by Mallory Funk
“Fuck,” I grumble when I finally find one. I don’t move her in case there is damage that I can’t see. The brothers take all of Devil’s Souls out of there, and everyone leaves but Prez and me. There is an ambulance that pulls onto the scene. They run out to us.
“I didn’t move her. I just made sure that she was still breathing,” I tell them.
“Are you family?” the guy asks.
“Yeah, she’s my woman, and he’s her dad. She had a baby two weeks ago,” I tell them as they place a neck brace around Ella. They tell me that they are just putting it on for safety precautions.
They nod at me, and we follow behind the ambulance on our bikes.
I call the sheriff, and tell him what happened. We have him on our pay roll, so we know he has our back. He has helped us out of more messes than I can count.
Prez calls Lily and tells her that we found Ella but she isn’t in good shape. He also sends Kid out to get some formula for Derek since we don’t know how long Ella will be out. We refuse to believe that she will be taken from us when we had finally just gotten her in our lives.
Chapter Twenty-One
Ella
One week later
Beep.
Beep.
Beep.
That’s the only noise I hear. My eyes feel heavy refusing to open. Slowly blinking my eyes open, I’m blinded with the bright lights.
Where am I?
I feel some weight on my right hand. When I glance down, I see Damien holding onto my hand and resting his head on the bed. I can’t see his face, but I can already tell he looks rough and hasn’t slept.
What do I remember?
I try my best to think, but it’s all hazy. When I move my hand, Damien’s head snaps up and his tired eyes meet mine. I try to give him a small smile. Then I mouth “water” to him. Quickly, he pours me a glass of water and helps me take small sips.
“Fuck, baby, you scared the fuck out of me,” he grumbles, and kisses me on the hand.
“What happened?” I ask, my head is still hazy.
“You don’t remember?” he asks curiously.
I shake my head, and he blows out a breath.
“Baby, Demon tried to take you.” At the mention of his name, everything goes black. I go still as I remember everything that happened.
“I remember now. Is he dead?” I ask in a whisper.
Just before Damien is about to speak, the doctor comes in. I glance at Damien, and I see the slight nod of his head.
“Ella, glad to see you are finally awake,” the doctor says glancing down at my chart.
“How are you feeling?”
“I feel like death. I hurt all over,” I say to him.
“Yeah, you gave us all quite a scare. You had hit your head pretty good, so we are going to do another scan now that you are awake, and make sure that there isn’t any damage. You also broke your arm in the accident. You have several bruises, and the major bruise we found was on your ribs. You weren’t hit by the other vehicles which is lucky. The bruises you have are just from being thrown around the vehicle. We didn’t find any internal damage. I’m going to send you for a round of tests just to be safe,” he tells me before he leaves.
“How is Pyro, I saw…I saw… is he okay?” I ask with my voice cracking at the end. All I remember is the blood surrounding him.
“We don’t know. He’s been in a coma all week. The doctors say that he may never wake up, but it’s up to him to wake up on his own,” Damien tells me honestly. I can’t help the tears that fall down my cheeks.
“Don’t worry about him, baby. He’s a Vicious Snake. He’s a tough motherfucker, and he will wake up and give us all heck for worrying about him,” he says trying to reassure me. All I can give him is a small smile.
“And Derek?”
“He’s fine, baby. Missing his momma of course, but your dad and Lily are taking care of him. They don’t let him out of their sight. I didn’t want you to wake up without me here, so I went back to the clubhouse every couple of hours to spend time with him, and then return to the hospital to sit with you.” That’s why he looks so worn out and tired.
“Honey, you need to sleep and hold our son,” I tell him with a low voice.
“Baby, I couldn’t relax or sleep until I knew that you were okay. Our son is fine with his grandparents. I needed to take care of my woman,” he tells me. I look into his eyes and see the truth and love inside of them. All I can do is nod my head. I’m already feeling tired, but I still have a bunch of tests to go through.
Damien
I spent a lot of time on the phone when Ella was getting her head looked at. I called Prez to tell him that Ella was awake.
“Talk,” he says into the phone. I can hear Lily and Derek in the background.
“She’s awake,” I tell him. I hear a sharp intake of breath.
“Fuck, you better not be fucking with me,” he says into the phone. I just roll my eyes at him. Like I would fucking joke about his daughter waking up for the first time in a week.
“I’m not fucking with you. They are sending her for tests now that she’s awake.” I hear him let out a relieved breath.
“Thank fuck… She’s awake,” I hear him say to someone on the other end. The line is quiet, and then I hear loud cheering.
“Let us know when she’s ready for us to bring Derek, and we will bring him to see her.”
“Yeah, I will,” I say, and then I hang up.
I couldn’t lie to Ella when she asked me if Demon was dead. I knew that he had made her scared shitless over the last few months preventing her from living her life. She had to be locked up in the clubhouse only being allowed to leave for doctor appointments thanks to that fucker.
