Total pages in book: 55
Estimated words: 51765 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 259(@200wpm)___ 207(@250wpm)___ 173(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 51765 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 259(@200wpm)___ 207(@250wpm)___ 173(@300wpm)
They had finally given me some insight into why a man like Royce Davis might want my family’s land when he had so much of his own.
Especially so far out here, away from everything. Sure it could’ve been to build a shopping mall and homes like some of the whispers had implied, but the notes told a different story, a more plausible one.
And if I pulled it off, it would crush Royce Davis once and for all. All I needed was the right time and I’d get that shit started.
I found my boys waiting for me. There were a few more people here in the clubhouse now than there had been earlier, because the place was waking up.
“Chaz and Ty call back yet?” I walked over to the bar area to get some coffee. I hadn’t had time to eat shit this morning and my stomach was starting to protest.
“Yeah, he’s been looked after, it’s just a concussion and a few broken bones. They wanted to keep him but the boys are on their way back with him, they had to sneak him out.”
“Did they use their real names?”
“Of course not they’re not stupid; they faked it and paid cash for the medicine.”
“Fine, tell them to bring him back here and chain his ass in the old outhouse until he wakes up. Where’s the friend?”
“He’s being detained like you said.”
“Good.”
I didn’t want anyone overhearing what I had to say so we headed back to the meeting room and put up the shields.
“Royce bought her.” No sense in beating around the bush, that’s not how I deal with my guys, at least not the three that were in this room with me.
“What do you mean bought her exactly?” Clay sat forward on his seat and cracked his knuckles, his face set in lines of anger. It’s good to see they could keep a cool head.
“Just what I said, apparently he saw her when she was twelve and decided he wanted her. At least we ought to be thankful the evil fuck waited until she was eighteen.”
I filled them in on what I knew so far.
“But here’s the thing, they’re supposed to be getting married tomorrow.”
“You said supposed...” Kyle had the beginnings of a smile on his face, my baby brother knows me so well.
“Yes, because she’s not marrying him. So we have to figure out what the fuck we’re going to do, because we all know he’s not gonna just give her up that easily, not after spending all that money to have her refined or whatever the fuck the freak was up to.”
“We put double the men on the wall and called in the others for the day. There’re still a few of our people out there working, but they’ve all got the call so they should be here before the sun goes down. We all know Royce isn’t going to do anything in the daylight.”
“That’s true Brand, but how long are we going to do that for? No we have to take the fight to him, make first strike.”
“Okay bro, I’m with you whatever you want to do, just say the word.”
“I’ll get back to you on that, right now I have to go tell a young girl that her life is fucked.” Not that it hadn’t been before now. From the moment she came under Royce’s radar, life, as she knew it, was fucked.
I left them after filling them in on some other shit that had nothing to do with Ms. Dana and her fuckery.
Kyle ran to catch up with me, “Travis is coming home.” I stopped moving and looked at him. Finally, some good fucking news for a change.
“When?” Travis was our cousin. He used to spend the summers with us when we were all kids, and had lived with us here up until the summer before the murders when he’d gone off to college.
After college he’d gone away for a year to work for some company that was supposed to help him get a leg up and now he was coming home.
“He should be here any day now, he tried calling you but you never answer your damn phone.”
“Why don’t you go bitch at your wife bro, I’ve got shit to do.”
“Yeah about that, what do you plan on doing? I know you’re not gonna give her to him, so what else is there? I mean we can hide her out here for a while I guess, but how long’s that gonna last? This is no place for a girl like her...”
“Melissa seems to do fine enough.”
“Yeah but Mel grew up around us, she knows the deal and she loves me.”
“Yeah well don’t worry about it, when I make up my mind you’ll be the first to know.” The little fucker gave me that look like he knew some fuck I didn’t.