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Jem…Chapter 60
Chapter 60
I’m blushing at the comparison and the compliment. You’re definitely a Powers woman…
And with this whole thing of me discovering who I am as Angel and figuring out that I’m transgendered it never really occurred to me to think about that. Like where I fit into the women of the family.
“Uhm thank you…”
He sort of smiles and shrugs. “Your cousin Jenna’s one of the best cooks I know and the same goes true for her grandmother.”
“Oh…I don’t really know much about any of them. Uncle Johnny was a guy I met like twice when I was really little and then he was living in the states.”
“Grams can cook.”
“Grams?”
“When she’s out at Jenna’s staying and stuff everyone calls her Grams.”
“Oh cool.” I think it’s cool that she sounds like one of those grandmothers that’s sort of everyone’s grandmother.
“Very.” Yeah he’s a quiet one. There’s an edge to him too but at the same time I can plainly see a nice guy there. If he was a bad guy he wouldn’t have come to help much less bring along baked goods from half way across the country.
“I really hope that I’ll get to meet them sometime.”
“Go visit sometime, maybe in the summer.”
“I’ll have to do that….” Oh…oh wait it just sinks in that he said I was a Powers…shit he knows? “Uhm….How…”
“John, him and your dad talked, and John talked to us. The pink hair’s kind of a give away though.”
“Oh…” I’m not sure what to do or say but then he’s not watching me but his biker friend who’s talking with Dad and Mike and Mitch…Mitch is over mixing paints with Brooklyn and he’s not looking happy?
“What’s going on?”
“Balancing old accounts.”
“Huh?”
“Mike there was involved in something with family of the club and the guys that were harassing you all are here for him.”
“What!?”
“He got some of their family arrested and they want payback. We’re here because this rich kid got his ass up over some things that Mike’s been doing and had him investigated and he reached out to the guys and told Mike he was here.”
“Adam…” My fists clench around the cooler. “Mike’s here because of me.”
“So are we.”
“So now what?”
“Mike’s going to have to give these guys a pound of flesh and then it’s done and over.”
“But he shouldn’t have too this is stupid.”
“It’ll happen anyway, they know he’s here and it’ll either be their way which would be messy or our way which will mean it’s over since Mike’s been Nephewed in.”
“Nephewed in?”
“You old man, he’s got friends in the club.”
“So it means it’s over.”
“No it means they’re not going to kill him but it’s taken down from serious revenge to a beef inside the club and Mike’ll still have to answer for that.”
“But this is my fault!”
“Not in the least bit, if anything Mike’s getting a reprieve for being family. This is something that is because of something Mike did before he came here. It’s only coming to a head here because the little rich fucker showed them where he was…it would have happen sooner or later regardless.”
I’m shaking a bit I’m that upset and angry, and right in that hot faced headachey spot right before crying.
“Uncle Mitch is just going to stand there?”
“Yeah because he knows this becomes a cop thing and it’s back on to Mike being outside the club’s protection.”
“But this…”
I can’t help it the tears start falling and the thing is I know they’re right. The police get re-involved between this and it’ll change whatever favors Dad had pulled and so does Uncle Mitch and apparently Brooklyn too by the look on her face.
I know some people might say that we should get the police involved but that would just escalate things because it’ll turn into biker family versus cop family and it could just turn so sour so fast.
I turn and storm into the house with the cinnamon rolls and I’m trying not to think about how bad this might get but instead focus my anger on the real son of a bitch that’s behind all of this.
“Fucking Adam!”
***………….. Adam.
I was asleep or rather sleeping in after the long day and night I had. Securing Summer and Kisses and Thorns was pretty easy and it was always fun taking Summer shopping, I love it when they dig their own graves.
Clothes, girl junk, but she’s a shiny whore and likes her jewellery. All for her image of course.
It was even good when I took her after that in the motel with her dressed as Jem. She might try to seem like she likes it…but I know she hates it. But that makes it all the more fun especially with the wig and the clothes and the make-up.
After that it was going to meet Justin and making plans for later then that meeting with the biker trash. I showed my cards a little there…just enough muscle and my gun so they know who not to fuck with.
Then going to “The House.” Things are going well there or they’re starting too…all those whores owe me and for me not ruining their lives they run my private parties. Do who I tell them to do…it’s not like them being greedy sluts isn’t in their natures it’s how they got trapped in the first place.
