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I must have spaced out, but I’ve uess there was once a face His arh His dark clothes are matted with blood I don’t know precisely when he drew his last breath, but he already looks like a rotting corpse
“Dad? That’s enough, he’s dead We need to get back to the house and figured what to do next”
“Red?” I turn to look at my men Each one has just watched me butcher a man in cold blood The older er ones had no clue I could be so daet rid of the body I don’t care how you do it, just do it” He nods and tells Ace, Roman, and Tank to help him
“What about the car, Prez?”
“Burn it, crush it, I don’t care, CueBall Just get rid of any evidence Lynette was there”
“Prez,” CueBall is good at that shit He’ll ht
“Co ht”
“I ain’t givin’ up, BlackJack If I don’t keep looking through the night, it ht be too late!”
Grabbing et cleaned up No one is giving up looking for Lynette, Shepard, but you can’t find her covered in her exes blood, guts, and brain matter! You also need to check on your kids Taylor texted, Willow is hohtened, Shepard She needs you”
My eyes close for a second Willow What airl? Not that I killed her birth father, that’s for sure
“Go, Dad, I’ll keep looking for Mon and I’ll call you”
“I’ll be an hour” That’s how long it will take me to shower and check on et back out there and look for Lynette I just hope and pray that I find her alive We can get past the rest as long as she
Chapter Eighteen
Lynette
There have been a few defining s happened that I had no control over Things thatin a way, I didn’t even realize until Jose stood there in front of me with a sneer on his face A set close enough
A thick tree branch caughtthere around I noticed it because it seehed at the fact it somehow looked like a stake that you’d drive into the heart of a vampire
I grabbed it and waved it at hihed, of course Jose wasn’t scared of hting, of giving up and never seeingto do
Give up?
That’s not me
Jose came at me with a knife in his hand I struck out with the tree branch butit until I dropped ive hiainst him, but I sla his nose
I got to my knees in search of the branch I knew I had to kill Jose It was the only way he’d leave et near her, and there was no way on earth I’d let that happen
He grabbed my foot and pulled me towards him I kicked out as hard as I could, and he yelled aboutto do to et away from him
He pinnedto finish what he started He sla not to throw up The second his tongue penetrated my mouth, I bit down on it so hard he screaer, then tried to tearme what a feisty bitch I’d become, and how much of a turn on that was for him