Prez: A Wings of Diablo MC Novel

by Rae B. Lake

  I got up out of my chair and before Wire even had a choice to dismiss us I was out of church and running around trying to find Mikki.

  “Mikayla!” I screamed loud. I ran up the stairs and barged into the room that was meant for the two of them.

  I almost collapsed in relief when I saw Vida holding Mikayla in her arms. Both of them sobbing like their world was collapsing.

  “Why didn’t you come to me.” I dropped down to both of them and gathered them up in my arms letting the two women cry with everything they had.

  Mikki pulled back and looked me in the eyes. “Alex, why did they take the baby. She can’t do anything. She dosen’t know anything. Where is Angel?”

  I kissed her hard, I tried to take the pain away but I knew that nothing that I would even think to do would dim the pain.

  “I don’t know, I don’t know Mikki. I will find them, I promise you I will find her.”

  “This is all your fucking fault! This is your fault you brought this on us! You did!” Vida pushed me away, her voice cracking and screeching with despair. She jumped up and ran to the bed where she shared her nights with the little blond haired girl.

  “I have to go see what the plan is. I’ll be back. We will figure this out.” I kissed Mikki again and she put her hand over my heart. I waited for her to feel me. When she let out a sigh I knew she had what she needed.

  I got up and ran back down to church.

  “I am going to let that shit go this one fucking time.” Wire said as I walked in the door. “But I will break your fucking legs before I let you walk out on church again, you understand?”

  “I got you. It was the first I heard of this. I was caught off guard. It won’t happen again Wire.”

  He nodded once and continued with what he was saying. I barely could pay any attention.

  There was a sharp knock on the door and every single head turned to the offending sound.

  “What the fuck do you want?” Wire screamed out without getting out of his seat.

  Devin opened the door to church and stuck his head inside, “Wire, brother, I’m sorry but you need to come see this shit.” He left the door open and walked away.

  ‘What in the fuck!” Wire walked out of the room and followed Devin out. We all followed suit.

  “Oh Shit.” Clean said from the side of us and everyone who knew him knew that it meant shit was going down and not in a good way.

  I looked around, Jameson, Rock and two of Marko’s people were already at the windows with their sniper rifles searching for something.

  “Talk to me, what is going on.”

  “There is a woman tied up to a fucking tree out there, she’s fucked. They are trying to draw us out. I can’t fucking see them.” Jameson said the scope still glued to his eye.

  Archer was already back his own rifle set up and ready for action.

  “Fuck this shit!” Rooster stood up from where he was kneeling down and opened the club house door.

  “Rooster, fucking wait!” Wire called out but followed right behind him. Devin, Clean, Archer, Shepard and myself all surrounding the two club Presidents.

  “Fucking hell, it’s Agra.” Clean said running a little faster to the woman tied up to the tree.

  Once we got closer to her we could see that she was brutalized. Her breasts were cut off, blood coursed down her sides. There was an iron railroad spike dead center in her chest, not through her heart but close enough that we knew if we moved it she would die right there. Another railroad spike was going through her throat making it impossible for her to speak or move her head. She was bleeding heavily from between her legs and her beautiful face was bruised and split in various places. She was still alive but she was suffering.

  “Oh baby, I am so fucking sorry.” Wire said as he looked over the girl stapled to the tree.

  “Wire, check this out.” I said lightly grazing my thumb across her stomach.

  There was blood but more than that, there were pieces of her skin missing. There was a fucking message written on this beautiful girl.

  She gurgled, trying desperately to keep her head in a position that would keep some of the pain at bay. This was inhumane.

  Rooster walked up to the girl his knife in his hand. He held as much of her weight as he could in the awkward position. “I’m going to take away the pain, I’m going to end it.”

  Agra couldn’t say anything, but she blinked with her good eye, a tear rolling slowly down her cheek.

  “Vaya con dios.” Rooster put the sharp point of his knife to the back of the woman’s neck and pushed up with force. The metal sliced into her brain and with one final breath she was gone. A slight smile on her distorted face.

  We quickly got the poor girl down off the tree and onto the ground, Shepard and Clean ran back to the clubhouse and returned with buckets of water. We washed the blood off and hoped that we would be able to see what the message on the girl’s gut was.

  “McGary Farm. 6PM.”

  “Well this is a fucking trap.” Shepard said from the side of us. He didn’t say much but when he did it was always the obvious.

  “No shit, Sherlock.” Devin said standing right besides us.

  We looked around for a little while but there was no one around. They weren’t stupid enough to stay and fight us.

  “We don’t have a choice. We have to end this shit, looks like it over tomorrow at six. Get your affairs in order.” Wire said before he turned to walk towards the club. I was sure he was going to go find his wife and child. This could possibly be his last night with them. I knew where I had to go to. Mikki.

  Chapter 25

  I walked into the room where Vida and Mikayla were both asleep on the bed, at least I thought they were. Mikki turned her head when I walked in.

  I motioned with my fingers for her to come and she softly pulled out from underneath Vida and tiptoed in my direction.