And no it’s not just about the sex or them being degraded or beaten…I have lots of tapes with many sons of people who know things or have access to things being with these girls…my under aged girls…even the girls get picked not just because I know I can bend then break them but also like the sons I picked them because they have access to things.
I’m slowly getting the town wired, not like my father or my grandfather but on my own, under the cover of youth because no one would suspect I’m getting my leverage and control from my own generation.
I was woken up by the knowing on my door.
That has to be my father.
Grandfather had his mercenary butler give the old man a beating just outside of the country club. My father’s useless…a coward in the worst of ways and he’ll never inherit the empire. He just doesn’t have the balls.
“It’s open.”
He comes in and I’m getting up, he’s got two video recorders in his hands. I frown, those I hadn’t heard about from the talk of what had happened at the club. My bikers went to them over my head…and more than one camera.
I honestly didn’t think Dane was that smart to go to grandfather, still it works for my plans.
I’m getting dressed and he’s looking at me. “Your grandfather has an order.”
“Oh?” Buttboy.
“The families of the bikers you’ve threatened they’re off limits, you are to have nothing to do with them period.”
“And why is that are they blackmailing us?”
“No you little shit they sent two people here to make sure of it from their leadership or whatever you call it.”
“Why? And their called Clubs I believe.”
“Because we have an agreement with them.”
“Over?”
“Shipping or somesuch, I don’t care.”
Hmm..I see… “Fine…I’ll leave things be.”
“What?”
“I’ll leave things alone, I have better things to do that to really get involved with this riff-raff anymore.”
“He want’s to see you.”
“Fine, I’ll be there once I’m cleaned up.”
“Here…don’t be so damned stupid next time you almost ended up getting all of us into hot water.” He tosses the video-cameras on the bed. He’s staring at me like I’m a disappointment. I give him a bland stare back. He hasn’t been brave enough to beat me up for his failings as a man in two years ever since I got my growth spurt and matched him in size…only I’m younger.
Oh I see his fist clenching a little and he wants to but the last time he did I bloodied him and then beat him. He hasn’t laid hands on me drunk or high or even sober since.
Like I said weak…he grew up in this house too…but he wasn’t hungry enough to try for more…instead he settled for being a rich boy and pandered just enough law to look respectable and the rest of his life has been dumb whores and booze and cocaine.
I stare him down until he leaves then get out of bed and go and get a pair of gloves and some Glad-bags. I put the cameras in them and hide them away with the clothes and the shoes and the gun I had last night. It’ll go well with the other evidence…it wasn’t me at that meeting I have witnesses…and well there’s the fact all of it is his including some slowly gathered amounts of his various drug stashes.
My poor father in too deep with the drugs and now those bikers…
I lock the combination lock and cover the spot up and get dressed and head to grandfathers office. I wonder what he’ll say, what he knows and what ultimatum he’ll put out there.
I’m wondering about these other bikers, how will I deal with them? Are they even a factor?
I knock respectfully before entering his office. Simon is there and while I’ve never been on the receiving end of Simon having a “talk” with you I’d just as soon not give him cause.
I respect the old bastard because of the generation he came up in of the way he controls everyone and everything. Like at the country club…everyone knew what was happening outside to my father but no one even acknowledged it happening. He’s that much in control…he’s that feared and respected.
I’m going to be that too…
I smile at grandfather who’s smoking a Cuban cigar and nod to Simon who’s there as always.
“You wanted to see me sir?”
I’m going to be feared and respected on my own and then…then I will take what’s yours before you die old man.
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Arrrgh!
Adam deserves to be dissolved in sulfuric acid while alive!
Growls,
Moon
He's a Bad Man and still a teenager.
He's a real chip of the old beheading block isn't he?
*Great Big Angel Hugs*
Bailey.
Bailey Summers
Try hydrochloric it works
Try hydrochloric it works better not that I would know * suspicious shifty eyes*
Vermin
Some are just too dangerous to be allowed to live. Adam is so close to being a psychopath, it doesn't matter. However, there is a snake like cunning too.
I was expecting his father's beating to be passed down to him. It wasn't. Now, with this meeting we'll see what the old man himself thinks.
Jenna and Jem cooking together. Hmmm good! That has just got to happen!
hugs
Grover
It's been a look it the Marshal's dark world.
Scary but there really are families this bad out there.
I'll definitely see to thee being a short crossing of the stories for a family cooking session.
*Big Hugs*
Bailey.
Bailey Summers
GRRR!
