Axel: Chapter 29
Kissing Mia’s back, across her shoulder and nuzzle into her neck, smiling against her skin as she smacks her lips and whispers, ‘Stop, I need more sleep.’
Chuckling, I kiss her cheek, slap her ass and climb out of bed, ‘Come on we’ve got a busy day.’ and as I stand I take hold of the bedcovers and pull them off leaving her naked and grabbing to cover herself.
Quickly showering, brushing my teeth and tying my hair into a bun, I walk back into the bedroom and see Mia has curled into a ball with my pillow squeezed into her middle.
Picking her up, I walk into the bathroom, stand her in the shower and switch it on, much to her disgust, squealing and cursing.
Laughing, I leave her in the shower and gallop down to the kitchen to have a drink and see what Shar has cooked up for breakfast.
‘Shar, are you going with Mia this afternoon to the club? She’s supposed to be working tonight but we have something on tonight so the club will be closed for cleaning,’ saying that has me grinning as no cleaning will be done, it’s just a cover up, ‘I need you both here while we are on the road.’
‘Oh, okay, I can do that Axel, no problem. Does Mia know as she’s said nothing to me?’
‘No, I don’t think I’ve had a chance to tell her yet, but she’ll be good. She enjoys working at the club.’ I say, grabbing a plate and piling it with breakfast casserole.
‘Tell me what?’ Mia asks as she heads to the counter to select her breakfast.
‘Tonight the club’s closed for cleaning, so you’ll be working late morning to late afternoon only today.’
Mia takes a couple of slices of toast and spreads with butter and jelly, then sits next to me, kissing my cheek as she settles down.
‘Silver and Knuckles will be at the club with you, and Chaos, I believe, will be stepping in for a while too.’
‘Oh great, I like Chaos. He’s got a great sense of humor.’ Shar says, grinning.
I turn to give her a good look at, ‘Now don’t you be causing any trouble, you hear me.’
‘Me? I don’t cause trouble.’ Shar responds, but has a cheeky look on her face.
‘They are both great. I trust them and I’m sure they’d do nothing to hurt the club. When they become full brothers, I bet they’ll be a great addition.’ Mia states and stands from the table, ‘I’m going clean and do our laundry, but I’ll be ready about ten thirty. Will that be okay?’
‘Yes, that’s good, Mav will take you both over and then you’ll have Silver and Knuckles with you.’ I repeat as I want her to know who will be around, ‘If any other brothers turn up, text me and let me know.’
Bending down, Mia kisses me gently, then smiles really sweetly, ‘Okay.’
Once Mia has left the kitchen, Shar leans over and pats my hand. ‘She loves you, Axel. Please don’t hurt her. She’s had so much hurt in her life. Even when we went to see Sharp, they locked us up rather than work with us. She said nothing, but I know she felt like it was another snub from that club.’
‘I’m not going to hurt her, Shar. I’m going to marry her and have kids. I’m in this until the end, until I take my last breath.’ I tell her, showing her my truth.
Entering my office, I take out my cellphone and text Target and Chaos. I need to know what’s going on at both the locations.
It only takes a moment for Target to get back to me, updating that nothing’s happening on either end, Chaos has gone to the apartment to get some sleep but he’ll be at the club after lunch and he has two homeless guys at the second location reporting back to him.
Drag and Buzz enter my office and closing the door behind them, we put our heads together and make sure the plans for this evening are all in place.
We need everyone to know where to be and what to do. No mistakes can be made as our lives depend on us getting this right.
MIA
Rushing to get through cleaning our room including the bathroom, I carry the basket of laundry to the laundry room, and find such a mess that I nearly explode.
Two commercial washing machines and dryers and all I can see is laundry, thankfully in baskets, but a lot of dirty laundry none-the-less.
I empty one machine and sort through our laundry, getting the machine going, I empty the dryers, then refill. My temper is rising and I feel about ready to really throw a tantrum, which is not my norm.
Looking over the baskets of dirty laundry, I see they are labeled so I know who’s is whose. I sort out the second machine and get a load started, then head out through the kitchen and into the common room.
Finding Brandy laying on one of the sofa’s has me seeing red, ‘Get your skanky ass up,’ I storm over to her and as she looks at me blankly I snap grabbing a huge chunk of her hair, dragging her to the laundry room.
Beer runs from behind the bar and follows shock written all over his face, ‘Mia, what are you doing, babe?’
‘I’m sick of these two lazy bitches. Shar is cooking, cleaning and doing laundry as and when she can and these lazy skanks do the least they can, well it stops now or they are out on the street.’ I screech, yep, I screech, my face is bright red and I can feel it, I’m livid, over the top angry.
