21
My brain felt it was expanding with the knowledge I now knew. He was here, they are here. It obvious they wanted revenge for my betrayal. I ruined the family, I betrayed everything that kept us together, that kept us a unit.
"What are you thinking about?" Tara asked. I was staring out at the darkness of the sky, the lamp posts shooting across my vision one by one.
"I'm thinking that things have just gotten worse for us and that this is something SAMCRO can't handle." I replied honestly. We were back in Charming, and now I was even more on edge. Were they at my house, our house? Were they waiting somewhere else preparing to ambush and kill me? The car pulled up in the parking lot of the bar and we got out. It was busy tonight, cars were in every spot. Motorcycles were lined up beside each other on the side of the road. So everyone was here.
Tara and I got out and moved inside. Loud music was playing and ever table was filled. We started to look around for some familiar faces. Juice and Tig were in the ring throwing punches and they were some hard punches too. Tara leaned in to me.
"I'm going to go find Jax!" she replied and separated from me. I continued to look around before finding Happy sitting at one of the tables in the back. Two blonde ladies were under his arms. I stared at the scene for a moment. Bobby was sitting beside him with Chibs on the opposite side. I could feel the anger arising in my chest at the sight, and I began to walk calmly over toward the table. As I did, I noticed a steak knife was on some guy's plate at the bar, but his back was turned away so it was easy to slide the knife off the plate and hold it at my side.
As I grew closer to the table Bobby and Chibs saw me first before tensing knowing there could be trouble. Happy finally saw me and his eyes popped as he removed his arms quickly from around the girl's shoulders.
"Hey Meera." Bobby said trying to cool down the tense air that wrapped its way around this table. I looked down at him and smiled.
"Bobby." I merely replied before looking at Happy and then the two girls. "Ladies I need you both to stand up from the table and go somewhere else." The girl's looked at me with dry stares, giving annoying laughs.
"Who does this bitch think she is?" the girl on Happy's left asked with disdain.
"Yeah whachu gonna do little miss good girl?" the other asked. I nearly jumped over the table now, my body acting on its own. Chibs leaned back quick in his chair as I pointed the steak knife directly into longer haired blonde's face. She was all plastic surgery, her lips large from injections. She wasn't even a human to me.
"BITCH MOVE YOUR FUCKING ASSES OR ELSE I WILL SLIT YOUR THROATS, CUT OUT YOUR HEARTS AND EAT THEM RAW DON'T TEST ME!" I shouted, and her eyes were devoured by fear and I loved it. I drank it in quickly as the girls raised their hands and quickly got up from the table. My knife followed the girls until they were out of sight. I finally turned back to the three men and Happy was just staring at me with such a dark lust, I was almost turned on by it.
"God I need to be inside you right now." he growled. Chibs and Bobby just looked at him as if he were crazy. Now was not the time for any of that.
"Where is Clay?" I asked dryly.
"In the back." Chibs answered quickly and I nodded and turned and moved through the crowd.
"Woah woah woah, Meera you can't just go back there. You're not a club member." Happy replied taking hold of my arm.
"I have information on Zobelle and his men." I replied looking up at him. He looked at me hard now.
"Meera what did you do?" he asked. I just stared up at him with a hard stare.
"What you couldn't do." I replied. He looked at me almost confused before we saw Clay coming from a room in the back.
"You been lookin' for me?" he asked. I looked at him and nodded.
"Yes. We need to speak, official club business." I answered. He looked me over before motioning for me to follow him. Happy and I followed with Chibs and Bobby behind us. We moved to the back of the room where a large table sat with chairs all around it. Gemma, Jax and Tara were already sitting down.
"Sit." Clay said. I sat down next to Tara and Happy sat across from me along with Bobby and Chibs. "What's going on?" I glanced at Tara before looking at Clay.
"I went to Oakland to see Marcus Alvarez." I replied.
"You what?" Clay and Happy angrily asked in perfect unison. I looked down some and nodded.
"You all couldn't find Zobelle or Weston or any of his men for that matter. Alvarez was apparently doing business with them and cut ties after Zobelle tried to frame him for my future murder." I replied. I could feel Happy's eyes burning holes in my head and I did my best not to look at him.
'Remember he slashed your tires.'
"You went into Mayan territory without running it by me?" Clay asked, his voice low and vicious. I looked him right in his eyes.
"Yes." I replied.
"Do you have any idea of what could have happened?" Chibs asked.
"She wasn't alone!" Tara spoke out which caught Jax's attention immediately. "I went with her." I was not planning to involve her because I didn't want her to get in trouble with Jax.
"What? Tara, you lied to me." he said and she raised her hand to him. Gemma scoffed.
"Wasn't the first and won't be her last." she glared. Tara shot her a frown in reply.
