Men dived for cover, others burst into flames.
“Die, motherfuckers!” Lucas shouted, holding a flamethrower in his hands as he attempted to barbecue every gang member he spotted outside of Marcus’s cottage.
“What the fu—” Marcus began before diving to the ground, narrowly missing the stream of fire as it passed by his face.
“Oh, where’d you go?” Lucas shouted. “Why are you running? Thought you big, bad gangsters wanted to come out and play?” Lucas taunted before shooting another stream of fire toward two men cowering behind a large boulder on the front lawn.
One of the men made the unfortunate mistake oflifting his head too soon to see if the crazy fire-starting twink was still on their assess.
The man lit up like a Christmas tree.
Fire took hold of his head and spread fast, swallowing his chest and legs.
Marcus watched in fascination as the man ran blindly through the yard, screaming as the flames engulfed his body.
“What? Can’t take the heat?” Lucas shouted, firing another stream at the second man still cowering behind the boulder. “You bitches think you can come out here and try to murder my friends? I don’t fucking think so.”
Another stream of fire.
Lucas began walking toward the second man, murder and rage glistening in the flames reflected in his eyes.
Marcus glanced over at Ace, who was still taking cover from Lucas’s wild fire attack.
“Okay, I think we need to get that boy some counseling. Clearly, he’s got a lot of pent-up anger,” Marcus noted.
Ace nodded in agreement.
“We got him! Over here!” Nikolai shouted from somewhere across the property.
Marcus sprang to his feet, hoping to see Gavin’s smiling face staring back at him.
Instead, he saw two men, on their knees, hands behind their heads, staring up at Niko and Jake, who were holding them both at gunpoint.
Marcus walked over to the men.
It was just as he’d suspected. This whole attack had been led by Rowan and his crew. A poor man’s attempt at revenge.
All this was because he had humiliated the leader of the New Mexico Greens in front of his men. But what other choice did he have? He could have killed the man, he guessed.
Truth be told, at the time, he was too distracted by Gavin coming to live with him to deal with the headache of taking out a crew leader, then dealing with the shitstorm that usually followed.
Showing the man who the true alpha was seemed like the easier option.
“I should have known,” Marcus said, staring down at his rival and competition. “Hate to say it, but you failed. You can’t even get revenge right. I’m still alive, and my men have kicked your crew’s asses.”
“Woo-hoo!” Lucas screeched as he chased another man down to the water, a stream of fire scorching the terrified man’s ass as he ran for his life.
Marcus tried not to laugh. That boy had issues.
“I might have failed to get my revenge, buthedidn’t,” Rowan said with a toothy smile.
Marcus’s stomach dropped. “What do you mean?”
“Might want to check on your boyfriend,” the man said, chuckling darkly. “Who would have guessed that the big bad Marcus liked to swallow dick?”
Rage taking over, Marcus grabbed Rowan by the shirtcollar and yanked him to his feet. The man went flying upward, like he didn’t weigh a thing.
Staring into the man’s eyes, Marcus sneered back at him. “What did you do?”
