Chapter 6 Chapter 6

Zeus took a step toward his daughter.

Angel flinched and hugged Marty a little closer. 

He shook his head and whispered, “Baby girl, I don’t know why all of a sudden you’re so afraid of me but I get it. I won’t bother you anymore tonight. You get some sleep though ok? Marty said she would stay with you and I want you both to know you’re safe here.”

He turned and walked out of the room, closing the door behind him.

Arriving in the main room, Zeus went over to the bar and grabbed a beer. He chugged about half of it down before he joined the others at a table. As he sat down, he looked over at Memphis. “What did the cops have to say about my fucking truck?”

Memphis shrugged. “They asked if you had any enemies that wanted you dead.”

Zeus snorted. 

Memphis went on, “I didn’t mention the attack on Angel because then he would have wanted to see the biker and how the hell do we explain that? Just what the hell did you bring that bitch back here for anyway? I mean how do we know she didn’t set up that hit?”

Zeus took a swig of his beer and said, “We need to ask her what the hell she’s looking for Sam for and why she came looking for her at our place.” He shook his head. “What I don’t understand is the connection between her and Angel. I mean for the last year and a half, Angel hasn’t said a word to anyone nor has she gotten close to anyone, even me and I’m her dad. She still flinches whenever I come close to her.”

Memphis shook his head. “That might have something to do with how her mom died.”

“Dammit, I didn’t hurt Anne. Why would I hurt the mother of my child?” Zeus snarled.

“No one here said you hurt Anne, we all know you didn’t have anything to do with that, but even after all these years, we still don’t know what happened or who killed her.”

Zeus nodded at his brother. “You and I both figure Angel saw who did it and she’s been afraid of just about everyone ever since that day.”

“And that brings up another bone of contention, doesn’t it?” Memphis shrugged. “Why is she so taken with Marty?”

Zeus looked over at Grave Digger. “Yo, Grave Digger, what was with the knife in her bag?”

Grave Digger shook his head. “Boss, that wasn’t just any ole knife in her pack. That was a Samuel Shaw knife.”

“And just what the hell is a Samuel Shaw knife?” Memphis wanted to know.

“He’s a blacksmith of the old school. He learned the craft from generations of his family. They make a very good line of blades and they have shipped them all over the world. They are the number one best of the best. This one though, has his signature on it, so it was custom made and that is almost impossible to find.”

“What the hell was she doing with one of those?” Memphis asked.

Grave Digger shook his head. “Well, think about it, Samuel Shaw…Martine Shaw?”

Memphis looked at Zeus then back to Grave Digger. “You think she’s part of that family?”

Grave Digger nodded.

“Then what in the fucking hell would she want to do with Sam Wyatt?” Memphis snorted. “That doesn’t make sense, brother.”

Grave Digger shrugged. “I don’t know but from the first day Sam was here, she did nothing but cause trouble. Kind of makes you wonder what she was really doing here doesn't it?”

Memphis scoffed again. “We all know what she wanted.” He looked over at his brother Zeus. “Boss man here, already had a woman and she never stopped trying to get between Zeus and Anne. Not even after Anne died, the cold bitch still tried to get into his bed.”

Zeus didn’t say anything but instead drained his beer. Then he stared at Memphis. “Yeah, she tried to get into my bed but that didn’t stop her from sleeping with several others here, did it?”

Memphis sneered. “Naw, she did the only thing a whore like her could do. But she kept hoping she could work her way up to your bed.”

“Like hell, that shit wasn’t happening.” Zeus shook his head. “She should have listened better when I tried to tell her that.”

“Brother, she wanted you real bad.” Memphis teased him.

“Naw, she didn’t want me, she just wanted the title of President’s Woman.” Zeus scoffed. “She didn’t give a shit about me. She just wanted to be able to boss everyone around, including me. She actually thought she could tell me what to do and I would just do it.”

Memphis just shook his head sadly. “She was an idiot, that’s for sure. Thank God, she’s someone else’s idiot now.”

Grave Digger looked over at Zeus and asked, “So what are you gonna do with Martine?”

Zeus shrugged. “I don’t know. I think we have to at least entertain the idea that she came looking for Sam for a good reason. And I think we’ve earned the right to know what that reason is. I’m not just going to let her go find Sam then come back and set us up for something stupid.”

“You think she’s working for the Dragons?” Grave Digger asked with disbelief in his voice.

Zeus came back with, “Do you know for sure that she isn’t?”

Grave Digger shook his head.

“You might want to take her guns away from her while she’s here,” Memphis suggested. “If she can shoot a biker half a block away while he’s on the move, then she might just start shooting us one by one.”

Grave Digger rolled his eyes and shook his head.

Zeus stared at him. “Ok Grave Digger, what the fuck? What else do you know about Martine Shaw that we do not?”

Grave Digger looked animated again as he told them, “When she disappeared from the shooting circuit ten years ago, after that splash she made to win the whole thing, I tried to find her as I keep an eye on that circuit ya know? It seemed as if she had just up and disappeared. I couldn’t find anything on her for three years. I then saw an article about an up and coming very young karate champion. At seventeen, she had mastered a black belt competition. I looked all over YouTube for the video of the competition and I watched it. Her work was flawless and at seventeen, she was one of the very best anyone has ever seen.”

Zeus shrugged. “So she has ambitions? She has to be the best in whatever she does, that just makes her vain and dangerous.”

Grave Digger shook his head. “No boss, you don’t understand. She didn’t do it to become the best. I heard the interview they did with her after the competition was over. One reporter asked her why she had to be the best of the best. Do you know what she said?”

Zeus shook his head.

They all looked interested in the answer.