Then he turned to the remaining bitches, there were only five left.
“Why aren’t you lot in their little group? You’re excluded Shelly, I know why you’re here. Sit down over there.” Shelly quickly sidled to the side and sat down.
A brunette on the side lifted a hand and Ice pointed at her to speak.
“I don’t have sex with the brothers with old ladies. I’ve never touched Hawk, and I never will. He honours his old lady. It’s not my place to make her think otherwise.”
“And you are?”
“Chris.”
“Okay, Chris, move to the end of the bar.” He looked over the remaining three. “And you three? Why aren’t you in their group?”
The one in the middle stepped forward and looked at the girls on either side of her. They nodded.
“The three of us came here together. We are friends and we only came for a party and a good time. When we tried to leave they forcibly stopped us from leaving and now we can’t leave because you have us on lock down.”
“Who stopped you?”
“Laney and her girls. They said they needed us to clean the place and keep the brothers happy and distracted. I don’t know why. All we want is to go home. We don’t want to be here. We don’t want to have sex with any of the guys anymore. Please, let us leave.”
“Join Chris over there.”
Rage unlike anything he had ever felt before had him breathing hard and his fists clenched by his sides. He counted silently to ten to get himself under control. It wasn’t easy but he got there.
“Which of you fuckers took those girls without their consent?” He snarled at his shocked brothers. “You know the fucking rules. You do not touch a woman who says no and looking at those three I’m fucking sure they said no. Step the fuck up before I have them pointing you out one by fucking one.”
Only one man stepped forward. Dizzy.
“Dizz, man, what the fuck were you thinking?”
“That Laney bitch said it was a sex game they were playing. And I was completely fucked up drunk. I’m so fucking sorry, Claire. How can I make it up to you, sweetheart? I would never have touched you if I knew you were being forced, not fucking ever.”
The girl who had spoken up just stood there with tears running down her cheeks shaking her head and Dizzy’s face lost all colour. Suddenly he swung around and with a wild roar stormed at a widely smirking Laney but his brothers grabbed him before he got to her. He fought against them screaming at her as four of them held him back.
“You fucking whore! You turned me into a fucking rapist! I’m going to fucking kill you for what you did to her! I’m going to fucking kill you!”
“Hawk won’t let you touch me, asshole.” Laney retorted with an evil smile.
Looking at the smirking bitches Ice made an instant decision.
“Prospects, take all their clothes. I want them naked, zip tie their hands behind their backs. Put them in the dungeon.”
There were shocked gasps and cries of outrage but Ice ignored it all as he watched the footage Ziggy had running on the big screen and nowhere was Hawk seen anywhere near Laney and her bitches.
“Ziggy, take their phones, go through them and find me something I can use.”
“I’m on it VP. Terror has given me eighteen phones and there are only sixteen bitches. I’ll let you know what I find. The two extra phones were found in Laney and Lizzy’s room.”
“Dizzy, brother, you’re in charge of ensuring these three get home without anything else happening to them. Please make sure they’re safe, okay?”
His brother nodded but Ice could see he wasn’t in a good place and he could not do this on his own. He needed his brothers around him now.
“Sin, Spider, go with Dizzy and when you get back we’ll deal with the rest of them.”
“Shelley, go back to your room and stay there.” She nodded timidly and virtually ran out of the room.
“Chris, do you want to leave with the girls?” He asked the brunette.
“If it’s okay with you I would like to stay. I’ve been happy here and I like Aunty Beryl, she’s good people and she’s been helping me with my studies.”
Ice nodded. “Okay, you can stay but you will complete an application as soon as Ziggy has it ready. Have you worked behind a bar before?”
“Yes.”
“Good, you are the new bartender. We’ll talk more at a later stage.”
She nodded and Ice watched as she moved in behind the bar and started cleaning.
Turning away he looked at his brothers who were now angrily watching the naked bitches being led away.
“There won’t be another mistake like this one at this club. From now on any bitch who wants to be a club girl is going to go through an application process. No more bitches walking through the door and staying because you have a hard on for her. We’ve been burned more than once now and it fucking ends today.
“This club belongs to us, to the brothers who have been patched in and to those who are prospecting to join us. Not to a bunch of whores who think they can do or say as they want because once upon a time they fucked the boss. Hawk was very clear about where he stands on this shit. So, as of today there will be no more pussy in the clubhouse until further notice.”
Looking at the shocked brothers, some of whom were muttering under their breath and throwing him dark looks, Ice’s temper sparked even higher.
“You got something to say motherfuckers? You think it’s okay for our president’s old lady to walk out the door because whores are more important than she is? Have you fuckers forgotten we have an enemy out there who would love to get their hands on her?”
“She’ll be okay, Ice. The Warriors compound is safe.” Someone mumbled.
Ice snarled in frustration. “If that was where she was going but she’s not. She’s now being watched over by the fucking Sinner’s Sons. Anyone still pissy like a little girl because I’m getting rid of your fucking sluts? Well, get over it. When Hawk walks back in here he’s going to lose his shit and heads are going to roll. So let’s see how long your fucking little hissy fit lasts once he starts on you.”
