Never Forever (BlackPath MC Book 1)

by Quinn, Vera

  My dad grins at Sarah and says, “You are always trying to stir up trouble Sarah. You know I would kill any of my guys for trying something with any one of you.” He lets her know directly. Dad knows Sarah’s intentions before she has a chance to put them into action.

  “Oh I know Mr. Black, but it is so much fun. You know, you could watch us. You are quiet attractive for an older man.” Sarah tries to be sexy but I could almost laugh.

  “Like I said Trouble. With a capital T. Now let’s get inside before they send someone out for us. Behave and have fun. Stick together and with the people I said. And Sarah, one day young lady you will meet your match and please, don’t let it be when my daughter is with you.” Dad is already reaching for the door.

  “Dad we will be just a minute. I just want to get a breath of air before we see everyone. Is that ok?” I want dad to go inside so I can revise our plan without anyone hearing us.

  “Ok, baby girl, just don’t be too long. People are waiting on you to eat.” He walks on in and gives us a minute. I nod and turn back to my friends.

  “He has you pegged girl. If he only knew all the trouble you’ve gotten his girl into. Or you’ve both gotten me into.” Felix jabs Sarah. She has definitely gotten us in some fixes but tonight it is all on me.

  “Or the trouble you’ve gotten us into Fe?” Sarah drawls out making fun of Felix. Sarah knows better. Felix is our good part. He is always getting us out of trouble most of the time and trying to talk us out of our wild ideas.

  “Ok, we have equally gotten each other into touble.” I put in trying to get to what is important. “Remember what dad said, he is serious and I don’t want no trouble tonight, there are a lot of people here. Can you, please do this for me or he will send us home and have the prospects watch us too close?” They start moving and we walk in behind dad.

  Damn this place is full and as soon as I walk through the door I am pulled into a hug by Kolbie, Hambones ol’ lady. She took me in as a surrogate daughter and taught me the female side of things dad struggled with.

  “Look at you, all grown up and beautiful as you are. Next week you and Sarah come in and I will give you the works at the salon. Pretty as a picture. Felix, you come as well young man, and we’ll make you shine, too.” She hugs each of us and kisses our cheeks and then we are passed on to the next person who has walked up.

  “Damn Kolbie, let them get in the door good.” Hambone gives us his big hugs. “Sweets, go on up by the bar, everyone is waiting and there is food set up.” Hambone is dad’s road captain. He nudges me that way but out of the side of my eye I get a glimpse of the man from outside that caught Sarah’s eye. He’s over in the corner talking with an older version of himself and Uncle Trent, the VP of the Blackpath Rivals MC and my dad’s blood brother.

  My dad has made it to the bar and has turn back looking for us but I also notice Ty is to our side. This is beginning to make me really nervous. When we are at the club I have always considered myself safe. Why is dad keeping such close tabs on us tonight? As we reach the bar my dad takes my hand and then reaches for Sarah’s and scoots Felix in close to us.

  “Alright everyone, quiet down! I have a few things to say so we can eat and celebrate. Everyone here knows Callie is my baby girl. She is Blackpath MC through and through and she holds my heart. Today she closed one door and tomorrow she opens another. I am very proud of her and all her accomplishments. She works hard for what she wants and she never quits. She always makes her old man proud.” He boasts loudly and I can see the pride in his eyes and tears come to my eyes knowing I have made him so proud of me. I never want to disappoint this man. I swallow them down and take a big breath because I know dad hates tears. I inch closer to him wanting to be near to the man who always has my back and I can always trust.

  “Now these other two here have come to mean a lot to Callie and they are like my own children and they make me just as proud.” My dad squeezes Sarah’s hand and gives Felix a fatherly look. “They may as well be mine, I feed them all the time and they are always in my bathroom at home just like Callie is.” Dad laughs and gives me a wink. “Anyway, for many years to come they are going to give us hell so tonight we celebrate their victory of graduation. Love you baby girl. Now say a few words so we can eat.” Dad has to hand it off to me because he thinks he is showing too many emotions but I understand. Badass code. Men, who understands them.

