Keeper Of The Flame

Dreamer watched as did the club members as Cheri and her son walked out of the clubhouse door. Dreamer then turned and walked to his brothers’ office. He shut the door and sat down. Ace looked at Dreamer across his desk and leaned back into his chair.

He said. "I told you when you got back from that run six months ago she was with Snake while you were gone. You didn’t want to believe me then.""

Dreamer said "I wanted so badly to be the father."

Ace said. "You could have been expecting a baby by now if you had remained with Shawn. But you wanted to believe the whore instead of your brothers."

" We all told you there was no way you were that boy's father but you wouldn’t listen. Now you not only lost a boy who you helped raise for six months but you true Valkyrie."

Dreamer looked at Ace and said. "I know, by the way, what is a U-haul doing at our clubhouse?"

" Someone is leaving the club. Moving to Virginia to the Viking MC."

" Who?"

Ace leaned back looking at Dreamer and said. "Shawn."

" Why is she moving there and to their club and when?"

" Her best friend and her brother’s invited her to move there after they heard what you did. And she is leaving this Sunday after the party."

"Fuck, I don’t want her to go."

" Well, you lost the right to have her stay six months ago. At least I knew she was safe here."

" How the hell can I deal with her not being here and seeing her even though she hates me now?"

" You’re right she does hate you."

"She said that you should have made her your Valkyrie took the child and raised it together. But instead, you leave the clubhouse and moved that whore into your home where she should have been."

"Then you continued to fuck that whore. That is why she has been doing."

"Never mind it isn’t your business."

" She has been doing what?"

" Never mind what."

" But if you want to know. Since you walked away from her she has started self-harming."

" She has been cutting on herself."

"Why would she do that?"

" Maybe practicing for when she decides to really commit suicide."

" How the hell would I know?"

" All I know is she has been doing it more often than before."

" It’s like she cuts when she knows you will be at the clubhouse. Especially with that whore."

" I really messed up didn’t I" Dreamer asked?

"Yes, you did. But that is not my problem."

" And another thing. Shawn said she wants nothing to do with that kid now."

"So if you changed your mind about her and you raising it you can forget it. She wants to leave and start a new life somewhere else. Find a man she can trust, one who will be faithful to her."

" One who would not turn his back on her. One she can start a family with. That man is no longer you Dreamer."

"Right now I have fucking threats regarding our Valkyries."

"What are you talking about Ace?"

Ace reached in the drawer of his desk and threw a handful of notes across the desk towards Dreamer.

"I keep receiving these in the mail. Someone is threatening to kidnap some of our Valkyrie’s unless we give them a shipment of guns and $20,000."

" When did you start receiving these?"

" Two months ago."

" But you have not been around the club much to discuss it."

"I have been working on it but can’t find out who is doing it."

" We have no real enemy’s and no new clubs have cropped up or moved toward our territory."

There was a knock on the door and Ace yelled come in. Dreamer and Ace looked up as Gunner walked into the office.

"What’s up Gunner" he asked?

"You are not going to believe this but Bones is here."

" This has to be about Donna. What else can go wrong" he asked?