Chapter 55

Ailee


I lean in and whisper in the girl's ear “ I don’t like when people touch what belongs to me. I’m not a fan of sharing.” “ You can’t do anything to me. I’m under the club’s protection. And they don’t hurt women.” she whimpers. I look up and notice no one is moving to intercede. I look over at my da and he just holds his hands up. He isn’t going to stop me. I look at Viper out of respect since he is my family and it is his club. If he wants me to let her go I will. “ She knows the rules. Claimed men are off limits. Do what you have to do.” Viper says. I look at him and smirk. He has no idea what he just did. I hope this one isn’t well liked around here because she is about to be useless.

“ What? Viper please.” she begs. “ I thought you weren’t scared of me. You could take me on. But now you are begging for your worthless life.” I laugh. But even to my ears it sounds like an evil villain. I see Viper and da shake like they just got a chill. They haven’t seen anything yet. Lug is looking like he is just enjoying the show. I do love this man. Even when I’m like this he isn’t scared away.

“ Since you aren’t scared of me. I’ll give you a sporting chance. If you beat me I will spare your life. If you don’t I will make sure you suffer a fate worse than death.” I told her. “ I will even put my gun away to give you a sporting chance.” I let go of her neck and back up. I place my gun on the nearest table so she can see I’m unarmed. She turns around to face me. “ The club doesn’t hurt women. So you can’t do anything.” she says. I smirk “ As you pointed out I’m not club and I have no problem hurting a woman. Especially when she touches what is mine. I had thought you would have learned your place when Merigold put the new rules in place. But there is alway one or two that are dumber than the others.”

“ How do you know about the new rules. You aren’t club , you shouldn’t know about anything that goes on here.” she whines. Her voice is so grating, like nails on a chalkboard. How do these guys put up with it? “ First of all Ace is my da. So I’m automatically club. Second, who do you think helped Merigold come up with them?” I told her. “ So you are the one who ruined our lives? How dare you butt your nose where it doesn’t belong.” she yells. “ Watch it little girl. I’m about to show you your place. You don’t disrespect me. Ever.” I told her. “ I’m going to kick your ass for fucking us over. Us bunnies were fine before all you girls came here. You are taking away what is rightfully ours.” she screams. “ It's not my fault they recognize quality when they see it. But you want to fight. Fine. I’ll even turn my back on you so you think you have a chance.”

“ Ailee.” Ace says he doesn't like my idea. He has no idea what I can do so I understand his worry. “ Ace, you need to trust her, brother. She knows what she is doing. Just sit back and watch. This is going to be fun.” Lug said with a laugh. “ Fine.” Ace grumbles. I will have to hug him after these to ease him. I turn my back and focus on the task at hand. “ Whenever you think you have the guts.” I said not even bothering with turning around. I have to tell you this girl has no clue about stealth. I can hear her grunt and the slapping of her heels on the tile. I swear I can even hear her try to punch me. Just before she can land a cheap shot with a blow to the back of my head I drop and spin around slashing her stomach as I go. She gasps and steps back “ What the hell?”

She places her hand over her stomach to see her shirt is torn to shreds and she is bleeding. I stand and taunt her “ Is that all ye got? I thought you were going to kick my arse. You can’t even land a punch.” Forgetting about her stomach she bends down and charges me like a bull. I have to keep myself from laughing at her ridiculous display. Clearly she has had no training. She is just wanting to brawl with no skill. When her head gets close enough I reach out to her exposed left side of her neck and hit it in just the right spot with the side of my hand in a chopping motion. I see her left side drop and she stops moving. She looks up at me “ What did you do to me?”

“ If you are going to try to fight, know your opponent. I happened to know about pressure points. You should get feeling back in about ten minutes.” I told her. All that did was make her angier. She has no control. I look around while she tries to stand and I see we have drawn a crowd not that I care. All this girl is doing is humiliating herself every time she tries to attack. Finn and Callen are leaning against the bar casually chatting and having a bottle of water. Lug looks like he needs a bag of popcorn. Viper has moved to Ace’s side and he looks impressed. Me, I’m getting bored. This skank is invading my night. I’m supposed to be upstairs getting ready for my date.

She tries to charge again and I’m losing my patience so I lift my hand and slash the right side of her face. She screams and cups her face. “ Are you done yet? You clearly can’t win. And I’m bored.” I said. I even make a show of inspecting my fingers. “ You scratched my face. How dare you?” she screams. “ Pish, consider it an improvement.” I said calmly. “ You are dead.” she screams as she runs at me. I just step aside leaving my foot out to trip her. She stubbles and can’t catch herself so she slams into the table behind me. “ Are you going to give up yet? I have some things to do and a very important person waiting for me.” I asked.

She turns to me and says “ You are such a bitch.” I smile and put my hand over my heart and do some fake sniffles “ Thank you.” The look on her face says she is baffled by my reaction. I love it. I hear Finn laugh. I see her getting red faced in anger. “ Just wait when I’m done with you I’m going to claim your man and make you watch. I’m going to claim what is rightfully mine.” she smirks. That was the wrong thing to say and everyone behind me knows it. I know she is trying to work me up so I screw up but I’m trained much better than that.

“ Oh shite. Dead woman walking.” Callen yells. I stand there and give her a come hither motion. It is time to end this. She comes at me. I grab her limp arm and flip her over to land on her back. While she is groaning on the floor, her hands by her side, I walk over. “ These hands were on my man.” I said as I lifted my foot and stomped on the one next to me hearing a satisfying crunch of bone. I ground the heel of my boot into her hand making sure to get as many bones as I can. Keeping my foot in place so she can’t move much I lift my other foot ready to the same to the other hand.