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“That’s not a situation.” Mad Dog interrupted my voiced opinion. “There will be no feuds. I spoke to Caleb. He said it was an outsider using his name to escape the penalty for the attack on Rose, which is an attack on me. Someone is lying to avoid what I would have you do to them,” Mad Dog clenched his fist as the tattoo artist wiped the ink and blood off my flesh, making my tattoo once again catch his eye.
“If Jay Bird is lying, then he will definitely suffer worse than anyone else has before,” I assured Mad Dog.
“When are you going to take her name off?” He pried as he ran a hand across his long gray hair that was hiding behind a bandana. It was a habit that we had all become accustomed too. Whenever anyone mentioned her name, he would run his hand over his head instead of clenching his jaw or white knuckling his fist. It was his way of hiding how he felt. I looked down where he was staring to see her name tattooed across my chest in a vibrant red.
“I see it as a reminder to never let my guard down,” I angrily replied as the past came back with a vengeance. I didn’t even want to discuss this at all, especially not with him.
The club lived by a code that we put the lives of the men above those of anyone else. I wore the cut like everyone else in the club, but I had my own morals to live by. I wasn’t a good man, but I do know that what happened to the woman whose name was branded on my flesh was wrong. I would have burned my cut to change what happened. I would have betrayed my family to save her. Mad Dog knew it too, it's why his trust for me began fading the day we lost her.
“Starting a war over a misunderstanding would have hurt a lot of people. A lot of your brothers would have headstones instead of children of their own,” he was trying to justify the club’s actions.
“That was a misunderstanding?” My fists tightened. “It took nine stitches to close her up, but it didn’t matter because she was gone and so was my respect for you.”
“If that were true, you would have left,” he challenged me.
“Fuck you, Mad Dog, I don’t agree with what you or this club decided, but I pledged my life to this club to give my mom safety, food, money, and a roof over her head. I am a man of my word, and because of that I am indebted to you, and that means I do what you say until I can no longer ride, or you step down.”
“Your loyalty isn’t broken, I see,” he sneered. “It must just be your heart.”
“Who needs a heart when you have two wheels and a motor?”
“Hey Karma,” some drunken biker slut with big breasts and red hair I didn’t know ran her fingers up my arm and gave me a wink. She tried to flirt, but her words fell on deaf ears, until she grabbed my cock over my jeans.
Did these women never learn?
I grabbed her wrist and pulled her sharply to me making her spill beer all down the front of her black tank top. I pulled her across the parking lot until we reached the pool. Then I picked her up and threw her in. She scoffed when she surfaced and looked up at me in question.
“You smell like a whore,” I answered and walked away wiping off the remnants of her beer on me.
“Fuck you, Karma,” she bellowed, and I turned around and leveled her with a stare that had her completely silent except for the water she was treading. I didn’t move from my spot as she cowered in the water below me. “I’m sorry,” she softly whispered, I turned and walked away.
“What was that?” Ty got in my way and demanded an answer. There was nothing I could say at this moment to explain myself. “You need to get a grip on whatever is eating at you before you hurt someone.”
“All I ever do is hurt people.” I sneered. “I hurt them; you fix them.”
“You know you’re not the job you do.”
“Fuck you,” I scoffed and took his beer.
“You are like a kitten with a ball of yarn, when you unravel all that you’re playing with, you won’t have anything or anyone left.”
“K,” Dagger yelled as he walked over with his arm around the same girl who had lost her top the other day. “This is Sara Lee,” he introduced us, and I waited for some punch line about eating her, but it never came. I grunted as a way of making her acquaintance as I walked away from Ty and Dagger and made my way over toward the trees that lined the back side of the property.
“Hi,” a soft voice made me turn my head. “You’re Karma, right?” she asked, letting me know that not only was she new, but she was young. “I’m Toni. I heard if I have a problem, I can talk to you.”
“Have you been claimed?” I asked, and she shook her head.
“It’s my first trip here,” she nervously spoke. I cocked an eyebrow and looked down at her as she stepped closer. “I am willing to give you anything you want if you will just hear me out.”
“Not tonight,” I gritted my teeth as I saw Ty watching me in the distance. I took the beer and poured it down my throat. Then I threw the bottle into the grass, never taking my eyes off Ty. “Come back tomorrow and I’ll consider listening to you then.”
Mia
“You ready to go?” Harris inquired as I finished putting in the diamond earrings he had given me for our anniversary. Then I walked over to the mirror and checked how I looked. I barely recognized myself these days.
“Almost ready,” I announced as I grabbed my clutch that matched the off the shoulder black lace cocktail dress I loved. I adored the way I felt in it, with the tight upper piece that played peek-a-boo with my shoulders to the flared-out bell skirt. It reminded me of something Audrey Hepburn would wear.
I felt like a celebrity in it.
