The Valkyrie MC

THE DUCHESSThe weather had turned out of the blue, so the party we’d planned to throw outside suddenly moved inside. Fortunately, the bar was big enough to pull it off.Between the Valkyrie, their special guests, locals and rival club members that liked to think they’re sneaky, Valhalla was absolutely heaving.Karma and I were leaning at the bar, sinking shot after shot. I grinned as I looked around my bar, taking in the sights of our ladies drinking, smoking, flirting, whatever they wanted to do. Everyone dressed up for our Friday night parties.Even I did. I didn’t dress up often, something about blood and grease means it’s quite tricky to wash out of clothes. I usually lived in jeans and a t-shirt, with my patched leather jacket over the top. Tonight, though… well. I’d found a little black dress in my wardrobe that I hadn’t worn for a while, and it looked awesome when paired with my heeled Timberlands. It was even a pair of boots that didn’t have blood and grease staining.The dr

THE DUCHESSI’d barely been back at the party long enough to light a joint when the roar of motorbikes pulling up outside disturbed my peace.I swore under my breath, rounding up Karma and Fishnet before heading out into the courtyard, gun in my right hand, joint in my left. The telltale sound of the safety being taken off a gun on either side of me told me that they were just as ready for a firefight as I was.“Wait a minute,” my voice was low. “I recognise that bike.”I stepped towards the leader of the group who had come a good ten metres closer than the rest of them; a tall gentleman, slim. Bright yellow stripes on his bike. Matching helmet. The London charter of the Henchmen.“Rogue, good to see you. I didn’t expect you to be in the area?”“Wasn’t planned, Duchess, I promise,” he replied, pulling his helmet off and giving me a smile that would have melted the pants off a lot of other women.“I hope you’re not here to try to get Blaze out of here, Rogue.”“Of course not. His shit

THE DUCHESSGhost rolled off me, scrambling to pull clothes on just like I was.Rather than fighting with my dress though, I just stole his t-shirt and slipped on the shoes I always left by the door. Fortunately, the t-shirt was long enough that I wouldn’t flash the world. I even had a gun there that was already ready to go. “What the fuck was that,” I growled as I pulled the door open, running down the stairs.I sprinted through the bar towards the garden, and was immediately confronted by the sight of one of the garages being on fire. The garage that had the entrance to the tunnels and rooms that formed part of our basement. The basement that had Blaze and co were locked up in it.By the time I got there, a group of newbies had already gotten the hoses out and were dousing the flames. I heard sirens approaching, and absolutely did not want to be dealing with police right now. “Karma!” I shouted. “Get rid of the cops. We’ve got this.”“On it, boss.”“For fucks sake,” I growled. “Wher

THE DUCHESSKarma angrily banging on the wall that separated our rooms told me that yup, she indeed did hear that. I could apologise, but I’m not going to. I chuckled as I rolled off Ghost, groaning as he slipped out of me.“She heard then, huh,” Ghost laughed, pulling me against his side so my head ended up on his chest.“Apparently so,” I snorted. “Could be worse, she’s made a point of fucking someone against that wall before just because she knew I’d hear it.” I smirked. “At least we made it to the bed before you had me screaming your name.”He gave me that smirk I’d always loved when I was younger, and now we’d both grown up a bit… oh, it made me feel things.Ghost leaned over me, that smirk still pulling at the corners of his lips. Before I could say anything at all, his mouth crashed into mine, his hands pressing my hands into the mattress by my head. He licked my bottom lip, demanding I give in to him, and he groaned when I did, adjusting himself so his very hard length was pre

THE DUCHESSAn hour later, I had all of the patched Valkyrie members rounded up in Ragnarök, trying to work out what the hell to do about my dad. “If it was anyone else, they’d have a bullet in between their eyes,” I rubbed my eyes. “But this is my dad.”The room was silent. No one envied me this choice.I let my head fall back on my shoulders. “Fuck.”I took a deep breath, forcing my boss face back on.“That’s a problem for later. Right now, all of you get ready to roll out. Someone is going to have to drive the truck because we will take Zodiac and Bull with us, and hopefully bring Blaze and co back.” “Karma, pick the two newbies that are closest to patching. They can take the truck. Stock the boot with whatever weapons you find necessary. I’d rather too much than not enough.”“On it, boss.”“The rest of you get yourselves ready to go. All of us need to be fully armed. Make sure you all eat something, we roll out in three hours. Got it?”“Yes, boss.”I nodded, dismissing them all,