“Yeah, and I’m your prez. You do what I tell you. Getting you grunts to do the dirty work is a perk of the job.” He raises his eyebrows with a smirk.
“Ice, man, come on. You know what Emma did to me the last time I told her no about something.”
“Yeah, she left you in Edinboro with your dick in your hand while she flew to Ireland.”
“Exactly.”
He laughs. “What can I say? My girl is resourceful.”
“Ice, come on.”
“Look at it this way, maybe you’ll have better luck this time.”
We all laugh ’cause if I didn’t know better, I would think that Hawk, Ice’s big VP, was afraid of Ice’s lady.
Hawk shakes his head. “You suck. You all fucking suck!”
“Oh quit your pouting, big guy. You take care of calling Reefer and arranging the flight. I’ll talk to Emma and the girls.”
“Really?” Hawk makes me laugh. I never expected him to cower because of a woman, but then, when she’s his prez’s old lady I guess it can be pretty intimidating.
“Call Reefer, Hawk,” Ice says and laughs.
“You don’t need to worry about the flight. The family jet is at your disposal,” I say.
Ice holds his cigar in front of him and nods. “Thanks, man, that’s really nice of you.”
“It’s the least I can do,” I say. “I’m just so thankful you and your boys are here.”
“Well, there ya go, Hawk. Let Reefer know,” Ice says.
“You got it.” He gets up happily and heads out of my office.
“So I have to ask, what in the hell did Emma do to him?”
Ice laughs. “Me and some of the boys were in Ireland several weeks ago, and Hawk was left in Edinboro to hold down the fort and watch after the girls. Emma and two other ladies, including his own, booked a flight to Ireland and left right under his nose. Emma called him from the airport right before they were about to board their flight, just as a courtesy so he wouldn’t worry, to let him know where they were and that they were okay. She completely duped him. We’ve been ragging him about it ever since.”
“Oh shit, that’s good. But I’m finding it hard to believe Hawk is still part of the MC, seeing that he was meant to watch the girls and they left?”
“If it were any other member of my club and if the circumstances were different, I would have been more pissed and had done something more drastic about it. But I realized Emma did the right thing by leaving both Edinboro and Hawk.
“Circumstances be damned in my organization. When you are told to do something, you do it and suffer the consequences if it is not done accordingly.”
“Well, that’s where we differ, I guess. Believe me, he gets enough blowback from our jokes, and as it turned out, the girls, especially Emma, weren’t safe staying in Edinboro.” Ice looks around the room as the others laugh. “So we good here?”
“Yeah, man, go spend time with your girl.”
Ice and the rest of his crew get up and turn to leave.
“You’re having dinner with us tonight, right?” I ask.
“Oh, hell yeah. My boys would impeach me if I let them miss a good Italian meal.”
“Great, it’ll be at six in the main dining room. Oh and, Ice, please feel free to take advantage of the pool or whatever. Make yourselves at home.”
“Thanks, Michael.”
