"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
"You fucked up royally, I don't even know what to say to you and she isn't mine. You shoulda known he was gonna go ape shit." I was sitting in Logan and Gaby's kitchen trying to come to terms with the scene that had just unfolded outside. Yes I had expected Zak to be pissed, but I hadn't expected the look of unbridled hatred in his eyes. I wasn't sure I would ever overcome that, and now he had my daughter, and had locked himself away in his house. I felt the disappointment from the men around me, even as Gaby, Dani and even little Susie hung close and tried to offer me comfort. "I know you're all mad at me, but try to understand, I didn't do this to hurt him..." "This is a conversation you're gonna have to have with him. We're not gonna go against him on this and you know that. I don't know your reasons for doing what you did, but I do know my brother, and right now, you're fucked." My body jerked at his words. "Hey, there's no point in me sugar coatin
"You've got to do something." I knew she was going to follow me outside; that's why I did it. I was proud of her for holding her tongue in front of the others, not showing her displeasure or her fear, but I wanted her to come to me always. "This is not for you little Susie. There are things going on here that you know nothing about." I stayed away from her, okay like a few feet. But that was a lot considering I wanted to reach out and take her in my arms and...no Cord not yet, remember who you're dealing with. Even before the suspicion that she might be the old man's daughter, I knew I had to take it slow. She was like a dainty little bird, one wrong move and I'd bruise her wing; I could never have that. "It doesn't matter, that's her baby, it's not right." She's so fucking young, and even with all that mouth of hers, so na飗e in some ways. I'd seen the fear in her back there when my brothers were telling Vanessa how things really were. For someone who