The girls snickered just as Mikey and Tony came to see about them. Hopefully they'd drag them off somewhere so they could stay the hell outta my business. I should've known better. "You are my darling son, but you're also a man, tsk, tsk, tsk, and after all my hard work.""What, you tried to turn me into a girl or some shit?" I was confused. "No dear, but I did try to instill some sense into you, you know, so things like this didn't happen. All those lessons down the drain. You're locking your future wife away in closets, threatening her with all manner of things and now this. No candlelight Shane, not even a flower?" She shook her head like I was an imbecile. "Ma, Mouth doesn't need that shit...""And her name is Arianna." Mouth poked her tongue out at me. Cute. "Ma I love ya, but you have no idea what's going on here trust me. As for me telling her I love her over the phone at least I said it, that should be good enough." "That's right Casanova,
"Arianna get over here now." She came from the living room where the women had congregated."You bellowed your crankiness?" I pulled her into the room and slammed the door shut. "You're not going to Chicago.""What?" She glared at her father and uncle. "Don't look at them look at me, tell me you understand what I just said, you are not going to Chicago, no way no how.""It's only for a short while.""No." "Shane..." I cut her off with a hand around her throat."Mouth do not fuck with me on this, you only think you've seen me pissed, push me on this and live to regret it." Mikey and Tony came to flank me, but funnily enough her father and uncle did nothing; not that I'd really hurt her but I did have my hand wrapped around her throat about to throttle her. "Shane maybe you should...""Stay out of it Anthony she wants to pull the tiger's tail, let her see what happens.""Son it's only for a short time, she has some unfinished business. There's st
James looked like he was about to fucking break into tears. "Poppy, that's fucked up, I get what you're saying but it's still fucked." I wouldn't say anymore because I knew Poppy would stick to his guns. James will just have to handle his shit. I have bigger fish to fry right now anyway I'll deal with my brother's emotional trauma later. "So you decided that I needed to be put out to stud?" Did I mention I was getting pissed way the fuck off?"No, no, don't look at it like that, we were just trying a little matchmaking, it's something her father and I came up with years ago before you were even born. Hell your own father wasn't even born yet when we made the deal. Rossi looked nervous as fuck and Alphonso for some strange reason was silent and seemed to be trying valiantly to disappear into the wall. "Dad...""Don't start Ari, you fell in love didn't you?" She sniffed her nose at me. I still had a hold of her shirt I'd forgotten that. I moved my hand aroun
"Boss, um, yeah, but she's yours.""So you handle her with care in all things. If the situation warrants it I give you permission to use force." I got an elbow to the gut as Mouth finally caught on to who the two new men in the room were. The twins were anything but, Zane was a six foot four African American and Alec was a six foot six Native American. They got their nickname because of the way they moved together, like fucking magnets. It was from their days in the SEALs together. "Arianna meet your two new best friends.""I think I liked it better when you called me Mouth, every time you call me Arianna it's followed by bad news. No offense boys." She smirked at the two men who were sizing her up. Probably wondering how someone so tiny could've pulled off all the shit they'd heard about. They'll learn. *** ARIANNA *** I heard the big boss man giving out his orders. He didn't know I was listening, sniggers. What he doesn't know won'
At first I thought he was just pissed and I was about to let him have it, until I saw the real fear in his eyes, he was terrified. "I was never in any danger Shane." I ran my hand up and down his back soothingly; I could feel the pounding of his heart through his jacket. Fuck, I'd really scared him. "Take care of that." He ordered his team before dragging me out of the room. We took the emergency exit out the back and he had his phone to his ear as we went around the side of the building. "Any sign of this fuck yet?" I guess that was a negative because he hung up the phone with a furtive 'fuck'. I was gently placed in the front seat of the car he had waiting, my seat belt buckled for me before he climbed into the driver's side. All this was done with not one word to me. I kept watching him out the side if my eye as we drove through the empty streets. We drove into the underground garage. I was once again helped out of the car. All the way up in the elevator
"Where does it end Arianna?""What do you mean?""When will you have killed all your enemies, how many others are there?""That's not fair." "It's a legitimate question, obviously you don't care how I feel about it so I'd like to know if this is going to be a lifetime thing, or will you get tired of it soon?" "Shane why are you talking this way? I thought you'd understand... I thought...""What's the point of me going legit if you're going around being a killing machine? Maybe we should both just say fuck it and carry on as before." "We'd kill everyone who opposes us, take over the whole Western faction and parts of the Midwest, why stop now..." "Shane, stop it, that's not what I'm doing...""Let me ask you something, what do you think love is?""What...what do you mean?" "If you love someone do you want the best for them or the worst?""The best of course." "Do you think it's best that you be a part of this, something that you admit chi
My life was one of peace for all of two hours, maybe. What made me think this shit would be any different was beyond me. No sooner had I left the apartment to go get started on what the fuck I had to do than the twins were calling me to tell me what she was up to. What part of, 'stay your little ass in the house until we catch this finger fucking guy' she didn't understand I don't know. I picked up the phone to call her. "Where were you off to sneak?""My apartment, I need to get some of my things. In case you haven't noticed since you dragged me off to your cave I haven't been back to get my necessities." "You had a chance to do that and you used it to sneak out and go work at the club, or did you forget that?""That was then, this is now... I hung up the phone. She'd argue me to death otherwise. I was satisfied that the men could keep her in check while I saw to things, they'd assured me that they knew her fighting style now and that they'd just b
"Shane you've got to get the Black knight and Eagle eyed Shaman off my ass.""Deal with it." He hung up. Did he just...oh hell no. I'm gonna go straight up honey boo-boo on his ass."Shane said I could go." I stared at my two new pains in the ass. Of course they didn't budge, didn't even bat a lash, shit. I didn't exactly lie to Shane before, but I had to go. If I didn't, it would be like an itch under my skin, something I had to get at until I was satisfied and the itching had abated. I can't just turn off who I am just like that. He's acting as though I wanted to go around slaughtering innocent people or some shit. These guys tried to fuck my dad, It's not in me to let that shit slide. But this one had a burr up his butt and wanted to curtail my activities. I bet he's off doing shit right now while I'm supposed to stay home like a good little lady and knit or some shit. "Well didn't you hear me, he said it was fine." The dark Knight unclipped some