Carley
By the end of the meal, everyone is spread out around the property. My uncle and his family are outside around the fire pit drinking whiskey with Lidia and granddad Leo, while mom is in the living room with Tempest listening to their tells of what Carson had been like as the teenager they grew up with. As for me and Chaos, we are in the loft of course. Lachlan is working on his painting while I’m stretched out on the couch with my head in Arson’s lap and my feet in Weston’s. Arson is massaging my head, which feels so amazing that I don’t even care about him ruining the arduous work I did this morning curling it. Storm even had to shower behind me while I did so. He is becoming more of a brother figure to me as time goes on with us living together. Mix Arson’s head massage with the foot massage Weston is giving me and I am done for. Completely content and relaxed.
“Keep moaning like that and we are all about to have our dicks out,” Ransom snick
LachlanThe air is ripe with tension as Carson finishes his story about him seeing me being stabbed repeatedly by the kid brother of this gang they had infiltrated three years prior, killing the kid’s brother, who had done some horrible things in his time as a gang leader. We had infiltrated that same gang, the Damned Forsaken, years prior. C.H.A.O.S. killed Razor Grothman’s older brother. Razor was a teenage kid at the time.“So what were you doing, Lock?” Carley asks me.“I was on my way home from the art gallery that had just opened up featuring my favorite artist. I
Lachlan“What did he want you guys to do?” Carly questions.“Take turns with his girl. She was off her tits on some drug the crew had been pushing. She displeased him again, so her punishment was the upper members of the crew running train of her while she was strapped down and helpless to defend herself,” Storm says with dark eyes and his jaw tense as he ground out those words.“We were caught trying to get her out and away from what he wanted to do to her. I was his second,” JT says with a grimace and a shudder.“Tempest was part of his inner circle, and we did what we had to maintain our cover, but that...” Jensen’s voice trails off. After a moment he clears his throat before continuing. “Killing is one thing we can do that is as easy as breathing, but not that.”“We knew that girl. We went to high school with her. How she ended up in Texas, we have no idea.
CarlyJensen should have kept his mouth shut when Uncle Jax spoke instead of questioning him.All my boys gather around Lachlan and me to keep us out of harm’s way as Uncle Jax stalks over to Jensen with a manic rictus on his handsome face. He pulls a bundle of bright pink rope out from underneath his shirt at the base of his spine.Oh boy, my uncle and his Shibari. I was staying the night with Uncle Ryder one weekend, and I walked in on him, Uncle Tee, and Aunt Ali all beautifully tied up in different positions. Uncle Jax and Uncle Dom were both in the middle of artfully tying Uncle Cal’s arms behind his back. I didn’t want to intrude on them, so I went back downstairs and then called JT to talk me through the problem that was caused because of it. They wouldn’t hear me since they were too busy anyway.“If you want, babe, I can tie the guys up. Well everyone but Ransom. Sidhe taught me,” Arson purrs in
Arson“So game are we playing?” Ransom asks Doc Fox as we all sit down after the guys unceremoniously dump Tempest on the ground so they all either grunt or groan from the pain.“Circle of Death, but it appears Tempest will be sitting out this game,” he replies. Sidhe sits straddling him. Doc Fox brushes Sidhe’s unruly blood-red curls away from his face, tucking them behind his ear. “Did they not want to come play, Darlin’?” He asks him almost tenderly. Or as tender as I’ve ever heard him be when speaks. Cold and emotionless, that’s Fox.“Jen didn’t and the others didn’t follow orders. So they are all tied up in punishment,” Sidhe responds then wraps his hands around Fox’s neck, his fingers idly playing with the short white hairs on Fox’s neck. Fox’s artic light grey-blue eyes flash with excitement or maybe lust. Either way, one corner of his li
Carley“You did that! I almost got sent to juvie because of you!” Arson roars at my twin who just shrugs his shoulder with an unapologetic smirk on his irritating face. When his drink ran out, he made the mistake of going with ‘Truth’ so Uncle Ryder made answer his question. My hands move to touch Arson’s face to keep him in place. “I want to kill him, again,” Arson pants heavily attempting to reign in his fury. “I know, Air Bear. I know. It’s in the past now. It doesn’t matter and you didn’t go,” I coo reassuri
Weston I don’t like Carter or Carson, whatever his name is. He betrayed my friends/brothers, so many times in the past. They all forgive him. I don’t get it. He framed Arson, which came out tonight when he lost a round of the Circle of Death. Lachlan told me about the time he left Ransom to get caught smoking weed after school underneath the bleachers of the football field when they had both been there and Carter warned Ransom but didn’t. Jase got charged with assault when Carter lead the teacher straight to him, pounding the kid who was talking about doing some depraved things to girls and what he was planning to do to our girl. Then there is Lachlan who got a beating from his mom when Carter sent a photo of him and Ransom kissing Carley. He had thrown every single one of them under the bus at one point or another, and yet he left such a large hole within the group at his passing. They shouldn’t be hugging him and smiling at him as they reco
