Chapter23:Zero

'This thing weighs a fuck ton." 'It isn't that heavy Jade." 'It is definitely not light, you said it was light." She has her face scrunched up, with her hands on her slender but lethal bared waist. Today as is customary in our club, the patched members spend our day giving the soon to be newly patched member hell for the day. Jade is no exception to the rules. Her hell started at breakfast this morning. Beauty and I were in a deep conversation concerning the right time to tell everybody about the pregnancy. We had just agreed to do it before Monday when After's chair was detached from her ass by Mercy. 'I told you not to touch my eggs, now they're all fucked up," Mercy yelled as After got up from the floor. 'I didn't touch your eggs bitch, maybe if you stopped fuckin' everything with two inches you'd notice that nobody gives a flying fuck about your eggs, well except Jade, bitch is the only one wanting to sniff your ass." Mercy then lost her shit with Jade. That was about the time Whisp, Chadley and Den all jumped in. The three had no clue Mercy was only trying to win herself a bet with Killer, Snake and Texas. Somehow my woman being who she is, already knew something was at play here. She didn't call them out on it, just sat her sweet ass down next to me, with a roll filled with butter and cheese. She watched the show and looked beautiful doing it. Her face was light, her shoulders relaxed. I didn't want to take my eyes off of her, but I did and lucky too. Radar was staring right at us, or should I say he was frowning at my woman, almost as though he was confused. It boggled my mind that the two of them knew each other. The chances that one of our own was so close to my woman, even if it was when she was a kid is unsettling. Knowing that Lucca has a bounty of ten million on her head, and my brother wants her dead makes it worse. A quick talk with Texas and permission to slick Whisp on the brother, my day was looking up. So much so that I volunteered to go furniture shopping and get the sofas for the Night Club. Beauty stayed behind with the rest of the women setting up, leaving Chadley and Jade behind with the guys. Chadley was stuck in the kitchen with the caterer we hired for the night. I needed a female opinion so I brought Jade with me. Who am I kidding? I brought her with me to make her as angry as possible, push her buttons and see if she can last the day without exploding. Worst mistake I made. 'Why didn't you ask one of the guys to help with this, you don't think I am a guy do you? I am not." She bends down and pulls her already rolled up jeans a bit higher on her calf for the god knows how many-nth fucking time since I told her to lift the other side of the white led light sofa. The piece of furniture was the heaviest sofa I could find in the furniture store in Kanla's small CBD. 'Are you just going to whine the whole day or actually help me carry this fuckin' thing so I can go try and find a lead on that killer." I met Jade four years ago. She was a hunted fugitive, framed for committing an obscene amount of crimes. Spade and I were tasked with finding her. It was a Special Ops mission that received clearance from the Pentagon. I never directly questioned an order from the Pentagon before then. Spade and I tracked her from Country to Country. She was like a shadow the way she evaded us. It wasn't for long. My name isn't Zero for nothing, and Spade didn't earn his hard title for being a dumb fuck either. We eventually managed to catch her on the outskirts of Thailand. She was getting ready to skip. Only we weren't the only ones after her. She had blown up half the Outfit's soldiers, destroyed the Bratva's drug labs in Asia and started a war with the Chinese Mafia. She was a ticking time bomb waiting to happen. The three of us were eventually caught and taken by the Chinese Mafia, who showed me that their shortness did not mean they couldn't be a fucking pain in my left nut. We spent a week chained up in Hong Kong, almost getting sold on the black market. Spade was the one who managed to earn Jades trust while getting beaten to an inch of his life every day. And lucky he did, she saved our lives. Our thank you was letting her get a head start before we went after her. When Spade and I got back to Kanla, the Pentagon weren't so pleased with our piss poor excuse of how we lost her. They bought the story for what it was- Bullshit. Their reaction didn't sit well with me, so I did some digging of my own and found out exactly who she was. Not many people knew the answer to that question besides a handful of people and all of those people called themselves a Satan Sniper. It was months later when Jade found us. She was in a bad way, and confessed all her sins. Only thing was that it wasn't really sins, just crimes of a law abiding citizen who didn't get justice. She was a young girl seeking to avenge a sister who was sold on the black market. A father who didn't deserve an early ending but got one anyway and a mother, who only ever wanted her kids to be happy and was willing to do whatever it took to make it happen, even if it meant taking money from a Drug pin to do it. Jade was the only survivor left unharmed. We took a year and a half to find her sister and we did. Only thing we didn't think about was the possibility that her sister wouldn't remember her. It was a psychological reaction to the trauma she faced. The Club took them both in, then Jades cousin a few months after. We haven't regretted it. I was proud of her the day she completed her prospect time. Proud of her today for making it this far. Today she will officially become one of us. 'Sorry Zero." 'Don't sweat it. Lift, let's get this done then I'll take you for an ice-cream, got a feeling it's gonna be a busy day." 'A hot busy day." She adds in a smile that I haven't seen in a while since the jaded girl got home.