Chapter 54
Lana snapped her head to the door and she looked scared at Happy as he stood in the doorway.
Happy had about to walk passed and to his own room but surprise, surprise Lana was sitting on the bed with a still bedbound Kozik. Bobby had told him of Lana's whereabouts but Happy had thought she had learnt the lesson by now. He would have thought she would have just asked if Koz was ok and that was that, but no. She was hitched up on the bed with him. Cosy and somewhat red faced. Happy glared at her, waiting for a response to his question, and he looked at Kozik as he smiled from ear to ear. That fucker enjoyed getting her in the shit with him, and he wondered why Lana fell for it every damn time.
"I-I…umm…we were just talking about…" Lana stuttered, too scared to tell him that Koz had said she was the most cutest and the most prettiest girl he'd ever laid eyes on. She knew it would rile Happy.
"I just told her how pretty she was… that's all. You know…treatin' her right an' all." Kozik shrugged his shoulders and then reached down casually to itch at his band aid around the healing hole in his thigh.
Right at that exact moment Happy realised he wouldn't have a single problem in getting Tig Trager back in the Club. Kozik had only gone and made this shit easier, and had easily fallen into an unknown trap.
Stepping into the room Happy walked round to the end of the bed and looked at the pair of them. He knew Lana was worried and by God, he wanted to beat her shitless for making him look a fool. Making him look like she was allowed to do what the fuck she wanted with him. Happy had thought she'd understood when he told her what he'd do if he found her in bed with another man. Happy thought Lana understood she was in an MC, and there were rules. There were MC rules and there were, Happy rules, and Lana, she'd crossed over all of them. He saw with his own eyes as she sat there, in a bed, wearing those little black shorts and those hot ass high heels. He could tell by her face she'd been caught red handed and he knew then, that she'd probably been flirting her ass off with Kozik. She was even leaning into him, Christ were they fucking cuddling? Happy suddenly felt inadequate, like his cuddles weren't enough for her.
Glaring into Koz' eyes, a different mood clouded his judgement and Happy was suddenly all about the job. He would deal with Lana later but Koz was going to get his now. It was time.
"Comfortable?" Happy asked sincere with crystal clarity in his voice.
"Yea Brother…ya' little Lady just came to check up on me…" Koz grinned down the bed at Happy but then swept his gaze back up Lana's long legs and setting his look into her face. He liked it that she smiled back at him. "…she's a keeper Brother… you got ya'self a fine Old Lady."
Happy chuckled but it wasn't just any chuckle, it was his 'I'm gonna snap your damn neck off' chuckle. It riled him even more that Koz seemed immune to the undertone of his edgy voice. Was he taking this shit for granted? Happy still watched as Koz stared into Lana's eyes, but he huffed out air through his nose and the chuckle grew to a different level of anger, and that changed things. He watched Lana lower her head, still facing Kozik but he could tell she had finally succumbed to the radiating anger that bellowed from his skin. Happy looked from Lana and then back at Koz.
"You're crossin' that…very…fine…fuckin' line Brother." He gritted his teeth, almost struggling with saying the words.
Lana heard that deathly chuckle from Happy the moment it broke from his vocal cords but she refused to listen. It was only when it reached the level of serious, seriousness that she stopped looking at Koz and down at her lap. Twiddling her fingers she listened as Happy warned Koz about the line he was crossing, and it got her hackles up. Kozik wasn't crossing any line. Koz was her friend, and nothing more and it infuriated her that Happy couldn't see that. Happy was just a mean, jealous bastard at times and she'd be a liar if she said she hadn't liked it. But, it seemed only when it suited her. She liked it when he protected her, and she liked it when he threatened people when it came to her safety. But, when it was someone she actually really liked, it hurt her feelings. Kozik was not a threat to her. It was like Happy saying he didn't trust her.
"Hap…don't be silly…Koz and me, we're jus-…"
"Stop…" Happy closed his eyes and gripped a tighter hold of his belt loops his thumbs encased. "…just…stop." His voice was barely a whisper but it was crisp in the quiet room.
"Hap…c'mon… don't mak-…" Lana began again, wanting to tell him it wasn't a big deal.
"ENOUGH…" This time Happy lost his rag. He had warned her, he had told her to stop and yet, she continued to make him sound the bigger fool. "…get your shit together, and get the fuck outta this room… NOW…" He raised his hand and opened his mouth before she got a chance to respond as he saw her gasp with shock, ready and willing to retaliate back to him. "…you remember what I said…you fuckin' remember what I said… about findin' you here again… you remember?" He growled, he wanted her to answer, and now.
