“We’re heading out and waiting around the corner. I’m not staying here when I can be there.” Capone gruffly replies. “If you knew what they did to Danyella, you’d be doing the same thing.” Capone passes Bear, Tiny, Derange, Trigger, Red, Torch and Dagger. They all follow us into the garage with Krimson and her crew right on our heels.
“You keep saying that but nothing else. What the fuck Capone. Tell me what I’m getting my crew into.” Krimson shouts grabbing Capone’s arm, stopping us all in our tracks. Capone turns around and pins Krimson with a glare so deadly, I fucking hide my balls.
“You want to know what that girl currently in my bedroom went through?” Capone shrugs off Krimson’s hold on his arm and gets in her face. Her boyfriend Nolan releases a low growl, but that doesn’t stop Capone. “If I tell you how they beat her, raped her and abused her daily, will that help you sleep at night if you follow through with us and end them? If you see the scars marring her body if you see her tortured soul battling with the darkness trying to take over, will that help you in your decision? If you see the one person I’ve ever cared about struggle to stay alive and live again, will that help solidify your decision?” Capone roars so loud the walls shake. His body is vibrating with rage and the darkness is taking over his mind. “If you hear the story of how she was tortured and raped six times in one day to the point where she couldn’t fight back anymore, will that make you happy Krimson?”
Krimson releases a shaky breath and shakes her head. “No. Come on, what are we waiting for?” She disappears outside along with the rest of her crew.
I glare at Capone and he stares back at me, daring me to say something. “My baby sister huh?” That’s all I can come up with at the moment. I’m stunned speechless for the first time ever.
“We’ll talk about it later. Right now, we have to save my sister.” Capone straddles his bike and throws his helmet on. The rest of us do the same. We fire up our bikes and roll out of the garage. Once we’re outside the security gate a prospect opened, Capone opens up his beast of a bike and we ride into the darkness.
I keep replaying what Capone said in my mind. How Danyella was the only woman he’s ever cared about. Now that he confessed, even out of anger, I see the signs. Since she disappeared, he was more active in fucking the club whores. Or letting them suck him off, but I’ve never seen him show any type of attachment to any of them. They were just a hole to fill the void of missing Danyella. I’m such an inconsiderate jackass. I should’ve known, but I was so lost in my own despair, I missed it. I was so infused with my own issues I missed my best friend’s struggle.
Capone revs his bike pulling me out of my head. He signals to turn right and we follow. Eight bikes and six cars park in a parking lot about a mile away from the Los Demons strip club. I kill the engine and set my boots on the concrete. I hold my bike up with the power in my thighs and light up a cigarette. Capone puts his kickstand down and climbs off his bike, heading right for me.
“Ready?” He asks when he gets closer.
“Ready, Prez. Are we sure about this?” I want to make sure he isn’t just going in there to murder a bunch of people out of rage. That his head is leading the game, not his heart.
“As sure as I’ll ever be.” Capone lights up a cigarette, inhaling the smoke and letting it go. “Danyella told me she knew for sure they would keep Monica there. When we took out the Bloody Scorpions and their hideouts, Los Demons would keep Monica near the auction site. She said girls would go to the strip club and not come back. She learned to keep her mouth shut and her ears open.”
“I wish she never went through this,” I grumble, stubbing out my cigarette.
“Me too, brother.” Capone rests a hand on my shoulder giving it a tight squeeze. “And I wish it didn’t take Danyella being kidnapped for me to know how I really felt about her. Now that I’ve admitted it to myself, I can’t stop thinking about what I’m going to do to these fuckers.”
“Me too. If they’ve harmed Monica the way they did Danyella, I’m going to lose my shit. No woman should go through what Danyella did. No woman should be abused and mistreated the way she was.” Anger and rage are vibrating through my body. Capone releases my shoulder and straightens his spine. A car pulls into the parking lot at a high speed, tires squealing on the concrete. I put my kickstand down and hurry over to Krimson’s car where they stopped. Hotflash and Rush step out of the car.
“They have her there,” Hotflash mutters and a shiver runs down my spine.
“What else?” Krimson asks, leaning against the hood of her car.
Hotflash’s dark eyes find mine and she inhales a sharp breath before continuing. “Their whole MC is there. It was a creepy vibe the moment we walked in the door. Women were dancing but the men weren’t paying attention to them like they were putting on a front for onlookers. They were all on edge, watching the door. Rush and I had to play it off as if I was a dancer looking to get hired or they would’ve kicked us out in an instant.”
“Did you see my sister?” Capone asks trying to hurry Hotflash along.
“Hotflash tried to get into the back room, but it’s being guarded. I’m not sure how you’re going to get in there without getting killed. They’re all strapped with guns on high alert.” Rush finishes.
“Let us handle that,” Capone speaks. He turns his head to Krimson, “I understand if you want to stay here, Krimson. This will get messy and there will be blood on our hands. You don’t need that on your crew either.”
“I’m in. It’s up to them if they want in on it. No one fucks with my town and gets away with it.” Krimson stands tall and looks at every member of her crew. No one says they won’t go. “It’s settled then. We’re with you.”
“Wait,” Nolan speaks for the first time since I met him. “This is what my guys and I do. Let us help.” He walks to the back of a car, pops the trunk and pulls out two black bags. He brings them to the front of Krimson’s car and opens them. “Take these and we can communicate back and forth.” He hands us tiny earpieces and I put mine in. Nolan then hands each of his men an AK-47 and a .40 caliber handgun with extra ammo.
“Prez,” Red shouts grabbing Capone’s attention while running our way. “There are two other ways in. One from the rooftop and a backdoor. The blueprints of the building were just sent to my phone.”
Capone grabs Red’s phone and hands it to Nolan. “What’s the best way?”
Nolan studies the blueprints for a few minutes. “If here was guarded like Hotflash said,” he points to a room in the back. “There’s only one way in and out. We keep two men at the front entrance and two at the back. The rest of us climb up the fire escape and use the roof. They won’t expect us to come in that way. Once we get in, the two in the front need to create a diversion and draw them all away. Then we move fast. Take out any members in our way. Capone and Blayze, you stay with me, Krimson and Ashton. The four of us will move quickly to the back room and get Monica out.”
“Tiny and one of your men will take the back. Torch and another will take the front and create the diversion.” Capone responds. “Trigger, Dagger, Bear, Derange and the rest of your crew will take out the main room while we go into the back and get my sister.” Capone looks at every member of his MC. “Does anyone have any issues with this?”