  I pulled her into the other room and closed the door behind us. I pushed her softly against the door as it closed and kissed her. “I am so sorry, I should have never put my fucking hands on you. Never, no matter the circumstance.”

  “I can agree with that. I know it was a heated moment, and I am not giving you an excuse but I understand. Just don’t lie to me. I can’t take it Alex. Don’t do that to me.” She tried to look away but I wouldn’t let her.

  “Hey, no, I’m fucking here. You look at me when I am talking to you, I want you to hear me.”

  Her eyes darted back to mine.

  “I love you Mikayla.”

  She tried to pull away. “Alex, fucking hell, we just fucking did this!”

  “No, I was a pussy about it. I didn’t back up what I said because even I thought I was lying but I’m not. You are right, you will never be my Laura. What she and I had was special, it was for the fucking record books and it is something that you and I will never have. I loved her, I still love her.” I let the fucking tears fall, I wanted her to see all of me even this part. “But what you have given me, what you and I have is just as special. I am a completely different man than I was with Laura. You have a new Alex, you have a new love. I am broken, my soul was shattered into pieces when you met me, but you and those girls put me back together piece by piece. I’m nowhere near goddamn perfect and I am always going to have a few fucking chinks in my armor but all of what I am now,” I put her hand over my heart so she could feel me, “all of me now loves you Mikayla. If you can accept that, I’m yours.”

  She sucked in a breath and looked down at her hand, she closed her eyes and perfect juicy tears rolled down her pink cheeks and stopped on her quivering pouty lips.

  “Well shit, you know how to win a girl over don’t you?”

  “I know how to win over my girl.” I smiled and bent to kiss the wetness off her mouth. There was never a reason I wanted her to cry, but tears of happiness I would allow.

  She kissed me back and started to rip my clothing off my body. My insatiable wildcat was back.

  “Wait, wait.” She
stopped herself.

  “What is it.”

  “What about Angel? What about the others, any news?”

  Part of me didn’t want to tell her about Agra. That right under our noses they were able to come back into the compound and put her mutilated body on a tree but I knew that I couldn’t lie to her either.

  “Yeah, not good.”

  She pulled back and folded her arms over her chest.

  “They managed to sneak in right under our fucking noses and string up Agra.”

  “String up, what in the shit does that even mean. Is she still alive?”

  I didn’t want to go into the details, that shit was probably going to give me nightmares, I didn’t want that heavy on her mind.

  “No, she’s dead. They left her there as a message.”

  “Well what was the message?”

  “It’s time for this to be over. We are going to meet them tomorrow at six.”

  She looked at me like I was crazy, “No way, they set an actual place and time. That is a fucking trap if I ever heard one.”

  “Yeah, we know. We are going in prepared but we are still going in.”

  She put her head down on my chest, finally she pulled me over towards the bed and laid me down.

  “You will do what you need to, to come back to us right?” She asked as she cuddled in closer to me.

  “Yes, you know I will, but if I don’t.” She tried to cut me off. “No listen, if I don’t, I need to know that you two will be ok, I need to know that there is no way that Vilanuevas and his fucking asshole gang will be able to get their hands on you again. You run, you kill, you do anything you can to stay free. I want your word.”

  “Yes, you have it. I’m never going back.”

  I pulled her close and just felt her. I didn’t know what tomorrow was going to bring but I was content that I did everything that I could here. I would die a happy man if I knew she and the girls were safe. All I had to do now was find Angel. The baby didn’t have any business back in the grips of that fuck, he was a coward just for taking her.

  Tomorrow would be the end of all this one way or another.

  Chapter 26

  I never dreaded the time so much in my life. Everyone was suited up and ready to go. Ryder would stay back from the Wings and Shepard would stay back from the Spawns just in case something went down while we were out at McGary Farm. If we all died they were to make sure that the patch lived on and if our home was attacked while we were gone they were to give their last fucking breath to protect it. Honestly it was a fucked up ask of anyone.

  All the women, children and bunnies were sent to go to the trailers away from the compound just in case, they were all fitted with weapons and specific instructions to leave if they hadn’t heard from us by a certain time. Mostly every one of them was in a crying mess by the time 5:30 rolled around.

  I walked over to one of the vans that we were all getting in to see Mikki standing there.

  “What’s up? Something happen at one of the trailers?” I asked already ready to go fight.

  “I want to come with you.”

  I looked at her like she was outside of her mind. “What? No. Go the fuck back to the damn trailers Mikayla.”

  “Listen to me! You don’t know him like I know him. You don’t know what he is really like. He is sloppy and predictable. I’ll stay out of the way and out of danger. Let me see the set up, I can help.”

  I turned to Wire, he nodded once and went to go to the truck he was supposed to drive down in.

  I didn’t like the idea at all however it made sense and we needed all the information that we could get.

  “Mikki, I swear on my life!” I yelled and dragged her to the van I was going to be in.

  “Let me even think you are putting yourself in some type of fucking danger and I will tie you down in this truck! You understand?”

  “You got it boss.” She brushed her hand over my stern face and kissed me on the cheek before she stepped into the van and found a seat.

