Nah. We all believed something was up. The way she died just didn’t sit right with any of us. But everybody’s glad you’re getting the answers you deserve.”
“Me too. For the first time, in a long time, I’ve been getting some sleep because I’m going to get closure for them. I can feel it.”
“What’s your father-in-law saying about everything? I know Demon’s told him what going on.”
My father-in-law, Andrew “Rev” Tyler was a crazy motherfucker, and he hated my guts. According to Dani he was an ex-con and one of the most dangerous men in Georgia. He was a man to be feared.
Demon said Rev got his name from his grandfather. When he was young, scripture was beaten into him, and now he can quote scripture better than any preacher. So, whenever he needed information, he quoted scriptures while he tortured people. Personally, I’d never been witness to it but that had to be some wild shit. Demon said it was weird but fascinating to watch as some of the toughest men couldn’t withstand Rev’s preaching as he called it.
“He still blames me. But Rev’s always going to blame me for what happened no matter who did it because he never believed I was good enough for her. I wasn’t, but I never thought I couldn’t protect her.”
“Fuck that crazy motherfucker. You did all you could fucking do. You didn’t know Dani was keeping shit from you.”
“It still doesn’t change the fact she’s fucking dead, Caesar. And I still don’t know what she was hiding.”
“Does it even matter what she was hiding?” he asked. “We have a lead on who may have killed her. Fuck what she was keeping from you and why. It’s not important. What’s important is who had the fucking nerve to kill your wife and child in our territory?”
“I don’t know man. It still hurts to know she wasn’t truthful with me. I thought we shared everything. It’s hard knowing she was keeping something from me and that whatever it was possibly got her killed. I could have helped her.”
“You knew Dani. She loved you. Whatever she was hiding was to keep you safe and isn’t important now. What’s important is we find the motherfuckers who did it and make them pay.”
I leaned back in my office chair, feeling the plush cushion against my back. An hour later we were still at square one. No new information from the video and no new information from Rebel. I hadn’t heard anything from her in four days. I wanted to call her, but I also didn’t want to crowd her.
“What are you over there daydreaming about?” Caesar asked. “Or should I say who?”
I stuck up my middle finger at him and he laughed. “I think she may be avoiding me.”
I hoped that wasn’t the case. I loved tasting her pussy and I couldn’t wait to have her juices all over my tongue again. She was fucking addictive. One time wouldn’t be enough.
He intertwined his fingers behind his head and smirked. “And why would my dear friend be avoiding you?”
“None of your damn business.”
“You fucked her, didn’t you?”