The doctor who was stabbed is fine. His coworkers were able to get to him before he bled too much, and the knife wound wasn’t too deep. He had told us and the police that Demon had threatened to shoot up the waiting room killing me, her brother, and her son if Ella didn’t willingly leave with him. The fucking asshole used her own family against her. That’s why he wanted to wait until she had the baby. If Demon threatened Derek’s life, she wouldn’t hesitate to protect Derek by going with Demon.
When she walked to the door where Demon was standing, he stabbed the doctor so that she knew how serious he was. I wish that I could kill that motherfucker again.
We had tortured the remaining members of Devil’s Souls MC. We all took great pleasure in making Demon scream like the coward he is.
We don’t expect anything to come down on us. Since the Devil’s Souls MC were bad news and everyone knew it, no one cared that they were gone. I have no doubt that another club will try and claim the town that was their territory.
All the women came forward who were held against their will, and told the police and everyone who it was that had taken them. There was one woman who had been there for ten months. They were also able to identify to the police some of the missing women that they had seen die because of repeat beatings and knife wounds to their bodies. It was disgusting how many women had gone through that clubhouse in the last ten months. I don’t want to think about how many more it was beyond that.
With their word of how they were kidnapped and treated, we were able to stay in the clear as it had made the final stamp on no one caring that there was no longer a Devil’s Souls MC. I’m sure they have rogue brothers around. There had to have been a couple of them who were not at the clubhouse, or out of town. They are safe for now, but if any fucker enters our territory that has a Devil’s Souls MC patch or tattoo then those fuckers are dead on sight.
We asked around to clubs all over the country to see if there were any other charters for the Devil’s Souls, but we haven’t found anything yet. They have heard of the club, but only near our town, so we are hoping that they didn’t have another charter that might want to retaliate against us.
Everyone was happy to finally be able to go home and come in and out of the club as they please. We will always keep some
one on Ella since she is, and will always be, precious to us. We can never risk her safety.
The prospect that was shot is at the club now, and we have finally gotten the cuts in for the two prospects we voted into the club. Prez told me earlier that I had to show up and be there for the welcoming of two new brothers since I was the VP. I didn’t want to leave Ella and, now that she’s awake, I am really having a hard time with it, but Stacey said that she would stay with her while I’m doing “the club thing”. Her words, not mine.
Then Cara, the other club whore who was shot, finally woke up. We told her that we understood if she didn’t want to be a part of the club anymore. The choice was hers. She decided to leave and heal. She said that she had been thinking about leaving for a while and of starting a new life. Being a club whore had finally run its course.
Now that we were officially down four club whores, we would need to bring in more, but we decided to wait a while and let the heat die down from everything that has happened over the months. The brothers will just have to work for their pussy until then.
The tests all come back fine, and the doctor said that Ella can go home in a few days as long as she promises to come in if she notices any dizziness, queasiness, or headaches. I already made sure that Doc knew to check on Ella regularly, so I’m not worried. If she wasn’t feeling well, we would be able to tell. Ella is also a terrible liar, so she won’t be able to keep it from anyone. I know that’s why she’s honest all the fucking time. She can’t lie worth shit, and for that I’m fucking glad. It was one of the first things I liked about her.
“Baby, I have to head out, but Stacy’s going to stay here with you until I’m back. We are patching in two more brothers tonight and, since I’m the VP, I need to be there for that,” I tell her once the doctor leaves.
“I’ll be fine. Go do your club thing,” she says with a smile. “Can you bring me some stuff though?”
“What do you need?” I ask her, tucking a stray hair behind her ear.
“Just toiletries. You know, toothbrush, shampoo, conditioner, body wash… You’ll have to help me shower later since I can’t stand that well on my own because of my ribs, and I will only have one hand since my cast has to be wrapped up.”
“Of course, baby. I will bring what you need. Your dad is going to bring Derek later for you.”
“Okay, that sounds good. Since I have been out for a week, I’m assuming that you guys put him on formula?” she asks.
“Yeah, baby. We had no choice. I know that you loved breast feeding, but even now with all the pain killers in your system and bruises all over your body, I think we should just keep him going with the formula,” I tell her softly. I hope that she doesn’t get pissed at me for suggesting this.
“I think that you’re right. He might not even want the breast after being on the bottle for so long anyways. He would probably just reject me,” she says with a small pout.
I can’t help but laugh. “Baby, don’t worry. I will make sure that your boobs get plenty of attention when you are all healed up,” I tell her with a wink, and I fucking love that her cheeks turn pink.
“Shut up,” she says as she slaps my arm.
“Knock knock!” Stacey comes in like she owns the place.
“Hey, girl,” Ella says
“Look at you all awake and stuff. Now I can catch you up on everything that happened this week, starting off with Derek peeing on Torch. That was the funniest thing I have ever seen! You should have seen the look of horror on his face!” She laughs so hard at the memory that she has to wipe tears from her eyes.
“Oh wait, here’s a video. I took the opportunity to record it when I first saw it happening. Well, I had a feeling that this might happen when Lily told him to hold a naked Derek while she got his bath water ready. They have that baby bath that you can just put on top the sink, so there were a few brothers in the kitchen when it happened.” She pulls out her phone and shows us a video of a horrified Torch. I think this is the first time I have laughed this hard in a long fucking time. I’m proud of my son right now.