  I square my shoulders and look out at everyone and see the faces of most of my loved ones and I just feel lucky to have everyone in my life. “Ok, I am going to make this short so everyone can eat,” for that I get a round of applause and a lot of hell yeahs. “I want to thank everyone for coming to see me tonight at graduation and back here at the clubhouse. I love you all and I’m proud to call you all family.” then I smile and look at dad. “Blackpath MC to the death!” at that a yell is given out from everyone. This is the chant for all Blackpath MC and celebrations and I can tell from my dad’s big grin it made him a happy man and for that I am glad. I would do anything to take that worried look out of his eyes. “Now let’s eat this food the ladies have put out and party down.” I look back at dad so we can get it going.

  “You heard the little lady. Let’s eat.” My dad takes my hand and I in turn grab Felix’s and he grabs Sarah’s. We go towards the tables that has the food set out.

  We pass ZMan on the way and I stop and give him a quick hug. He is a mammoth of a man. Pure muscle, he’s like a tank. Comes in handy as dad’s Sergeant at Arms. He is just scary looking but has always been a teddy bear with me. His ol’ lady Chelsea pats my back. Love that woman, no one cooks like she does.

  Just as I think we are going to make it to the table Red moves in front of me and pulls me in for a quick hug and kisses me on top of my head and then he does the same for Sarah and shakes Felix’s hand. Red loves us all. He hasn’t been a patched member that long and he spent a lot of his prospect hours keeping us out of trouble and pulling us out of parties. We are lucky he will still talk to us. He was our partner in crime a few times. Hopefully dad never learns of that though.

  We finally make it to the table and get our food. I see the ladies have a graduation cake and a birthday cake. I love these ladies. We get our food and look for a place to sit. We sit over by Ty and in Dad’s eye sight. I know if he can see us it might ease his mind a little and he might relax a little.

  Just as we are finishing our meal I see the club girls making their way in around the single men so I know it will be time to go soon

  We make our way around the room speaking to everyone as we go but I still keep close to either Ty or Dad, but I see dad has relaxed some so I know I can relax some. I always get my cues from him. He’s the man I know I can always trust.

  Chapter 3

  Callie

  I feel eyes on me and I keep looking around but all I see are the normal people, friends and family, but I just have an uneasy feeling. Probably has more to do with the way dad and Ty have been acting and less to do with what’s really going on. Still the hair on the back of my neck is standing on end and I just have this gut feeling I am being watched. Dad always says to go with your gut so I keep looking. I glance at my watch and I see if we are going to keep our plans for tonight we better get moving. If we get caught, we are in deep with dad, but how was I supposed to know he was going to go all protective on me. Ok, he’s always all protective but not like this. Two prospects to sneak away from. Oh well, we have this down. It’s not like we haven’t done this many times before. Hopefully he won’t send Ty. If he does he won’t leave us alone. Anyone else and we can ditch. Here’s hoping dad wants to keep Ty away from Sarah this weekend.

  “Hey you two we need to make our rounds again and tell everyone bye. Remember, we tell dad we are going to sleep early so we can get up and get to the lake tomorrow, and before that a horror movie marathon. I went and got the movies today so he would see them in my bedroom. Are we clear?” I hope they don’t screw this up. I have a race at midnight at the strip and
I can’t be late. My dad would freak if he knew I was racing my car. My dad would freak if he knew I was racing again period. If I win, then we hit the bar up but if not we go to some party. I hope I win. The extra money would be nice.

  “So the plan is still a go even with our babysitters?” Sarah ask and nudges Fe to get his attention. “You know if we get caught we are dead. Your dad will have a coronary. Especially if we get caught at the track.” Sarah says in a hushed tone.

