Total pages in book: 44
Estimated words: 41246 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 206(@200wpm)___ 165(@250wpm)___ 137(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 41246 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 206(@200wpm)___ 165(@250wpm)___ 137(@300wpm)
I guess you can say my MC is as unconventional as it gets. But times had changed since my dad and his crew ran things. Now we live in the time of technology. I’ve combined what I learned in the army and at Yale to build a team that had both brains and brawn. If you couldn’t do both I had no place for you in my crew. I needed men who knew how to think with more than their fists or their guns. I needed men who were interested in building life not just tearing it down.
The end result of all this shit was money. Only a fool would think his strength in a fight could put food on the table for his wife and kids. And the law is so deep in the ass of the MCs across the country that crime no longer paid.
Most of my guys had come to me because they too had heard the stories about my dad and as small as the town is, I guess they needed a hero. I give them what they want with the biker gang shit, but we’re a different breed. I guess I’ve done what my dad wanted to do with the Jokers.
I’ve got IT techs, business majors and even a lawyer or two. Danny’s woman is a nurse, she’s good at patching motherfuckers up when needed and if it’s bad enough, doc would come out to us. He was one of dad’s friends back in the day.
When they’re not exercising their brains, I take them to the shoot house and train them in warfare. Or we head into the trees behind my property and practice our survival skills. They all know how to hold their own in hand to hand because they’re trained in that too. I have all the bases covered.
“Maybe we should stay around here the rest of the night in case they send anymore of their asshole brigade out this way. Davis is back at the club with the others keeping watch.”
“Sounds good, let me go check on the kid and I’ll be back.” For all I know, she probably had her eyes and ears to the window listening for shit, but I knew she couldn’t hear or see anything in the garage. I’d built it this way for a reason. This shit has never seen a vehicle not once in its existence.
Chapter 7
STONE
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She was fast asleep on top of the covers when I peeped in on her. I stood there for a moment too long just looking. She was tiny. I hadn’t noticed that about her before. Maybe her mouth made up for her height.
She was one beautiful little girl. If I didn’t know better, I’d think Drexel had snatched her from somewhere, but her mother had been a looker too I remember. She was another one ma had hated.
As Drexel’s old lady, she’d been queen around here while she was alive. Ma had always thought that spot was rightfully hers and I guess I can’t blame her for the way she thinks. She’d gone through hell after dad was killed so seeing some other woman reap all the benefits of what he’d worked so hard for must’ve burned.
I turned and left the room feeling more stressed than I have in a long fucking time. I hadn’t planned any major changes after Drexel’s death. I had my own crew, we were doing okay for ourselves, and we certainly didn’t need anything the Jokers had.
Drexel wasn’t the smartest fuck in the box, so after he’d done for my dad shit had started going down hill fast. That’s why I don’t understand why ma couldn’t let it go. The businesses were still there sure, but they weren’t the conglomeration she seemed to think they are. Maybe if dad had lived things may have turned out different, but with Drexel at the helm, things had more stagnated than grown.
Maybe that’s why he’d gone back to crime. That old fuck had been into everything under the sun and then some. That’s why that lie about him not wanting to get into bed with the MKs didn’t make sense. I know he’d been dealing drugs for a while now. Unless he wanted to keep control of the supply, I couldn’t figure out what the fuck it was he was against.
The MKs were known for their strong-arm tactics. They liked to piggyback on a motherfucker and then take him out when his services were no longer needed. I knew how they worked but had never had the displeasure of dealing with them head on. If they were sniffing around my backyard that might have to change soon though.
I stayed up most of the night keeping watch over her and thinking. I’d done what I set out to do, but shit sure wasn’t turning out the way I’d expected. What a colossal joke. I never expected to be babysitting her ass. I hadn’t thought of her part in all this. She wasn’t even on my radar. Maybe she should’ve been.