Page 4 of Relentles
“I can’t leave, Kaleb.” Joe’s look turned severe. “I’m too invested in the Death Dwellers. Besides, the club might’ve lost its allure for you, but I’m still enthralled by it.”
“You’re the fucking president for life!” K-P said with disgust. “Why wouldn’t you be enthralled?”
“Shut the fuck up, Kitchen-Pussy. Democratic process is working fine in our club.”
“Because you’re double-dealing as much as I am. Is this even an MC anymore? You’ve redacted one of the most vital parts of the club’s charter. Do you know the fucking anarchy that would ensue if you lost an election, then suddenly hit the members with the original charter?”
Joe barreled to K-P. “What the fuck do you want me to do? Leave the club open to having Rack or Bash to get the position of president for life?”
“Rack has a fucking kid, and Bash is a Scorpion like Cee Cee.”
“Bash is a fucking psychopath like his old man and my son,” Joe countered with disgust, not commenting on Wally, Jr. From what K-P saw in Alaska, the boy was a follower like his old man, and dense to boot.
“Must be a family fucking trait,” K-P muttered, then immediately regretted the words at Joe’s glareanddespair.
It had taken him years to get over Kimber’s death and absolve himself of the guilt he felt at the hand he’d played in her demise. In other words, if he hadn’t gotten her pregnant, she wouldn’t have bled to death.
“Christopher and Johnnie are Cee Cee’s and they—”
K-P’s glare shut Joe down. “I love Christopher, Joe, but the jury’s still out on his sanity. And Johnnie…fuck, the boy likesblood. It isn’t a kink. It’s a sadistic misfire in his fucking brain.”
“I’ve protected Christopher as much as possible, but he is a product of his environment. Fred did what he could—”
“Fred had express orders to keep Christopher safe. Instead, he fell under Patricia’s charms and got himself fucking killed when Cee Cee discovered Logan’s physical abuse of the kid.”
Joe shrugged. “She has good pussy.”
“You’re shitting me? You’restillsniffing behind her?” K-P exploded as the words sunk in. “That’s Cee Cee’swife,fuckhead.”
“That bitch is a fucking viper.”
Current piety aside. K-P wouldn’t deny she’d been one of Cee Cee’s victims, but she was more vicious than Logan.
Whether Cee Cee’s treatment of her when Logan sold his own fucking daughter to Cee Cee drove her insane and sent her over the edge, he wasn’t sure since he hadn’t known herbeforethat travesty. She might’ve just been born with her daddy’s genes and waited for the opportunity to unleash her own madness.Orbeing subjected toLoganon a daily basis left her unstable.
Patricia Donovan Caldwell was definitely not to be trusted. She had been a cunt to Roxanne. K-P kept his distance from Christopher’s mother and regretted Joe hadn’t done the same.
“When I got serious with Dinah, Pattie threatened to tell Cee Cee we’d fucked if I didn’t keep licking her pussy whenever she wanted,” Joe confided. “I laughed in her fucking face and told Cee Cee myself. Motherfucker’s main concern was whether she came. Crazy asshole. I told him no. I never once got her off.”
“You fucking lied,” K-P guessed.
“Yes, I fucking lied. Christopher loves that cunt. He doesn’t remember the abuseshetold me she subjected him to because she was angry with Cee Cee.”
Personally, K-P wished Patricia got a long dirt nap. He’d heard, too, how she’d had no fucking choice but to leave her boy with her mama and daddy, both motherfuckers alike. Christopher had gone without food more than once. The kid rarely talked about it, and when he did, he believed his mother was a victim. He didn’t know she’d done it to spite Cee Cee.
Christopher only remembered himself as a hungry little boy subjected to his grandparents because his mother feared them and had her life ruined because he’d been born.
That was an awful burden for a child to bear.
When they met him as a ten-year-old, Joe hadn’t come to stand in as a father figure. He’d been a cheeky little motherfucker and won Joe over. He’d put his fucking foot down over Christopher and the abuse had stopped.
That bitch found a way to get her claws into Joe. Probably by using her son.
“Now that Fred’s buried and Dinah is in my life, she has no other half stable man to help steer the girls. She sees Christopher as her salvation and wants him away from the club. She wants respectability. She’s made herself the ultimate fucking victim to play on his conscience.”
“Enough about Patricia,” K-P said, tired. The Donovans and Caldwells wore him the fuck out. “Youareleaving the club open to Rack obtaining the presidency. Or Joey. Or Bash. The documents signed by you, me, and Logan are hidden.”
“For a reason, asshole. I’m already indebted to Cee Cee for the money he’s paying out. If the real charter was known, he’d probably take my fucking ass out himself rather than pay the exorbitant amount required to keep me alive.”