Lana's mouth opened, ready to shout back at him but when she saw his mouth open, already a step ahead of her, she heard him remind her of the other morning's warning. She closed her lips and lowered her head. He was right, as always. She had been warned, and yet here she was, back in the same predicament. Only Happy looked mightily pissed and she wanted to lessen her demise for later, so swung her legs over the bed and scooted off.
"Yes… I remember..." She offered and grabbed up her bags. She sniffled as she hooked her fingers in the bag handles and looked up into his eyes. She was really sorry, and she really, really meant it. "…I'm sorry Hap."
Happy watched as she skulked out of the room and he heard her pleas of sorry, and the follow on with her quiet little sniffles of tears but he was too pre-occupied with business at the moment to care. Her hard time was to follow, and she wasn't going to be let off lightly but sure enough, he was going to let her off eventually.
"Man…you don't have to be that hard on her… She's a good girl." Kozik groaned as she shuffled his stiff butt, nonchalant, without a care in the world.
Happy sneered. He was furious and he had blamed himself at first. For the close relationship his girl and Koz had but the more he opened his eyes, he could see the truth. Koz wanted his fucking woman.
"You want her?"
"What? Don't talk shit." Kozik scoffs.
"I ain't fuckin' blind…you know she respects you, right?" Happy offered, he just wanted to see how far he could go. He wondered at all whether Kozik would feel bad for leading Lana astray, making her believe he was just all about friendship. Happy knew the truth though, Happy wasn't stupid and he understood all his Brothers very well. Kozik was a damn player, and he hated that he'd even allowed to let his own woman be played.
"I ain't ever let her down…" Kozik gets a second wind and straightens his back, returning the same glare, the same challenge to Happy. "…I ain't ever gone behind her back…if she wants to respect me for that…shit I can sleep better at night knowin' that." Kozik had wanted to speak the truth a little. He was more than willing to make implications that Happy was never there for her. Back in Tacoma Happy, at the end, he had treated her like shit.
Happy chuckled again and ran his hand over his mouth. Feeling the days stubble rough against his palm and he couldn't stop his spreading grin. He had got this fucker. He knew his fucking game. The fucker had thought he was better than him. The fucker had thought he was better for Lana. Game on!
"Right…right…" Happy agrees, nodding his head without the blindest bit of care in what he actually heard. "…listen, Star…"
"Star?" Kozik cuts Happy off. Creasing his brow as he wonders why Hap mentioned her name out of the blue. "…why the fuck you talkin' bout her?"
"Tig's sister right?" Happy confirms, a bigger grin bearing on his lips and he watches Koz nod with a frown, perhaps remembering the day Tig beat him down. "…wrong…its Tig's woman, and he's been fuckin' her…pretty much since he got outta the force."
"What…Star...what…the asshole said she was his sister…what, he's been fuckin' her?" Koz was more than confused but he could feel his chest getting hot, the fury rising from his stomach.
"Yea, fuckin' her behind your back…pretty brutal shit you done to her man…wonder if Lana will remember that shit…oh wait, you kept your whores away from her eyes right? Lana thinks you're some kind of fuckin' saint, right?" Happy goaded and he really fucking enjoyed it.
"What the fuck are you talkin' bout man? Damn straight Lana never saw that whore…shit, that bitch got everythin' she deserved. She fuckin' lied to me… said she worked at some elementary school, fuckin' followed her ass…there she was workin' the fuckin' stage…strippin' all over those dirty assholes on a Saturday night." Koz fumed, screwing up his face as he thought about the night he saw her. It was so long ago now but it was always easy to bring back the hatred you held for someone.
Happy was desperate to share that Lana was just like Star. Lana was Happy's little dancer and he fucking loved that about her. He couldn't understand why Koz seemed so negative about that shit. Maybe it was just because he didn't know, Happy thought to himself that if he hadn't of known what Lana did, he would probably have treated her the same way Koz had treated Star. Maybe!
"Yea… but seems Tig didn't care…seems Tig liked it… a lot in fact…" Happy grinned and slowly watched Koz boil to the brim. "…fucked her seven ways Brother, all while you demonstrated your shit on her, she's even tagged man…I heard she covered up the ink, wanted to hurt Tig for leaving her… oh yea, that's right…she was fuckin' him even before you met her man…some crazy ass shit that huh?"
