Chapter 2

POV Petal

My eighteenth birthday was yesterday. Today was Friday and there was a huge party planned in honor of my birth, even though I would only be allowed to attend the first part of it. By midnight, Margo and I would be ushered back to our room while the rest of the club drank and slept with the club girls. I gritted my teeth as I thought about it.

They would all be congratulating Ace since he was planning to claim me soon. Of course, that wouldn't stop him from sinking in some club pussy multiple times once I was out of sight. The club was nothing if not sexist. While Margo and I had to remain virgins and 'pure' the boys were encouraged to fuck anyone they wanted. Once Margo and I were claimed, we would be expected to be faithful while our men could be anything but as long as they didn't do it in front of us.

How do we know all of this? We watched it happen on Margo's birthday. Tommy my twin brother is the one that want's to claim her and we watched what he did. We saw it all through the club security cameras that we had hacked into a few years ago. Margo cried one single tear and then turned stone faced. My heart broke for her. I knew that she liked my brother, she may even love him but I also knew that he would destroy her. She knew it too, especially after seeing that. She knew then that there was no hope for them.

Ace was the same for me and I knew that it would have been easy to give in to him. To let him claim me, marry me and then bear his kids. It would only be years later that it would be hard. Then I wouldn't be able to lie to myself about where he was all the time. Then I would be resentful at my life and the way he treated me. Hell, if I even made it that long. We had already been attacked by yet another rival MC.

The only good thing that my Father and his MC had done in the last six years was to hunt down the MC that killed our women and slaughter each of them brutally. If they hadn't, Margo and I had planned to do just that.

Finally, the last bell rang and we were released from our prison. I packed up my bag and Tommy stood next to me as one of his friend stood next to Margo.

"You ready?" Tommy asked and I nodded.

He and his friend ushered Margo and I to our lockers to get our books that we pretended to need for homework. The boys didn't go to their lockers or carry any books. They did almost nothing for school and I swear that the only reason they came was to watch over Margo and I.

They shouldn't have bothered. Margo and I had busted our asses for the last few summers and had graduated online last semester. We weren't idiots and we knew that we would need a diploma to get anywhere. At least anywhere outside of the MC.

Once, I brought up going to college to my father to see what he would say. He shook his head and snapped at me, "You don't need a degree to have kids and raise them or to cook and clean. Be grateful that we're letting you finish high school. It was more than your mother got and she was a saint."

He wasn't lying. He had met my mother when she was fifteen and he was seventeen. He wasted no time in claiming her and had her pregnant and married the very next year. She dropped out to have my brothers but she never complained. Just did as her husband told her to. It was disgusting but she seemed happy. Up to the day she was repeatedly raped and murdered because of my father and his club.

I wondered if she was truly happy. If she would have been different if she had met my father when she was older. I guess that we will never know though.

Margo's mother had it a bit better and was able to get her diploma before getting married. She was the reason Margo and I were still in school and no one was allowed to claim us yet. She made Margo's dad and my dad swear that we would be able to graduate and keep the boys away until then. I'm sure at the time, our dads just agreed to keep the peace and knew that they would change her mind later but then she was murdered and they couldn't break their promise.

I know this because we heard them tell this to the boys when they complained about waiting in 'church'. We learned at a young age the knowledge was power in this world and as soon as we learned how to, we set up mics in all the meeting rooms and offices around the club house. That's also why we learned how to hack the security cameras.

That's how we knew that it was time to leave. Ace and Tommy were getting restless. Other guys were pushing to have a chance to claim us as well and our father's knew that something would have to be done to keep the peace.  They got Ace and Tommy to agree to allow us to finish school as long as they got to claim us.

In this world, a man could claim you but it was up to you to agree to it or not. If you did, then you became his property, if you didn't, he had to leave you alone. Things were different for Margo and I since we were the princesses of the club. If we denied Ace and Tommy, there would be no end to the the line of men trying behind them. It wasn't because we were that beautiful or wonderful. No, actually it was all because my father was the MC President and hers was the Vice President. Everyone wanted that power.

We would only be allowed to deny so many for so long before our families would force us to accept one. Hell, they could even have someone from another MC claim us to solidify alliances. I had seen it happen before.

Ace and Tommy were set to claim us the following weekend. We couldn't wait any longer. I would be sad to leave our families but I knew that we had no other choice. I looked up at Margo as we left the school and I could see that she felt the same way.

Ace pulled up on his motorcycle just as we walked out. He parked and winked at me as I walked towards him.

"Ready to get out of here, love?" he asked me.

I took a deep breath and plastered on a fake grin.

"Yep." I replied, thinking to myself how true his words were.

I heard Margo chuckle softly behind me and I knew that she was thinking the same thing. Ace helped me on his bike as Margo got on Tommy's. I looked over and smiled. Margo was a beauty and my brother was handsome. They looked like the perfect couple. She had blond hair and brown eyes with pale, creamy skin. My brother had the same coloring as my own. Olive skin with black hair but his eyes were brown where mine were green. Ace had blond hair like his sister but it was a few shades darker. He also had a darker skin tone with the same brown eyes.

Both our brothers were giants though. Tommy was six feet two inches and Ace was even taller than that. They were both muscular as well but Tommy had a lean muscle which made him quick to attack. That's how he had earned his road name, Viper. He attacked like a snake. Ace was bulky with powerful muscle. That's why the club called him Bear.

Margo and I had only pet names like princess, sweetheart, baby, and love.  We hated every single one of them but pretended to like them.

As we pulled away, I saw our classmates all watch us and then go back to what they were doing. Talking, goofing around, being teenagers. I felt a pain of longing in my heart. How I wished that Margo and I could have grown up like that.

We were welcomed home by a flurry of club girls and a few old ladies rushing around to get the party set up. Some of the men had gotten old ladies in the last six years but Margo and I were careful to keep from bonding with any of them. Everyone greeted and smiled at us as we walked up to the room we insisted on sharing since we were twelve to get dressed for the party. At least that's what they all assumed. In reality, we were going to finish packing and check to make sure everything was set up for this weekend.

POV Ace

I helped Petal off my bike and she thanked me sweetly with a smile. I grinned back as I watched her and Margo walk through the club house and followed them with Viper until they reached the stairs. I needed to make sure that she and my sister were safe at all times. Losing our mothers and womenfolk the way we did made us extra protective of the two that were saved.

I sighed as she left my sight. I had always loved Petal. She was smart and sweet and beautiful and kind. Everything that I wanted in a woman. Sometimes though, I found myself wishing she would give in to that spark I could see that would flare up in her eyes. She was distant from everyone but my sister and I knew that it was partly because of the way they were treated. I hated to see them both be told what to do all the time. I wished that things could be different but this was the way our lives were and I knew that once I claimed her, she would be safe. I would make her happy and I knew that Viper would do the same for my sister.

They were our worlds and we adored them. My sister was a princess and Petal would be my queen. Tommy felt the sibling bond even more with Petal and I knew that it hurt him that she didn't confide in him the way she did Margo. I could only hope that when we took over we could change some things. Not everything but at least make sure that women were a bit more respected. Train them to be able to protect themselves and allow them to make some choices for themselves.

I also had made Viper swear that he would be faithful to my sister and he made me do the same about Petal. I wasn't about to cheat on her anyway. That's why Viper and I were having our fun now. Once we had claimed them, we wouldn't touch another woman.

I couldn't wait.