Chapter6:Killer

River is waiting by the door, and the look he gives me isn't something I feel like deciphering just yet. "All here?" I ask him. "Yeah, got the girl in the room, keeping busy," He says wondering what the fuck I want to talk about. I give a chin lift to Knight, Zero, and Snake who must have just got back. The entire Clubhouse scatters around the lounge area, After and Mercy standing by the back wall. Bull, Snake and Zero taking the 4 seater on the left. Whisp, Venus and the other woman take the 3 seater on the right. Frost takes position next to Storm, but Texas walks in last and easily maneuvers the two of them, so Kylie is standing next to him. Smart move, brother. "So, as many of you have heard, we have Frost's sister in the room upstairs. A dead biker and his angry club on our backs. I'm not going to go into too much detail about it, but we need to handle this shit soon and swiftly. If we take them all out, then so be it. We can't afford another war on our backs." Everybody looks at each other, because they already gathered that. I leave them to settle in with the information, and Zero is the first one to get up. "Zero, stop, we not done." "What else is there?" He asks playing with his scar. "I'm afraid it gets much worse than that. What I am about to tell you is classified information, but since it is all our heads on the table, I decided we all should vote on this, prospects too." I hear the few whispers and ignore them. "This meeting isn't about Natasha, it's about Sienna, the woman with the baby." "What about her? She is innocent," Frost says, as she glares at me. "Unfortunately not, Sienna is far from innocent. I believe that the baby is Gabriel DeMarco's which means he'll eventually want his kid once he's out of prison," I say. "But how is that called for an issue? Gabriel isn't a bad person, I doubt he'll be a bad baby daddy," Frost interjects. "No, but he would not be happy when he learned his baby momma killed his Uncle and brother and even if he is okay with it, Marco Catelli won't be. A man like that lets nothing slide." "You are lying, you just want her gone because you can't stand the fact she chose a world without us in it. You cared for her and maybe you chased her away but you wanted her to come back, well guess what brother, she came back." "No," I shake my head slowly and if I had pitied someone, I would feel it for my sister. "She killed them because they posed a threat to someone she cares about, that is Sienna, selfish and always looking out for her own interest." "We had issues with the Catelli's before why do they have to be our allies, DeMarco is not as powerful as they once were, and Marco isn't going to start another war when he's just finishing one," Knight says, and coming from him I understand his anger. He was once a part of their clan until they pushed him out. "How do you even know it is his kid?" Mercy asks. I think of the note I saw in her car, and while I never read the entire thing, I remember the last part. "Sienna and Gabriel have a long history, 6 years ago the two got together to cover up a wrong. Lets just say they were like a Bonnie and Clyde scenario," Frost's eyes go distant, and I know she is remembering the months following her stint in hell. "So what it is you want us to vote on?" "Claiming the boy, and handing her over to Gabriel," I say, and I know my reasoning isn't much to go on, but I can't tell them the truth about who she really is. That is Sienna's story to tell. I promised Marcus I would take the knowledge to my grave and keep Diamond safe, even from Sienna. "Abso fucking lutely not. I am voting no," After says and the rest of the woman follow suite, the men look split. "No, she doesn't seem guilty enough to throw her to the dogs," Zero adds. "I say no, I know Gabriel and he isn't the fucking prince in armor boy he once was," Knight says. "Why is he even in prison?" Venus asks looking all innocent. "A shipment of theirs got busted, and they were looking for someone to blame. As part of his initiation as Capo to the DeMarco clan, he pleaded guilty. They found no evidence, so he got 2 years," Zero informs them. "Why do we always get the women who belong to some fucking Mafia? Why can't we get a normal damsel in distress, like that Harlow girl?" Snake voices. "Sienna is no damsel in distress, she is as bad as the man she opened her legs to," I tell them. River steps forward, "That is enough, we aren't feeding her to the dogs. Marcus Bray just offered us 1 mill plus expenses to keep Natasha safe and an extra 2 to keep Sienna alive." "I'll give you 5 to tell him to fuck off," I say. "No, frankly I think she is just a scared girl that made poor decisions," He looks at me, and his eyes deliberately go to Kylies, which is a slap in the face. They won't listen to reason, and while we vote, all of them apart from Texas votes for her to stay. It's their necks, because I have a strong suspicion that Sienna wasn't here just to save her cousin, she is here for a reason that has nothing to do with Natasha and everything to do with finding Diamond. If Sienna was right all those years back and she didn't know where the file was, then it meant in Diamonds Labyrinth mind she knew. And if Sienna was in contact with her actual father, which she was, finding that file would implicate not just Marcus but my father. I couldn't let that happen. "You guys are making a mistake," I tell them, but no one seems to hear me. I