Teaching Aleck (The Last Hangman MC #2)(32)

“Tell them, Ray!” Blades yells.

“Michael was our step brother. Our father was the old president and was killed by Cabe. They were into some weird business together and our father wasn’t respecting his end of the contract. He was living a double life. Both being a normal man with Michael’s family and the * he was to us. We were his punching bags. I never understood why you kept defending him when all he was doing was beating us up and he f*cking killed mom! But to go as far as going behind my back and ally yourself to Michael to take down the Last Hangman, that’s a whole other lever of f*cked up. I thought you were smarter than that, smarter than him, but I see the apple didn’t fall far from the tree.” Well, that’s some f*cked up shit I didn’t expect.

“You’re f*cked up, man.” Ant shakes his head and takes off his leather jacket. “I want a piece of him.”

“Do whatever you want to him. I don’t care anymore,” Ray says defeated.

“WHAT?” Blades screeches. “You aren’t going to let them kill your brother, are you?”

“I am. I knew you were f*cked up, but I didn’t know you were that messed up. I don’t have a brother anymore.”

“You’re not serious.”

“I’m very serious.”

“We didn’t have anything to do to with what happened to Ayden, he told us a few months back that we should keep an eye on Charline, that she could be useful and to scare her, that Ray had ordered it. We’re new in the club, we thought it was true. We didn’t mean to hurt her,” Antonio pleads sounding somewhat honest.

“We’ll deal with you later.” Ant tells him and the two other bastards just nod and step away.

Gabe, Ant and I surround Blades.

“You’re going to pay for all the hurt you brought on our women.” Ant sneers.

“Bring it *, I don’t care!” Blades yells, taunting Ant.

“Oh, I will.” He smirks and lands the first blow right in Blades’ jaw. “That’s for hurting Ayden.”

I step in front of Blades and look him in the eyes. “I hope you’re aware that you’re not getting out of this alive. I don’t care which one of us kills you. I’ll just be happy to know you won’t be able to bother and hurt our women anymore.” I growl and land another blow on the other side of his face, his jaw cracking, making him wince in pain.

“Alive or dead, it’s never going to be over.” He sneers creepily.

“What the f*ck is that supposed to mean?”

“You’ll see.” He smirks.

Gabe steps in front of him. “I’ve wanted to do this for years. You don’t deserve us giving you the chance to defend yourself or explain yourself.”

“Annie was f*cking sweet, I remember her every...single…night.” Blades chuckles creepily and Gabe loses it. He lands blows after blows on Blades’ bloody face. I’m ready to stop him but Ant holds me back.

“He needs this more than us,” he says softly. I have no idea what’s going on, but I let him go.

Gabe isn’t giving Blades a second to breathe, he keeps punching the shit out of him. We hear multiple bones crack. A loud thunder cracks at the same time, making this even more sinister than it already is.

Gabe keeps punching Blades’ limp body, until Ant and I stop him and help him up. He is covered in blood, breathing hard and is in such a state of rage. I’ve never seen anyone like this.

Ant takes his gun out and points it at Blades’ head. “For Ayden.” He shoots once. Boom.

Gabe does the same. “For Annie.” Boom.

I do the same. “For Charline.” Boom.

We’re all staring at Blades’ lifeless body when Ray joins us and does the same. “For Alisson.” Boom. Thunder cracks again.

Ant turns to the other two. “What should we do with these two?”

“Leave these two to me. They’ve been full patched for six months. They aren’t behind what happened to Ayden. I’m sorry they went after Charline. I’ll make sure it won’t happen again. They know if they do anything to betray us what’s waiting for them. They just witnessed it. Got it?” Ray glares at them.

“Got it, Prez,” they say in unison.

“Good, get rid of the body and properly.”

“Yes, Prez.” They start to clean up the mess and get a big plastic cover to wrap up the body.

We stay there and watch them do for a while and then leave them to it.

“I’m sorry about what happened to Charline and Ayden. If I find out anyone else has anything against you guys, outside of club business, they will answer to me.” Ray extends his hand to Ant.

Ant nods and shakes it. “Keep us updated if you find anything else. We don’t want to have another round like tonight.”

“Of course.” Ray sees us to our bikes and walks back in the compound while Antonio and Jared load the body in their van.

We head back home. We’re all in a weird mood. Knowing the truth about the Bastards’ f*cked up family isn’t making things better, but knowing that at least one of the two is somewhat decent is good.

I still don’t know what the deal was between Blades and Gabe, but it must be bad. Way worse than what happened with Ayden or Charline.