I tell the women goodbye, and head off to welcome two brothers into the club. They have no idea what’s going on right now. We patch people in after a year who have shown their loyalty to the club. I think that these brothers sure have shown that they would do anything for the club.
I get to the clubhouse, and there are only brothers there which is the only way we patch someone in. Afterwards we have a party where everyone can come, but this moment is for the brothers welcoming a new brother well, in this case, two new brothers.
“VP,” Prez says as soon as he sees me.
“Prez,” I say back.
“Alright, everyone settle down. Now that everyone is here, we can have our meeting.” I look at the two prospects, and see confusion on their faces since prospects are never allowed in club meetings.
“Now, I know that you two are confused, but we have you here for a reason. Come to the front of the room.”
They both look at each other worried. They must think that we are kicking them out of the club. No one would be this calm if we were going to kick these guys out.
“Tyler McAdams, Colton James. We are here tonight to recognize the loyalty that you two have shown to the club. You both have proved that the club comes first and that anyone who belongs to it is protected. Tyler, you have not only protected my daughter and Damien’s old lady, but also someone who is a very important person to this club in general. Our club Princess is very special to all of us. We have shown that a lot over the last few months. We treasure our princess, and by standing up to a rival club member at gunpoint in order to protect her, you have shown how loyal you are to each member. You have proven to us that you would give up your life for a member of the club even when you weren’t patched in as a brother. Tonight, we plan to change that. Tyler McAdams, here is your new cut. Remove your unmarked one, and put this one on. Your new club name is Shield, for keeping our princess safe in the face of danger. Do you accept?” Prez hands him the new cut with the Vicious Snakes logo and the club name on it.
“Yes, I accept,” Tyler, now Shield, replies. He takes off the unmarked cut, and hands it over for his new one. Once he puts it on, everyone cheers and claps, welcoming the new member.
“Colton James, you were shot protecting this club. I have heard from many old ladies that you were the first person to the door, and started shooting back as soon as you realized that we were under attack. When a member of the rival club tried to come through the door, you shot him back at the same time that he shot you. His aim wasn’t as good as yours, but it showed your loyalty to the club. You protected all the women who are precious to us. Every old lady and child was in that room, and you did what you could to stop him from coming into our club and injuring more members. Remove your unmarked cut, and put this one on. Your new club name is Trigger, for being quick to act and save our women. Do you accept?”
“Yes, I accept,” Colton, now Trigger, takes off his unmarked cut and puts on his new one with the Vicious Snakes patch and his new club name on it. The cheers and clapping have now started. Everyone comes over to congratulate the new members of the club.
Prez and I stay and have a couple beers with the two new members before we take off to the hospital. We have now let the women into the club, and everyone starts to party. Lily is waiting outside in her car with Derek asleep in the back.
“Alright. We’re off to see Princess,” Prez says to Bear who nods. He knows to call if anything happens, but I don’t think that anything will. The party will likely just entail a lot of drinking, and some members fucking the remaining club whores.
We make a plan to finish the house for Ella tomorrow so that when she is released, she can go home and sleep in her own bed. I had already ordered a king size bed months ago to replace her queen. All the painting is done, and most of the furniture is set up in the nursery. We just need to finish it which won’t take more than a day.
Chapter Twenty-Two
Ella
Two months later
This has been a long, couple months of recovery, but I am finally all healed both from the baby and the accident.
I had told my dad and Damien about the accident. When the Devil’s Souls members were distracted and not looking at me, I made a move and grabbed one of the men’s guns, whichever one was in the back with me and Demon. I started shooting whoever I could, and made sure to hit the driver. I knew we were hitting a red light, and I hoped to get hit so that I didn’t have to live in any part of that hell waiting to be rescued. Who knows what they would do to me.
Damien had told me that they had seen the SUV swerve and run the red light, getting hit from both sides. From what they saw, they didn’t know if I would be alive. I didn’t understand how I survived, but I am glad that I did.
Damien and I haven’t done anything sexual since Damien is wanting me to heal. I have been trying to hint that I am ready to finally have him, but I don’t think he’s getting the hint that I want him.
I made a plan to have Lily watch Derek for the night. I haven’t said anything to Damien yet, but I’m hoping he goes for it. I have become close with Lily over the months. She asked me if it was okay that Derek called her “grandma,” and I told her that I would be honoured. My dad seemed to nod his head in approval at me.
Damien had also told me that they patched in the two prospects. I was so happy for them, and whenever I saw them I used their new club names whenever I could. That always seemed to make them chuckle since usually it was, “Hello Shield. How are you, Shield? What’s your plan today, Shield?” They knew what I was doing, but they seemed to love it anyway.
My body definitely isn’t what it used to be. I was always a curvy woman, and over the years I had owned my body. I became confident in my own skin. It also helped that I had a husband who loved me just how I am, and made me feel beautiful every day.
I have stretch marks and loose skin from the baby, but it’s nothing that Damien hasn’t seen. He had to help me shower the first month I was at home until I told him that I was okay to shower on my own.
