CHAPTER 34

It's about an hour from dinner when the door to the garage opens and I watch a determined Imelda come flying through it and head up the stairs. My girls look at me curiously and I nod at them to go get her. I watch them leave and ask for the room from my family and crew which they give me warmly as I move to a chair facing the door. It's only a few moments before I can see Imelda less leading the pack and more having the rest chase her as she heads straight for me. I can see she's all fire but it's twinged with something else as she moves to stand in front of me in a tight pair of jeans that have white paint spots on them and her white racing jacket is opened showing me a kind of loose and dirty shirt.

"Get up," Imelda says quickly.

"Excuse me but you want to try that again," I reply to her, obviously not in a mood for shit.

"Please get up," Imelda asks again this time with less fire and more nervousness.

I stand up and follow her to the garage where she has what I think is my bike under a blanket. I stand there with my girls behind me and watch her pull the blanket off to see that my bike has had a few panels replaced to look a bit more menacing and there is a patch of white paper over the engine case. Imelda waves me over to her and I move closer to look. I watch as she pulls it off and sees my all black bike with its first hint of color a silver decal with the words 'Black Sunshine'. It's wonderful and I love it but I'm confused as I straighten up and address my Latina girlfriend.

"Why do all this," I ask and I can feel tension from all my girls in the room as I do.

"We fought alright. I was a bitch and you were an asshole but I just thought that I should try to apologize and since I was being more of a bitch than you were an asshole I wanted to do something big and now I'm standing here looking like a perra emocional que parece más tonto de lo que…," Imelda says frustrated turning to Spanish which is where I lose her.

"Baby stop, baby really just stop," I tell her as she freezes at my words," Apologize for what, being stubborn? Angry at me for not listening? Or about taking my bike? I don't care about the bike and you being stubborn and angry is why we got along so well the first time we met," I explained taking her hands," You wanna know why I'm mad at babe, I'm mad at me."

"But why are you mad with you," Imelda asks, starting to cry a little.

"Because I let Jackie down. She is in trouble because I left her with someone that I wasn't sure if I could trust and now she's hurting because I didn't do the right thing," I explained pulling her in for a hug.

I get a little bit of sniffling from Imelda and my girls add themselves to the hug as we all stand in the garage. It's a warm moment when Imelda puts the brakes on and gets her tough face on. I let the girls head back in and check my bike out a bit, she really did a number on it but it looks awesome. Like a panther in bike form. I smile and head back inside and nod to the crew that things are cool.

We ride out Thursday well and Friday is spent by me mostly recovering from all the activity of the previous days. All my rage, workouts, epic sex and emotional draining from fixing problems left me pretty much bedridden but I had five nurses who were content to fawn over me in bed and make sure I was warm and fed. Katy got a little weird about being the one to take me to the bathroom, not like she didn't want to but she wanted me to stand to pee the whole time and even wanted to hold it till I got on her about how weird it felt. We both laughed at it afterwards with the other girls and heading into Saturday we are all happy and prepping for Imelda's return to the races. I texted Vicki to see if she would be there and bring Mark but she said they wouldn't because she wanted some alone time with her boyfriend. I told her about the Gym and the woman hitting on him and how he reacted. She replied that he was already getting rewarded and not to make him out to be better than she wanted tonight. I didn't get the last bit till Katy said 'bad boy' to me and it makes a lot more sense.

At about six I get a text from Carlos who is there to pick us up and when he and Imelda see each other it's a family hug and a lot of talking in Spanish. I go to shake Carlos's hand and get a hug of my own in return.

"Man it's good to see you back down here, I was telling my boys about you for a while now and they're excited to meet you," Carlos tells me happily.

"I met some of them the other day when Hector helped me out," I reply as we wait for the girls.

I introduce Carlos to the men in my crew and it's Jun that has him laughing. I'm dressed in my camo cargo pants and a black t-shirt with my hooded leather jacket. Ben is almost matching a metal shirt and a sleeveless hoodie and cargo shorts and Devin has on Jeans and what I can only guess is a military vest from his grandpa's days that leaves his arms exposed for the world to see. Then we turn to Jun who is wearing slacks and a white button up dress shirt with sneakers. I watch as Carlos turns to his boys and starts talking in Spanish, I think he's insulting Jun for a moment till Carlos sees my face and gives me an okay look. A low whistle lets me know the women are here and my gaze follows showing me every man's dreams. Save for Mathilda, Katy and Imelda every girl in the group is wearing tight tops, short skirts or shorts, stockings. It's like a rap video just showed up and the only thing I can think of is a song that just repeated 'ass and titties, ass and titties' over and over. Imelda has on her racing leathers in white with the yellow stripe, Katy is leathered up as well but she's got more spikes and patches with her hood up and finally Mathilda is decked out in cargo pants like mine with a sports bra and her hands wrapped in tape.

I can hear one of the guys talking to his boys in Spanish and Imelda's face sours and I watch as she starts cussing him out in two languages and pointing at Matty. Matty on the other hand calmly walks over to the 'gentleman' and stares his 5'8" ass down before taking him by his shirt and lifting him up to her eye level.

"You have something to say," Matty asks getting a enthusiastic head shake from the guy," I hear one comment about me in Spanish tonight you will tell me exactly what was said in English or I will personally fuck your whole world up."

