The Phoenix Knights MC: Strength of Love

Chapter 9

Daniel’s POV-

As we waited for his answer, my mind was reeling. I was falling for the treasurer’s daughter. Olivia is the club’s future treasurer, and I am falling for her.

It is in our bylaws that the titles are handed down to the children of the predecessor unless they choose their own path.

“I... I want to fight for her. I want to get her out of her mother’s house and away from that bastard, who I want dead for hurting my child. I want her to come and live with me. How am I going to make up for seventeen years of not being in her life? I don’t even know anything about her. What do you kids know about her?” Gold asked, looking around at us.

No one could answer. I sighed, “Well, I guess, for the first time in my life, I am actually going to be open about my feelings. I have liked her from the moment I saw her. I am falling for her. Her favorite color is red. The bakery that the old ladies' run, is her favorite bakery. She likes to swim in the lake. I saw her once, and she told her friends that too. She likes her hair being up, so it is out of her face, even though she is beautiful with it down. She has got quick reflexes, and has somehow managed to hide all her pain from everyone around her. I don’t think her best friends even knew until today that she was being abused. I overheard her friend compliment her on her singing, not that I have heard her sing. She used to do gymnastics. Her friends tried to push her to try out for the team, but she refused. She always had her nose in a book. She is a top student at school, math is her favorite subject. She is also incredible with computers, even upstaging the computer teacher a few times. She is so intelligent. She loves to listen to country and rock music. She drives a truck, but I have seen the look of longing when she sees our bikes.”

I looked around at everyone’s faces, there were a few dropped jaws, even my dad’s jaw was on the floor.

Gold chuckled, “You are not falling for her, you are in love with her.”

“I agree with that. My boy is finally in love with a woman. Your mother is going to be so happy and excited to meet her, as am I,” my dad said, clapping my back. I smiled and shook my head, as the teasing began.

I sighed, “Yes, okay. Now, can we discuss how we are going to help her?”

“Gold, you have got access to some powerful lawyers. Maybe you should contact them, start the process of fighting for custody of her. You, kids, need to go back to school, you still have another lesson before the end of the day. c*****e, do you think you could tell Olivia that you know who her biological father is and that he wants her in his life?” Prez said.

I nodded, “I will do anything, if it means getting her away from the hell she has been living in.”

Gold smiled at me, “If you hadn’t fallen for her and noticed so much about her, I may never have known about her. I may never have known that I had a daughter, so I will always be eternally grateful to you for that. But, as the father I now must be for her, if you hurt her, I will beat the ever-living s**t out of you.”

“You will never have to worry about that. She is all I have wanted since freshmen year, and that won’t change now or ever,” I said, not breaking eye contact with him.

“Now, will it be alright if I stayed here and make phone calls to my lawyers and explain the situation? Doc, I might need you, expect witness,” Gold said.

Doc nodded, “Whatever you need. She is your daughter and one of us.”

“You are welcome to use my office as long as you need to. We run this like an operation. c*****e, she will probably need to confront her mother, so we will need to have people tail her, watch her house. I will get CB to hack the school and get her address, and then I will send a few guys to watch the house. Pick a couple of guys to follow you back to school, and get them to follow her while you all come here. You all need to be back here, because she will recognize your bikes. It would be better that you go with Gold when he meets her. She knows you all, it will make her feel more comfortable when too many men approach her that she does not know,” Prez said.

We all grunted our agreement. Mike and I went to select two guys to come back to school with us, as Gold got to work making calls. I hoped that he would be able to get a lawyer to help on such short notice. One that could help with custody and abuse allegations. Not that they are allegations, they are very real. I still can’t get those bruises she had on her body out of my mind. I never want to see her hurt again.

Mike and I returned with four members of our club. They were brought into the office, as Gold was just ending a call.

Gold turned to look at Prez and said, “My lawyer is going to come here and go over everything we have and start forming the paperwork here, and then he will get it to the courthouse before the end of the day, as well as having a whole load of other paperwork ready to file in case I need to file for emergency custody, which at this point is highly likely. He will stay with us the whole night, to make sure that we get her out of there safely.”

“That is fine,” Prez nodded.

“Prez, what is going on?” Fireball asked, one of the guys Mike and I had grabbed.

“A young girl by the name of Olivia, that goes to school with my son and your VP’s son, is Gold’s biological daughter. She is in danger from her stepfather. Fireball, Atom, you both need to go with my son to school and then tail Olivia home. Crusher, Speed, I need you both to get CB to hack the school system and get Olivia’s address, then go and watch the house. Do not let them see you and report everything back to me,” Prez ordered.

“What is her last name? What does she look like?” Speed asked.

“Her last name is Jones,” I replied, as Katie pulled up a photo from her social media account.

"This is Olivia, that is her biological mother and her stepfather,” Katie said, showing a photo of Olivia in a tight black dress, standing on one side of her stepfather with a fake smile on her face, but still looking so very beautiful.

“That is your ex, Gold,” Crusher gasped, pointing at Olivia’s mother.

“She is hot as f**k, what I wouldn’t do to get between those thighs,” Speed said, zooming in on Olivia.

I growled, throwing my fist out, smacking him straight in the jaw, sending blood and a tooth flying from his mouth. “You even think about looking at her like that again, and I will gauge your f*****g eyes, Speed.”

“And, I will help, because Olivia is my f*****g daughter,” Gold snarled.

“s**t, sorry. Man, why the f**k you hit me for?” Speed groaned.

“She is mine,” I growled.

Crusher and Speed both looked up at Gold, wide-eyed, waiting for Gold to react.

Gold shrugged, and said, “c*****e loves her, and if she wants him, then he has my blessing to pursue her. If it wasn’t for him, I probably would never have known about her.”

They nodded, as I broke eye contact with them and gave Gold a subtle nod of my head. I knew what he meant, but as much as she tried to hide it, I have seen the way she looks at me. I know she wants me, and I am going to do everything in my power to get her and keep her.

“Crusher, Speed, go find CB and get to work, now,” Prez ordered. They moved straight away, running from the room.

Prez then turned to look at the rest of us. “Kids, you need to go back to school. c*****e, you know what you need to do. Fireball, Atom, you have your orders do, go with the kids back to their school and follow Olivia when she leaves school. Kids, you will come back here after school.”

We nodded, and immediately everyone began to head for the door. But I walked over to Gold first, and said, “I will do everything I can to make sure she believes me. I want her safe above all else.”

“You are a good man, c*****e,” Gold smiled, patting my shoulder.

We nodded at each other with tight-lipped smiles, before I turned on my heels and ran back to my bike. I threw my helmet on and jumped straight on my bike. Everyone turned their engines on, and we made our way back to school. We would arrive part way through the final lesson.