"What the FUCK…Tig was fuckin' her…that asshole…motherFUCKER…who knows about this? Where the fuck is he? That prick is gonna get stripped for this shit…He told me she was his fuckin' sister… I respected him. I fuckin' stopped my shit with her…he beat my ass because of that bitch, and I fuckin' let him…he was fuckin' her? really? his own fuckin' sister?" Kozik was messed up, just trying to gather as much information as he could, just to try understanding it.
"Nah…she's not his DNA. He lied to you…he lied to himself. Said he had no feelings for her, said that he would just remain friends… protect her from shit and that was all, but turned out he couldn't hack it… and went back for more." Happy chirped on, slowly realising and he hoped Koz did too, that it sounded so very familiar. So very much like how Kozik was lying to him about his feelings for Lana.
"Man… that fuckin' asshole is goin' down…this shit don't fly with the fuckin' rules man. He's gotta pay for this shit…that asshole's gotta pay…" Kozik started to rile himself up and he wished with all his might that his leg was better. He wanted to march out into the Lot and smash Tig's fucking face in. "…get that prick in here…let him face me…fuckin' punk." Koz raged now.
Happy wasn't about to tell him that Tig had already owned up to his shit with the President. He had got Koz just where he wanted him. He had his emotions up high and his anger seethed in his eyes. It was just the right timing for Happy.
"I'm willing to trade." Happy got his attention, kicking the end of the bed as he then leaned back against the bedroom wall and crossed his arms.
Kozik was shook from the flashing images in his head of the day Tig had beat him for fucking around with his sister. The irony of it had just made it all the more infuriating.
"Trade…" Kozik looked into Hap's eyes, confused. "…trade what?"
"This shit you got with Lana…I'll trade it for Tig…you back the fuck off my woman, don't care how ya' do it…just quit with this friend shit, we both fuckin' know your shit is twisted with that idea…we both know it ain't about you 'bein' there' for her…fuckin' admit it?" Happy asked. He was being blatant and forever truthful. He just wanted the damn truth, for once.
"The fuck man…admit what…we're just fri-…" Koz was unable to finish as he physical felt the bed shake from Happy's gravel bark.
"FUCKIN' ADMIT IT…STOP WITH THIS FRIEND BULLSHIT." Happy knew a wounded leg or not, if Koz said one more lie he was going to fly for him.
"A'ight…a'ight… Jesus…calm the fuck down man…" Kozik raised his arms and tried to woe the heated situation. "…a'ight…ok, I would…I'd fuck her if she gave me the damn chance, yea and sometimes thought about not givin' her the chance…fine, shit…I fuckin' admit it…you satisfied now… that make you fuckin' feel better?" It did Kozik, it made him feel better, finally admitting it. There wasn't anything in the world he wouldn't give up to finally lay beside her. He knew she wasn't aware, and he knew she was all innocent in this. He briefly wondered how hurt she would feel to find out that, all he's ever wanted to do was fuck her brains out. After all these years, he'd grown so fond of her. He had actually considered the fact he could be in love with her.
Happy closed his eyes. The realisation that all his suspicions were true had hit him like a damn brick. It pained him that it had taken Tig's situation to finally do something about it. He would give anything, right now, having the MC backing, to beat the living shit out of Kozik. But he couldn't. He had to hold it in. He had to sacrifice that allowed beating, for his Brothers return.
"That…that right there…I'm lettin' it slide, I'm lettin' you get away with that shit…you tell Clay you don't give a fuck about the humiliation to your name and Tigger can come back…you don't…" Happy shrugged his shoulders. "…I'll fuckin' kill ya'… Brother."
Kozik was as torn as a banana skin. He hated the thought of members knowing Tig slandered his name but he also wanted to live. His sudden relapse in admitting the shit he had for Lana, had been a decoy.
"You're a clever motherfucker." Kozik shook his head, closing his eyes as he knew he was relenting to Happy's threat.
"Anybody backing shit up on my property…they'd get the same treatment..." Happy stood up from the wall. "…I'll go tell Clay you wanna talk to him."
Kozik watched as Happy walked off toward the door. Realising again, that he didn't even have to answer Hap for him to know what the answer was going to be. Hap was clever and could threaten, and without a doubt deliver on that threat but he did all that and made his Brothers admire him. Kozik was screwed, but he still wished he had the finesse to work under people's skin, just the like the way Happy could.
"Yea…go get Clay." Kozik sighed.
Happy stepped out the door and grinned. Gotcha!
~AN~
Okaayyyy… so I hoped you liked this one. I know it's a little shorter than normal, sorry about that. Plenty more to come though, well I hope lol
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