The girl before she woke.

Legit business.

Chapter 10

Donovan P.O.V

"I said no Dad!"  He yelled, pounding his fist on the table.

"Look Don, I know it's not ideal but we have no other choice. They burned down both warehouses, there is no place else to store the drugs without drawing attention to ourselves, Rick said next to him putting his hand on Don's shoulder.

They have been called to an emergency club meeting this morning. Don was pissed because he was suffering from one hell of a hang over and didn't plan on seeing anything other than the inside of his bedroom. But thanks to 'The Jokers' a rival gang, two of their warehouses were burned down while the were partying.The prospects that guarded the warehouses were found all four with bullet wounds in their heads and burned from the fire the Joker player card placed on their dead bodies.  It was a huge lost for the club not only did they loose four potential future club member's but also a safe place to store their Crystal meth and washed cash. Not even to mention the merchandise that burned in the warehouses it goes without saying that they lost a s**t load of money because of that bastards.

"Donovan we have no other choice, a delivery is being made tonight and the cops raid the club house too often to risk storing it here". His dad was right he knew it but it didn't mean he had to like it.

"f**k!, he exclaimed. So much for legitimate business.I hope you know the risks of storing it at the diner. If the Jokers find out the new location...", he trailed off shaking his head.

"Let's take a vote, his dad said. "Everyone for it?  He begun I".

Next was Don "Nay". He just couldn't do it , not with Rachel working there.It didn't matter though  because the majority voted yes and that was that.

Frustrated with the situation and out come of the vote,Don pushed his chair out aggressively.

"If anything happens to those girls, it's on you.I hope you can f*****g live with yourselves. You selfish bastards."

"Watch yourself Don", Bull said his face hard. He was one of the older member's and his fathers best friend.

Don didn't give a f**k if they were offended or not .There were few things that got him so worked up and everything and anything to do with Rachel was one of those things. He shook his head a dark chuckle escaped his lips as he made his way to the door. 

"Where are you going? " his father asked.

Without looking at him Don muttered under his breath "I need a drink" then slammed the door shut behind him.

Damn them! he thought , grabbing a bottle of Jack from the bar then headed to his favorite place to think, drink and sometimes wallow  the backyard patio. It had become his favorite place since a month after his eighteenth birthday. He grabbed the back of his neck working his palm up in down trying to loosen some of the build up tension. Since that night, the night he met Rachel officially for the first time. He had seen her before at school but who hasn't ? Blackberry Grove High was a small school with only a little over six hundred students.

She was a beautiful girl and got a lot of attention for her looks but he couldn't careless there was a lot of pretty girls in Blackberry maybe not as pretty as her but still.She was a teachers pet , always got an A , never talked back, stayed after class to help teachers she even got the perfect attendance award every year.Her friends were cheerleaders though , he never got why she was friends with them but didn't care enough to ask or find out. She was a boring cookie cuter girl with absolutely no originality at all in other words too f*****g boring for him.

So when he saw her one night at his favorite bar, dressed provocatively and letting some sleazy men buy her drinks he was a lot more than just f*****g surprised. still it was none of his business, she was none of his business. So he ignored her and went to his two friends Rick and Trigger that was waiting for him. They spend their night playing pool, getting drunk and picking up girls.Don was the last to leave it has taken him some time to convince a hot blond with long leg's to come home with him because she was six years older than him.She finally gave in pretending that's she was drunk all because she couldn't admit to herself that she was going home with a teenager. They were on there way to his bike when he heard a girl yell across the street "Get off of me!". Her voice was full of panic and fear , it sent chills down his spine.

He's eyes fell on a blue pick up truck, all he could see was the struggle going on in the back seat. "You owe my baby remember? You didn't think I was buying all of those drinks for free now , did you".

Disgust started to take root in his brain, how dare that fucker try and force himself onto that women. He left the blond next to his bike and marched across the street towards the crime. He pulled on the door handle but it was locked , the scene inside had his blood boiling, he couldn't see the women's face but he could see the man trying to pull her legs apart as she struggled to fight him off. A wheel barrel on the back of the truck grabbed his attention without thinking twice he picked it up and smashed in the window, broken glass fell in all different directions.The broken window got the man's attention and when he looked back at him for the first time putting the women into Don's view and he froze. On the back seat a terrified Rachel lay with her skirt all the way up to her stomach exposing her lower half completely. Her shirt was torn only showing her breast partially and her lower lip was bleeding other from him biting or punching her into submission.

Don saw red , he could focus on nothing other than his rage and hate for the man on top of Rachel. Grabbing the collar Don yanked the man out of the car and threw him onto the road. He jumped on him smashing his fists on every available piece of the man he could reach. Over and over he drove his fist into the scum relishing in the sound of his bones breaking and the way his skin teared open under neath his knuckles. He wasn't only angry at the worthless human beneath him , he was also angry at Rachel for being so stupid and reckless.Suddenly the presence of a small hand on his shoulder made him stop in his trucks.

"Don't Donovan, your going to kill him" her voice was soft and strong and he couldn't help but admire it.

"He deserves to die!" he spat at the man venomously.

"Maybe... but you don't deserve that regret that's going to weigh on your mind if you do kill him. Besides his not worth it."

She was right he knew it but he was just so mad and since he couldn't keep taking it out on the bloody man he turned his attention to her.

"What the f**k were you thinking? If I was a few minutes late he would have r***d you! How can you be so stupid!" It was as if his anger had started to burst into flames all over again. The whole time he was ranting on he didn't look at her , he was distracted by the blood on his hand and cloths.As soon as he took the time to look up at her he clamped his mouth shut . The girl in front of him was pale with no light in her eyes and not a trace of a smile on her lips. All he could see was pain and it made his heart clench.

Without a word she leaped into his arms ,bawling her hands into his shirt and started sobbing , he didn't know how to respond so he settled on just putting his hand firmly on her back for support. She pulled away after a minute or two whispering "I'm sorry" to him and wiped her puffy red nose onto the back of her hand.He pulled his leather jacket off and hold it to her to put on , her cloths were completely ruined and looking at her like that just kept the fire inside of him alive. He grabbed her wrist walking to his bike, mumbled his apologizes to the blond and took Rachel to the club house. He gave her one of his shirts and a pair of sweat pants. Made them too black coffees to sober up and lead them to the patio. They spent most of the night talking about random things when he offered to take her home she begged him to let her stay there just for the night and he wanted to say no but couldn't get the words past his lips.

She didn't tell him till  much later on in their relationship, what she was doing at the bar that night and why she had acted so stupid. That night they just kept everything light and easy , he had a nice time learning who she was and they fell asleep with her head on his shoulder after she kissed he's cheek thanking him for saving her. 

Don took a huge gulp of the whiskey in his hand. It was funny how this patio become his happy and sad place all because he fell in love with Rachel Douglas that night.