I agree with Angel. All Mike did was expose some bad people who were then arrested, no more than any undercover cop would do, and he did a good thing helping protect other kids. That he has to engage in some primitive gladiatorial contest to resolve this is just wrong. And unfair. It just plain sucks. Yet, I can't think of any other way out of this at the moment. Angel and the girls need the Club to back off before one of them gets killed. Freaking Adam. *grrrrrrrr!!!!*
Ewwwww! Adam's dirty little mind again! Where's the soap? ;-)
The more I read of Adam's family the more I'm reminded of the words of Machiavelli that could prove to be their downfall, in that a ruler "ought to inspire fear in such a way that, if he does not win love, he avoids hatred". The Marshall's might be feared but the manipulative brutality of Adam is clearly also inspiring a lot of hatred that with a catalyst like Angel could rise up against him. If... when... their empire come tumbling down there will be a lot of people out for a piece of the Marshall's beyond just the law. A little piece of me kinda hopes that like mythical snake the Marshall's end up devouring themselves in the end.
Another short (and heavy chapter) as things keep building in this excellent enthralling story. :-)
Still, with all the angst in this Images and other stories, I'm kind looking forward to a happy chapter of something soon! Where's Darcy when I need her!! ;-)
"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."
Wrong and unfair
A lot of societies have different levels of justice, most of which are going to seem pretty harsh to those of us more used to a neat, tidy system of justice with police, courts and jails. The thing is, as much as we'd like to, we can't impose our system on everybody. Gang justice is tough and brutal, but it is effective. At times it is much more effective than a court system. Like a wolf pack (and make no mistake, these are wolves) the toughest and fittest survive and impose their rules on the rest. The alpha pack has imposed the alpha's rules on the other packs. The amazing thing to me is that there is a rule to provide for a settling of grievances short of death or all-out warfare. That's actually pretty civilized.
Then of course we have the other pack problem - The Marshalls. If your Alpha happens to be insane, that is an internal problem. Somebody must arise from within to depose the alpha. That should have been the father's problem, but he is not vicious enough and tough enough to take the alpha's role. Therefore his son is set on doing that. As long as it stays internal to the Marshall's "pack", there's no problem. But should this spill over to the outside of the pack (and it will) the alpha pack will have to deal with it. Nasty and brutal, but effective.
Oh, BTW, Jemima. After your protests of that sort of rule in the first paragraph, your third paragraph sounds as if you are advocating that exact course of action in paragraph three. Alphas don't retire, they are torn to bits by the pack. And if the new alpha can't command obedience, the pack will tear him up too, then tear each other up in a futile fight for pack leadership.
“When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn’t become a king. The palace becomes a circus.” - Turkish Proverb
Actually, I do want the
Actually, I do want the Marshall's to answer to the legal system, particularly given how above the law they feel they are. I just think it's more likely given how they treat people that there is real chance that in the end they will end up answering to someone else or coming to an end at their own hands. As for Adam, he really, really, really does repulse me (he's very well written that way) and I think I'm only human in a small part of me entertaining the idea of an apt fate for him. It's only fiction after all. :-)
As for Mike, well I still think what the Club is proposing is wrong and unfair but then that's what I love about Bailey's writing. He really engages an emotional response from me in the things he throws at his characters!
"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."
Love the wolf analogies:)
it really sort of fits the ideology in the biker mentality and the Marshals are a bit more of the bad feral dogs than wolves. But the whole thing is so on the money.
*Big Hugs*
Bailey.
Bailey Summers
It's a complex situation and one Angel hates.
And despite the fact Davey told her that it was inevitable she's really laying the blame for this happening down on Adam and she's hurt and pissed.
I will try to get to Darcy again soon:)
Though...I'd love to see the latest chapter of our story Jemima.
*Great Big Hugs*
Bailey.
Bailey Summers
work in progress
I'm assuming that there was a missing 'y' there and you meant 'your' or I'm going to look a fool! Well, more of a fool than usual. *blush* I hit a bit of a work related writing block but things are slowly clearing and I'm getting stuff down again. It might take a little longer than I'd hoped but I'm finally producing stuff that I'm not deleting on review, so I will finish what I've started. :-)
"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."
The Plot Thickens
The Plot Thickens. In the end this festering little boil will get popd a big one, but for now we have a case study of a sociopath growing up. In the present time I can only wish that Adam has hit the first of the greasy slides into the jaws of his doom.
With those with open eyes the world reads like a book
It's still going to be a hard ride yet Misha:)
Adam's not going anywhere soon or he things so and he's got his own plans and dreams...starting his own separate empire from the family, taking over everything from his family...and manipulating Jem into being his little whore.
