I’d just put my phone back in my pocket when a text sounded.  I pulled it out to check who it was from and just about came on the spot.

Harlow: I’ll cover up for the ride on your bike but when I ride your cock there’ll be nothing separating my pussy from you.

Me: Fuck, woman.  That dirty mouth of yours is gonna get you in trouble one day.

Harlow: Promises, promises...

Shit.  I jammed my phone back in my pocket before she continued to tease me and my dick.  How the hell had an asshole like me been lucky enough to find a woman who was so pure and yet so dirty at the same time?

***

“So, you’re telling me that you do want to start a war with Black Deeds now.” Blade concluded from everything we’d just told him.  His hard eyes were glued to mine.

“We need to hit them before they hit us,” Dad said.

Blade moved his gaze away from me to Dad and then leant back in his chair. We were sitting in his office.  It was an impressive looking office with all the latest technology.  Actually, Blade’s whole setup was quite flash; it didn’t fit with the image I had of him as a seedy, drug dealing scumbag.  His warehouse was large, very clean, sleek and looked to be well organised from what I’d seen walking through it to the office.  I’d also caught a quick glimpse of his security room and he appeared to have high end stuff.  He also had a lot of men working for him; another surprise to me.

After a long pause where it seemed that he was weighing something up in his mind, he leant forward again and said, “We’ve been tracking Black Deeds for a long time.  Some of them are the lowest fucking scum on Earth as far as I’m concerned, and trust me, I’ve dealt with some scum.  After a thorough analysis of their operation we decided to target their porn business.  We’ve almost crippled them there.  They rely on their drug trade to pay their porn debt.  Without their drug business they can’t service the debt.  We’re working on taking their drug business away from them.”

Fuck.  I’d seriously underestimated Blade.  “The coke business isn’t what you’re after at all, is it?”

“No.”  Those hard eyes hit mine again, and I had to wonder what lay behind them; what made him tick.

“Care to enlighten us as to what is?”  Dad asked what I was thinking.

Blade paused again.  “Bullet and some other members will be eliminated and Black Deeds will be rebuilt by a new president.”

“You do realise they have other chapters they’ll call in, don’t you?  It won’t just be this chapter you have to deal with.”

“I’m not a man who doesn’t finish what he started.  I’m also a very patient man.  This plan has been in place for two years and the research on it was conducted over the prior year.  Those other chapters won’t be a problem; I can assure you of that.”

My father was looking at Blade like he hardly knew him.  “You’ve been working on this for three years and I never knew about it?”

Blade’s face contorted in anger, and he shoved his chair back and stood.  “What do you know about me, Marcus?  Tell me what the fuck you actually know about me,” he thundered.

I settled in to hear this.  Looked like Blade and I had something in common after all; a burning contempt for our father.

“I thought I knew that you ran a gang that was involved in robberies, prostitution and drugs.”

“Turns out you were wrong,” Blade snapped.

“Would have been nice for my son to tell me the truth.”

“What the fuck do you know about being truthful?”  The anger swirling around Blade was palpable; I was starting to think he had more anger in him than I had in me.

Dad looked like he was about to explode with his own anger.  Fuck, we were just one big happy fucking family.  I stepped forward and broke through their tense standoff.  “Blade, what’s the reason?  What have you got against Black Deeds?”

The pain that ran across his face was clear and appeared to run deep.  “Three years ago, Bullet and three of his club members murdered my girlfriend.  Ashley and I had been together for five years and were planning to get married.  This particular night she was out with friends celebrating one of their birthdays.  She tried to call me to come pick her up but I missed her call.  From what the police worked out, her drink was spiked at some point and they took her after that.  They gang raped her and slit her throat.  Same as what they did to Madison’s friend.”

“Christ,” I muttered, the horror of it hitting me and dissipating some of my hostility towards him.

He nodded.  “Since investigating them, I’ve discovered there are more women out there who’ve died at their hands.”

“So why not just kill them and be done with it?” Dad asked.

“The current VP of Black Deeds wants out of porn and drugs.  He’s watched what you’ve done with Storm and wants something similar; something that doesn’t bring them so much heat.  He and I have been working together to make that happen.  It would have been easier just to kill them but this way I’ve gotten to watch Bullet shit himself while he’s been losing everything he’s worked towards.  Easy revenge doesn’t give the same sense of satisfaction as this has.”

Blade was one cold and ruthless man, that was for sure.  The fact that he’d calculated this plan in such detail put him in that category.