Stripping Callum (Last Hangman MC Book 6)(43)

“She does deserve better.”

“Fuck that bullshit. You’re just scared.”

“For good reason, every woman I’ve ever been involved with has ended up dead.”

“Stop feeding yourself that bullshit. Alina wasn’t your fault, nor was Lewis. She was at the wrong place at the wrong time.”

“You sound like Bella,” I scoff.

“Have you told her about Alina?”

“No, haven’t had the chance to.”

“Yeah right, I’m sure you had the time but were too much of a coward to tell her.”

“Maybe. She knows about Lewis and said the same as you did.” I blow out a breath as we are hidden watching over the Satan’s Inferno’s activities.

“Great woman. Do you love her?” Gabe asks.

“I don’t know.”

“You know. You either love her or don’t.”

“For the longest time, I thought I was in love with Alina, that she was the one for me and I’d never meet anyone who made me feel like she did. Then…”

“Then you met Bella who makes you feel as good as Alina made you feel.”

“No, she makes me feel like I matter, like I’m the best thing that’s ever happened to her.”

“What’s the issue then?” Gabe asks, confused.

“I’m not sure now if I ever was in love with Alina.” I look at him probably looking as confused as I feel.

“You probably were but on a different level than with Bella. Your first love isn’t always the right one.”

“Viv was for you. Ayden was for Ant. Charline was for Aleck. Nancy was for Bennett.”

“Alright, smartass. What I mean is that while Alina was special to you and showed you what love is, Bella is the one who gets to do that every day and made you feel it again. I know you never thought you’d ever love and feel loved again yet, it happened. So you’re fre—”

“Bella doesn’t want a relationship. She’s fine with what we have now.” I sigh.

“Brother, you two are in a relationship whether you want to put a label on it or not. You’re spending the little time she has with her. She’s spending the night at yours a few times a week. You’re sharing and making memories. That’s a relationship.” Gabe chuckles.

“And you two are sounding like women. If you don’t shut it we’ll get busted,” Aleck says from behind us, startling us both.

“Fuck off, you’re worse than us both combined,” I scoff.

“True, and I have to agree with Gabe. You are just too scared to accept the obvious. Besides, who the f*ck needs a label. You two love each other, live for the moment,” Aleck says, agreeing with his brother.

“Fuck you two.” I groan and get my binoculars to keep a closer look on their clubhouse. “Looks like there’s some action going on.” I pass them to Gabe who takes a look.

“What’s going on?” Aleck asks.

“They are bringing women in,” I say through gritted teeth and motion for the others to move in. We’ve got the help of the Bastards from Hell and the Fallen Angels, our two ally clubs. With their help, we should be able to shut their club down or at least get them to back down from our territory.

The reason why we’re moving in is simple. We don’t want them to sow terror on New Orleans. The city has been good to us since we’ve made peace with the Bastards and the Angels. Even the cops are leaving us be. They could come after Jase, but they know they have three MC on their asses if they do so, and I don’t think the police force of New Orleans would be able to go against us.

We surround their clubhouse and quickly move in, guns blazing, holding whoever we see at gunpoint.

“Who is in charge?” Ant barks at the young guy he has.

“I…”

“Speak, you son of a bitch!” He yells at him, and he cowers.

“H-him.” He points at another guy being held by Ray. He pushes him to the ground still holding his gun to his head.

Ant walks toward him with the kid and faces him off. Their Prez looks scared shitless of Ant, and I’m sure he has murderous thoughts for his snitch.

“Well, well, well, what is it that you think you’re doing in our city? On our territory?” Ant asks, towering over him.

“Keeping up with what Richard started.”

“And you really think with what? The twenty of you there is that you’ll be able to do as you please?” Ant laughs.

“We just want some women to start back business. You freed the ones we had. It’s only fair we come here to take what was rightly ours.” I have to give it to him, he has balls to say that to a man who could just end his life with a bullet. Hell, I’m sure Ant could snap this kid’s head with just one punch.

“Fair? You really think it’s fair to take women against their will and to force them to f*ck men? To have them locked up and do as you please with them? To rape them and kill them when they aren’t cooperating?” Ant says in a chillingly calm voice. The calm before the storm.

“Yes,” the fool answers.

“You’ve got to be shitting me. How about we do this to your mother, your girlfriend, your sister? How would you feel about it?”

“I…”