the Demons would have to get through to pull something like that off.
Motherfucking rats.
King shuts the door and walks back around to his chair but he doesn’t sit down. Nah, his face says he means fucking business.
“I’m done playing around and keeping fucking quiet about this shit, so I’m saying it like it is. There’s rats in our club. Not just this one but the whole of the Unseen MC and all its charters have been infiltrated by Demon scum. Now I was hoping to work my way through every last member until I could clear you but Shreveport just got hit hard. Luis just lost thirty good men while they fucking slept because the Demons are too fucking scared to face us like men. That being said, I’m not standing for that shit happening here under my roof so I want every man in this room to know if you’re not my blood, consider yourself on notice.”
Dead fucking silence.
No one wants to say a fucking thing to that and King nods like that’s the right answer. “If you’re a rat, you’ll die. Simple as that, we will find out and you will fucking die. If you’re not, you better start pulling your fucking weight to prove yourself and your loyalty to your patch. Better yet, find me the fucking traitors. This club is my fucking life and I’ll be damned if I let Grimm fucking Graves take it from me.”
When I leave the chapel I get to the girls before anyone else can, Rue hot on my heels. I want my girl safe but there’s more than that getting me fucking moving.
“Are we just gonna fucking forget that there’s a fucking Graves in this building? Are we just gonna let the obvious fucking rat sit there in our clubhouse?” Diesel snarls as he walks up behind us and I turn on my heel as I block him from getting any fucking closer to Poe.
Rue turns with me and I think Diesel is breathing his last fucking air.
Except King stalks out and saves us from the murder. “This club swore an oath to protect Alby’s granddaughter, you lay a hand on her and I’ll assume you’re a fucking rat for disobeying my orders like that. Unseen don’t break oaths, that’s Demon shit.”
I don’t move an inch until Diesel huffs and stalks off. Rue is practically fucking shaking when I finally turn around to find Trink and Angel covering Poe like they were expecting someone to try to shoot her.
Makes my blood fucking boil.
“Get her home, brother. This place isn’t safe for our girls right now,” I mutter and he nods sharply. Poe and Trink both follow after him, quiet for once.
Angel tucks into my side as we leave together.
Shit’s about to get a lot worse before it gets better.
Epilogue
Tomi
Months later
We’re woken by my phone, the ringtone cutting through the quiet night air like a knife. I pull away from my woman, rolling to sit up and grab the phone to find King’s number flashing at me
Fuck.
“What’s happened?”
Angel sits up in bed next to me looking like a wet fucking dream, all naked and perfect and fucking bitable.
“You need to get your ass to the clubhouse. Law’s dead, Diego’s been shot, and Rue’s about to go off the fucking rails.”
Jesus.
I lurch out of the bed and start cursing up a storm. No way I want the type of hell that’s just showed up on our doorsteps, not with my Angel blinking up at me like I’m her fucking savior and instead I’ll be dragging her into a life of death and destruction.
Lawson is dead.
“What the fuck happened? Demons?”
There’s shouting in the background and then King heaves out a sigh. “Has to be. I need you here right the fuck now, Tomi, someone needs to talk Rue down and he’s already knocked two guys out.”
Fuck.
“I’m on my way.” I prop the phone up on my shoulder as I pull on my jeans and start rummaging for a shirt. Angel sits up in bed and starts looking for her phone in the sheets.
“Bring Angel. We’re going into lockdown until we can get a handle on this shit. And Tomi?”
I pause with my cut halfway on at the tone of his voice. “Yeah?”
“You need to be ready for what you’re walking into.”
Fuck. “I’ve seen plenty of blood and death, King. I’m solid.”
The shouting gets worse down the line and I hear him walking away.
“No, Tomi. It’s worse than that.”
What could be worse than a dead brother, another full of lead, and my cousin losing his fucking mind over it?
“Posey is gone.”
Also by J Bree
The Mounts Bay Saga
The Mounts Bay Saga
The Butcher of the Bay: Part I
The Butcher of the Bay: Part II
Hannaford Prep
Just Drop Out: Hannaford Prep Year One
Make Your Move: Hannaford Prep Year Two
Play the Game: Hannaford Prep Year Three
To the End: Hannaford Prep Year Four
The Queen Crow Trilogy
All Hail
Standalone Novels
Angel Unseen: An Unseen MC Novel
About the Author
J Bree is a dreamer, writer, mother, farmer, and cat-wrangler. The order of priorities changes daily.
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Prologue
The forest at the edge of the Mounts Bay, California, city limits are well known for being haunted.
The kids at the local high school have spent generations whispering about the bodies buried in shallow graves, waiting for the wolves to scent them and dig them up for food. There’s even more legends about the souls that walk amongst the towering redwoods. It’s quiet, not silent, but compared to the ever-present sounds of traffic and human experience, it’s eerie and adds to the haunted feel.
While I don’t believe in ghosts, I can feel the souls that linger here.
It’s probably just my guilty conscious giving me the heebie-jeebies as I look over the corpse of my opponent. His blood is still fresh on my hands, cold and congealed, and I wipe them uselessly down my jeans. My clothes are just as stained as my hands, even my face is spattered with the red stains of his life ending. I look like something out of a horror movie, which is about right considering I’ve just bashed a man’s skull in with a rock while a whole crowd of people looked on in sick fascination. There isn’t a person watching that dares to make a noise. The vise-like grip of the Club holds their tongues.
I’m not afraid of being caught.
I’m small for my age. Years of food insecurity have taken their toll, and I was the youngest contender in the Game this season. None of that matters, though; I’ve won. I’ve beaten thirty men and teenage boys to take the victory and the spoils of this war.
I stumble toward the men at the perimeter of the fighting ring. They’re all cloaked in black, hard looks on their faces and black ink etched over their cheeks. My hands tremble at the thought of wearing those same marks. The marks of the Twelve. But I’ve earned them. I’ve earned the right to stand with them and be one of them.
To be free.
“Congratulations, you’ve won the Game,” the Jackal speaks, and I shiver at the cold tones of his voice, so unlike the warmth he usually extends to me.
I nod my head. I want this over with. I want a hot meal and an even hotter shower.
“Welcome to the Twelve. You’re replacing the Hawk. Who do you choose to be?”
Free. I guess a hawk is a good embodiment of freedom, but it feels strange to take a dead man's name, like climbing into his bed with the sheets still warm. I look around at the other men that make up the Twelve. Their names are what they’re known as on the streets, what their gangs cover themselves with as protection and a warning. I could have that too. I could make myself a queen of my own empire. I could rule the streets and never go hungry again.
I could escape the cycle of poverty my mother has left me in.
My eyes land back on the Jackal, and I lift my chin until I no longer feel like I’m looking up at him.
“I am the Wolf.”