Dead Men Motorcycle Club by Angelica Siren

Author:Angelica Siren
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Frost-RL
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Paying the Price

"Just... about... GOT IT!"

I let go of the wrench and allowed myself a moment to wipe the sweat from my forehead. People laugh when I tell them how much I hate working on tight screws in confined spaces - there's just something about that phrasing that always brings a chuckle - but today this was my job. When you work as a mechanic, it's not all glamorous. Actually, none of it is glamorous. Those shows you see on TV where people build custom motorcycles for celebrities? That's just them. The rest of us are stuck tightening the steering on late-model Toyotas. Still, it beats being stuck in an office.

Here in the town of San Viero, California, there's only one place to go when your car breaks down. Peasant Motors is the best garage in town for anything on two wheels or four. Of course, it's also the only garage in town. Peasant earned a great reputation back in the early 70s with high quality work and fair quotes. Little by little, the other garages shut down and Peasant expanded. Eventually they became the only game in town. In some places, having a monopoly means higher prices and lower quality. That's just not the way in small towns though. Here, being the only garage is a responsibility. Peasant Motors has the job of keeping all the cars, trucks, bikes and occasional lawn mowers in San Viero running. And when I saw it's our job, I really mean it's my job. My name is Emma Percy, and I'm the best mechanic you're ever going to meet.

How I got to working at Peasant has as much to do with my talent as a mechanic as it does with the real owners of the shop. The extent of the relationship isn't widely advertised, but the worst kept secret in San Viero is that the Dead Men Motorcycle Club is running Peasant Motors. I remember the first time I figured it out, I was a little bit shocked. After all, like most people, I'd heard about the kind of shady activities that motorcycle clubs got into. That they'd be running a garage in a small town seemed out of character. It looked like a nice place, not a den of criminal activity. It took some time before I understood that the things the MC did outside the law didn't necessarily end up as a stain on their legitimate business. Just like a person, an MC can have two sides to its personality. On the one hand you've got the dangerous criminal element. On the other you have a pillar of the community. You have to come to a place like San Viero to see that in action.

The duality I found in my place of employment was reflected in the people who I worked alongside. Among them were people who had done time in prison, people who readily admitted to fights that ended with the other guy dead and none of them were without a host of other crimes on their rap sheets.

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