I pulled her in for a kiss. "I would've spent more, my girl deserves only the best. Now you want to tell me why you think you can't have my kid now?" So much for changing the subject: great, now she's got me confusing my own fucking self. She looked away guiltily; fuck me."Mouth...." I was starting to get a sick feeling in my gut. Just then we heard the elevator and my family came out. The women dressed pretty much like Mouth, the two boobs in Armani suits. "Later Eddie boy, we'll talk later."I'd forgotten all about my eye until my sister-in-law Michael mentioned it. "Nice shiner there bro another knockout bout with the champ?""Oh Shane, we heard all about you getting beat up, my poor boy did the mean little girl hurt you?" Ma kissed my cheek while stifling laughter. The bigmouthed duo was cracking themselves up, and my adoring sisters were smirking. Everybody was a damn comedian around here. "Very funny let's go.""I need my purse and jacket."
I didn't spend too much time on Taylor, I just had one question for him and that was what info he'd sold to the Staccos. Now with father and son gone that organization would be overrun by the violence of underlings trying to be top dog, unless I moved in and dismantled the shit, which is what I planned on doing anyway. The next few months were going to be hell with me trying to clean shit up in my backyard. I'll have the cops and the fucking criminals breathing down my neck, if I could get some of the others on board to go legit things might be easier. A few of the old timers were already on board, but there were still a few more who didn't see the benefit. I'll make sure and show them the error of their ways. I'm going to make this city safe for my son or daughter if it fucking kills me. By the time Taylor's carcass was being nibbled on by fish in the deep, I was on my way to deal with Ricci. My phone went off alerting me to a call from Tommy, my heart wen
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