"It's been a very long time since I've seen two of my sisters children under the same roof as me, but by the way that you look at her, I'm guessing you don't exactly see her as a sister. Am I correct?"

Ignoring uncle Barrys question, I continued to stitch up my arm after Brenda finally got the bullet out earlier.

"Your silence is speaking volumes boy. I ain't gonna judge y'all since y'all ain't blood related, but what I can tell from what just happened a few hours ago she's gonna fit right in with the rest of the women in my club"

He continues talking while standing at the doorway of my bedroom watching me fix up my bleeding arm.

"I suggest if you don't wanna get shot in the dick this time, tell the girl how you feel instead of being a little pussy about your bottled up feelings" Uncle Barry says before rolling his eyes and walking out of my room.

I groaned in response to myself before finishing my stitches and deciding to go visit the little hot headed sex on legs that put a bullet in me in less than 24 hours she's been in the club.

As soon as I got to the room my club brothers hauled the guy that came in with Jezzabelle, I expected to hear a earful of why I shouldn't have shot the guy only to be met with the unconscious guy in bed by himself.

"Where is she?" I ask turning to my cousin Ben who was walking down the hallway.

"The girl? She's downstairs with the rest of the ladies in the kitchen. You know how the women here are when there's a new woman in the club" Ben replies as I rolled my eyes before walking downstairs to the kitchen area where the rest of the women in the club are always hanging out.

"So you and Luca have never like gone all the way?"

"Why the fuck would I? First off he's my brother and second off, even if he wasn't my brother I still wouldn't fuck him. No offense to any of you guys that have slept with him but honestly I don't see myself being attracted to him at all"

"But the guy you came with upstairs, is he your boyfriend or something?"

"Darius? My boyfriend? Ha! My god guys, you guys really do think low of me. I mean yes Darius is hotter than Luca but would he be my boyfriend? Never! If I were to chose to have a boyfriend in this place I'd rather fuck Jax since he seems more tolerable than Luca"

And that was my cue to walk in.

"Never gonna happen"

I say walking into the kitchen as all the women's eyes widened while pretending to do something other than gossip like they were just doing before I walked in.

"Hey asshole, I gotta work in a few hours. I need you to watch over Darius while I'm at the club tonight"

"Call off. You're not working tonight"

"I'm sorry but last time I checked, you don't get to tell me what to do. If you wanna keep me locked up in this fucking place, I still get to go wherever the fuck I want"

"You go back to work and I'll drag your ass right back out just like last time"

"For what? I'm not some fucking dog you can keep locked up in your damn club house"

"She's right"

We both turned surprised at the person with a series look on his face and his eyes set on both of us.

"See, at least the quiet scary dude from the bar understands me" Jezzabelle scoffs before walking out of the kitchen as Iron turned to me with a raised brow.

"If you wanna keep the girl here, let her have some freedom or else she'll keep running. And from what she did to your arm earlier, I'd suggest you stop trying to force her to do stuff you want"

I rolled my eyes as Iron said his thoughts to me before walking back out to the bar area.

"You really need to stop being an asshole and just let the girl breathe. If you want her to be with you at least get rid of your jackass side and show her what it's like to be with a real man, not a little boy who's crushing on the badass girl that just so happens to be his step sister"

Sharon, Irons old lady, adds on before following her husband out of the kitchen.

"Grim, Bear needs you in his office"

Ben says popping into the kitchen before walking back out as I follow him with a headache already starting just from the conversation I had with probably the whole kitchen.

"What's up boss" I groan while taking a seat in the chair placed in front of my uncles desk in his office.

"We got another letter" Uncle Barry says sliding me an envelope as I opened it seeing the same red ink with another bloody picture inside the envelope.

"The same guys from before?"

"Yup, but this time they're starting to kill inside our territory"

"Is that something to worry over?"

"If we don't take their messages more seriously than it might as well be. These assholes are out for blood but we don't know why or what exactly they want. I mean, they've always kept outside of our turf and now out of nowhere, they're beginning to seek out victims in our part of town"

My uncle looked over all the pictures and letters we've been receiving for the past 2 weeks. Random envelopes full of pictures of bloody bodies and long letters with warnings from another gang near our territory telling us that they were coming for us soon. The only question was why.

"Did Ghost find anything on them?"

"I've found some leads but I have to figure out whether or not they connect. So tonight one of the locations I've found, we'll be visiting them. Yes, you're coming with me"

I turned around watching Ghost walk out of my uncles office as I realized he was here the whole time without me even noticing. Now I'm starting to realize the real reason why he's called Ghost.

