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AJAX

Two Weeks Later

It was late afternoon, and the Berzerker clubhouse parking lot was packed with bikes. Inside were the club members from the Petersburg and Baltimore chapters. It was a party to celebrate my recovery from surgery and patch me in as an official Virginia chapter member.

But before the celebration began, I stood at Sheila's gravesite about fifty yards from the clubhouse, my arm wrapped around Lou. We watched Mick as she knelt and planted flowers around the grave.

"These flowers won't make it through the winter, but oh well. I'll plant more in the spring for her," she said as she stood and wiped dirt from her hands.

Her eyes welled with tears, and I pulled her to me and held her tight. "She'll always be your friend, Mick. Will always be in your heart and memories."

We stood there for a moment. All of us, no doubt, thinking about that night.

The night the girls were kidnapped by Warlock, Uno and a few of the Death Angels came to the Berzerker clubhouse to kidnap Lindsey after they shot Mongoose in the back. Everyone mourned the loss of a Berzerker brother, and had his body cremated and his ashes poured inside his bike's gas tank, then hung in the clubhouse as a memorial.

Diezel, Jagger, Mace, and all my Richmond brothers came to the warehouse after they found Mongoose's body.

Mace killed Bull, and a gunfight happened. Some Death Angels were dead, but Warlock and Uno got away. They burned the warehouse down until there was nothing but ashes and soot.

The remaining members of Death Angels MC were on the Berzerker's death list, and all three chapters' priority was to find each one of them, kill them, or bury them alive.

Diezel planned on meeting with Calvin Spade in the next few days to let him know the Berzerkers MC is the only club Donnie Turner would do business with from now on, or they both would end up dead at the bottom of the James River.

I kept my arms around Lou and Mick as we walked back inside the clubhouse to be greeted by my brothers from Baltimore, Stryker, his Ole' Lady, Lizzy, Squatch, Tug, and, of course, the chapter VP, Rubik. Rubik's Ole Lady, Marie, was there with their baby girl, Hope.

I hugged Rubik and pulled him aside to speak with him.

"I'm sorry for being such an asshole and fighting you for the VP patch. You deserve it, brother. I know now what it means to wear the VP patch, and it's not for ego or pride. It's about being the best we can be to the ones we love, even if we are lawbreakers, protecting our family and club with our lives."

Rubik grinned. "And we always will be Berzerkers 'till our last breath.'"

THE END