Page 22 of Gash (The Skulls #13)

Gash stared at the television as the news

reporter talked about the explosion at the hotel. The white

envelope he’d taken from the room lay on the table in church. His

brothers were around them, and he rubbed his hands together,

waiting for Whizz to turn off the television.

Silence fell around the room as the

television went silent.

“ I didn’t put any explosives in

the bag,” Whizz said.

“ Master got to Jeff before I

could. Rebecca was there as well, and he’d tortured and killed

her.”

“ Wait, Master?” Lash asked,

looking toward Tiny.

The room was full with all The Skulls, and

Gash nodded. “Yes, Jeff said he was hired seven years ago by

someone known as Master. He never fucking met the bastard, but he

was paid by him to do this kind of shit.”

“ Do you know Master?” Tiny

asked.

“ I don’t know shit.” Gash

stood and started pacing the room. “You don’t think I had a freak

out when his name was mentioned? Fuck!”

“ It looks like we’ve found our

next problem,” Baker said. He was sitting near the door. Out of all

of The Skulls, he was the silent, brooding kind. “Master doesn’t

just have a problem with Chaos Bleeds, he’s got a problem with us

as well.”

“ I don’t know who he

is.”

“ Whoever it is got the

means to put you in prison on bogus charges. He gives money, and we

know he likes women. You need to call Devil,” Tiny said, looking

toward Lash.

“ Did you locate Andrew?”

Gash asked.

Whizz shook his head.

“Nope.”

“ You don’t think the two

could be related?” Tiny asked.

“ Andrew was a weak little shit.

He was sick in the head, and he was all over drugs. There’s no way

he could be as powerful as Master,” Gash said. “You’ve got more of

a chance of Andrew selling shit about The Skulls to this mystery

guy than you have of him being an actual problem.”

Gash wouldn’t even give his brother a

thought.

“ What does the letter say?”

Lash asked.

“ I’ve not opened it. I

called ahead to get you guys here, and Charlotte didn’t even open

it.” Gash reached out, opening the letter.

“ What does it say?” Hardy

asked.

Gash read the letter out. “Consider this a

gift. I’ve dealt with the whore. She had to learn her place. Enjoy

Jeff. He’s no longer useful to me. Chat soon. M.” Gash threw the

letter down. “This guy is not playing by any rules.”

“ That’s the point. There are no

rules to him. He even kills people who work for him,” Lash said.

“This is serious. Until we know more, I want us all on lockdown.

Everyone back at the club. The bitches will go back to their rooms

in the basement. Kids are going to be here when they’re not at

school. None of the old ladies are to leave the clubhouse unless

they have a prospect or one of the men with them, understood?” Lash

looked at all of them.

All of the men agreed.

“ Whizz, get your ass on the

computer. Find everything associated with Jeff, before today, and

even before Gash was sent to prison. I want to know everything

about this bastard, where he went to school, his parents, even when

he took a shit. The same goes for Rebecca. I want any possible lead

that will show who Master is.”

“ I’ll put a call through to

speak to Brianna and Jessica. Both women were captured by Master. I

might get some details, maybe even work out some facial recognition

or some shit,” Whizz said.

“ Do that. I want us all watching

our backs and the club.” Lash slammed his hand down on the table.

“Dismissed.”

Gash left the church room before

anyone else, and went to Charlotte. He tugged her in his arms and

slammed his lips against hers. The guys at the club whistled and

hollered, and he didn’t give a fuck. Cupping her cheek, he sank his fingers

into her hair, holding her close. She opened up, and he slid his

tongue into her mouth, tasting her. Charlotte was his compensation

for dealing with this Master shit.

Finally, she pulled away, her eyes

closed. He watched her lick her lips, and his cock thickened,

imagining her lips around his dick.

When she opened her eyes, she glanced

around the room. “Everyone is watching us.”

“ I don’t care.” Taking hold

of her hand, he turned to the guys, lifting their hands for

everyone to see. “Charlotte, she’s my old lady, my woman. I’ll be

putting a ring on her finger soon enough.”

“ Gash?” She tried to push their

hands down, but he wasn’t having that.

“ No need to be

embarrassed.”

For the next five minutes they were

surrounded by the club who congratulated them. Angel rushed toward

them, pulling Charlotte in for a hug. “It’s so good to see you

happy.”

He held Charlotte against him as

Angel hugged them. After he accepted the club ’s support, he bent down,

pushing his shoulder against Charlotte’s stomach. She let out a

little squeal as he started to carry her up toward his

room.

“ Put me down. I can walk.”

She hit his ass, and he slapped hers for good measure.

She screamed again. “You did not just

slap my ass.”

