Rory (Savage MC-Tennessee 3)

“Because that’s where the monster will look for us.”

“That’s right, baby.”

“Where are we going?” he asks and I think about the last fifty dollars I have in my back pocket.

“As far as we can get the bus to take us.”

“Will we be able to stay?”

“For a little while,” I tell him.

At least until I can gather enough money for another bus ticket.

It’s a shit plan.

But it’s the only plan I have.

“Good. Daddy will find us soon,” Ryan whispers. He’s never given up on his faith in Noah. He’s a baby though. I haven’t been able to tell him about his Daddy. Not yet…

I don’t know how.3CrusherIt’s been a long hard ride. I think I’m getting too fucking old for this shit. We pull into the parking lot of the hospital the McDaniels chick named, one right after another. There’s not that many of us. Until I know what I’m dealing with I tried to play it safe, and to be honest our club isn’t that big. Diesel had trouble bringing new members in because he wasn’t sure he could trust them. After everything he has been through, I can’t say that I blame him.

I’m leading the pack and behind me is Fury, Gunner, and Rebel—our newest member. I left Devil behind to run things and Scorpion is there with him. We have some prospects and I told Devil to test the fuckers out while I’m gone. It’s time to figure out who we have to count on during a firefight.

You can hear the rumbling of our pipes as we pull in. I used to get off on that noise, the racking, the roar. Back in the day, when I ran with Dragon and the boys… Fuck… We’d tear up the backroads of Kentucky just to let people know we were there. I can’t lie. There are days when I miss those boys like you would miss losing a limb. They’re family.

Savage wasn’t a part of a huge chapter that migrated to Kentucky. We built that fucking shit from the ground up. There are a few chapters scattered here and there now, but that’s it. We only had one mission and that was a mission we felt deep.

Live free.

Where some clubs were fucking concerned about mixing the colors of our skin, more concerned with staying with their own… We said fuck off. We were brothers in every way that counted. We shed blood together and why some people can’t get that it doesn’t matter the color of your skin, because underneath we all fucking bleed the same color blood, is beyond me. We didn’t let that shit in our club. We didn’t let that in our lives.

We still don’t.

So, yeah, I miss it. When Diesel opened up a Savage Tennessee Chapter, that wouldn’t have happened if Dragon didn’t trust Diesel. Diesel might not have been in our core group, but he was of the same ilk. Our beliefs, our values, they were the same. He became family.

Shit went down and I fucked up. Dragon fucked up. Jesus, it was so bad it still hits me in the middle of the night. In the end, the love between my brothers and I was still there, but I needed to start over. I wanted that for Dani, but if I’m completely honest… I needed it even more for myself.

Which means, I might miss my brothers in Kentucky, but Tennessee is home. And my feelings run just as deep for Diesel and the men who have my back now. The fact that Diesel was brought down, has been in a coma for almost two weeks and I had no idea… Jesus. That cuts me alive. I’m pissed at myself. There’s no denying it. If I had just stopped and thought, I would have found Diesel earlier. I let him have his space, let him do what he needed to do and trusted him to contact me when he was ready.

That was stupid.

That was another mistake on my part and I pray to hell and back that I didn’t let my brother down, making mistakes like I made with Dragon, Bull and Dancer. I pray, but in my gut, I know I did. I knew Diesel had a place here in this damn town. I’d forgotten, but in the back of my mind the knowledge was there.

Definitely pissed at myself.

I’m off my bike, and walking toward the entrance, without waiting. The others fall in line with me. I can feel eyes on us, but I ignore it. This town probably has ownership from another club—most do. I don’t know whose territory it is, because I didn’t take the time to research that shit. I needed to get to my boy. Scorpion is working on that intel, he’ll let me know and then I’ll make moves from there.