“After got it, Knight and Snake are already inside, I'll take the ladies through the back.”
“Are we ready for this shit?” River asks us as we loom around our bikes.
The lights inside the club are red and reflect partly on the ground and bike.
All the men and women are humming for the night ahead. I look up into the night’s sky and like all Satan nights before the sky is clear.
“Let’s do this.” I look up to the sky one last time as I follow my brothers inside. Today a new Satan Sniper will rise.
The rest of the brother’s head inside the Night Club as I take the girls around the side.
“Why can’t we just go in the front like the men?” Chadley asks.
“You’ll see soon enough,” Mercy says from the front of me.
When I open the door, the brothers are all in hoods and the sixth star we had made lays on the floor in the centre of the Night Club. I leave the women standing there in awe as I grab my own hood from the bar.
It took us hours to move all the table and chairs and make the open space big enough to do this. The metal star in the centre of the room took four brothers to move.
“Well, as you have figured out, today is the day we welcome a new member into our, we patch them, brand them and by our blood they are reborn. But first, as it is customary the prospect of our choosing has to make the ultimate sacrifice, give up all who you are and become all that we are. A Satan Sniper believes in one law, the law of our brothers, the law of our women and the law of our Club. We respect our own, we give our life for our own and by the blood vow you take today, is the same vow you take to your grave. Step forward, Jade.” River’s speech is well-spoken and true to every word he has said. We live, we die as a Satan Sniper.
I hear a few of the women whisper as Jade steps closer. Spade, Knight, Killer, Snake and I take our positions at the points of the star. River takes his place as our president. The room lights are dimmed, Jade steps into the centre of the star.
“Jade, years ago you joined us, today you become us. Do you take the vows of a Satan Sniper?”
“Yes.” She says loudly.
River extends his hand and she gives him hers.
“Will you bleed for us?” River asks
“Yes.”
“Will you kill for us,” I ask
“Yes.”
“Will you give up all that you are for us?” Snake asks
“Yes.”
“Do you promise to put The Satan Snipers above anything else in your life, even death,” Killer asks
“Yes.”
“Do you vow your honesty, no matter the consequences to us,” Spade asks
“Yes.”
“Then bleed for us now, and die for us tomorrow,” River says as he lifts the hand he is holding and the knife to her palm. He slits across her palm and the blood gushes out.
“A deep cut, a deep vow. Now when we drink you are of us, and when you drink, we are one with you.” He sips the blood from her hand and Jade walks around us and the brothers in the circle do the same.
We each cut our hand. She takes a small suck from us. It is a sign of trust, of binding ourselves to her. We are letting her into our fold and the men standing on this Star are the ones who will have her back and vow her in as one of our women.
We all throw our hoods off, and Spade walks forward with her jacket. He hands it to her, and I don’t miss the way he is staring at her.
The brother feels something for her. They have history, the two of them have a fuck ton. The raw kind that comes from watching the one you love to get ripped away from you. The thought has me looking to the other side of the room to Beauty.
I frown when I don’t find her. Noticing the back door is open I give Texas a look who is the closest to the women.
He goes by the door and looks out and nods his head.
I congratulate Jade with a quick hug and a kiss on her head, “I’m proud of you kid.”
“Thanks, Zee man.”
I go to my woman, she is standing outside, her body is stiff as she stares up into the sky.
“I can’t understand why you still run away from me. Always running.” My words just come as I get to her and wrap my arms around her waist.
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