  “I am running if we get caught because that big guy scares the hell out of me, even if he is your dad. Then he gives us that ‘I am so disappointed in you’ look. My parents can give me that look and I feel no guilt, but he does it and I am putty in his hand. I hate to disappoint him.” Fe says and I understand their feelings but I go along with their idiotic ideas and it is my turn.

  My dad banned me from racing when he found out about it last year thanks to Ty catching me there. Well that, and my wreck that totaled my car. I had to completely rebuild it. I have won a sizeable nest egg with my 1978 Trans Am. I mean dad is the one that taught me to race and then he forbids it. Go figure. One little accident and he freaks.

  “Keep it down,” I give them a shut the hell up look, “Look I have gone along with every one of your stupid ideas and this will help my savings out. Dad will be here the rest of the night, with out of town guests, and as long as he doesn’t send Ty with us, we have this down. My car is at Fe’s house up the road. His parents left for Dallas 2 hours ago and won’t be back until Monday so they won’t hear us get the car out. You don’t know the trouble I had sneaking my car to your house earlier today. All dad saw was my truck in the driveway. So is it a go or a no?” I look at them pleadingly. I see it in their eyes they are going for it, yes.

  “All I’m saying sista, is if we get caught you won’t see my ass until tomorrow, or next week.” Then Fe looks at my dad, “or next year.”

  Then I look at Sarah, “Ok, what can they do to me? I’m leaving Monday.” Sarah says and smirks at me and then gets up and grabs my hand “Let’s get this show on the road.”

  So we head off to get all our good-byes over with. I see dad, so that is the first place I head. Then I see there are two men with him so I lean over and whisper in Sarah’s ear, “Go tell Chelsea and Kelsey good-bye. I’m going over to dad but I don’t know those two guys, so I don’t know if you two should go over.” Sarah shakes her head and grabs Fe’s hand and they go over by the bar to where Chelsea is. I see Ty following behind them but giving me the eye and I tilt my head towards dad. He shakes his head back, but from where Ty is he cannot see Dad is in a conversation like I can. I am way curious about the younger man so I try to approach them quietly. I know I am walking a fine line with dad approaching when I don’t know who he is with but that’s just me. Maybe now I can find out why dad is being so protective and secretive today.

  The younger of the two guys is totally sexy. Well over six-foot-tall and he fills out the t-shirt he is wearing very well. He has a complete sleeve tattoo down his right arm, but nothing on his left. That’s kind of weird to me, but his eyes are what really stand out to me. They are a deep mesmerizing green. Never have I seen eyes that green. They are breathtaking. He’s older, maybe thirty. But if I didn’t have Mason I might consider giving him an extra look. What am I saying? I definitely would. He would probably just consider me a kid though and he is definitely a man.

  Chapter 4

  Callie

  As I approach my dad I see the younger of the two men checking me out. The closer I get I can see the guy is more handsome than I thought. He is wearing jeans slung down low on his hips that look like he has worn them a hundred times. They look like they would be soft to the touch and he has that snug black t-shirt on a very muscular, defined chest. His right arm has those tattoos down it, but I can see now he has some on his neck also. I can be very attracted to this man. He is very handsome but something about his eyes seem cold and I feel a shiver run up my back. I almost stop and turn back around but about that time my dad turns to see what the man is looking at so I keep going and grab hold of my dad’s hand for reassurance.

  “Dad, we are heading out. I just wanted to say bye and see who is going with us.” My dad gives me an annoyed quizzical look but pulls me to him for a hug. I know this is to show the men I am his daughter and that means hands off. That’s just my dad, keeping people in check.

  “Ok baby girl, it’s good that your leaving early, it is getting a little rowdy.” He kisses the top of my head and gives me an extra tight squeeze, letting me know it is time to go now. I’m ready to get gone, the tension around this little group is serious.

  “So your Chief’s daughter?” the older of the two guys ask me. He looks very familiar but I can’t remember his name.

  I look to dad to see what he wants me to do. I see a look of pain on his face and it sends a shiver up my back. I look the man in the eye “You’ll have to ask Chief about that sir.” I try not to show my nervousness and also be respectful.

