Teaching Aleck (The Last Hangman MC #2)(45)

Ant and Gabe both laugh at me. “Someone is * whipped.”

“Fuck off, Ant.” I glare at him.

“Who was making fun of me last year about being * whipped and doing whatever Ayden wanted?”

I scoff. “It’s not the same. You know why this so important to me.”

“I know and once you get your head out of your ass, you can have her completely. Until then…” He shrugs.

“You two are making me sick with all your love shit,” Gabe chimes in.

“You’ll see when you meet your match,” Ant says and we both chuckle.

“You know that’s never gonna happen.” He shrugs. Gabe hasn’t had an easy life either, I don’t know how rough, but from the glimpses I’ve had, it’s worse than what I went through. I can’t believe I’m going to have to relieve my nightmares all over again this weekend when I talk to Charline.

“We should stop talking about that kind of stuff, we’re turning into women.” Ant chuckles.

“Amen to that.” Gabe shakes his head.

Ant’s phone rings, he picks up and we can only hear his side of the conversation.

“Yes…When?...We’ll get into position. Make sure you follow them and corner them. We can’t let them escape…Right…” He hangs up and we both look at him. “The Hades’ Kings are on their way, well part of them.”

“This is gonna be good.” Gabe smirks getting his AK-47 ready.

“Keep your head focused on what we are here for. Do not think about your revenge. Focus, Brother.” Ant looks at him intently, making me wonder what all of this is about.

“Don’t ask me not to think about my revenge. This won’t fix what they did, but it surely will help some.” Ant nods once at him and we get into position as Ant motions the rest of the club to get into theirs.

We don’t have to wait for a long time before the Kings ride to their warehouse.

We wait for them to get off their bikes and as they are about to walk in we attack. They are surrounded. We clearly outnumber them, but they were prepared. They take out their guns and start shooting at the same time we do.

Bullets fly everywhere, some causing men to fall to their knees, mostly their men, but some of ours got hit as well. Not as bad as theirs, thankfully. The noise is deafening and I’m in a zone I wish I didn’t have to go into. I think back to the first man I killed. To this day, it still haunts me. He was completely innocent and I took his life. I’ll never forgive myself. I step closer to the Kings, but don’t stop shooting. I have my eyes set on the prize. Tyler. He’s the one who sent the innocent kid I killed in his place. I aim at him and he smirks seeing me. I don’t think twice and shoot. A couple bullets hit their mark and make their way into his body, he falls limply over his bike. In no time, we killed them all, but their leader.

The little bitch is begging us not to kill him. I’m ready to end him when Ant stops me, putting his hand on my chest. I look at him confused.

“Snap out of it, Brother.” I look between him and their leader and I immediately snap out of it. The kid is young, too young to be their leader.

“Please, don’t kill me. I didn’t want to do this.”

“Did you know you were followed?” Ant asks him.

“Yes, our Prez told us we would have company and to make sure the warehouse would be protected.”

“What is he hiding?”

“I have no idea, I’m just a prospect!”

“What the f*ck?” Aleck and Gabe look at each other.

“It’s a f*cking trap!” I yell just before I hear the first gun fire, soon followed by many more.

We all take cover and get ready to fire back, but they’ve cornered us, they knew we’d all be there. We manage to take out a couple of them, but we suffer too, Gabe the worst, but we don’t let them get away with it. We spread out around them and circle them, bringing the rest of them down.

We manage to get Gabe and the other injured members into the van, making them head back to the compound to get medical help.

We spend over an hour dragging all of the bodies inside the warehouse before burning it down. They are trying to f*ck with the wrong club here. Sure, we took a hit, but the Kings have come off much worse. They’ve lost over twenty members. They knew damn well what they were getting themselves into.

I’m sitting on my bike, thinking back to when I slipped into memories of the first guy I knowingly killed. I hadn’t planned on it, but it still haunts me, it’s the only time I have ever regretted killing someone. I’ll go to hell for all the lives I took, but it’s only to protect myself, my brothers, my family. I have no regrets in life, ever, well except for pushing away Charline constantly. I’m not sure she will still want to be around me once I tell her the whole truth. How I ended up on my own with Ally, what I did for the club, what I’ve struggled with for so long.

Hopefully, she’s as understanding as she has been so far…

******

We ride back to the compound and to everyone’s surprise, Detective Sanders is parked in front of it, leaning on his car.

Fuck. What kind of shit are we in now?

Ant gets off his bike and strides over to him. I stand back, but Sander motions for me to come too. I follow Ant.

“What’s going on?” I look at both of them confused. “Are Ally and Charline okay?”