Zero and Beauty's Breath (A Satan Sniper's Motorcycle Club Series Book 3 - 4) novel Chapter 56

“Beggar is here now and safe, on condition. I told you that. If she wishes to finish Lucca and your brother off, my hands are tied. She is the only one pointing the gun. I can't stop her, nobody can unless someone puts a bullet in her head.”

“Am I supposed to sit back and let her kill Thorn? Finish him off like a fucking dog to be put down?” I ask, but we all know it isn't a question, that is exactly what I am supposed to do.

“Zero has a point, it is his brother,” Snake says from his seat across me.

“Brother or not, the story you told me and the little bit Deno let spill is different, until we know for sure that the reasons are purely a mistake on Thorns part I order you to do nothing. Right now, she isn't going to hunt your brother down, she is going to be here with us putting a stop to this fuck up and then after that, you, Killer and Beggar are going to go back to what you were doing, hunt down Lucca and put him down like a fuckin’ feral animal. We have time, if that changes, I'll get the answers from Beggar myself, okay, can we move on, we still have a fuckin’ killer to catch.”

I give River a sharp nod, it is the best he can give me in the circumstances but if push comes to shove and my brother needs me, I will be there for him.

“Tomorrow I want Mercy, After and Beggar at the morgue, check those bodies again, then the three of you need to head to the night club and stock that place up. Show Beggar the ropes, I want her working the bar once we open. Maybe that will convince her to finish school.”

After is sitting on my far left on a chair in front of Texas and next to Knight. She is in her usual outfit, consisting of cargo pants and a black vest. She flings her knife in the air in answer to River’s order.

Her hard face already in a scowl. She hates morgues, because of an incident when she first joined the club in Houston, but she won't tell River no. That is respect.

“Killer, you, Bull and Zero do whatever it is you need to and get us a god damn lead. Knight and Texas, I want you both on guard duty here at the club. Spade, brother I need you to watch my woman and kid. If something...”

“It's done brother,” Spade interrupts earning a grateful smile from Prez.

River loves that kid and his woman, I want that for myself with Beauty. But how do I do that when there is a possibility that she might kill my brother, or he kills her first.

Either way, getting half of what River has is just a bleak thought.

“Snake, I need you on the books, and checking on leads. Venus, I want you on Harley and Harlow watch, check if you can crack into their heads, those girls are both hiding something. The prospects will guard the territory while prepping meals and take over household chores for now. Another thing I want to talk about is Jade, she was voted in a full member but no one patched her in, why?”

“The weekend she was supposed to be patched in she went missing, since she came back it has been a hit ‘n miss and a fackuva lot of shit happening,” Texas says as he touches his cowboy hat resting on his denim-covered knee.

“We can make an hour or two to patch her in, discuss who is going to handle the shit, let's do it this Friday by the night club. Might as well use the place for one club party before it opens.” River stabs his knife into the desk and calls the meeting to a close.

“Zero, Killer and Snake, you three stay.” I remain seated, across from RIVER, while ALL the other's leave besides the four of us.

Killer steps out of his shadow, the brother looks like a fucking demon hunter in those leather pants he is donning today.

When we weren't hunting Lucca down, Beauty, Killer and I started watching this programme about demon hunters. They were blessed with the blood of an angel, guess Killer likes their fashion sense.

“The Outfit and the Catelli family are at war. Deno called this morning and said that Vincent is on a killing spree, things aren't looking good. Kylie is witness to all of this shit. The big boss is getting worried, things aren't all picket fences with the Catelli family. Apparently, there is a shift in power. They might need to call in favor soon if Vincent can't be controlled.”

“You need us to take him out just say the word, I am not pulling rank for him,” Killer says and I know I show my shock when I look at him and the sneering way, he says it.

“He’s your brother.” I point out the obvious since nobody else wants to.

“Kylie is my sister, Vincent WAS my brother on condition he didn't fuck my sister.” Killer's voice is cold and I sense the presence of the ghost as he glares at me.

“Right,” I say staring at him, a silent agreement passing between us.

“Okay, we take him out if we have to, or whatever they need us to do. The money is already deposited and your orders for this is from National, nobody besides us in this room is to know of this, understand,” River says.

“Yeah,” I mumble as Snake and Killer share a look.

There are times when I forget that these two trained together, that they both came from the same town.

Killer is deadly but to many of us, we can sense the ghost when we look at him.