“Seems it might be connected. One of their birds flew down here, or they think they’ve traced him down here somewhere, after he worked over Ty’s woman or some shit. It was their digging on an Op that discovered the album.”
“They know I’m from down this way, and when they saw the references to this place they asked me to look into it until they can get here.”
I saw him flex because I don’t think those boys had any idea just who was in that little ledger when they sent it to him. I knew those boys, had gone on Ops with them more than once, stand up guys but crazy as fuck.
Still, I couldn’t wait around for them to get here to deal with this shit, and I’m a hundred percent sure that if the tables were turned they would feel the same.
“Wasn’t your wife on that list, how the fuck can you think of waiting around?”
“She wasn’t mine then or the fucks would already be six feet deep.” He folded his fists and I just quirked my brow at him. Who’s hotheaded now?
“As it stands I’m gonna make them bleed for even thinking about putting her in there, but we’re gonna do this right. The fact that she’s in there has given me a string I can tug, but I gotta give it some thought. But back to those fuckers in the hills and the rest of your boy Sal’s pals.
The fucking sheriff is in their pockets and he already has a hard on for me, which I don’t give a fuck about, but if he fucks with you I’m gonna lose my shit and I’ve got shit to do.
Not to mention a wife that was looking kinda green this morning when I rolled out of bed, which tells me she might be breeding or some fuck. Like my life isn’t fucked six ways from Sunday already. I need this shit.”
I found my first laugh in a long time. “Hey congrats brother, may the little fucker be just like you.” I could take a minute to be happy for my boy. After the fucked up year he’d had with his family being slaughtered while he was off fighting a war, he deserved some happy.
“Fuck you asshole, then again that might not be so bad. Heaven forbid any of them should come out like Dana Sue, fuck me.” He actually looked horrified at the thought and I couldn’t believe I could find anything to laugh about at a time like this.
“A handful is she?”
“You laugh now but I’m telling you, that sweet little thing you got over there is gonna be a whole new person any day now. I don’t know if it’s the ring on the finger, or taking them to our beds, but they change overnight on your ass and life as you know it is at a fucking end. Look at this shit.”
We watched as the women walked from one of the set up tables to the other laughing and hooting at who the fuck knows what. I saw my little one in the middle of the pack holding her own, and my heart did its crazy dance.
“I think we’re already there brother and I think it has to do with them feeling confident after they’ve caught their man.” I thought of the shit she’d been through this morning and the words she’d said to me in anger.
Now knowing that the ones I’d entrusted her to had put her in danger, had my temperature rising again, and just that easy my mood switched back to dark.
“You said this fuck messed with Ty’s girl? And he’s still breathing? Those boys get soft stateside or what?” Didn’t sound like the Ty I knew. I wonder how they got him to stand the fuck down?
“Nope, I’m pretty sure his ass is still as hotheaded as yours, but we have to play this shit right. We don’t know who all is involved as yet and how far it reaches. From what little those boys shared with me, there’re some heavy hitters involved. I’ll wait until they get here and see, but I smell a shit storm.
And let’s not forget there’re about two hundred girls in there that we have to account for before this shit is all said and done.”
What he was saying made sense, but it went against the grain to let this shit slide for even a second more. She was safe now that’s true. No one was gonna get anywhere near her that’s for sure, but I needed this shit dealt with yesterday for my own peace of mind.
How had I not known this shit was going on? How had I left her in danger so long? I didn’t like feeling like a fucking tool. Somebody’s ass was gonna burn.