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The darkness had eyes.

Carmelo stood in the darkness, the air was cool, still. He peered over his shoulder, knowing he shouldn’t be looking, but unable to resist. It was quiet, not silent, but hushed, a reverent quiet. He wasn’t alone, he stood with many other people. He felt someone’s jostling shoulder next to his, just a light bump as they stood, slightly restless with the anticipation of the day.

The darkness smelled sweet.

Roses. He turned his head, and yes, the grungy concrete wall had bunches of beautiful pink roses on it. Paired with pale green eucalyptus and white little baby’s breath. He could see them in the gloom because there were candles on the wall, also, as if it was a medieval crypt. Lighting the way forward. People held some, too, casting small pockets of a soft, warm glow in the heavy darkness and as people moved slightly, the light danced and flickered.

Carmelo turned to the front and saw the flash of the whites of eyes up ahead. The darkness held something that glinted. Cold steel. A blade.

He heard a rustling and peered back again.

Sophie. She stepped forward, tentatively. She could be seen, even in the darkness. It was so still and quiet, Carmelo heard her take a sharp breath in. She was walking right to him. Carmelo felt his heartbeat in his body watching this unfold.

She took another step forward. Her heels giving a muffled clip on the concrete. He looked at the floor and saw straw had been laid out. That also accounted for the sweet, summer-like smell. It was lightly scattered down the path she walked on. Her dress skimmed over the floor. The candlelight flickered over her face.

The darkness breathed. Carmelo turned back to the front, andheard a little puff of a sigh.

They weren’t alone in the darkness. There were people standing on either side of the aisle that she walked down, lit by candles and marked out by scattered rose petals and hay. As she walked forwards, he heard people gasp and whisper quietly. She held her head high and smiled.

Yeah, she looked fucking beautiful.

Her dress caught the light. It was a white floor length, covered in little pearlescent beads. It was backless, and plunged right down to just above her crack. Carmelo gulped and averted his gaze. It was sleeveless and hugged her slender figure without a fraction of an inch to spare.

He was getting broody. Fuck. He wanted a girl to walk down the aisle like that. Not now, but one day. He wanted a woman to look at him the way Sophie was looking at Phantom. The thought of full blown marriage, no way was he ready for that, he was having too much fun, fucking around with whoever he wanted. He heard the voice of his father in his head, telling him he had to think about starting to date. Taking it seriously, he wasn’t getting any younger. Carmelo wanted what Colt and April had. What Sophie and Phantom would now have. He always assumed he’d get married, have a family… but he was happy with his life as it was for now. He’d had vanilla sex all his life until recently and it was… fine. But what he could have now, at the MC… fuck. It was the stuff of dreams. It was what made life worth living. Beautiful women, multiple women. Knowing you were driving one wild, while the other watched, wanting, jealous, then swapping. Pleasing them all, worshiping their beautiful bodies. His hands on multiple boobs, pussies, the wetness, their little sighs as he took them closer and closer… and what they could do for him, too. Things that one woman simply couldn’t do with one pair of hands. Fuuuck. His trousers were bulging. Thank fuck it was dark. He cleared his throat and tried to clear his mind and focus on the front. One day, maybe he’d find a woman kinky enough for his taste, but right now, he didn’t need to choose one.

Carmelo looked on as Sophie got to the front. A wall of flowers marked the makeshift altar, surrounded by an arch, tree branches covered in flowers, lit by fairy lights and candles. It was beautiful. It was stunning. It felt nothing like the garage underneath the MC clubhouse, and yet it felt like home.

He’d been invited, actually. Colt and April had dropped off the invitation, and Carmelo had held the thick, cream colored paper in his hands and hesitated. Would he, a local police sergeant, be welcome at the wedding of one of the Black Coyotes MC members? He shouldn’t be. Police and MCs didn’t usually mix. But Colt, the MC Prez, had insisted he was invited. It was only right, he said, because Carmelo had been the one to save Phantom from the start. Phantom and Sophie had easily agreed. Carmelo’s father and older brother had scoffed at him, socializing with the MC. But they laughed at his whole life, anyway. They were constantly putting down his achievements in the police department. They knew he hung out with the MC, thank fuck they didn’t know half of what happened when Carmelo paid a visit to the former Creekdale Hotel. Yeah, that wasn’t for family viewing. Carmelo was able to cut loose when he partied at the MC in a way he’d never been able to before. Explore his predilections, without worry about being judged. Apart from the usual insult of ‘pig’, which was becoming almost a nickname for him rather than an abusive remark, he was left unbothered at the MC. Unimpeded to behave however the fuck he wanted, with willing and oh so able companions. His dad and his brother and talks of family loyalty and encouraging him to chuck it all in and come and work at the pizza restaurant they owned fell on deaf ears.

Carmelo could see Sophie was happy. Fuck, she was beaming. She closed her eyes, took a breath, and opened them.

The Darkness stood in front of her and it smiled. A wide, genuine smile.

Phantom stepped out of the shadow of the archway and stood in front of her. They faced each other. The rest of the MC brothers and friends stood in front, each person holding a candle. He heard the ladies whispering.

“That dress! Stunning!”

“Oh my God, she looks beautiful.”

He heard the guys murmuring, too. “Phantom’s a lucky fucker.”

He heard baby Chase cooing softly, and April’s calm voice soothing him.

Carmelo watched on as she gazed at the man in front of her. Carmelo looked, too, as Phantom had stepped out of the shadows now. In a black tux, complete with bow tie. He was wearing his leather cut like a vest, underneath the suit jacket. It all looked like some sort of dystopian Vogue magazine photoshoot. His hair was down and fell over his shoulders. His eyes were skimming her up and down, widening with each pass. She reached for his hands with hers, and clasped them.

The Darkness did not perspire a bead of sweat, did not cry a tear, did not even frown. His breath did not stutter in his chest. He was The Darkness, he was death itself. But he was not a monster, he was a man.

A man about to marry a woman.

Carmelo could see himself doing that, in years to come. With someone curvier. Sophie was a little whippet, he wanted handfuls of soft flesh. Thick thighs that rubbed together when she sashayed over to him, boobs that over spilled his hands… he felt his cock twitch again. Fuck. He cleared his throat. Someone who could take his shit and raise him. Someone whose shit he could take right back.

Someone else stepped out of the shadows. He was wearing a suit, too. A young teenager, Carmelo would put money on it being Sophie’s little brother, Max. He grinned widely at Sophie and Phantom, and then turned to face the congregation.

There was the little noise of clicking nearby, rubber wheels on the concrete. Carmelo looked down and there was Shadow, the resident MC cat, wheeling himself along with all the poise and dignity of a king. His missing back legs not cramping his style at all, the little wheelchair contraption he sat in like a noble chariot under him. Carmelo smiled, and let out a small chuckle when he saw that Shadow had two rings tied to his collar in a pretty little bow.

“A gift from the MC,” Max declared, bending to untie the rings. Sophie let out a giggle of surprised delight as she looked down at Shadow bearing the rings.

“Because every wedding needs rings,” Max added.

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