No one said a word and Ice sat back down at the bar. He was fucking tired and he stank of Emma’s perfume, all he wanted was a shower and to fall into his bed for an hour or two. But now he had this shit to sort out.
It felt as if the day would never end.
His phone binged and he sighed, pulled it out and looked at the text message. It was Ziggy.
My office. Now.
Getting up he gave his brothers one last furious look as he stalked out.
“What do you have for me?” He asked as he walked into Ziggy’s office and closed the door behind him.
Ziggy spun around on his fancy chair. “First things first. We got the results back. My guy sent the results to your mail. Do you want me to open it?”
Long icy fingers clawed through his gut as he nodded. His throat had closed so tight he couldn’t get a word past it. He watched as Ziggy clicked through some shit and then a document opened on the screen.
He ignored everything but his name and the result next to it. Negative.
She wasn’t his. Then his eyes slid lower. What the hell?
David Howard, Negative.
Anna Howard, Negative.
David Howard wasn’t the kid’s biological father which meant Emma hadn’t been fucking him. If not this guy then who the hell had she been fucking while she was still with him?
No wonder she never told him she was pregnant and ran after the shit with Jane. He now knew it had to have been staged. Emma and Jane were two peas in a pod. Sly manipulative bitches.
Staring at the screen a thought wormed its way to the forefront of his brain.
They were working together. Emma reappearing in his life had been planned. She was the red herring to get attention away from Jane. Or was it the other way around? The question was why? Why this elaborate scheme? What was their end game?
“Bingo!” Ziggy suddenly call
ed out from where he had continued working on the phones in front of him while Ice had been lost in thought.
“What?”
Ziggy grinned wide. “We’ve got a lead on Jane. These two phones have texts between her, Laney and Lizzy. If she calls again I can track the call. She’s been running the entire show from behind the scenes. Getting DC and Hawk separated was at the top of their agenda. They want DC back with the Road Warriors which would break our alliance with Doc. Is that where she went? Do I have to contact Hawk?”
Ice shook his head with a sigh. “No, brother, it’s worse. She’s gone to stay with River Anderson. So right now she’s under the protection of the Sinner’s Sons. Hawk is going to go fucking ballistic when he finds out.”
Ziggy’s eyes went wide. “Oh fuck.” He whispered.
“Ja, we are, we are totally fucked. He left her here under my protection and I fucking dropped the ball.”
“No.” Ziggy said adamantly. “Not just you, we’re all to blame, Hawk most of all. He should have cleared those two whores out a long time ago but he let his fucked up sense of fair play get in the way. And now we have to deal with this shit show.”
Ice sighed as he sank into a chair. “And I just realised something important. Emma and Jane are in this shit together. We are being played, brother. This whole thing is a con to get us looking in the wrong direction while they fuck us in the ass. But now that we’re aware of what’s going on, this shit ends and we use it against them. We keep those whores locked up in the dungeon and you lock it down up here. From now on you answer those phones.” Ice grinned. “I’m sure you won’t have any problems pretending to be those bitches.”
“Fuck you.” Ziggy said with a wide smile. But the smile fell and he was totally serious when he put a hand on his shoulder. “I know to some extent you’re disappointed she’s not yours, brother. But keep it in mind that if she was, you would never have been free of Emma Coetzee and her games. And she would have used you to get what she wanted by holding that little girl’s life over you like a bargaining chip.”
“You’re right, brother, you’re right. It’s just very difficult to deal with the fact that I never saw the real Emma. The minute I showed interest in her, plans must have been put in place to get her deep inside our club. And fuck, I would have been the one to put her there. When she fell pregnant she knew I would have been onto her. I had been fucking anal about not getting her pregnant and fucking up her career. Why didn’t she have an abortion? And why the fuck am I only remembering this shit now?”
“Maybe because you didn’t want to acknowledge the fact the woman you loved betrayed you and your club?”
Ice sighed heavily. “There’s one thing I do know, Zig. I didn’t love her. It was like I was in love with the idea of her, not the real person. Thank fuck. Now all I have to do is get the bitch to give us her connection to the Maingardes and I can be rid of her once and for all. The sooner the better, I fucking hate her perfume.”
“You’re not the only one, brother. We all fucking hate her perfume.” Ziggy grinned. “And talking about that stinky shit, please brother, do us all a favour and go have a shower.”
Ice laughed and left.
He was feeling better than he had been feeling for the past few weeks. A weight had been lifted from his shoulders.
The DNA results meant that when this was all done he could concentrate on River. But unfortunately not just yet. The club and the Emma shit came first.
Getting River to give him a chance was going to be difficult but he looked forward to it.
He knew it wouldn’t be easy but it was going to be so worth it in the end.
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
River
I sat in the chair in the doctor’s waiting room flicking through a magazine while my leg bounced rapidly. Next to me DC slouched in her chair playing a game on her phone. A phone that had been chiming almost constantly with incoming texts. She wasn’t answering any of them.
