Lilith's Angels MC

Ripper

The sun is shining bright as a Mercedes SUV pulls up to the gates of the Trenchball Prison. Out I stroll, inmate #08031625 Daniel Scarpone also known to the world as "Jack the Ripper." The prison guard that escorted me out turns to me, smirks,

“Don’t get too comfortable, Ripper. You know sons-of-bitches like you don't stay free for long. You're only out now because of pure luck." He snickered.

He tossed my bag of belongings at my feet, then shoved me out the gate.

"Your ride is here." He rolled his eyes.

Ripper turned around and eyed the car. Cautiously, he walked up to it. A young man stepped out and scrambled towards him. Ten years, I've been in here for them and they send a prospect to pick me up? A FUCKEN PROSPECT? Couldn't they send an actual member? Do I mean nothing to them now that it’s been so long? I know they kept my commissary stocked up and made sure I was protected inside but seriously a prospect? Why the fuck did he come in black Mercedes Benz SUV off all things. Where's his motorcycle? Where the fuck is mine? I looked at his vest under Prospect it said the name was Ted. What the hell kind of biker name is Ted? You see I'm a part of a Motorcycle club called Lilith’s Angels in a small town called Witchia,Ontario. Ted looked about 16 maybe 17, scraggly short thing, mocha skin, with messy brown hair and brown eyes. Ted turned to me fear in his eyes well when you’re 6 '6 with 250 pounds of pure muscle, you tend to do that. I towered over him and clearly he knew where I got the name Jack the Ripper. I glared at him with a semi disgusted look.

Finally he blurted out,

“The club had a last minute mission and sent me to pick you up. I will take you to the clubhouse and everyone will join us later.” He stared at his fingers.

WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK!? I know club business comes first but really? I just spent 10 years in jail for club business and they couldn't even wait until I was home to go on a mission.

“I see.” I snapped.

Ted’s eyes widened and he didn’t say a word the whole way home. We arrived at the club house and I can see business is blooming. The club house is three times the size it used to be. All the lights were off. WHAT THE FUCK SERIOUSLY NOT EVEN MY SON LIAM AND MY WIFE MARY BETH ARE HERE? Sensing my anger Ted grabbed my bags and just walked straight into the club house. I followed him in,

“SURPRISE!!!!!!!!”

The lights flickered on and I saw the whole clubhouse full of all my brothers and club women. There was a banner that said ‘Welcome Home Ripper’, a table full of food, the bar was decorated in my favourite colours black and red, and some soft rock and roll was playing in the background. Thanatos the MC president steps forward,

“Ripper my boy glad you're home.” He shakes my hand and pulls me into a hug,

“Thanatos I can't even begin to thank you enough.” I patted his back.

He put his hand up dismissively,

“No need son, sorry it took so long to break you out.” I shook my head and gave him a quick squeeze.

Adam his actual son, my best friend, practically my brother was right next to him smiling like a goof,

“Brotherrrr, you're finally back home where you belong, it's great to see ya!" He hugged me like the bear he is.

My brothers didn’t visit me because a lot of prisoners are in there because of what we do. We kept in contact via letters and phone calls. Only Mary Beth and Liam came to visit me. Even though I begged her not to bring him, not because I didn’t want to see him but because I didn’t think prison was a good place for a child to visit every weekend. Looking at how ten years really changed them into different men. Thanatos once dark brown hair was now salt and pepper his face looked aged and his blue eyes seemed tired. Adams dirty blonde hair was long tied into a tight ponytail, he had been working out and he had much more tattoos than I remember. I said hi to other members and was introduced to the new members and our prospects.

Thanatos told me to look around and get settled in before returning to my party. I looked around the clubhouse. Everything was fucken different except for the outside. We were still a mechanic shop out front with a bar. However, the bar which used to have 5 small round tables, 1 dart board and 2 pool tables now has around 30 tables, 5 dart boards and 10 pool tables. In the far right corner of the bar was a stage with a microphone, piano, a guitar and a drum set. To the left of the bar a staircase led to the office that said Vice President and another set of stairs to lead to the President's room. Past the bar behind a door that said ‘members only’ was a huge room with 5 doors. In the middle of the room was a large black table for meetings, I assumed. One door led to an enormous restaurant style kitchen with several ovens, deep fryers, long metal tables, cabinets, and three walk-in fridges. Another door led to a state of the art gym with lots of machines, punching bags, and a small boxing ring. The third door had a small private library with a book nook by the window and a grey basket hammock hanging in the middle of the room. The fourth door led to a movie/ gamer room with a huge TV and every gaming system known and thousands of DVDs and Videotapes. The final door and the furthest from the entry leads to stairs.

It takes me upstairs to a huge hallway of doors, they have numbers on them from room 1-14. Hmm upgrade to our living arrangements I see. The council members used to just all share a big room with a bunch of beds. I kept wandering around back to where I came from. I had been hoping to find the one person I wanted to see but she wasn't even here. Why the hell would she be? I remember her face when I basically broke her heart the night before I left for jail. I look out the window to see the back. We have a barn now with animals. It makes sense she always wanted a horse, a shooting range and the grow house I'm assuming because it looks like a greenhouse.

As I'm looking out back thinking of that beauty I hear,

“DANIELLLLLL!” Screeched from across the hall.

Only my lovely wife calls me by my birth name. I turn around and there is Mary Beth and Liam. Liam runs up to me screaming,

“Dad”

I picked him up, swung him around, squeezed him then put him down. Mary Beth comes up and kisses me. Grabbing my bag off the floor she leads me to the room with the number 5 on in it and hands me a key. I unlock the door and expecting a room just big enough for Me, her and Liam, I stare open mouth. There is a small kitchen area, but fully equipped a small living room area, two bedrooms of the same size, a washroom with a shower and bath. I whistled. Mary Beth turned to me

“The clubhouse is doing pretty well. We’ve had a few patchovers and have other charters too. We support a lot of businesses so we all have legit jobs as well as the club work, weapons and drugs, Letty is trying to make it just weed, it is our biggest seller now that Adam is in charge of growing.” She explained as I looked around.

I put my stuff in our bedroom and all three of us headed back to my party. The whole mother charter of Lilith's Angel was partying tonight. Not all the members of the club live here, just the highest ranking ones. I looked around about 80 people are here , maybe more, shit we are at least double the size and that's just the Mother Charter. I was looking around when the Road Captain Gee came up to me and said,

“She took off about an hour ago bro stop looking for her.'' I nodded my head and took a shot of whiskey.

We were all sitting down eating, drinking, laughing and catching up. Mary Beth grabbed my hand. I looked at her, she had blonde hair, a decent body, she was 5’7, blue eyes a little worn from drug use, she has sleeve tattoos and a hoop nose piercing, but not a bad looking person. She's a great mom to Liam and I know marrying her was the honourable thing to do. I wouldn't be my father leaving the women because she was club property who got pregnant and not actually his girlfriend. I wouldn't be him even if it broke my heart not to be with Letty. It was killing me being here and not seeing her. She doesn’t know she left 10 years ago thinking I didn’t love her but I do. She is the only woman I will ever love. I wrote her a letter once a month but she never responded. I even sent her drawings, I miss her so damn much, is it bad that I wanted to see her more than I wanted to see my own son? Probably but it doesn't change the fact. I felt horrible thinking this when Mary Beth was right next to me so instead I turned to Mary Beth,

“Thanks for the Welcome home party” and I kissed her cheek. She turned to me confused,

“Hon, I didnt I thought Thanatos or Adam did it-” her voice fell flat when she saw their confused looks. “OH” she spat out angrily.