Weston“Who thinking about putting a bullet in now, Wessie?” Lachlan asks, draping his arm over my shoulders and leaning against me. My best friend can read me like a book. Though I’m fairly certain my resting bitch face is none existent, my face shows exactly what I’m thinking.“You know who, Lockie,” I reply to him. He hums under his breath.He sighs. “You’re biased since you're my bestie. Car is harmless,” he slurs nonchalantly. I don’t agree with him, but I’m going to tell him that.Carter was once Carson, his best friend. He isn’t anymore. That man had a new life with a new family, leaving his former life completely behind until now. The fact he is just now trying to insert himself into their lives sets my gut clenching. Something isn’t right and my family I’ve found with Chaos will be the ones to pay the price. I have to protect them.“W
Weston, sixteen-year-oldProm night was supposed to be fun, and it was until I came home to check on my baby brothers, who are both almost ten years younger than me. We share the same mother, but their father, the man who raised us, isn’t the guy who donated my DNA. My mom doesn’t even know who the guy was because she was high off her tits and screwing around with multiple guys.I walk into the house to find her off her tits again, clawing at her face in a manic panic while dad is passed out on the floor in a pool of his own vomit with a wet spot on the front of his ratty jeans.Dad is part of the local gang, so that’s the only way he makes any money, which isn’t a lot since he is a low-tier thug. Mom makes most of the money working the night shift at a convenience store, so it’s not a lot.I’m the one who makes the money just to clothe and feed my baby brothers. I’m the one who has raised them si
Carley I am sitting with my feet propped up doing coursework on my laptop while watching my uncle Jaxson, along with my husband Arson, teaching dance lessons. Jax and Air are teaching hip-hop to children who range from 5 to 18 today. Other days, they teach ballet, tap, jazz, and lyrical. Jaxson is doing most of the teaching until Arson can dance all day again. His legs tire quickly. I don't need to eat saltines and ginger ale constantly to avoid vomiting, but I still can't tolerate the taste or smell of cooked ground beef. All thanks to the hamburger, I vomited back up. Gross. I smile at the memory. I thought Jase was going to keel over from embarrassment since he was the one who cooked. He understood. Lachlan had just announced I was pregnant hours before. The grief-stricken look on Jase’s face is anything but joyful as he looks at me now. His hair is still wet from a shower. I look around for my other husbands, but they aren’t present. I watch as his Adam’s Apple bo
Carley It's been months since Lachlan conquered his fear of cigarette smoke by doing to his mother what she used to do to him. He and the others put their cigarettes out on her before Ransom came up with the idea to light her on fire. She burned to death on the concrete of that mansion's patio. Aftermath Crew was called in by Uncle Ryder to handle the disposal of the bodies of Francis Hartley and Julia Snipe. Lachlan is in a much better place now not having to deal with the stress of That Woman breathing down his neck. Hanging on the wall is a painting of our family. I'm holding our son and all five guys are gathered around the hospital bed staring with adoration at our tiny newest member. I wasn't very nice while in labor for fourteen hours. I cursed them all and called Jase a 'bad Daddy' for doing to this me as I pushed our son out. The doctor and nurse gave him some disgusted looks which was made worse by Ransom agreeing with me. Speaking of Ransom... “Rainy, if you wake up t
LachlanI put this off as long as possible. I don’t want to be here in this house, even my father’s ghost is unwelcome. I don’t want to deal with this woman, but I must. She gave birth to me, but that doesn’t mean I can tolerate being in her presence for long. It’s been over a month since she requested I be at her diner. She got her wish, just not as she expected.I'm in a charcoal suit with a silk yellow tie, and Carley is wearing a gorgeous yellow lace dress with an off-the-shoulder style. On the other side of Carley is Weston, who is wearing the same suit I am. Before we arrived, there was a wedding ceremony.“Breathe, Hotel. I can tell you aren’t by the lack of sound coming from you,” Jase says through the earpiece.“We got you covered,” Doc Fox says through the earpiece, holding a glass up toward us to signal the supposed man of honor has arrived at the party. Ryder is weari
Ransom"Look, boss, we didn't find Grothman's body. I've told you that daily for weeks now. The cops said he was dead, but he wasn't in that cave where Carley said he would be." Colton's words send a sense of foreboding into me as he talks with Ryder. He'll be back.