"We needed answers, so I went to get them." I said. "I already told you Alvarez was involved with Zobelle and so I knew he would probably want revenge for being set up. He told me he didn't put out a retaliation and that someone else may be involved being the reason no one can find these guys."
"And you never thought that Alvarez was lying?" Clay snapped.
"Yes… but he wasn't lying to me." I replied.
"And why would you know that?" Clay asked. My breath caught in my throat and I looked at Tara and then back at Clay.
"Because the information he told me, I believe." I replied.
"And what did you have to do to get any information out of him," Happy asked. "No reason for him to just give you intel without wanting something back in return." I finally looked at him and nodded.
"You are right. But I think his feelings for me gave me a pass." I said coolly and Happy's jaw clenched and his eye almost twitched. Clay arched a brow and looked me over.
"Okay… so you didn't give him anything on SAMCRO." he replied and I looked at him.
"He knows I don't know anything." I replied.
"So what information did he give you?" Chibs finally asked, arms crossed over the table. I looked at him and then Clay again.
"My father is here." I replied. Clay's entire body tightened at my words and he leaned forward some. Gemma's entire body inflated at my words as well.
"The hell you say." he replied. I nodded.
"Alvarez doesn't know my father or my family but said he was at a meeting with both gangs… he's here, Clay." I explained. Clay shook his head.
"What exactly did Alvarez say?" he asked.
"That an Englishman was there at their meeting. What other Englishmen you know Clay?" he asked. Clay leaned back some and ran his hand down his mouth.
"Wait why is this guy a big deal?" Bobby asked. Clay looked at him while I looked at Happy finally. His eyes were unreadable, and I didn't even want to know what he was thinking.
"Nigel Adams is a English drug lord who took up residence here about twenty years ago. His family was known for adopting children raising them with the same cannibalistic lifestyle as him. We did some business together and left each other alone, because we benefited from each other. When Meera here ran away and called in an anonymous tip, Adams was forced to pack up his family and leave. Dude's a ruthless mother fucker." he explained. I looked down at his words before finally looking up at Clay.
"I don't know how involved Nigel is with the A.B. but I know he is going to be a problem… a problem that's mine and not SAMCRO's." I explained. Tara and Happy looked at me carefully. Already I could tell they did not like where I was going. "To avoid any wars or further lives lost… I am going to go with Nigel when he comes for me." I was expecting silence or a few seconds of thinking before agreement, but instead I got a wave of rejection from everyone.
"You can't be serious." Chibs.
"No way in hell." Gemma.
"Don't be stupid." Clay.
"You aren't going anywhere." Happy.
I looked around at everyone and finally realized Happy's hand had grabbed mine across the table.
"That's very noble, but ain't no way in hell you're going to give yourself up to those fucks." Gemma replied.
"You're SAMCRO, and you didn't ask for any of this and we sure as hell ain't going to let anyone fuck with our town or our people." Clay said.
"Just tell us all we need to know about this guy so there's no surprises." Jax said. I was visibly stunned at their protests. I didn't realize they cared this much for me. They had no reason to. I was supposed to be some chick that Happy fucked on occasion. And here I am, in their back room discussing my father and how they're definitely going to try and kill him.
"Clay he's dangerous." I replied and he gave me a look.
"If you haven't noticed yet, babe, we're dangerous." he said. I sighed gently and looked around at everyone. Their faces showed that they wouldn't be changing their minds.
"What do we need to know?" Jax asked. I looked at him and swallowed some.
"If there's one thing I know about my father, he won't be the one to make a visible appearance. He'll send someone first to start trouble, he'll send Antony." I replied. Chibs winced at the name.
"Antony?" he asked. I nodded.
"He's the first one to be adopted. His "first born". Antony will do anything for the family to keep them safe. He'll even kill one of father's children if they were a threat." I explained. I hadn't seen Antony since I left. He was constantly trying to prove himself to Nigel. He was already heating human flesh by the time he was thirteen and hunting his food by sixteen. By eighteen he had already learned to cook and prepare organs to take to school and eat with his other dishes. A natural born killer.
"Alright. We'll get the guys together in the morning and talk about this. See if we can kill two birds with one stone and take both Zobelle and Adams down." Clay explained. Adams. Already saying his last name as if he were the gang's worst enemy. We all nodded and agreed and got up from the table. Happy was in front of me in seconds.
"You're coming to stay with me every night until all of this is over." he stated. I wasn't in the mood to argue, but since we did have a lot to talk about so I nodded.
"I need to head home and get my stuff since I can't drive anywhere." I replied. He nodded and leaned down kissing me softly. I replied missing the feel of his lips already.
"I'll head home to get my car and come straight to your place to get you. We need to talk." he said. I only nodded keeping a firm stare.
"Yeah we do." I replied before walking around him and moving to find Tara.