"Man you're girl there is one hard woman," Hector says as we watch Carlos's crew fall in line.

"I know, God I love her," I say smiling as we mount up.

I get Kori on my bike with everyone else piling into the cars, Carlos and Hector only brought a few guys and Hector is taking most of the girls in his car and Carlos has Abigail and Bethany in his. The rest just file into what's left save for Rachael who is on Imelda's bike and Natsuko who is nowhere to be found. I want to stop and look for her but if she isn't ready by now we can't afford to wait as we head off. It takes about an hour to get to the meet but it's a little bigger and a lot louder than last year and I find Carlos sent people ahead to make sure we were close but not too close as we park up. I remember that Hector brought a large group of people around when he helped me out Wednesday but apparently that was the tip of the iceberg as Carlos is rolling about fifty strong and I end up getting introduced around by him to his crew. It only takes about ten minutes without me before the girls wander off to dance and mingle and while I like the happy atmosphere I'm feeling a little bored and decide to walk around. I can see a few racers from last year, a lot of new ones, A couple new factions and finally I get to see my friends at the Union. The Old Man is having a big turnout tonight and I can see another group in leathers with a slightly younger leader talking up the Old Man when I come around.

"You heard about my Pariah over here," the Old Man says waving me over.

I get introduced to Sid, leader of a roaming group called 'The Devil's Best'. They drive around the country as opposed to the Union who has chapter houses on the west coast. I let them talk and play dutifully and quietly as they go over me as the Old Man's new hand. I get some praise and the Old Man even mentions how I 'helped' conceal their half of the tradeoff for them when I came down. I get released and shake hands with Smitty who offers me a beer which I shake off and rejoin the chaos.

"Hey Guy," I hear someone female say and I start to look around when I'm standing face to face with a familiar face.

"Holy shit Marta," I exclaimed startled at Carlos's little sister," I didn't know you came out to these things."

She's a little taller than last year when she was dating Romeo but now in front of me she's every bit as pretty. About 5'7" and sporting a tight black dress, low cut with the skirt stopping at her mid thigh, her hair is down past her shoulders and wavy with a little jewelry on her ears and neck. I get a big hug hello and can feel her soft c cup breast pressed against me.

"It's so good to see you again, where is everybody else," Marta asks, breaking the hug.

"They're wandering around having fun," I explain as we head back towards the vehicles.

We get in and for some reason I have some of Carlos's people staring at me. I soon find out why when Carlos heads back over with Imelda and they both see me talking with Marta. The conversation turns to Spanish which makes me wonder what the problem is. I get pulled aside by Carlos and he's got a pissed look on his face.

"Do you know where she came from," Carlos asks as I shake my head no in response," She's supposed to be at home."

"Dude why? She's a big girl and she's got people around," I ask not understanding.

"After Romeo's shit last year I've been keeping an eye on her and guys. Too many people want to pick up the pieces and help her if you get my meaning," Carlos tells me in a serious tone.

I head back and see that Marta doesn't look like she's having as much fun as she was when we got reintroduced. Normally I'd like to help her but I don't wanna get in between Carlos and his family business. I rejoin the festivities and make sure all my girls are having fun, Kori and Rachael are busy dancing while Matty is chatting up a few gym monkeys, and Katy is shit talking with a few muscle car enthusiasts. I make my rounds over the next couple hours and find Imelda talking to a bet taker and being turned down till her bike can get inspected fairly, apparently there are some rules to the races now and while she can accept it she's not happy about it.

"Babe it's fine, we wait a week and you're back taking money from chumps foolish enough to take on the fastest Latina in the state," I tell her, calming her down.

"I need the money now, if I can get enough I can help mom by paying rent for a few months and she can stop working so many doubles," Imelda tells me frustrated before stopping and staring onto the dance floor.

I find what she's looking at and see that it's Jun standing in between Lily and some racer punk in bright neon blue and black. The guy is nearly glowing in the dark and he's speaking something in another language to Jun and Jun is replying in Japanese back at him with more anger than I've ever seen him. I step up and see that the Union has as well by sending over Smitty.

"What the fuck is going on here," Smitty bellows causing the music to get turned down.

"This fucking shit walks in here and thinks he can tell me who I can't dance with," the little glowstick spits out staring at Jun.

"My girlfriend said no, maybe if you stayed in school you'd have learned that she says no you should walk away," Jun replies coldly.

"Well either you can walk away or we can settle this the old fashioned way," glow stick says, taking off his coat and showing a few tattoos on his arms and chest covered by an equally neon tank top.

"We got a challenge," Smitty says as bikers start to make a ring around Jun and the glow stick," terms to be set for?"

"I win I get his girl," glow stick says cocky.

"And you kid," Smitty asks Jun.

"Ummm…," Jun is confused and I step forward and when he sees me and finds his nerve again," I want his clothes."

Everyone freezes at the terms and even Smitty has a weird look on his face but the terms are even and people start placing bets. I am scrambling around and gettin Carlos and everybody I can to start placing money on Jun, they're giving him five to one and those odds are perfect if you ask me. Jun takes off his shoes and socks before Lilly helps him with his shirt and belt. Imelda and the girls are around me and wondering what I'm doing putting money down on Jun.

"Baby you do realize this is Jun we're betting on," Katy says skeptically.

"Yep, little Jun and light weight work out and almost no real fighting experience," I say smiling and turning back to the fight.