Nina Levine - Fierce

As we stood watching each other, we were interrupted by a knock at my front door.  I moved to go and answer it but Scott put his hand on my arm and shook his head.  “Wait here, I’ll get it.”

I didn’t say anything but on the inside I was rolling my eyes.  Seriously, if someone was coming to get me, why would they knock on the door?  I moved out of the way and let him go and be my caveman.  A moment later I heard Cassie’s voice and laughed out loud.  “Thanks for saving my ass, Scott.  You’ve got to watch out for Cassie cause you never know when she’s going to pull her ninja moves out and try and hurt you,” I yelled out.

He came back into the room with a scowl on his face.  “I can tell that you’re taking this seriously.”

I took pity on him because he really did look annoyed and I knew that he was just trying to look out for me.  “Sorry.  Just trying to lighten the mood,” I apologised, and then ignoring the surprised look on his face, I waved my hand between the two of them and said, “Scott, meet my best friend, Cassie.  Cassie, meet my caveman, Scott.”

Her eyes widened.  I hadn’t had a chance to fill her in on anything that had happened the last few days.  She was a good friend though; she didn’t quiz me on it in front of Scott.  That would be girl catch up time conversation.  Instead she asked, “What have I missed here?  What’s Scott saving you from?”

“Just some biker stuff that’s going on.  Now tell me, to what do I owe the pleasure of your visit?”  I was trying to give her the hint that I wanted to talk to her about this in private.

She picked up on my message and smiled at me in that knowing friend way.  “I haven’t heard from you in a little while so I thought I’d drop in and see how you are.  Your mum told me you had the day off.”

Scott broke into our conversation.  “Ladies, as much as I’d love to shoot the shit with you, I’ve got business to get back to.  Harlow, this conversation is to be continued but for the moment, I’ve got one of my boys watching you so you’ll be safe.”

“What do you mean, you’ve got one of your boys watching me?”  I was so not used to the way Scott did things and I was struggling to get my head around it.

“I mean, if you look outside, you’ll see one of my men on his bike guarding you.  Anyone tries to get to you, they’ve got to go through him first and he’s not an easy fucker to get past.  You go out anywhere, he’ll be following you.”

“Damn.  I need me a caveman like you,” Cassie said, and I didn’t fail to notice the breathlessness in her voice.  Oh, good Lord, she was sucked in to the Scott Cole bossy charm.

I shooed him.  “Okay, fine.  Got you.  I’ve got my own personal bodyguard.  Thank you.  Now, go and leave us girls to talk about you.”

He shook his head in a ‘what the fuck am I getting myself into’ kind of way.  But then he pulled me in for a kiss and smacked my ass before he began walking out of the room.  “Get some sleep, babe.  I’ve got plans for you tonight.”  And then he was gone and my skin was tingling with excitement.

After we heard the front door close, Cassie turned to me and shrieked, “Fucking hell!  Spill the beans, girl.”

We spent the next hour over coffee and cake while I caught her up on what was happening between me and Scott.

“So, you’re together now?” she asked.

I shrugged.  “He was pretty clear that he wants me in his life, but you know what?  For once in my life, I’m just going with the flow and not forcing something.  I don’t know him that well yet so I want to take my time working him out.”

“And are you worried about this threat that’s been made?  It sounds scary; like do you really want to get involved with someone who brings that type of stuff into your life?”

“I know I should probably be running the other way but I’ve seen Scott in action and I believe that when he says he can keep me safe, he’ll keep me safe.  And, I’ve lived my whole life picking guys that I thought were the better option.  I’ve always gone for the men who I thought were the good guy.  And, they all screwed me over one way or the other.  Scott might be a biker and be involved with trouble but he’s shown me so many other sides to himself that are worth something more than anything those other assholes gave me.”

“Yeah, you can’t always judge someone by their outwards appearance can you?”

I smiled mischievously.  “Well, Scott’s pretty hot to look at... I’d say you’d be right to judge him as the guy most likely to give you an amazing orgasm.”

“Oh my God.  I need to know more!”

I got up from the table.  “We need more coffee for this.”

Cassie was grinning at me like a mad woman; talking men was one of our favourite things to do.  I laughed at her and sent a message of thanks out to the universe for blessing me with the best friend a girl could want.

Scott

“Scott.”  I turned at the sound of my father’s voice.  We’d just finished meeting with the club to plan our next move. Nash had shared his findings with us.  He’d discovered that Black Deeds owed close to half a million on their porn production company and that they were struggling to pay it off.  It seemed that their drug business was the only way they were currently able to meet their monthly debt bill.  That was why they were so hell bent on keeping Blade out of it.  Our goal now was to hit them where it hurt; we just had to come up with a plan to do that.

I stopped and waited for him to catch up to me.  “What’s up?” I asked him when he got closer.

“I want you to come with me to see Blade.  We need to bring him up to speed.”

My immediate reaction was to decline but I thought about it for a minute.  I came to the conclusion that I’d prefer to be involved in this meeting to make sure that Dad didn’t agree to something that wasn’t in Storm’s best interest.  “You want to go now?”

Dad’s face flickered surprise for a moment.  “Yeah.  He’s at his warehouse; I’ll meet you there.”

I agreed and he left.  As I was walking to my bike, Harlow called me.  “You okay?” I answered it.