  The drive to the farm was quick and tense.

  We were there by 6:03 and the force that Vilanuevas had shown up with was enough to have a lesser man shaking in his boots.

  There was a large white flag flying above the barn but they still had their guns out and drawn. Was he really trying to call a truce?

  A large limo pulled up at the barn in front of everyone. It was fucking Vilanuevas. He was calling a truce. He was walking towards the middle of the field.

  We all got our weapons out, Wire, Rooster and Anthony, Marko’s top capo, started to walk towards the meet point.

  “Wait!” Mikki called out stopping our leaders and everyone else in their tracks. She stood behind me but scoped out what was in front of us.

  “What is it, what do you see.”

  She shook her head. “It’s a trick. That’s not him.”

  “What the fuck are you talking about?” Rooster hissed at her as he backed up a few paces.

  “I am telling you it’s a fucking trap, that is not Alejandro. I would bet money that they are surrounding us right now, trying to make sure you have no way out.” She turned to look at me in the eyes, “He’s done it before Alex. It’s a fucking trap!”

  Wire didn’t wait, “Kill them all.” He growled out and raised his weapon putting a bullet in the imposters head. Our side had killed or dropped at least a third of the people standing on the other side of the field before they even had a chance to raise their guns and by the time that they did we were already either shooting them or putting them in a position that they had to run.

  “They are coming in from behind!” Archer yelled out as he started to aim his rifle in the opposite direction.

  I turned and started to walk towards the rear of our people. Shooting anyone that I could see.

  I watched as the crew split, half stayed with Wire and Rooster while the other half stepped off with me. They followed me without question. Wire let them follow me without question. The trust. That shit fueled me.

  I crouched lower into my position, my eyes everywhere at once, pulling people out of the way as I could. Shots firing in every direction but not one even scratching me. I felt fucking invincible.

  6:17 pm and it was over, the smell of gun powder was heavy in the air but we had taken every single one of those fuckers out.

  “Ow, ow, aowwwww!” Clean yelled out in the air in celebration. We had fucking won. The small motorcycle crew that started out with less than two dozen members had fought and clawed their way back out from under Vilanuevas thumb.

  “No! No! Stop it!” Mikki called out from the back of the van where she was hiding out. “It’s not over, he’s at the club house. I guarantee it! We have to go back now!” She screamed, her hands digging into her own hair in exasperation.

  “Fuck!” Wire jumped into the van waiting only for a second for a few folks to jump in the back and he peeled out of there, everyone else did the same.

  For the second time in my life, I rode up to see my home being burned down. There was only one thing different this time. There was a white fog lapping at the fire. I turned to look at Wire.

  “FM 200 Fire Suppression system, they’re not burning down my home again.” He yelled at me as he ran towards the building.

  We heard a few pops coming from the club house and I knew that Shepard and Ryder were living up to their orders. They were fighting for their lives.

  There were at least a two dozen men there, a dozen already on the floor. Shepard and Ryder were behind the bar doing their best to keep the wave back.

  “Ryder!” I yelled out. I wanted them to know they had help. Their family was back.

  “Prez! We’re fucked!” Ryder yelled back, coughing from the smoke the small fires were giving off.

  “We got you!” Devin called out quickly getting into position and taking out three men in quick succession.

  “Get them the fuck out of my house!” Wire yelled out as he led the push into the main area. We were closing in on t
he last of them.

  I got behind some cover and took my time aiming at each and every one of these fuckers. I didn’t want any of them to get away. No prisoners and no survivors. No would ever know of the people that tried to go against the Wings of Diablo. There would be no one left to tell the fucking story.

  “Alex!” Mikki screamed my name from behind me and in that brief second my world felt like it was crumbling again. Laura’s face flashed before my eyes and I could see her running towards me as Alejandro raised his gun and shot the life out of her eyes. I could see her falling to the ground again, the thud of her gorgeous head bouncing off the floor. My Laura. I shook my head once trying to focus on what was happening around me. This was different. I wasn’t there and Mikki was here now.

  I turned to see where she was calling me from. She was behind a large steel table, shielded from the bullets. When she caught my eye, she pointed quickly up towards the rooms. I glanced just as quickly in that direction.

  Mother fucking Alejandro Vilanuevas in the fucking flesh was crouched down just looking at everything playing out below him. The second floor of our clubhouse was all connected by one walkway that lined all the doors, there was only a small bannister that kept folks from falling off and back down to the main open area of the club house. He was right there.

  I hunched as far down as I could while keeping him dead in my sights. He was so focused on what was happening down here that he didn’t even notice that I was about to blow his fucking head off. His eyes were darting back and forth. He was clenching his fists. The bad ass from the Bolivian Cartel who destroyed my life and that of my brothers in so many different ways was panicking. It was so god damn poetic.

  “Wire!” I called out, my voice carried above everything. He turned to look at me, a question on his face. “On your word!” I waited with my finger on the trigger. He turned and looked at where my gun was pointed. A rare smile crossing his lips.

  “Take him.” Wire called back.

  Alejandro finally realized that he was fucked and stood to run.