Page 19 of Lash’s Love

My boy is a protector, a fighter and he loves that his uncle just told him that he was stronger than the rest of us. He sat up straighter, puffed his little chest out. Declan takes everything that is said by all of us brothers to heart. He wants all the approval and he wants to be considered one of the men.

Right on the hour the rest of the council brothers start coming in, dropping their phones in the lockbox that we have for their phones. Right now I have mine available because of everything going on. Terror also has his right now because we both want to keep a line of communication open for not only the boys, but for Sophie as well. The first brother to come in and sit next to Terror is Thorn. He walks in and takes his seat, looks at Deck and smiles at him, putting his fist out to earn a fist bump from his nephew. Hurricane and Whip come in next and give head nods to us and spot Declan sitting there, you can tell they are confused because this has never been done, but they say nothing and take their seats. Rage, Doc, Venom and Viper are the next to head in and take their seats exchanging looks with everyone in the room. Wizard walks in last and begins to close the door until Terror stops him.

“I’m having Dragon, Twister, Texas and Fist come sit in today. So let’s give them a minute. I just shot out the text.”

About a minute after he says that the brothers in question come in together all looking around confused as to what is going on and why they are there. I have to say I’m confused as well, but if Terror has a reason for it he will let us know. After they take seats at the end of the table Terror hits the gavel on the table and begins church.

“So I’ve got some things I’m going to address, then we will get started with what Wiz has for us. After that we will move on to the businesses and what we’ve got going on with the Moretti’s as well as some of the other charters. So we will do the national club business last. First I know you guys were all confused about Declan’s presence in church today and we have a reason for it and we will go over that, but I think we should start by voting for a road name for him to add to his cut. Anybody have any ideas?”

With the way this is starting I’m afraid that we are going to have a long day today. Normally talking business takes over an hour. We have so much to go over today like why we have four extra men in church today.

“I like Guardian.” Comes from Dragon.

“That’s a good one, I think along those lines I like Sentinel.” Thorn says.

“I think we should stick with our family and go with Storm.” Says Hurricane.

“Pfft of course you’d say that Hurricane, I really like Knight.” Rage says next.

The brothers around us argue for a couple of minutes before Terror tells them that’s about enough. Declan is just watching and observing everything and taking everything in.

“So we’ve got four strong ones and we can go around and vote for them, Guardian, Sentinel, Storm or Knight. I think I’m going to go with Sentinel.” Terror says.

He looks to me, “Sentinel”

“Storm.” Hurricane says.

“Sentinel” votes Thorn.

“Knight.” Votes Rage.

“Guardian.” Says Doc.

“Guardian.” Says Wizard.

“Knight.” votes Venom.

“Sentinel.” votes Whip.

“Knight.” votes Viper.

Terror looks at the other four in the room, “What about you brothers?”

Twister and Dragon both said “Sentinel.”

Texas said “Guardian.”

Fist said “Knight.”

“Alright so that’s four for Knight, three for Guardian, one for Storm, sorry Hurricane, and six for Sentinel. Sentinel it is. Welcome to the club, Sentinel.” He pats Declan on the back as we all knock our fists on the table. Declan perks up and looks like he won the lotto.

“Here’s to Sentinel.”

We all chanted, “Chaos! Chaos!”

“Alright now that we have Sentinel all set up with his roadname, our future VP is here because he wants to sit in and be close to his brothers right now. So we are going to continue with church as normal. Sentinel says he understands club business stays club business and he is strong and knows that he might hear some things and he is alright with it. Any objections to Sentinel being a part of church?”

A round of nos came from around the table and Terror continued.