“Yes, but I just wanted to let you know that I got a call from Lisa.  She’s upset because some of the girls have been bullying her today.  I’m going to go and see her at school and make sure she’s alright.  Is that okay with you?”

“Babe, already told you, you want to help Lisa, you go right ahead.  Anyone with a problem about that answers to me.”

She was quiet for a moment.  “Okay,” she replied, softly.

“Let me know if there’s anything you need from me, otherwise I’ll see you tonight.  I’ll be over at about nine o’clock to pick you up.”

“Okay,” she breathed into the phone and it made my dick jerk.

“And babe, cover up because I’m putting you on the back of my bike tonight,” I promised before ending the call.  Christ, just the thought of her on my bike, pussy tucked in close and arms around me, made me hard.

I’d just put my phone back in my pocket when a text sounded.  I pulled it out to check who it was from and just about came on the spot.

Harlow: I’ll cover up for the ride on your bike but when I ride your cock there’ll be nothing separating my pussy from you.

Me: Fuck, woman.  That dirty mouth of yours is gonna get you in trouble one day.

Harlow: Promises, promises...

Shit.  I jammed my phone back in my pocket before she continued to tease me and my dick.  How the hell had an asshole like me been lucky enough to find a woman who was so pure and yet so dirty at the same time?

* * *

“So, you’re telling me that you do want to start a war with Black Deeds now.” Blade concluded from everything we’d just told him.  His hard eyes were glued to mine.

“We need to hit them before they hit us,” Dad said.

Blade moved his gaze away from me to Dad and then leant back in his chair. We were sitting in his office.  It was an impressive looking office with all the latest technology.  Actually, Blade’s whole setup was quite flash; it didn’t fit with the image I had of him as a seedy, drug dealing scumbag.  His warehouse was large, very clean, sleek and looked to be well organised from what I’d seen walking through it to the office.  I’d also caught a quick glimpse of his security room and he appeared to have high end stuff.  He also had a lot of men working for him; another surprise to me.

After a long pause where it seemed that he was weighing something up in his mind, he leant forward again and said, “We’ve been tracking Black Deeds for a long time.  Some of them are the lowest fucking scum on Earth as far as I’m concerned, and trust me, I’ve dealt with some scum.  After a thorough analysis of their operation we decided to target their porn business.  We’ve almost crippled them there.  They rely on their drug trade to pay their porn debt.  Without their drug business they can’t service the debt.  We’re working on taking their drug business away from them.”

Fuck.  I’d seriously underestimated Blade.  “The coke business isn’t what you’re after at all, is it?”

“No.”  Those hard eyes hit mine again, and I had to wonder what lay behind them; what made him tick.

“Care to enlighten us as to what is?”  Dad asked what I was thinking.

Blade paused again.  “Bullet and some other members will be eliminated and Black Deeds will be rebuilt by a new president.”

“You do realise they have other chapters they’ll call in, don’t you?  It won’t just be this chapter you have to deal with.”

“I’m not a man who doesn’t finish what he started.  I’m also a very patient man.  This plan has been in place for two years and the research on it was conducted over the prior year.  Those other chapters won’t be a problem; I can assure you of that.”

My father was looking at Blade like he hardly knew him.  “You’ve been working on this for three years and I never knew about it?”

Blade’s face contorted in anger, and he shoved his chair back and stood.  “What do you know about me, Marcus?  Tell me what the fuck you actually know about me,” he thundered.

I settled in to hear this.  Looked like Blade and I had something in common after all; a burning contempt for our father.

“I thought I knew that you ran a gang that was involved in robberies, prostitution and drugs.”

“Turns out you were wrong,” Blade snapped.

“Would have been nice for my son to tell me the truth.”

“What the fuck do you know about being truthful?”  The anger swirling around Blade was palpable; I was starting to think he had more anger in him than I had in me.

Dad looked like he was about to explode with his own anger.  Fuck, we were just one big happy fucking family.  I stepped forward and broke through their tense standoff.  “Blade, what’s the reason?  What have you got against Black Deeds?”

The pain that ran across his face was clear and appeared to run deep.  “Three years ago, Bullet and three of his club members murdered my girlfriend.  Ashley and I had been together for five years and were planning to get married.  This particular night she was out with friends celebrating one of their birthdays.  She tried to call me to come pick her up but I missed her call.  From what the police worked out, her drink was spiked at some point and they took her after that.  They gang raped her and slit her throat.  Same as what they did to Madison’s friend.”

“Christ,” I muttered, the horror of it hitting me and dissipating some of my hostility towards him.

He nodded.  “Since investigating them, I’ve discovered there are more women out there who’ve died at their hands.”

“So why not just kill them and be done with it?” Dad asked.

“The current VP of Black Deeds wants out of porn and drugs.  He’s watched what you’ve done with Storm and wants something similar; something that doesn’t bring them so much heat.  He and I have been working together to make that happen.  It would have been easier just to kill them but this way I’ve gotten to watch Bullet shit himself while he’s been losing everything he’s worked towards.  Easy revenge doesn’t give the same sense of satisfaction as this has.”

Blade was one cold and ruthless man, that was for sure.  The fact that he’d calculated this plan in such detail put him in that category.

“So, where does that leave us and our current problem?” I asked.

“To start with, those guys from the other chapter that came to your club have been taken care of.  And if any more turn up, they’ll be dealt with also.  My men had been watching your club to try and stop Black Deeds from fucking with you but the night they came in, we were dealing with another issue -”