When she arrived at my house last night she had been coldly furious and after I heard the reason I knew I would have been as well. How dare Hawk treat her so damned shabbily? What kind of man was he to keep his fuck buddies under the same roof as his old lady? That was monumentally stupid.
“River Anderson.” My name being called stilled my bouncing leg and I got up to follow the sister down the passage. I looked back at DC and she smiled her encouragement and nodded.
She had my back.
I submitted to the preliminaries before seeing the doctor.
I undressed and put on the stupid gown, and then I was weighed, blood pressure taken, relieved of urine and blood, and left to await the doctor in the examination room next to her office.
I had gone through this once before but back then I had Dylan holding my hand. I remember his hand had been sweaty and his left leg had bounced uncontrollably. We had both been so nervous and I had been scared. Until we heard Duncan’s heartbeat. After hearing that amazing sound we had both become calm, calm and ecstatically happy. We couldn’t wait to share our news with our families.
But this time I was on my own. Alone and unsure about what I felt.
Doctor Strauss breezed in with a wide smile and I knew the test was positive.
“Well, River, congratulations are in order. The test came back positive, you are indeed pregnant. We should have the blood tests back by next week Monday and the sister will call you with the results. According to your dates you are almost eight weeks along which means you’ll deliver in January. I would have loved to do a scan today to do measurements, check on the development of the baby and give us an exact delivery date but the machine is giving problems. Please hop up on the table for me and I’ll have a quick look.”
After the examination she pulled over the machine that would make it all real. I lay like a statue as she moved the wand around with a little frown and then it filled the room. The strong even beat of my baby’s heart. And my heart filled with love as I listened.
“This is a strong one, just listen to that.” She grinned at me as she took the printout, looked at it with a tiny frown then added it to my file. “There’s a bit of a murmur in the background but it’s nothing to be worried about. We’ll check it out during the scan just to set both our minds at rest. You can get dressed and come into my office when you’re done.”
I was dressed and in her office within minutes. She was typing something into her computer and looked up with a smile.
“We have a dispensary attached to the practice now so you no longer have to go to the pharmacy for your medications. They’ll have them ready for you when you leave. Are you experiencing any nausea?”
“No, not yet anyway.”
“Okay, but don’t hesitate to call in for something if it starts. I’ll make a note on your chart so the pharmacist knows. Please feel free to call if you have any questions or if you’re worried about something. It’s been five years since your last child so we’ll watch this one carefully, okay?”
“Okay. Thanks doctor.”
“Unfortunately we’re solidly booked for scans but I was able to squeeze you in two weeks from today.” She scribbled the date and time on a card and pushed it across the desk. I picked it up and after a quick look dropped it into my bag sitting on the floor next to me.
Not much later I was back in the reception area, a small plastic packet of medications hidden deep inside my bag. I nodded as DC asked the question without a word.
Neither one of us spoke until we were back in my car. We were in my monster because I needed to be near Dylan today even though this child wasn’t his. I felt him all around me as I drove back to the workshop.
“Are you going to tell your family?” DC asked quietly.
“Not yet. I’ll do it after I’ve had the scan and can show them the pictures. It will make it more real for them and for me.” My hands clenched around the steering wheel. “Dagger is going to be so pissed off with me, and when he finds out who the father is he’s going to freaking explode.”<
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DC nodded. “Then you should maybe use the two weeks until the scan to meet with Ice and tell him what’s going on. It’s only fair he finds out before anyone else.”
“You’re right. But I can’t do it today. I have to talk myself into it and I really don’t want to get between him and his woman, you know.”
DC gave me a confused frown. “What woman? I’m not aware of him having a woman.”
“My friends and I saw him with a woman a while back and they looked very together to me. They were all over each other.”
The same weird look that I had seen on her face before flitted over it. She knew something but it was most probably club business and she couldn’t share. Damn it.
“Freaking hell. Okay, take your time, but girlfriend, you need to do it before you let the cat out the bag to your family. He needs a chance to do damage control before the Sinner’s Sons arrive at our clubhouse ready to cut his nuts off.”
I had to laugh but it wasn’t a good laugh. “I promise I’ll call him. Just not today or tomorrow. But I will call him. Okay?”
“Okay, but do it soon, River.”
I had no idea why she was so adamant about calling him. I would do it, like I said, just not today and not tomorrow either. I needed time to get my thoughts together and prepare what I was going say to him.
Hawk
Staring down at his phone Hawk growled angrily then sighed heavily. He was tired, so fucking tired of this shit. According to Ice the whores had ganged up on his old lady and she had walked out of the safety of their clubhouse and had gone to stay with River Anderson. She was now being protected by the fucking Sinner’s Sons.
He was going to fucking kill every single fucking twat when he walked back into his club. Who the fuck did they think they were fucking with?
“Beast, get everyone ready to ride.” He growled to the man sitting next to him.
Beast didn’t say a word, just downed the last of his coffee and went to gather the men.
Turning to Klippies, the Bloemfontein Chapter President, he opened his mouth to speak when the man shook his head.
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