“Oh. No, no, he didn’t get that far. Jacob stormed the room andpulled him off but not before he was able to hit me a few times and cut me. That jerk was too damn fast, almost like he knew he wouldn’t have much time in there.” She said this and looked off in the distance, deep in thought.
“You know, he said something kind of weird before he attacked me.” She looked over, meeting my gaze.
“I mean, the guy was weird as hell, but he paid double so I wasn’t going to turn that down.” She cracked a sassy smile.
“What’s a couple of hours with a weirdo for that kind of money? He honestly seemed harmless.”
I gave her a sympathetic nod, encouraging her to continue her story.
“But then right before he attacked me, he said:
‘Sometimes the choices we make affect others more than we even realize. And those choices deserve to be acknowledged.’
I didn’t have much time to process his ominous statement before the bastard’s fist hit my temple. Ugh. I could have taken him if it wasn’t for that freakin’ sucker punch.” Twyla giggled at her own attitude. I was glad to see her joking and laughing a little bit, given what just went down not long ago.
She pressed her finger against the lump on the side of her swollen face, wincing. “Ouch.”
“Come on tough girl. Let’s go find Jacob.” I cupped my hand under her elbow, patting my fingers tenderly, in an effort to comfort and soothe her.
Honesty and integrity…
Dallas
Istormed through the basement door, sending it forcefully into the brick wall. The man in the chair jumped at the loudthudthat announced my arrival. My guys had already done a number on him. I didn’t care how much they had done. No one messes with my family without paying for it.
I continued with rage threatening to boil over. Standing in front of him, I looked to see who this asshole was. I was shocked when I recognized him but I couldn’t place where I had seen him before. Something about his eyes was familiar to me.
“Who are you?” I snapped, assuming he was just a member. I see snapshots of all the new members when they get accepted, so I was willing to bet that was the reason I felt like I knew him.
When he didn’t respond I threw one quick jab to his jaw, the sound of his bones cracking through the heavy air.
“I don’t like repeating myself.” I said pulling a cloth from my pocketand wiping my knuckles with it as I spoke. “You can either answer my questions or I can have Dillion here,” I threw my jaw toward the the huge brute of a man that stood near by, “beat them out of you. Your choice.”
“Y-you will go to jail, this is – this is against the law! You can’t just tie me up and hold me here like this.” His voice became more frantic with every word.
“Tisk tisk, I’m curious. What makes you believe that they would ever know you were here, should I choose to make you disappear?” I asked with a condescending grin.
His eyes grew wide.
“I didn’t even want to do this. I was just supposed to rough her up a little bit and send a message. You weren’t even supposed to be able to get in the room or see on the cameras but the stupid asshole didn’t do his job….” he rambled on.
“Shut your fucking mouth!” I commanded, regaining control of the conversation that had just taken a drastic turn.
His mouth snapped closed as my voice boomed over his sorry attempt at distracting me from who was responsible here.
“This asshole you mentioned – does he have a name?” He wasn’t quick to respond, instead he got quiet and shifted his eyes to the floor.
I stepped aside as Dillion shuffled his feet and stepped up. Dillion is one angry man. He stayed centered, not easily provoked but once you did poke the bear, you had better have a solid fucking defense plan.
The first blow landed right in the center of the babbling man’s gut. An exasperated gasp forcefully escaped from his mouth then he puked. The disgusting bile nearly finding my penny loafer.
I’d say the point we were driving home was more than clearly received.
“Okay, okay.” He finally managed to spew out from behind bloody teeth.
“I’ll tell you who sent me. Are you gonna let me go if I do?” He reallyis trying to use the information we are now forcing him to give us as a damn bargaining tool.
Idiot! Did he forget that he was our captive right now? No one puts their hands on my family and gets away without a serious reminder of who they were fucking with.