"The place you'll be visiting tonight is an Italian place called 'Sollievo'. The only thing I'll tell you about this place is that it's not anything near a regular club. Yes there is strippers, music, and drinks but it's a ten story building and with every story from the ground up being the imagery of everything happening on each floor will be getting worse than the one before"

"Worse than before? Are we talking about like killing people in the club or something?"

"Actually it's more of a BDSM type of place. It's like the higher the story you go, the worse the sexual surroundings on each floor will be. Just don't get caught spying in there and just go in with Ghost as if you're one of the men that sign up to be in there to watch and enjoy the shows they put on. Obviously you'll both be using different names and everything but don't do anything that'll show you guys don't belong there"

"Visiting a sex show? I'm pretty sure I'll fit more into that club than the quiet large jackass moving around like he doesn't have feet"

"Calm your balls boy, we watch a few shows and then we're out. Plus it's not my fault all you assholes walk around with loud ass heavy footsteps"

I rolled my eyes seeing Ghost walk out of office AGAIN without either of us even knowing he was there in the first place. Jesus, this guy can give an old man a heart attack with how sneaky he is when he moves around.

"Oh and one more thing before you guys leave tonight, the club only lets people in who wear a mask and a suit. So, before you guys go just remember to get a mask and dress up nicely so there's nothing off with you guys being new to the place"

I nodded before walking out of my uncles office.

"Grim, where were you? I was looking for you all over the place" A shrilly voice says as I walked out to the club bar.

A pair of spray tanned long arms wrapped around my torso as I rolled my eyes when I realized who the voice belonged to.

"I was waiting for you in our room but you didn't show up" Veronica says kissing my neck while I sat on one of the bar stools gesturing Iron to hand me a beer bottle.

"I'm wearing you're favorite color under my dress, you wanna go to the bathroom for a quickie right now?"

She whispers into my ear while rubbing her hand on my thigh making me more annoyed than turned on which was weird cuz usually I did find Veronica, out of all the women in the club, attractive. I mean I never really slept with the same girl more than once, and she was the only girl I ever let sleep with me more than once since I've moved into the club 5 years ago.

It's not like I was in love with her or anything but she was the easiest and quickest lay I ever had. She knew what to do and when I told her what I liked she remembered and I guess that's what made her one of the only woman in the club that I was fine with sleeping with more than one time.

"Mommy! Did you see? Jezzabelle and Uncle Jax are playing together in the backyard sprinklers?" A squeaky voice gasps as I turned seeing Sharon's 12 year old daughter jumping on top of the bar stool.

We all turned to the backyard window she was pointing at as I realized loud laughing and shrieking was coming from the back. Being all curious since we don't usually hear laughing and happy shouting around our club, all the members in the club including Uncle Barry all walked outside to the backyard seeing the most surprising thing we could ever see happen at our club.

In front of us was a beautiful sight of all the children from the women in the club running around happily playing in the long water sprinklers in the backyard. And the most shocking thing about it was that Jax and Jezzabelle were the ones leading them around while holding water balloons and water guns.

"Oh shit!" Jezzabelle gasps when one of the water balloons that she was throwing ended up hitting Iron in the face.

"Please don't kill me" She mutters while looking up at him with a pout.

At first I thought he would get angry but he actually did the complete opposite.

"Ah! What the freak?!"

Jezzabelle shouts when Iron grabs a water balloon from Jax hand to throw at her quickly hitting her right in the face back.

"You're on!"

She laughs before chasing Iron with a water balloon as me and Uncle Barry stood back in shock at how all the club men and women started joining in on the water fight all over the backyard.

"How the hell did this all start?" Uncle Barry scoffs while smiling at all the kids running past us.

"Ask your niece, she was the one that started the idea with Jax" Ghost says scaring me once again from how he was behind me in a matter of a second I didn't even know.

"I'm getting tired of your shit"

"If you ain't gonna do anything about than I suggest you shut up before I kill you in your sleep boy, and you know that's the best way I do my killing"

I shuddered while remembering the second reason why Ghost was given that name. The first reason was that no one can hear when he's coming, and the second was that when he kills, he does it so swiftly and quickly without people even knowing how he did it in the first place or how he even got in and out quickly without any security or people picking up on him.

"Maybe it is a good thing that your sister is in the club now" Uncle Barry says smiling at Jezzabelle who was shooting water in the back of our cousins pants.

"She looks happy here, let's make sure she stays that way" He says turning to me with a serious look before walking towards the place his kids were running from Jezzabelle who was shooting water at them.

She really does fit into the club. She may see the club as a kidnapping place I'm keeping her at, but to the people living here including myself, we see it as a home to each other.

We may not all be family by blood, but we love each other and will always protect each other like a family would. Blood related or not, we are family and we love and protect each other until the end always.

And now with Jezzabelle being here, I feel like she would fit in without a doubt. She belongs here, with me.

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