head outside to the porch as the club scatters about. Texas walks over to me, and hands me a corona, "All those years passed I never questioned what happened that night, but a fucking nose job, new hair and contacts never swayed me from remembering a face. If what you say is true, I'm taking it as a need to know basis, but before I join whatever it is I'm joining, I need to know one thing from you boy," He says. If it were anyone else, I would know what they were going to ask, but Texas is a lot like me. We were both special cases when we joined the army, and then the Special Forces, but our considerable age gap made us generations APART. The brother wasn't old, but he was old enough to be considered an adult when Sienna and DIAMOND walked into our lives. "What is it?" "Is that girl as bad as you just made her out to be?" Texas asks me. "No," I already know the answer to that without even thinking about it, it wasn't Sienna's ways that made her so bad. "But add in her father, and the DeMarco's and you got a very dangerous woman," I tell him in all honesty. "Why do you say that, brother?" He sips his drink, "Surely, if she was lured away, she'll be different." "Not when you put a shadow and a girl who wants her identity back in the same lake." "I don't follow." I stare at Texas as he lifts his hat, a sign he actually gives a fuck. Well, he must, he was there. "Years ago, she confronted her sister, and begged her to believe she was alive. Marcus did a fucking clean job faking the kid's death, and Sienna was cool with it, on condition she got to know her sister from afar. And she did, but the cost came too high when her baby sister didn't even remember she had a sister. Diamond's mind blocked her past out. It was too traumatic for her, so she remembered only the new her." "But they were never really sisters, were they?" Texas says. "No, and that was something Marcus never shared with Sienna until that day. When she found out that Diamond was actually reunited with her actual father, Sienna went into a tailspin and tried to kill him. Frost jumped in and Sienna knocked her out cold, Diamond took a blade and stabbed her. The entire thing was a fuck show." "So what happened?" "Marcus called me, and I kicked her out. She stayed on the other side of the track in Liston Hills until her last exams, then I found her and made her leave. She stayed at her stepmother's place she inherited in Monte Carlo for a few a few months, and then she vanished for a good number of years until she popped up again, to visit Marcus, 6 years ago. He insisted she stay, but the next day she was gone. And then a few years back I saw her name on Frost's visit sheet at the pen. I asked her what Sienna wanted, but she brushed it off as a family visit. I tracked her down a few times, but she can elude anyone. She left false trails everywhere. Never quite figured out where she went to." "You think she is looking for the file?" "I know she is looking for something, the question is who the fuck is Sienna working for, because I know Natasha's drama was just the excuse she needed to worm her way back into my sister's life. If it is her father, I'll slit his throat in front of her before I let him get that file or Diamond." "Maybe giving her something else she wants would be a good idea. Women like things handed to them on a platter," Texas says as he takes a step forward. I TAKE a long pull of my beer. His advice is brilliant. "Lucca's quiet, too quiet." His observation is correct. For a man who wanted blood, he wasn't hunting for it. The night leaves the stains of the storm in the air, and every inhale is a reminder that the storm has only dried up for now. I don't tell Texas that Sienna is not like the other women; she loves the chase. Nor do I tell him that Lucca wasn't done with us. I think about Frost's words. I never wanted Sienna to come back, I wanted her gone forever. Maybe once upon a time I wanted her to make the choice and choose us, and come crawling back. It would have made things much easier. But she didn't. She chose a new life, and although I would never understand the mechanics of the heart, I understand her need to feel accepted. I think Gabriel DeMarco made her feel accepted, and for that reason she stayed with him. I guess that acceptance went so far when his father and Uncle posed a threat to her sister. Tomorrow a few visits were in order. I finish my beer and stay with Texas as he rolls his weed and smokes it. I stay away from Natasha, leaving her to my sister. Frost always thought there was something there, and maybe there is, but only because she reminds me of someone else. I get to bed and that night I eventually shut my mind down, but not before remembering the girl who haunts me in the deepest, darkest recesses of my mind. "Please Kevin, don't do this, please," She begs as my grip on her arm remains unyielding as I drag her to the car. Her eyes, big and scared, pleading. "You are like a cancer that eats on everything you touch," I scream at her as the rain pours. "Please, don't do this." "Save your breath Taylor, you will never win with me," "Where am I SUPPOSED to go?" "You will figure it out," I tell her, with no emotion, because I feel nothing. I don't feel a single thing as I open the car door and shove her inside the driver's seat. Her begging goes deaf in my ears. But if only that was true, if only I could forget the girl who made me forget I wasn't normal. She made it real.