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Story: Property of Bigfoot (Kings of Anarchy MC: New Mexico #1)
18. THE MOMSTER
SAMMY
Since I was in Bigfoot’s rooms alone with his kid, I took the time to get dressed again instead of waiting to see if he showed up in time to have the rest of our conversation and then maybe seal the deal on our relationship. His son’s comfort, should he wake up and find his dad missing, was my number one priority.
As I waited, my phone sounded a text notification. At first, I thought it was Bigfoot checking in, but that was a little ridiculous since he had only just left. Then again, he had told me about their grow house but not where it was located. It was possible he needed to fill me in on that little detail.
When I finally pulled it out and glanced down, it was to see what looked like an angry text from my dad.
Dad: Where is Colleen?
Sammy: How the hell should I know?
Dad: Because I’m betting money that your biker boyfriend took her.
Sammy: I seriously have no clue, but I’ll find out if that’s true as soon as I can.
I stewed in my questions for what felt like an hour before I finally broke down and texted Bigfoot.
Sammy: Are you almost done? Everything okay?
I hated to be that person, but what if he made up the shroom excuse to go torture Colleen for being a bitch? I thought about that for a minute and two things jumped out at me. The first was that “an emergency with a shroom grow operation” seemed like a weird lie to tell. The second was that I wasn’t exactly mad at the prospect of someone putting Colleen in her place - even with physical violence - considering the fact that she stole my inheritance and was still actively trying to steal the rest of it out from under me. Fuck her all the way to hell and back.
I was lost in a weird stream of hate-fueled fantasies of offing my dad’s wife when the door to the room burst open.
“Is Hawk okay? Are you? What’s going on?”
“We’re fine.”
“You texted me.”
“Yes, because I was curious how long it would take to get some answers I need.”
“About what?”
“Well, my dad texted me and he swore that you might have kidnapped my stepmonster.” Bigfoot looked angry and it made me wonder. “You did, didn’t you?” I questioned.
“The thing I wanted to tell you before we were interrupted?” he said, though it sounded more like a question. I gestured for him to get on with it. “Well, we’ve been looking into your stepmom, and we were ready to pounce on her the minute she tried to skip town.”
“Where is she?”
“I don’t fucking know because I got called to handle Hawk, the guys left to get you, and I’m guessing she used that opportunity somehow to slip through our surveillance.”
“Why did you have her under surveillance, other than she’s a giant twat who should have choked on her own umbilical cord before disgracing the Earth with her birth?”
“That was vivid,” he said as I shrugged. It was true as far as I was concerned.
“We know that she told the second assassin where to find you.” I sat still and listened, so Bigfoot carried on. “Then we realized that there was more to her story. Glitch dug up some information that led us to believe she has loyal family ties to the Mojave Devils MC.” I nodded, still waiting for the part of all this that would surprise me. “When your dad and uncles told us about the furniture being tampered with in the house you inherited and moved into recently, it made us wonder if she tampered with anything else. I had Glitch check to see if the place was bugged.”
“Was it?”
Bigfoot nodded. “I guarantee it’s how they knew you were headed to school for an exam today. We got the bugs, but not before they knew your plans. Since you didn’t share them with us and slipped your tail, we had no way of knowing where you would be. It proves the MDMC is involved somehow with the Rivera Cartel, though.”
“You think Colleen set me up to give herself time to break away because she suspected we were on to her?” I asked.
“Seems likely considering your father texted thinking we took her.”
“That bitch. I hope she fell into a giant fire ant pit, naked, and that they eat her alive. Except for her diseased cunt because I don’t think even fire ants would touch that.”
“Again, vivid. Your dad…”
“Eww, please don’t say what I think you’re going to say.”
Bigfoot threw his head back and laughed. “Ah, no, that was not where I was going to go with that.”
“Wait! What about my brother?” I asked as I grabbed my phone and dialed my dad’s number. It only took two rings before he answered. “Sammy?”
“Dad, where is Ryan? Did she take him with her?”
“Of course she didn’t. Your man took her, and they left Ryan behind. He’s the one who told me that the man put her on the back of his motorcycle and left with her.”
“Dad, Bigfoot didn’t take Colleen.”