‘Okay, so where are you taking her?’ Beer asks and as I look over at him, that’s when I notice he is taking a video of this.
Turning, I yank Brandy’s hair even harder, which makes her scream. She’s scratching at my hands, but I’m not letting go.
I smile for the camera and shake her head like she’s a dirty dog, then state, ‘This is what happens when you are a lazy, useless user. You eat our food, you sleep in our beds which are in our rooms, you get free laundry on top of all that and what do you do in return, fuck all, that’s what you do.’
Taking a deep breath, I smile again in the camera, ‘You get all that free, and let’s be honest you’ve not done your bit in a long time, I’ve checked with the brothers and no one has been in you in a long time, so you’re a waste of our resources.
‘Now get this shit cleaned up or pack your bags and get the fuck out of here.’ That’s when I throw her onto the laundry room floor, wave and smile at the camera and walk away.
Beer laughs and I can’t help but smirk as that felt good, really good. As I’m heading back to our room to get ready for work, I keep my eyes open for Bubbles because she’s the next one to get my anger.
My cell pings and looking at it, it seems Beer sent the video to the brothers and they’re sending congratulations and well done messages.
Shar bursts through the door, slams her hands on her hips and states loudly, ‘What the fuck Mia, I wanted in on that, couldn’t you have texted me and I would have rushed down.’
Looking at her screwed up expression, I can’t help but release all the anger and start to laugh. Holding out my hand, I wriggle my fingers for her to give me her cell as I want to see this video I’m the star in.
Walking into Club Whisky Mav makes sure we alerted Silver and Knuckles of our arrival and Shar and I go into the locker room, place our purses and jackets away, then head out to start behind the bar.
For lunchtime, it’s pretty busy. I see some of our regulars, but I note a group of four that seem rough around the edges. They need a good bath and clean up by the looks of them.
I get busy wiping down and checking the bar area while Shar and Sue are clearing tables and speaking to customers.
‘Hey babe, how you doing?’ I hear and turn to see Chaos leaning on the bar.
Smiling, I get him a bottle of water that he asked for and hand him a bag of chips. ‘I’m okay. How are you? I’ve not seen you for a while.’
‘Been busy, but I hear you have as well. Target told me you went to your old club and got yourself locked up.’ he chuckles but not in an amused way, ‘They got a fucking nerve if you ask me and Mia, if you hadn’t got out when you did I was comin’ to get you both.’
Tears fill my eyes because that is about the nicest thing anyone has ever said or wanted to do for me in a long time.
‘Don’t cry babe, both me and Target would always come for you.’ he holds my hand and smiles.
‘Thank you Chaos, you’ve no idea how much that means to me.’ But before I can say anymore an argument breaks out between the rough table I’d seen and three of our regulars.
Shar is trying to talk them down, have them see sense rather than a fight break out, but it looks like it’s not working at this point.
‘Stay behind the bar Mia.’ Chaos says, then saunters over to see what’s going on. I note Knuckles has also entered the argument, but so have others, so there must be about eight of them shouting now.
I’m just going to shout Shar to come over to me when the first punch is thrown and chaos ensues. Knuckles throws in and I cringe when I see the punch he lands on one.
Shar gets pushed into a table and drops her tray of empty glasses and beer bottles. She looks up at me and gives me that look that has me thinking, shit.
Before I can shout to her, Shar jumps on the nearest mans back, wraps and locks her legs around his waist and grabs a chunk of his hair in each of her hands, then pulls his hair as hard as she can in as many directions as she can.
The man spins around shouting ‘Get off bitch.’ but Shar hangs on and just keeps changing direction of her hair pulling.
When he tries to throw her over his head, Shar sticks her fingers into his ears and pushes them in for all she’s worth, which has him bellowing loudly.
Now forgive me for saying this, but shit, this is the funniest thing I’ve ever seen.
Chaos rushes over to Shar and tells her to let go, but she looks over at him, grins like a loon and kicks her feet on the man’s stomach, grabs his hair again and commences to ride him like a horse, to top if off she yells ‘Yee-haw.’
Chaos busts out laughing, then grabs Shar around the waist and pulls her off the man. Spinning him around, Chaos punches him with a series of hits before the man drops to the floor, out cold.
Shar laughs, jumps up and smacks a kiss on Chaos, then turns around and sedately walks back to the bar, laughing her ass off.
The riot in the room continues. I decided to just enjoy it and lean my elbows on the bar and take it all in. What a day this is turning out to be, and it’s not late afternoon yet.