"Damn sis you look green." I pulled out a chair for her and looked at Con who looked like he was ready to kill someone over this shit. "I have to run her into the doctor's this morning, I'm not putting up with this shit no matter how normal she says it is." The two of them started bickering, which was funny as hell, because Con wasn't listening to a word she said. "Hey, Bullwinkle, it's natural for a woman's body to do that while she's with young. Don't embarrass us, what're you gonna do, run to the doctor every time she pukes?" Ty the expert put his two cents in. I'm pretty sure if he doesn't stop his shit either Con or Lo is gonna put his lights out. The only reason none of us had taken his ass out as yet was because we knew this was his way of not dealing with what we suspected had happened to the commander. A pain in the ass Ty was better than crazy Ty any day. The talk was light as we sat around drinking cups of coffee while we waited for whateve
The others were already acting like the pigs they were when we returned, but thankfully Gaby had save us some. "You two okay?" Logan gave me the big brother's watching look and I just nodded my head and sat my woman next to me after kicking Ty off his chair. "The fuck?" he didn't let go of the bacon strip he was inhaling; greedy fuck. I made her a plate before getting my own and dug in. The others started asking her shit about what she was doing back in NOLA and shit about why she'd timed out so soon from the service. Some of her answers were sketchy at best, but no one pressed her, it was just like old times. Except there was no mortar in the background and no impending danger. Gaby and Dani who was looking like part of the living again, were asking her questions about her time in the service and some of the hairier escapades she'd been a part of. The conversation was making my gut burn but I kept my lips sealed. I didn't want to start world war fucking four
"Hear me out, there's no negotiating, you either agree or you don't leave here alive. And in case you're thinking of reneging once you leave here, know that we have someone already in place to watch you. I'm guessing right about now you're trying to figure out how the fuck you got yourself in this fix? This is what happens when you go south. As far as I'm concerned you're a piece a shit who doesn't deserve to live, but we might be able to use you, you try to fuck us on this and we'll bury you. You won't see us coming, but you'll feel the impact two seconds before you're dead." "It doesn't matter anyway, they probably already think we went AWOL." He really is a nervous fucker, and a liar too. That could get his ass shot before he even left the room. "No they don't you're on leave for the weekend all three of you, and that's your only freebie, lie to me again and I'll slice your nuts off. You'll live, but that pretty little filly won't have any uses for you." He
"Those guys, they saw my face, would they go after my family?" I had to think on my feet, something else I'd been taught over the years. "I doubt it, too messy and they seem to like things contained, plus I doubt they were paying that close attention." "But they killed the commander, that's what you think isn't it?" She was up from her seat in a panic and freaking me the hell out. "Yes but that's because he was getting too close. What is it, what's wrong?" She moved past me on her way to the bedroom. "And you're sure it's safe here?" What the fuck was going on with her? "Yes I'm sure." I followed her with my mind full of questions. "I have to do something." She got her phone and sent off a text. It took everything in me not to snatch the shit and see who she'd contacted. I was gonna have to work on my trust issues. I'm pretty sure she wouldn't have texted some other man in front of me though so my rabid meter was on low. "Someth
Things are heating up in more ways than one. I'd had to move fast after finding the commander's instructions in the codes, but we were finally getting somewhere. So far we hadn't found what it was that he had uncovered if anything, but we knew he had been on the right track. Zak's findings today had changed things up a lot, put a whole new spin on things. If what the old man had suspected is true, then we were dealing with some dangerous fucking individuals. The men themselves may not be much; I could take those fuckers with my bare hands in my sleep. But that's usually the way with these types. No, their strength came in the form of the power they wielded. They had money and standing not only here, but internationally as well. It had long been rumored that these fucks were in bed with the devil, as far back as the first world war. If you ask me, if you wanted to trace the axis of evil, all you need do is study all who gained from that shit. After I'd sent my
I'd stumbled across a notation in one of the old man's files about this suspicions that he was the father of not only Susie, but also her little brother Davey, who was three years younger. I had no idea about their family dynamic other than there was always talk of a mother and no father, but I couldn't imagine the man I knew letting his kids go without his name. He'd taken each of us under his wing and been more of a father to us than the men who'd seeded our mothers, so it was hard to reconcile him with this new development. "Shit, we need to find out one way or the other, that would make them our responsibility. Cord how're you doing buddy?" He looked determined as fuck and I could only imagine that he was trying to come to terms with the fact that the woman he was planning to take to his bed might be the daughter of the man he'd looked up to as a father. That might put a different face on things, knowing his proclivities... "This doesn't change anything, sh
"I think something's wrong with Vanessa." I'd left her in the window seat and headed back to the living room with the others. "What do you mean, is she sick?" Gaby stopped halfway to her seat. We were just sitting around cooling our heals since the men had pretty much forbidden us to do anything more than sit and look at the four walls. Connor was being even more of a tyrant than usual and I despaired of having a moment's peace for the next few months until the baby came. I've never seen such a strong man lose it over a pregnancy before in my life. It's like we were transported back to the seventeenth century when conditions were tentative at best and the birth rate was a lot sketchier. As much as I tried convincing him that everything would work out fine, he wasn't having it. And now with this new development things were going to be a lot worst. Now we were cooped up in the house under strict orders to stay put, with two relative strangers. I liked Vanessa, s
It felt like she'd been hiding from me all day. Every time I came within breathing distance she found somewhere else to be. I was getting pretty fucking tired of that shit and was looking for her to set her ass straight when I came up on her and Logan in some sort of secret meet, they were standing way too fucking close. I stopped short and took it in, willing myself not to go off kilter, which is usually my first response. There was a strange vehicle parked just inside the gate, which I totally ignored because the scene looked all fucking wrong to me. Cool it Zak; fuck that. "What the fuck are you doing?" I started moving again with purpose. Now rationally, I knew there was nothing going on. I knew that Lo would never poach on my shit, and since she didn't have a death wish she wouldn't play me false. But irrationally, I didn't like anyone that fucking close to her and they all knew it. So far everyone had respected my boundaries, but with the way she'd been acting an