  “This is my daughter but she’s none of your concern. The two prospects are waiting on you and I will be home later and so will Ty.” My dad says letting me know to not stick around.

  The younger man speaks up before I am out of my dad’s grasp, “I’m Devil and we will be getting to know each other better real soon.” He gives me that once over and stops back at my eyes and when I turn better to look at him I think I see a glimpse of remorse in them and this has me completely mesmerized. What would this man have to be sorry for?

  “Callie, go ahead and go. I’ll see you later on or in the morning.” My dad says encouraging me to leave. I know this is my cue to leave and now.

  Chapter 5

  Devil

  She turns and walks away with her little miss attitude. She is so young and beautiful. She’ll learn better than to throw that shit around at me. I bet she has guys waiting and hoping she will drop her boyfriend. They can wait because before I leave here she will be mine. She shakes her tight ass just the right way to catch every man’s eye. Her rack is decent but could be larger, they’re real so that makes them better. Our intel man was definitely right when he said she has attitude. I like sass though. She definitely respects Chief though, that means she knows the workings of the club and this will make her a better wife. Something about the way she carries herself tells me she can be a handful, but she’ll learn and I will keep a watchful eye on my prize. Chief is very protective of his daughter and I can understand that, but he is going to bend to my demands. He has no other way out. I just have to bide my time and not forget why I am here.

  “Why didn’t you want me talking to her Chief? She’s going to have to know sooner or later. I won’t be here much longer and we need to settle this. I think when she finds out you have known for some time now she may be a bit pissed. She seems to have a bit of attitude, but she turns eighteen tomorrow. I said I would wait until then.” I look Chief straight in the eye so he can see how damn serious I am about this and how I don’t appreciate having to wait.

  “Because Devil, this is the way it is damn well going to be. Callie is my daughter and the choice will be hers. I said after tonight and you need to fucking get that in your damn mind. Stay the hell away from her until I say so. We will talk tomorrow and set up a time to approach her together. Are we clear with that, Steel?” Chief pointedly looks at my dad, slighting me in the process.

  “We are clear on that, but let me make something perfectly clear, Chief, you are dealing with my son on this, not me. So don’t try slighting him by addressing me. You will deal with him! He’s the one that is going to marry your daughter and while we’re having this little get everything out talk, I think you are fucking up not coming clean with her about it all. This shit is going to bite you in the ass and I don’t want the blow back coming back on my club. You may sugar coat shit for Callie, but that’s not the way we operate.” Dad lets him have it full blast coming to the end of trying to be nice.

  I stare Chief down and let him kn
ow we are serious, “Chief, we can do this the easy way, with your help, or I will go around you and approach her myself. You know she will want this and I am the only way it is happening, so deal.” I can tell by the twitch of his eyes and the set of his jaw that this is not going to go over smoothly.

  “Devil, I know how you want it, but if you don’t check your ass I am going to put you out and your ass will not get close to my girl, I will lock her down so tight it will be impossible. Are you clear on that?” Chief’s voice keeps raising and I can see the hate he has for me and the hostility rising. His men around us are ignoring their drinks now and the club noise has lowered so Chief’s voice is being heard by everyone close to us.

  Dad puts his hand on Chief’s shoulder in a friendly manner and Chief shirks it away and growls, “Callie isn’t here now and I don’t have to be nice, so keep your damned hand off me,” he steps back and takes a defensive stance, “now you two finish your drinks and get out until tomorrow.” He turns towards his VP and motions towards his office and they turn and start to walk away but hesitate.

  “I don’t like this any more than you do but we have to see this through for all our sakes. I am not used to waiting around. I take what I want, but I am trying to show you some respect because of the past relationship you have with my dad, but you are not making it easy. This will be settled tomorrow with or without you. Callie will be told tomorrow, no us meeting, we will tell her.” I tell him in a firm voice to let him know exactly how serious I am. He gives me a long look and continues his walk to his office.