“Don’t lie for him. Or hell, maybe he’s lying to you. It’s obvious it was him after our conversation earlier.”
“I promise you that it wasn’t him.”
“I don’t believe you.” Bigfoot took my cell from me and put it on speaker, so my dad could hear him too. “We do not have Colleen. If we were going to take the bitch, it sure as fuck wouldn’t be on the back of one of our bikes.”
“Why the hell not?”
“That’s a sacred space meant for our women only, Brian. Your daughter, as my ol’ lady, will be the only woman to ride behind me unless we have a daughter of our own one day. Then she can ride there too. Not all clubs honor that tradition, but our chapter of the Kings of Anarchy does. No one rides with us unless they plan to be together for life.”
“Then who in the hell rode off with my wife?”
“My guess would be one of the Mojave Devils.”
“Check with Brady. He can pull the security camera footage,” I suggested. Bigfoot pulled out his phone and texted someone. As he was doing that, Dad started to cry into the phone.
“I need help, Sammy. You need to come home and help me with Ryan. He’s beside himself because his mom left him here alone. I don’t know what to do to calm him down, and I think… I think there are things missing that I need to check on.”
Bigfoot looked up from his phone and shook his head. “That’s not going to happen, Brian. Sammy isn’t safe on your property right now. If you want her help, you can come to the clubhouse with your boy, and she can help if she chooses to. Her safety comes first, and that is something I will not compromise on.”
“How is she not safe at home with her family?” Dad asked.
“You left your wife in charge of the campground for days. There is a camper who checked in during that time. An assassin put three rounds in your daughter’s bed, and she was forced to do something about that. There are cameras planted in her home. They were watching her and all of that was done right under your nose. Sammy will be here where my club can keep her safe. That shit is not up for further discussion.”
An hour later, my dad showed up with Ryan and informed us that Colleen had cleaned out their joint checking and savings accounts. “She also took copies of the family trust paperwork.” That caught Bigfoot’s attention, and he hopped back on his phone.
“Baffle, need Doc here with some DNA test kits.” He listened for a minute and hung up. “We need to test you and Ryan to see if he’s your son.”
“What the fuck do you mean? Fuck you. Of course, he’s my son.”
I shook my head. “You never had a test done. You believed her and we know she’s a lying bitch.”
“She wouldn’t leave her own son behind with me if he wasn’t mine.”
“We really don’t know what she would do at this point, Dad.”
“I know you’re pissed, but you’re going to have to hang on to that anger for a little while. If Ryan was your son, then he would stand to inherit the entire family trust if something happened to all of you.” As Bigfoot explained, Colleen’s plan became crystal clear in my mind.
I turned to my dad and took hold of his hands. “It means they kill all of us and they can use Ryan to take control of the land.”
Dad folded in on himself and made a horrible noise that held equal notes of regret and frustration. “How could I have had a fucking monster living with me all this time? I married that woman.”
“We need to get Uncle Brady and Josh here, now,” I told Bigfoot. He nodded his agreement.
“Fair warning, that means Lis will be coming in too, since she’s with Josh.”
“What?”
“That was the other thing I needed to tell you earlier,” he admitted. “The real reason she lied to you is because she’s been seeing Josh in secret for a year. They didn’t think any of us would be able to deal with the family dynamic it would create if we were a couple too. So, she wanted to make sure that you wouldn’t be interested in me.”
“What family dynamic?” I asked. Bigfoot smirked and then laid it out for me. “As your Uncle Josh put it, he would be Hawk’s Uncle-Stepdaddy and you would become his Cousin-Stepmom.”
It was so ridiculous that I burst out laughing. “Oh my God, that’s kind of hilarious.” I continued to laugh and some of the people around me joined in. “Why do the Morton men all have really shitty taste in women, though?” I asked. My dad winced, but I wasn’t sorry for saying it. He had ruined our relationship for a woman whose whole goal was to have a baby with him, kill us all off, and steal our land.
“Why would she leave her son behind, if he was the key to obtaining the land?”
“That’s why I want Doc to run their DNA.”
He didn’t think Ryan was my dad’s son. Unfortunately, I had come to the same conclusion.