“I got you. I know that,” Maverik said.
“Don’t fix anything,” Kaid said.
“What? What would I possibly do? All I’m doing is helping protect my daughter-in-law and my grand kids when it’s my turn.”
“Thank you,” Ronan said.
“Thank you for letting me be a part of it after me being as much of an ass as I was,” Maverik said.
~~~
“What?” a gruff voice asked when he answered his phone.
“We found her.”
“You’re sure?”
“Absolutely.”
“The brats with her, too?”
“Yes, sir.”
“Good. Very good.”
“There’s more.”
“Don’t play games with me! Just spit it out!”
“She went on a date.”
“With who?!” the man demanded, sitting up out of his hot tub as he gripped the phone so hard it made cracking sounds.
“Some fucking kid. We followed him for a while. He’s a fucking student.”
“So she leaves me— ME! — and gets with a damn kid?”
“Yeah. Think it was just a one time thing. He was around a few times, but he ain't been back.”
“She make you yet?”
“No. I’m not there. We got little Stevie pretending to be a bum,” he said chuckling. “He’s living in the shelter she’s working in and she ain't ever met him. She even smiled and talked to him. She ain’t got no clue.”
“Kill them and bring the bitch to me.”
“I gotta find the right time. That place is always crawling with people. I don’t know why anybody’d want to be here.”
“It’s not always crawling with people! They gotta sleep sometime. Wait ‘til the night and kill ‘em.”
“You sure? They’re your kids.”
“What did I send you down there for?!”
“To kill them.”
“Then fucking kill them. And send me pictures! And bring her fucking ass back here so I can take care of her personally. I want her to know it’s her own fucking fault! No fucking body leaves me. Fucking bitch!”
“Consider it done.”
