“Let him pack. We got this.”
“Ignore me with a fucking game—” Narci started.
“Listen up, fuckhead,” Ryder interrupted. “I don’t have a clue who the fuck you think you’re talking to.”
“Yeah, we’re Dad’s sons,” Ransom said. “He tells us to protect Mom. Protecting Rebel, protects Mom. Besides, Dad wants us to protect Reb, too.”
“Call us what the fuck you want, butwewill kill you and Fia if you fuck with us,” Ryder said.
Narci laughed. “If you weren’t children, I’d take that as a fucking threat.”
Ransom smirked. “Yousound like the threat, fuckhead.”
“We’ll steer clear of you, if you steer clear of us,” Ryder promised. “Because you’re inourfucking house. You don’t have a motherfucking say over how the fuck we act.”
“Even when we’re out and at the club, you’re not a part of our fucking family and your fucking insults don’t phase me. We love our mom. There’s no shame in that. Maybe ifyourmomma didn’t have cocks stuck down her throat on the regular, she’d tell you she loved you, too.”
“My mother’s dead,” Narci snarled. “Respect her.”
“Fuck you,” Ryder said. “You get the fucking respect you fucking deserve. That goes for your dead momma, too.”
“You don’t respectourmom,” Ransom said. “We don’t give a fuck when, why, or howyourmomma died. You fucking remember that before you fuck with us.”
As tough as Ryder and Ransom tried to be, they were kids. CJ already knew Narci had all types of bullshit brewing underneath his surface.
“That’s enough, you two,” CJ said calmly. “Tone it down. We all got your point. You aren’t mama’s boys.”
Ryder shook his head. “Didn’t say that, C. I’m proud to be Mom’s son and I don’t care who knows it. If that makes me a mama’s boy, then that’s what I am.”
“As me, Ax, and Ry see it. Mom loves Dad. She knows who he is. She just ordered him to kill Fia. As long as we love and respect her, shewon’t care what we do away from her. We will always have her support. Just like Dad does.”
Diesel’s annoyance had long ago slid away. Now, he nodded. “She’d defend any of us so fiercely.”
“She would,” CJ agreed, absorbing Ryder and Ransom’s words, suddenly proud of Mom.
“If I walk out, I won’t get shot in the back, will I?” Kaia asked hesitantly.
“Not today,” Diesel said ominously.
“You better lose Fia’s number, Kaia,” Ryan told him.
“I will,” he said in a tone that CJ called bullshit on.
“Newsflash, fuckhead, if you piss off Mom, not only will she had Fia killed but if you escape with your life, she’ll fire you,” CJ said with certainty.
“Leave Fia alone,” Diesel said with distaste. “We’ll find you a girl to fuck behind Rebel’s back.”
Kaia glared at Diesel but before he spoke Jana stood from her seat, turned to Diesel, and kissed him tenderly.
“I never thanked you for finding me so irresistible that you had to fuck me by the pool.”
Bro.
“You’re such a fierce big brother,” she continued. “I love you so much.”
“I know,” Diesel said irritably.
“Maybe I can talk to Meggie about how mean she was to you?” Jana asked.