Razor"Who are we going after for this, boss?" One of my older members asks.I currently can't talk, since I had my throat stitched up. So here I sit in a hospital, a "victim" of gang violence. I wasn't about to fess to being the leader of one of the gangs. Both those killed each other according to the story I wrote and signed for the police and the federal agents.Amongst the feds, I swear I saw none other than the youngest Zen, Slater. What an exciting bit of juicy information that is. He didn't notice me, which is a small mercy.I wrote on my notepad that we would take care of all that later. I need a plan first.I'll have to be carefu
Lachlan"I'm exhausted. I'm taking Uncle Jax's fruit snacks and going to bed," Carley says with a yawn. "Take Air with you. I'll help you get him to bed," Weston suggests. Arson fell asleep in his chair due to the morphine drip Ryder had given him earlier. So I'm glad Weston is going with them. "Sounds great," Carley yawns and I gather up the giant box of fruit snacks Sidhe brought. He claimed that keeps a stash of juice boxes and fruit snacks in his car for his baby nephews. I don't doubt that, but I also know Sidhe, they are more for him than his nephews Kassius and Darius. He only sees Darius once a month when they go visit Gator's mother in Grele. "I'll walk you out. I'm going to stay and keep an eye on the other two," I inform them. "Somebody sober should," Weston says pointing his chin and Doc Fox and Gator who are drinking whiskey straight from the bottle. This going to be an interesting night with some mixing alcohol with pain meds and others getting crossfaded like the
Carley"Stop being such a big baby, J. Sit still," I hiss."That burns you brat," Jase snarls. "That's why you need this local anesthetic I'm attempting to put around the wound. You keep jerking your shoulder away from me," I growl at this infuriating man. He is being ridiculous. He is snapping, snarling, and flinching. He is awful when he is in pain. He didn't behave this badly when I bandaged his leg. I glance over to find Tee inserting a syringe of liquid into a juice box he hands over to Jax. Ryder nods to him. I briefly leave Jase to talk with my uncle. "What did Tee put in that juice box he handed to Jax?" I ask in a hushed tone as he stitches up Storm's calf. "Vicodin mixed with peanut butter whiskey in his apple juice so can't taste it. Why? Is Alpha being a big baby and getting on your ever-lovin nerves?""He is on my last nerve. Seriously! What is his problem?" I grumble. Ryder gives me a knowing gentle smile. "Baby bear, you scared him. The first thing he saw was you
Jase“What were you thinking, getting shot?” Ransom yells at me as I attempt to staunch my bleeding shoulder.I glare at him for daring to use such an indignant tone with me, acting as if I purposefully got shot to inconvenience him. “Watch it, Hound,” I snarl at him, already enraged about being shot in the first damn place. Then I look at him and see the large patch on his eye. I searched him for other wounds, but I couldn’t tell underneath the long-sleeved black shirt, bulletproof vest, and black cargo pants with combat boots on his feet if he was injured anywhere else. I touch his face with a bloody hand over the patch.“You can give a thorough inspection later, Daddy. Right now, we need to get out of here,” he says with a suggestive wink, causing my dick to tent my black jeans.
Carley When we arrive, it’s all-out war. Ravagers against Damned Forsaken with my entire family caught in the crossfire. Even Lydia and Grandad Leo, with his friends, are here. What gets my attention is the group on motorcycles pulling up beside us, with Ryder and Lachlan in Ryder’s custom vintage car. There are two teenage boys in the group as well. A gruff man with tattoos, long blonde hair, and a scruffy beard pulls Ali into a hug. “Hey, Sissy.” “Hey, Bubba,” Ali replies, pulling back so they can face Ryder. So this guy must be Grimm, her older brother. They look a lot alike, minus the hair color. “Is that our boys taking cover in the middle, Frosty?” He asks Uncle Ryder. “Unfortunately, Reaper, yes, that’s our team. Sierra and Sidhe are picking off as many as they can. But, of course, Jaxson gave away his position. Collector,” Ryder addresses another honey-blonde man with his hair in a messy top not, clean-shaven face, an