Rain Falls (5 page)

He stared, his face hard and unreadable, she hated it when she couldn’t read his face. Finally, he spoke low, “Get your shit for a few days and be back here by midnight.” She shook her head, but he caught her by the arm. “Don’t make me find your ass, Rain. This shit…” he waved his hand around, “ain’t shit you are gonna fuck around with alone. Damn sure ain’t gonna leave here until we figure out what to do.” She opened her mouth to argue but he stared her down. “You’ve been through hell. No one’s gonna blame you for keeping a lid on it, and if they do, I will sort them out. Now, GO GET YOUR SHIT.” She stood, staring, until he arched an eyebrow and crossed his arms over his chest. Rain wasn’t one to take ‘shit’ off of anyone, but given he’d stood up for her and chewed her ass all at the same time, she couldn’t argue. So she nodded and turned to leave. When she rounded the corner she saw both Charro and Knight staring at her. She may be pushing her luck, but she couldn’t help it. Her nerves were raw, and she was
not
in the mood to have another sparing match.

“Now you’ve got something on me, muther fucker. Live it up.” With that, she stormed out and peeled rubber out of the parking lot. It wasn’t until the last glimpse of her taillight out the window front faded that Charro spoke up.

“What the fuck?”

“Dammit. She’s trouble, but I gotta say even though I fucking hate to admit it, she is the good kind of trouble. I’ve always known it. Case in point, that bullshit we just heard, she is gonna need us at her back.” Knight went back to tattooing, his attitude worse than normal. It pissed him off knowing Rain would never have thought to confide in him.

“Yeah. Seems to me she’s the right kind of trouble. Damn that ass…” Charro said and Knight paused for a second, an idea was beginning to form but Charro just didn’t know yet.

“Pain in the ass. Fuckin’ huge. We need to cut her loose before she brings this shitstorm down on us.” Knight saw Kink walk up.

“What the fuck? She fucked up, but seriously are you going to sit there telling me you haven’t ever fucked up? Gotta get her the fuck out, and figure out what the hell we’re gonna do about this shit. The chick before was a selfish bitch, she admitted it, but that isn’t who she is now. You and I both know it. The others, yeah, we may need to do some convincing ‘cause the crap we have been dealing with is fresh,” Kink said and looked at the ceiling. “Some of the guys don’t even want the Lady Riders to even exist, they are just humoring them, but I have seen them in action, all of them, and they are mean as fuck and can handle a lot of crap,” Kink said to the two men and both were silent trying to think about what they’d just heard.

Knight wasn’t sure how the fuck he felt, Rain was a pain in the ass, but Charro was right, he could feel it, one man wasn’t going to handle her alone. To be truthful, he didn’t want to, he had already come to terms with the fact he liked ménages, but had never found anyone he would be willing to share a woman with. But as he sat and thought about it, Charro was a man he trusted, someone he knew would always have his back, he had proved it. They just needed to see if they could deal with it, and it wasn’t a conversation to have with him in front of Kink.

“Don’t you think that’s a little hard? You told her it wasn’t her fault,” Charro, the pathetic bastard, spoke. Knight shook his head but continued shading in the skull on Charro’s forearm.

“She was a spoiled rich bitch, but she kept that shit from the club, it could go either way, man. Got herself in a bind, and instead of trusting us to help her, she kept quiet, the guys won’t be happy with that shit. Hell, it’s a wonder Shady didn’t slit her throat right there and then today. She’s gone from the clubhouse until we can figure this shit out. Knight, since you are here and decided to stay, you need to know she will be here too. If that is going to be a problem, man, tell me now. If not, I need your help.”

“Hold up, that shit goes to vote, Kink.” Knight had stopped, and for some reason spoke up, “We are going to have to move real fast to get that stopped.”

“Yeah, I know, that is why I need your ass to step up. Jesus, do you think you can think with your big head and not your little one for three seconds?” Kink’s pissy attitude had Knight and Charro bowing up. Charro was pissed too about the whole situation and Kink didn’t have the energy or time to wonder why.

“Fuck this, when you make up your mind let me the fuck know.” Kink took off to the back, mumbling and cussing. He didn’t want her tossed out, shit it was gonna suck going in by himself with this shit. The Ladies should have her back, by the sounds of it though they didn’t. As fucked up as it was, it was a test to see how they’d handle the hierarchy of managing a club, the guys would be watching. If they united and stood for her, then maybe they had their shit together. If not, their club would be the next to be sent packing. He knew Creed and Fork, they would use this as a test, hell, they might even seriously want Rain out, but either way, he was going to do his best to make sure that didn’t happen.

“Fuck, not my business, man, but that is some fucked up bullshit. Her hot ass aside, dammit would be cold for the club to turn their backs. Not sure I am liking what that says about the Warriors, since we are joined now, think that means I have a say in this shit too, I may be making a few calls.” Charro shifted in his chair, pulling out his pack of smokes and lit up. “Fuckin’ bullshit.”

“Are you fucking kidding me? You know how this shit works,” Knight said.

“Yeah, I do, I also know she is unclaimed, which means she is at the mercy of the club, if she was an ol’ lady, she would have more pull with the Warriors. With the chicks, that is fucked up, I don’t know what the fuck to think about that, hadn’t had a chance to hear about it other than a few bits here and there, but I know Abi and the others from the Savages will back her,” Charro said.

Knight looked at Charro and the thought he really hadn’t wanted to address yet suddenly came to the forefront. “You know when we shared that chick in New Mexico?”