*Big Hugs*
Bailey.
Bailey Summers
Adam seems to get more dangerous all the time
If he somehow gets his grandfather out of the way, watch out ....
Yes...and it'll drive him ever further into villainy.
He's not just power hungry and a sadist he hates women too. Even I'm not mentally going there yet.
*Great Big Angel Hugs*
Bailey...I proud big brother:)
Bailey Summers
Okay, so what is actually going to happen to Mike?
Is this one sided, or does he get the chance to stand up for himself? Is it a fight they want, or just to kick his ass with no resistance (which sounds kinda childish and wimpy)?
Adam is making enemies all around, and when he needs friends, they won't be there. Good.
Wren
Mike will have a chance to fight back Billy will see to it.
But they still want to hurt him and kick his ass hard for what he did. Adam's got no friends...he doesn't even consider the sheep in his personal flock friends just tools, favorite tools but still tools.
*Big Hugz*
Bailey.
Bailey Summers
Gee, thanks for dipping us into Adumb's brain again
.... NOT! :)
And here I had finally cleaned that last bit, from the last time, from out between the folds of my ... erm never mind.
Angel is a gentle soul of course but if Adam had been in the room at that moment ...
Kim
Kimmie...this is partly your doing...
you had to make me think about a Marshal family POV and well the rest is spin off from that. Angel would've been mad enough she's have definitely tried to hit Adam....maybe with a big frying pan.
*Big Hugs*
Bailey.
Bailey Summers
Me?
*Angelic halo appears over my head*
Kim
Well well well
You can set up with the best Bailey, nice job at setting the stage for nastiness, and getting even. while not as emotionally satisfying as some chapters, this one needed to be written, and it lets the story advance apace. Thank you Bailey
Draflow
Set up's important Draflow:)
when the things start to happen it'll all lead hopefully to this really great emotional rollercoaster...Hang on:)
*Big Hugs*
Bailey.
Bailey Summers
don't push Powers women...
you push them too far and they do strike back.
looks like something is about to pop.
great chapter, thanks
Angel especially...Jase never caved and neither will she:)
Angel is so not going to be taking things as they are for very much longer. Adam's crossing a line and her family is getting hurt.
*Hugs and Howls*
Bailey.
Bailey Summers
If I were Adam Bailey
I would start saying my prayers!
I think Granddad will out live him.
Good one!
Hugs
Age is an issue of mind over matter.
If you don't mind, it doesn't matter!
(Mark Twain)
LoL
Rita
As the saying goes my dear Rita...
Age and Treachery...Age and Treachery.
*Big Hugs*
Bailey.
Bailey Summers
Adam's Death Will Need To Be..
very,very painful. Notice I said death, because he deserves to be six feet under for what he's done. His family that remain all need to spend the rest of their lives behind bars for what they've done to the entire community.
There are so many girls scarred for life because of Adam.
He tricked them and cornered them while being sweet to them and he's using them as he see's fit which is not good since he hates women. His family has a lot of allies but an even bigger group of enemies...most are just too scared.
*Big Hugs*
Bailey.
Bailey Summers
Ideally....
...the entire Marshall clan needs to topple. Adam I and II are bad enough, but Adam III is another thing entirely - each time we meet him, his charge sheet grows. This time we've got sexual slavery / rape (especially as the girls are underage).
Unfortunately, the nature of the disagreement between Mike and the gang probably means that nobody saw fit to make a copy of those rather incriminating video recordings, which would have been excellent evidence.
Even so, the parties Adam throws could be one opportunity to bring him down - if word got out there were underage girls being used for sexual entertainment and the media happened to be on the scene when the premises were raided (thus making it impossible to cover up), the sheer fact the event was (probably) on Marshall land, run by the Marshalls and financed by them would presumably make them culpable of something even if no direct documentation could be found linking the girls and the Marshalls.
As the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body, then only left-handers are in their right mind!
Adam actually has plans for the video evidence.
And he's very careful about the trail he leaves with certain things but yes the sex scheme could get him into trouble. The prostitution charges would be bad but not that bad in exchange foe the information and the blackmail and extortion benefits he's been reaping in.
Mind you the Crown Prosecutor would love it because he'd so use it as probable cause for looking into the family books.
*Big Hugs!*
Bailey.
Bailey Summers
Good stuff, thanks Big
Good stuff, thanks
Big hugs
Lizzie :)
Bailey's Angel
The Godmother :p