Devils Rebels (MC)

41 - What's the Plan?

Rip POV

I couldn't look anyone in the eyes. Asher had the joys of telling everyone that she was gone. Everyone fell quiet and soon enough I felt someone's hand on my shoulders. It was Zipper, his eyes held pity making my skin crawl.

"I'm sorry for your loss Rip. We need to plan the next course of action though. We need to not let her death be in vain." I glared at him and smacked his hand, moving away from him.

"Yeah I know. Asher and I already have a base of the plan done. We just need to get everyone on board and get ready. Make sure everyone is in the living room. I'm calling a club meeting now." With that I turned on my heels and went to sit on the couch, where Asher was on the phone talking to Jay.

I looked over at him and he nodded, pressing on the speakerphone. Jays scraggly voice came through angry and tired as he huffed, "Well there is movement from within their manor on the outskirts of the city. Justin, my eyes and ears on the inside says that Roman is having the ceremony tonight. Says her body is there in the room that had been designated as hers before her quote on quote death." Asher and I exchanged a look before he asked what we both were thinking.

"He's still going through the ceremony with her being dead? Doesn't he uh... have to consummate the marriage in order for the supposed Goddess to grant immortality?" He asked, crinkling his nose up in disgust.

Jay laughed dryly before grunting and clearing his throat, "No. The ceremony is more for show to his members that he has been blessed by the Goddess in the flesh. Meaning that Nyx is supposedly the Goddess in her human form. What will take place in his private chambers however is vastly different than merely consummating the marriage. During the consummation he will make a tiny cut at the base of her neck and drink her blood. Following that he will speak in his native tongue the ritual and then he will have to share his blood with her. Once that's been done the Goddess is said to appear and bestow immortality on them both. No one has ever been able to achieve this though."

Asher pursed his lips before glancing my way for a moment, his eyes unreadable, "Jay did Justin say whether or not Nyx was alive or dead? Did he speak as if she was gone?"

I looked over at him questioning where he was going with this. She was dead, we were both there. We had seen her lifeless body and had seen that the monitors were showing her lack of a heartbeat. If this was his way of trying to hold out hope that she was still alive it was futile. All that mattered now was that this bastard be destroyed before he could defile her body.

Jay sighed, "Actually he didn't even talk about her as a person, more like an object. He doesn't seem too fond with the idea of Roman taking her for a bride. Justin says that if we want to get to her and stop everything we have to act now. He says there won't be much time before everything happens. I've sent you the address. You'll need backup so I've sent my men your number. They'll let you know when they're in place to infiltrate. I'm sure they'll enjoy getting a hold of Roman. I'll have them contact you within the hour." and with that the phone disconnected.

I frowned and looked down at my hands mulling over everything that Jay had said. Was there a chance that she hadn't been dead? If so, then how? How would she still be alive?

Asher cleared his throat, bringing my attention back to him, "The guys are on their way back. We need to let 'em know what Jay said and we have to get everything ready for tonight. We'll need four of us to get everything we need from the warehouse and then to transport it here so we can be ready for anything. I can have the guys make the molotovs ahead of time." I nodded in agreement.

"Yeah that sounds like a great idea. We'll need to be sure that someone cuts the power though. I want to be able to get in and get to her quickly. If she is alive I want no more harm to come to her."

Asher nodded and got up to pace, "Agreed. Though we have to figure out what room she is in. For that we need Jays contact inside the cult to give that information up. As you heard, we don't have a lot of time before that ceremony takes place."

I grimaced thinking about it, I didn't want to imagine someone getting it on with my supposedly dead girlfriend.

Asher stopped pacing and looked over at me, his eyes had darkened significantly with rage, "We are going to get her back Rip. We will get her back and I hope for your sake that she's alive."

I looked away and swallowed, my heart hammering in my chest. I hoped the same but I wasn't about to say that. I had to keep my head clear with the plan at hand. We had to stop Roman as soon as possible no matter the cost.