He slapped it again. “I’m not afraid to

give you what you need, baby.” Another slap, and she sank her teeth

into the denim of his jeans, which protected him from her bite.

Gash chuckled, providing her with another slap.

Opening his bedroom door, he

kicked it closed, and dropped Charlotte to the bed. He made sure

her teeth were no longer sunk into his ass cheek. Capturing her hands, he

pressed them beside her head.

“ Are you sure about this?”

she asked.

“ What?”

“ You just made a commitment

with me in front of the entire club. Doesn’t that bother you?” she

asked.

“ I should have made that

commitment seven years ago. I’m the asshole that waited, fucking

Rebecca rather than taking you. I wanted you, and if I’d acted on

my feelings, this might not have happened.” Dropping down, he took

possession of her lips, and sighed. “Do you forgive me?” he

asked.

“ I’ve told you, Gash. There’s

nothing to forgive you for.”

“ There is. I love you,

Charlotte, and I wasn’t there for you.”

“ Don’t. It’s over now, and you

didn’t know. Jeff and Rebecca are gone. You didn’t get your revenge

though. Can you handle that?”

“ I’ve got no fucking choice. It’s

just part of the long list of what Master has taken from me. It’s

like he knows what I’ll do next, always one step ahead. Jeff and

Rebecca, they had it easy. He gave them an easy death.”

“ How? They died

brutally.”

Gash laughed. “You think that was brutal?

Whizz had given me some surgical tools, Charlotte. I was going to

tear them apart, piece by piece, and make sure they were alive

while I did it. I planned to spend a great deal of time hurting

them, making them beg for death long before I gave it. Master took

that away, and he made sure they had it easy.” The darkness inside

him hadn’t been appeased. Years spent in prison, he’d dreamed of

the moment when he’d torture Jeff, and then Rebecca. His first plan

had been to kill them both. Charlotte, she’d only been part of the

plan since he first met her. All of his planning had gone to

waste.

“ We’ll find him together.

We’re together, and

whoever Master is, we’ll deal with him like we should have done

back then, together, as one.” She wrapped her legs around his

waist, and he ground his dick against her, loving the feel of

her.

“ Together.” He took possession of

her lips, letting go of her hands to grip her shirt. Gash stood and

tore her shirt off. Charlotte got to her feet , and he tugged his own shirt

off his body.

Gash watched as she stripped out of

her clothes, and his mouth watered for a taste of her body, all of

her. He had plenty of condoms in the drawer beside his bed, and he

intended to use all of them tonight.

Removing his jeans, he stood in

front of her naked, wrapping his fingers around his dick. He rubbed

his cock,

sliding his thumb across the tip, and rubbing the pre-cum into his

flesh.

“ Do you see what you do to

me?” he asked.

She crossed her arms over her chest, and

he wasn’t going to have that. Stepping closer to her, he took hold

of her arms, and forced them away from her body.

“ Never hide your body from

me, baby.”

“ Gash?”

“ Don’t doubt us.” He took her

hand, and wrapped it around his dick. “Feel that? That’s what you

do to me, and there’s no other woman in the world who can compete

with you.” Leaving her hand wrapped around his dick, he cupped her

cheeks, and tilted her head back. “This is real.”

“ We’re moving

fast.”

“ I’ve never stopped wanting

you, babe.”

“ You don’t think everything

is going a little crazy?”

Gash side. “Life is crazy. It’s a

rollercoaster ride, and we’ve got to ride that wave or be swallowed

whole by it.”

“ You’re not afraid of what

is going on? There’s a guy who set out to hurt you, and you’re not

caring about it?”

Pressing his head against hers, he

released a sigh. “I don’t have time to worry about it. Over the

years I’ve had a lot of men who’ve wanted to kill me. I’m not going

to stop living my life over every single person who tries to kill

me.” Kissing her lips, he sucked her bottom lip into his mouth,

nibbling on it. “I’m going to do everything to protect

you.”

“ I know.”

“ Trust me.”

“ I do. I just can’t get it

out of my head.”

“ Then focus on me, and I’ll

make sure you don’t remember it, okay, baby?” he asked.

“ I will.”

Moving her backward,

he pushed her down

to the bed, following her down. “I’m going to make you forget, and

you’re going to love everything I do to your body.” He pressed a

kiss to her neck and inhaled her scent. Flicking his tongue against

her pulse, he slid down her body, taking her nipple into his

mouth.

He nipped at her bud before

gliding across her tits to suck on her other breast. Gash loved her big

tits, and he was addicted to them. Moving down, he slid his tongue

down between her thighs. Opening her pussy, he flicked his tongue

across her clit, and she screamed, arching up against

him.

“ Yes, that feels so good,”

she said.

“ I’m only just getting

started.” Pushing two fingers inside her creamy cunt, he spread