“What are you smiling at?” I bark.
“My brother,” Maxim rasps out. “Nice to see you again.”
Rage builds inside me, and I know I’m about to snap.
Instead of ending this motherfucker, I whip out my phone. Making a very rash decision, I dial my father.
“Son?” My father’s voice comes through. I put it on speakerphone.
“Guess what I’m doing right now? I'm staring straight at your illegitimate bastard, hanging from chains.”
“What? Son, let him go. Now,” my father demands.
I laugh loudly. Once I start, I can't stop.
I set the phone on its stand on the table, facing Maxim.
Walking toward Maxim, I snatch a heavy hammer from the table. I heft it upwards, swinging hard for his midsection.
Maxim cries out when it hits. I did aim for a nonlethal spot, not wanting to rupture any organs. Yet, anyway. Malishka deserves to do the honors with me.
“Son? Let him go!” my father screams through the phone.
He never yells. I've rattled him—good.
I start to whistle, going in once more to smash a shoulder. Maxim screams again as his shoulder dislocates.
Picking the phone back up, I put it close to my mouth, and whisper, “You’re next, Father. I will end you. I am going to cut you into tiny pieces and feed you to pigs. You can’t run. You can’t hide. I am coming for you.”
My father sucks in a harsh intake of breath. “Son... be reasonable. I love you.”
That does it.
I lose it, cracking up laughing.
I don’t utter another word, just disconnect the call.
I turn my back on a semi-conscious Maxim, leaving the room.
I’m going to stand outside Malishka’s door until she comes out.
Chapter 23
Synn
I'm walkingby the computer room, doing restless circles through this place.
I need Pazessca. She's with 3—that pussy.
I hear a startled yelp coming from Purge, so I burst into the room.
“What? What is it?” I ask.
Purge swings around in his chair. “You’re not going to believe this, man. All our fathers have taken our mothers and gone underground. I managed to hack into a series of e-mails between our fathers.”
That is not at all what I expected to hear.
“Why? Do you know?”
