Southern Steel - Titan

10. Ari

"Ari you have a visitor. He looks like one of your biker friends and so hot." The charge nurse said to me as I was coming out of the room just finishing up stitches on a patient. Who would be coming by?

As I turned the hallway, I noticed who it was and took a run and dove into my brother's arms. "Grayson when did you get home?"

"Hey Ella. God I missed you baby sis. I got in a few hours ago and went to the house to drop my gear and shower up. I figured I could come see you then run some errands, and we could go to dinner with Bishop and Cole."

"That's sounds perfect. I have about an hour left on shift and then I can meet you back at the house. I got a ride into work this morning. I need to pick my car up from a friend's place after work then I'm free." No way am I having this long ass conversation right now about dating the president of a biker club. Maybe my uncles could help be a buffer at dinner.

"What kind of friend?" He narrowed his eyes. Grayson never missed anything. He was a navy seal and reading people was his specialty. "We'll discuss this at dinner."

"Can't wait." I rolled my eyes at him.

After my shift ended I texted Titan that I was coming to the clubhouse to get my car since he had insisted on driving me to work this morning. So far he hadn't returned my texts.

I got out of the Uber and made my way through gate waving at the prospect manning the front. I saw Becky and another club whore sitting on the porch.

Becky's annoying voice said, "just saw Titan go down to the basement, if you're looking for him." She gave me a weird smirk.

I ignored her and walked into the club house. It was empty so I headed to the basement door where I'd seen them go to get alcohol to restock the bar before. I headed down the stairs and heard some muffled noises down the hall. I came to a door and heard Titan's voice so I opened the door and stopped dead in my tracks.

There in the room was A man tied to a chair beaten and bloody. Titan was standing next to him with blood on him looking like a raging beast. Also in the room was Wilder and Trigger looking like they had all been in a brawl.

They all turned towards the door. Wilder and Trigger looked stunned. The look on Titan's face looked deadly as he whipped around to see who opened the door.

Without a second thought, I closed the door and ran out to my car and headed towards home. I needed to process what had just happened. What did I just see? My phone rang, and I saw Titan's name light up the screen. I shut my phone off and made my way to my house.

I knew I would give Titan a chance to explain. I had just been shocked and needed a moment. I'm not an idiot. I know things happen in biker clubs that may fall into a grey area. I'd heard things growing up military that were sketchy. Once my head was on straight after dinner, I'd call Titan and give him a chance to talk. I needed to take a breath, be with my family, and contemplate if I was cut out for this lifestyle.

Titan

"FUCK! Trigger handle this I need to go." I said after I got my shit together after seeing her standing in the door with a look of terror on her face. I ran upstairs and saw her pulling out of the clubhouse.

I couldn't chase after her until I showered the blood off of myself, that certainly would help my case. I quickly showered and headed to her house. As I got in view of her place I saw her walking out the door and climbing on the back of some motherfucker's bike! Hell no!

I decided to follow them and saw them pull park on the main drag of town. I looked where they walked into and felt my heart simultaneously break and start to race at the same time. The doors they walked into, the God. Damned. Sheriff's. Office!

My mind whirled as I sped back to the clubhouse. Was she playing me this whole time? Did she have another man? She looked awfully comfortable on the back of another fucking guy's bike. The sheriff's office? Was she reporting what she just saw? SHIT!

The closer I got the more pissed off I got that I'd been played. Was any of it real? She sure didn't hesitate to run to the authorities.

I got back to the clubhouse and saw Trigger. "We got a problem. Get some prospects to scrub down that room and move shit in there to look like a full storage room. Has he been dealt with?"

"Yea he's gone. Code also got some info on the liquor shipments that have come up missing on their way. Apparently there is gang about an hour away that isn't happy and want to cause us some issues so they can move more into our territory. What's up Prez?" He asked.

I sat down at the bar and grabbed a bottle of whiskey. Opening it a took a drink straight out of the bottle.

"We've been played man! This is exactly why I don't trust women. Bitch has another man and went straight to the sheriff after leaving here."

"Ari?" Wilder asked as he walked up.

"Yep!" I said as I point the bottle at him. "She's a whore who rode off on the back of some other man's bike and is probably turning us in right now as we speak."

"No way man!" Mack said from the side of the bar. "Doesn't sound like her. She'd confront you first. You need to stop drinking and get your head on straight before you say or do something you'll regret."

"I wouldn't believe it either, but I saw it with my own eyes. She was on the back of some guys bike and then they went into the sheriff's office. She's a cheater and a fuckin narc!" My head and heart were at war. I wanted to rip my heart out to stop it from hurting. My head was telling me what an idiot I was. I knew better than to let someone in.

About half a bottle later the music cranked up and the club girls started coming out to play. I took my bottle of whiskey and sat on one of the couches. Maybe I could just sit here and drink until I didn't remember.