Mad Dog (Angel’s Rebellion MC: #2) (Angel's Rebellion MC), стр. 81
Hear! Hear! echoed around the room.
“I agree with both Karma and KJ. This club owes you and we're all fucking thankful that you have a pops like you do. I know y'all learned a lot in the Army, but as you stated, Reb, it was the skill set that Viper instilled in each of you that made what went down go as smoothly as it did.”
I paused for a moment and studied each young man in front of me. Neither of them looked like they thought what they did was exceptional in any way. That was Viper's doing, and in turn, two men stood before us that this club would be lucky and honored to have.
“All this being said, a vote was taken a few minutes ago, and we'd all personally like to welcome our newest Brothers into the MC,” I said as I slid their cuts across the table toward where they were standing.
Disbelief crossed their faces, then pure joy. Fuck, yes. These will definitely be good Brothers to have.
“You'll need to cut your name off the prospect cut, sew it onto your new cut and turn the prospect cut back in.”
Both men nodded at me smiling ear to ear.
“Will do, Prez,” They commented at the same time.
We watched as they took off their prospect cut and put on their new cut for the very first time. I glanced over at Viper to see a small smile on his lips and pride shining out of his eyes for his two sons.
“We'll have you a welcome party this Friday,” I told them, then watched as they looked at each other then back at me.
Pred cleared his throat and said, “Prez, if it's all the same to you, we'd rather not have a party if that's okay.”
Reb was nodding as Pred spoke.
I saw puzzled looks cross the men's faces and apparently, they did too.
“Let me just say that the party held the last time we were patched into an MC is the stuff that nightmares are made of, and we think about it way too often to have to think about it for a whole evening,” Reb informed his new Brothers.
As heads tilted his way, “If that's what you both want, then it's definitely fine with us. You both pull up a chair, we have something to discuss,” I uttered.
As the boys found a chair, I opened my mouth to speak, but before I could Possum declared, “Got something I need to say.”
He looked down at Trooper and Slaughter and I watched as they nodded at him. He cleared his throat and began, “Sorry to interrupt what we are here for, but since every active member but two is here at this meeting, now would be the best time for what I need to say.”
He paused for a moment. I think I knew what he was going to say but didn't know why he was choosing now. I thought he hadn't planned on doing this for another year or so.
“This is a hard thing for me to do, but I need to step down as the VP. I had originally wanted to wait a little while longer, however I received some news that will interfere with me doing my duties. And since you all know I have been thinking about this, anyway, now seems the time to go ahead and do it.”
“What's going on, Brother?” I inquired.
He sighed heavily, “I am going to have to have surgery, I have prostate cancer and depending upon the results of the surgery, may have to do chemo and radiation as well.”
I sat stunned listening to his news. He hadn't said a word of this to me at all. I saw the same look on everyone's faces except for his sons.
“Damn, Brother. I don't know what to say. I'm fucking sorry, Possum.”
“Nothing to really say, Prez. It's just one of life's kicks in the ass. At least it was caught fairly early, so that’s a positive. But I don't feel that I could perform my duties and I know you'd probably say that I could take the time off from VP, but I'd stress over that too much. So it's just best for me to go ahead and step down. Since we have everyone here right now, we could go ahead and vote in a new VP.”
He cleared his throat again and said, “I have a man I'd like to nominate to take my position. This man has shown an uncanny ability to survive the shit that life has thrown him. Shit that most of us would have crumbled under. And despite living in hell for years, he still managed to raise a wonderful family and over the last couple of days we've seen three of his sons’ shine, two exceptionally so.
“For a man to have gone through what he has gone through for years and still be a good man at the core, a man who I've seen everyone here come to respect, well, in my book that's saying he is a man of integrity, a man you can trust, a man who will always have your back.
“He's also a man who knows how to lead and teach other men. I know he hasn't been here long, but I believe he is the best man for the job. I nominate Viper as the new VP.”
I watched as shock flared across Viper's face. This had caught him completely off guard. I glanced around the room and it looked like everyone agreed with Possum as they were nodding their heads.
“I agree with Possum,” Hoss spoke out. “He