“Yeah,” Charro snorted. “That was one awesome fucking night, the bitch screamed our names so many times she was hoarse the next morning.”

“Have you ever thought about claiming a woman with a partner?” Knight said.

“What, you mean like sharing an ol’ lady?” Charro said seriously.

“Yeah, man, I mean we were Nomads, don’t think the itch for traveling is gonna just go away. But finding bitches in every city has begun to get old; I came back here to settle a little, be a part of the club. But damn, you and I know that shit gets old real fast. Are you planning on settling as well?” Knight asked and Charro smiled at him.

“Aww, man, you asking me to go steady?” Charro laughed.

“Fuck you,” Knight chuckled, this is what he was talking about. Charro and him were always on the same wavelength.

“Seriously, man, never thought about it, but yeah, would feel comfortable with you. And Rain? Shit, from the moment I saw her I have been planning to tap that shit. Keeping her chained to my bed, yeah, I can see that,” Charro said.

“Brother, taming her is gonna be a huge fucking task. You have no idea what a serious bitch she can be. Fights me on everything, the only time she doesn’t argue is when she has my cock in her mouth, and then I am scared half the time she is gonna bite it off,” Knight laughed. “But she would make a good ol’ lady, she knows the score, and she has been here a long time. But no messing around, man, if we do this we have to commit, cause no shit, I am not gonna get my dick chopped off in the middle of the fucking night because we cheated.”

“Nah, man, I always knew I wanted an ol’ lady. Felt something I have never felt before when I saw her, so yeah, I am ready to see where this shit goes,” Charro laughed.

“Yeah, man, you just need to keep your nut cup ready,” Knight laughed.

“We couldn’t handle her? She isn’t that big of a fuckin’ threat, man. She’s a buck twenty soakin’ wet,” Charro chuckled. He wasn’t one to put up with bitches trippin’, but he damn sure wasn’t scared of ‘em either.

“Yeah, after the first time she grabs your nuts and gives them a good twist you will be singing a different tune. Just saying, we are gonna have to work together, man, or she will never be tamed. Let me finish this tat and we will go to Bitches and have a beer.” He waited for Charro to settle down before he went back to laying in the ink.

The next customer came in, and he heard Kink still in his pissy tone of voice talk. Knight finished Charro’s ink but the man sat and talked to him and the customers the rest of the night. Time flew for them since most of the customers were brothers.

Around midnight when they were about ready to close up shop Rain walked in. “You’re late,” Kink snapped.

“So? What the fuck does it matter?” Rain shrugged. “Not gonna be here for long.”

“It matters because you have a problem with trust. That’s the main reason all this shit happened, Rain,” Knight said quietly and she turned her eyes on him and glared.

“What?” Her hands went to her hips, her chest puffing out in defiance. “Who said you even had a fucking voice in this shit?”

“You need your hot little ass simmered down and some of that damn attitude adjusted.” Knight held her glare, waiting for her to back down. Her cheeks turned bright red and she was about to bolt when he spoke up again. “You haul ass now, you’re gone. Nothing we can do to help you.”

She didn’t want to stick around; she had spent the day thinking about it. Rain was pissed, after everything she had been through with the club and this shit comes down like this, oh hell no, she didn’t need it. No one told her what to do or when to do it, and walking away from all of this…even if there was a small chance she’d keep it, wasn’t something she could risk. She didn’t want to put them in the middle of her shitstorm, she knew from experience what they had dealt with Reyes was tame compared to Zane and his minions. They were the first and only real family she had, she was going to protect them. Now, she just had to prove it to them all and show them she wasn’t the spoiled little bitch they thought her to be. Or, that she once was. The best way to do it was go and fix the shit on her own.

Rain stomped to the back of the shop and tossed her bag against the wall, slamming the door shut behind her. She needed to make some calls, but she had to wait until the guys left. Hopefully she would be gone in a day or so.

“Where the fuck did she go?” Shady roared as she searched the upper floor looking for Rain. She had been pissed, and had not dealt with it well, and now she felt guilty, not something she actually liked to feel dammit.

Jas had moved to the floor with the other women and she came out of her room and shook her head. “I was asleep.”

It took her the whole night, and her men had come home, which helped, although she hadn’t told them exactly what was going on, they knew something was up and helped her work shit out in her head. But since her guys were home that meant Creed and Fork were here as well, which also meant they were going to come at anytime to talk to them.

“Never saw her,” Nike said, looking in the mirror at her new hair color. Shady rolled her eyes, this month it was pink. She changed it every month, at least the guys liked it.

“How can she walk in here, grab all her stuff and leave, and none of your bitches saw her?” Shady growled.

Freedom and Harmony walked into the room with the women from the Savages. Since the women had been briefed already on the phone, they knew what was going on. Shady had called a meeting with all of them after she had calmed down. She knew they were going to have to deal with this shit, along with the guys, but they needed to present a united front. This would be their first test as a true biker club.

They had already gotten the leadership roles out of the way. The women from the Savages hadn’t actually argued much with what they had worked out, although they had made sure they included everyone in the hierarchy since they were going to be the originals. Shady was President, Harmony and Heaven were VPs. Freedom and Rose were Treasurers. Rain and Treat were the Road Captains, and Bob, Nike, and Abi were Enforcers. The rest were full members: Chevy, Alice, Lacey, Bree, and Rave. And they had three Prospects: Sadie, Tami and Jas.

They were seriously going to need more room. Especially if the clubs were going to merge some, because the guys were talking about having a house for each of the clubs on the other compounds. That way they had a place to crash when visiting. They were also creating a new patch for both so everyone would know they were united.