*Audry*I held on tight to the gun as Aaron led me through the large house. It was completely different than twenty minutes ago. I watched as the Taddeos ran around the house to prepare for the trade-off with their biggest enemies. I watched in horror as everyone collected guns from hidden places around the house.I clutched my weapon and stared at the huge firearms the members were arming themselves with. I noticed that most of Taddeos’ members were burly men with serious expressions on their faces. The Moltons were sure to be outnumbered. I was fearful for Franky, Lyle, Mina, and all the other friends who made up the Molton Family.I wondered if Sara Walker was going to be present at the trade-off. Would she be bringing her team? “I thought you wanted peace?” I asked Aaron, and looked pointedly at his team preparing for battle. He was leading me to a sitting room with his hands behind his back. “Just because I want peace, doesn’t mean I’m a fool,” Aar
Chaos ensued and for a moment, I didn’t know which way was up. On pure instinct, I crouched down and covered my head as bullets flew through the air. I army crawled to the Moltons’ side because that was my best chance at survival.I heard gasps of pain and thuds as people fell. I just hoped that it wasn’t any of my friends. My jeans tore on a rock and I felt warm blood seeping through the hole in my pants, but I kept going. I couldn’t afford to stop.Now I was public enemy number one. I had just tried to kill Taddeos’ gang leader.How had I not noticed that the gun wasn’t loaded? I wasn’t in my right mind, to be fair. I had been so focused on wanting to kill my father’s murderer that I hadn’t inspected the weapon I was given to do it. I should have finished the cadets. I dropped out before target practice. I kept crawling over to the Moltons’ side and made my way slowly but surely. My heart felt like it was pounding in my ears. It felt like someone was controlling
I didn’t even lift my gun to defend myself against Aaron. I didn’t have enough time and all the fight seemed to have seeped out of me now that Daniel was lying motionless at my feet. In the back of my mind, I realized that I could hear again. But what did anything matter if Daniel was dead? I knew I should be angry and screaming with rage right now. But I felt paralyzed by my numbness. My brain refused to accept what I knew to be true. I wouldn’t even allow myself to look down. I couldn’t.So much had happened tonight that I couldn’t process Daniel was dead and I was about to be shot. Was this really how our story was going to end? After everything we had been through this past month, this was how it all ended? I just hoped that someone took out Aaron after he shot me.I closed my eyes, accepting my fate. Then something amazing happened. I heard someone grunt on the ground. It sounded like Daniel, but I didn’t want to get my hopes up. Could it be my imagina
After I shot Aaron, I immediately turned to Dominic.“I’m so sorry. I-I…” But I didn’t have an excuse other than the fact that I thought it was the right thing to do. The right thing for me anyway. Even though we had technically agreed that I could be the one to kill Aaron at our last meeting, it felt like the situation had changed. I didn’t regret shooting him, not even for a second, but now I was scared of how everyone was going to react. Mr. Molton was the leader and it was his decision. I was hoping he wasn’t mad at me. Also, the Chief of Police was here. Sara could easily arrest me for what I just did. It could be technically counted as murder because Aaron hadn’t been pointing a gun at me when I shot him. There were many witnesses to my crime. All these scenarios were going through my mind in rapid succession and I was beginning to feel dizzy.“I understand why you shot him, Audry,” Mr. Molton told me. He patted my shoulder in a fatherly sort of way. Dominic
Daniel was standing in the middle of the room holding a bouquet of orange tulips and plastic black flowers. I loved the color palette he had chosen because I automatically knew what he was going for—Halloween colors. “What did I do to deserve these?” I asked as I walked over to where he was standing and took the flowers from him. My cheeks began to warm as I held the bouquet, chewing on my bottom lip.Daniel shrugged. “I owe you a lot more than flowers,” he said with a grin. “This is only the start of the surprises though. I’m taking you out of town. I think we could both use a little getaway.” My heart began beating with excitement as I gripped the flowers.“Pack a bag. We are going somewhere for two nights.” I opened my mouth to ask more questions, but he held up his hands. “That’s all I’m going to say right now.”I tried to get it out of him while I packed, but he wouldn’t say a word. I was so excited to leave this city behind us for a little while. We had
Before I could even fully enjoy the feeling of Daniel’s tongue against me, he stopped what he was doing and I felt a hand clamped over my mouth. I looked over and somehow Daniel was next to me. “I seem to remember asking you to be quiet,” he said with a stern expression as he took his hand away from my mouth. “Oops, sorry,” I said, not feeling apologetic at all. “Are you going to keep quiet? If not, then you won’t get what you want,” Daniel warned me. I pretended to zip my mouth closed. He smiled. “Good. Now I can enjoy myself again.” Then he was back on the floor, kneeling in front of me in a blink of an eye. Daniel licked my wet center and I had to stuff my fist in my mouth to keep from screaming again. He set a fast rhythm, licking my pussy and rubbing my clit. Daniel pushed his finger into me and it took him a moment because I was so tight around him. “Damn, baby. I need to get you ready to fit my cock inside you,” Daniel told me when he ca
*Audry*“Do you have anything to add, Audry?” Dominic Molton asked me. Everyone at the table turned to look at me. The man at the head of the table, Mr. Molton, was the leader of the Molton Family, a prominent gang here in Detroit. “Yes, I’ve noticed that there is no guard at the gate between one-thirty and two since Jerry is taking his lunch break. We need to have someone cover for him during that time or else, anyone who knows the passcode could get through,” I explained to Mr. Molton. The older man looked impressed by my catch and his gray eyebrows shot up. “What a smart idea, Audry,” Mr. Molton pointed out. Then, he addressed everyone else in the room. “You see, this is why Audry has risen to such a high rank in the short amount of time that she’s been with us. It’s her attention to detail that sets her apart from everyone else. Matthew.” Mr. Molton turned to the man on the right side of him. “Will you please make sure that is dealt with immediately?”
It wasn’t until late into the evening that I finally got to bed. I had to get up early in the morning but, like most nights, I couldn’t sleep. I tossed and turned in bed, then I gave up, flipping on my bedside light. I reached into my bedroom cabinet, pulling out a photo that was creased in the middle because of how many times I’d folded it over after looking at it. It was of my father and I at a courthouse the day he officially adopted me. I took a deep breath and tried to keep the tears at bay, but I couldn’t. I put my head in my hands and allowed myself to fall into the consuming grief that I’d been carrying with me ever since I heard the news that my father was shot. As I cried, I thought about the first day I met him…I was fourteen when my mother died. She was a stripper that went by Candy Cane and her signature song was Santa Baby by Eartha Kitt. I didn’t have a typical childhood, spending most of my nights in the dancer’s dressing room.One of my first memories