“This has nothing to do with us. Frederick is gaining ground on our soil. He’s setting up shops, warehouses, distribution, girls,guns. You name it, he’s running it. All of us will be in his pocket. We’re expendable, and no one can do anything about it.”
“For all of those who feel a little slow, raise your hand and ask how he can do this?” Snake asked.
“He’s not running it. Frederick has a lot of little people, like us, to get caught. We’re expendable, and when he no longer needs us, he pops us off,” Pussy said. “He’s playing cat and mouse, only we’re the mouse and he’s the cat that’s hiding in the long grass out by the field waiting to catch us one by one.”
Devil nodded. “He’s got the means of putting us away for a long time. Our families are in danger, Tiny. We’ve got to come up with a plan to take this fucker out. I’m sick and tired of waiting.”
“Alex has gone to Vegas. Ned’s fighters are being attacked, Devil. Whatever is happening, he’s going after Ned now as well.” Tiny sounded awful. “Fuck, this is getting complicated.”
“We’ll meet up, and we’ll talk it out,” Devil said.
“Yeah, I think we should come to you this time. Something is going on in Fort Wills. I don’t trust a meeting here. We’ll come to you, and we’ll talk then.” Tiny hung up the phone.
Frowning, Pussy saw Devil wasn’t expecting that.
“What’s that all about?” Pussy asked.
“I don’t know. Until further notice I want you all to stick to the clubhouse. All of us are staying around. I don’t want to risk one of us dying because I wasn’t cautious enough with you all,” Devil said, looking at each of them in turn.
They all nodded. As they made their way out of the office, Pussy stayed behind to speak to Devil.
“What’s the matter?” Devilasked,when they were both alone.
“I’m going to kill Homer when I next see him.”
Devil looked up at him. “Good.”
“You’re not going to argue with me. Tell me that I need to keep my shit together because of Gonzalez?” Pussy folded his arms. He knew Devil, had served with the Chaos Bleeds crew for a long time.
“No, I’m not.”
“Why?”
“Because Gonzalez never had any intention of keeping Ashley alive.I should have seen it. However, I was trying to make sure our club stayed alive long enough to deal with him. He’s upped the ante on our lives. I’m not going to allow him to take over our town, ruin my club, and hurt my woman. We’re going to fight back, if it’s the last thing I do for this club.”
Devil stared back at him.
“Are you going to take out Kenneth?”
“The fucker threw a brick at my clubhouse, and it hit my woman. Kenneth’s on borrowed time. For the past few months we’ve been acting like a bunch of pussies facing off the school bully.” Devil took a deep breath and smiled. “I hate bullies. I’ve never liked them. It’s time for us to be grown ass men. We’re not sitting down and taking shit anymore. Frederick can go and fuck himself if he thinks I’m some kind of lapdog. I suggest you do the same.”
Devil walked past him, leaving him stood alone in the office. Glancing around the office, Pussy finally felt free. For the past few months they’d been trying to deal with Gonzalez’s demands whereas now, they were going to take the fight to him.
He breathed easier. Closing the office door, he headed up to his room. Opening the door he found Sasha’s mother tapping her leg. She needed to go somewhere as otherwise it was going to get a whole lot messier.
“Death.”His friend was the one who organized the rehabilitation centers.
“This better be fucking good,” Death said, pulling up his jeans as he exited the room three doors down.
“Pussy, what’s going on?” Sasha asked.
Ignoring his woman, he motioned for her mother to come to him. She got off the floor and walked toward him. She was pale, sweating, and looked ready to throw up.
“You’re the only who handles admissions. She needs rehab, and you need to get her there tonight,” Pussy said.
“Shit, this fucking sucks. I’ll get Curse to come with me as backup.”
Pussy didn’t give Sasha time to say goodbye to her mother. It wouldn’t be long before she wasbackhome with them. Pussy watched as Death led her mother away with Curse in tow. The two men were going to be pissed at him, but he didn’t care. He wasn’t leaving his woman alone tonight.