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“You want me to shoot you, don’t you?” The fucker flicks his gaze to me and smirks.
“What’s eating your ass today?” I’m not in the mood for his bullshit right now so instead I toss him my cell. He catches it and stares down at the screen. I watch as his face morphs from amused to dead-ass serious. “What the fuck?” he breathes out.
“Exactly.” He snaps his gaze back to me, then drops his feet to the floor and places my phone on the desk.
“How the fuck did this happen?” I shake my head, utterly lost for words. Waking this morning, the last thing I expected to see on the news was the announcement of Lakeland Deveraux’s engagement to Giovani Dario. Percy has just declared war with the Re Della Strada by doing this as Lakeland was originally promised to Roberto Da Luca, the previous head of this family. The girl was only sixteen at the fucking time. I had no idea who he was back then or who I even was until shit changed and I became who I am because of her.
“Gio works alongside the fucking Irish, he even has ties to the English,” I growl.
“So, those fuckers we have a treaty with are going behind our backs and still doing business through our fucking borders?” The anger is evident in Xander’s tone and I don't blame him. We should have killed Percy Deveraux six years ago and ended all of this but the slimy fucker’s daughter made a deal for her family. I may be a lot of things but I never break my word. Now, the bastard has aligned himself with my rival and it appears he is trying to unite himself through marriage for extra protection. He already tried to sell her off once before and now it appears he is trying to do it again to solidify his place in this underworld.
“Yes. We can’t fucking touch them. If we do, it will be an all-out war and right now we can’t fucking have that. We need to be wise about how we deal with this. When we meet with the families in a couple months for the induction of the Memento Mori, we’ll deal with Ian and Karl after that.” Before Xander can respond, Taylan walks in with a pissed off look on his face. I know everything about these two, I can gauge their moods just from a look or from their body language. They can read me just as good, that’s what happens when you all grow up together and make a vow to never abandon each other. “What is it?” Tay grinds his teeth and clenches his fists at his sides, trying to calm himself enough so he can speak. Out of the three of us, Taylan is the one with the worst temper. He’s easy going and is a complete and utter ladies’ man but once you get on his bad side, there is no coming back.
“Gio just ambushed our guys and raided the stock house.”
“Motherfucker!” I roar as I shove back from my desk and begin to pace the length of my office, scrubbing a hand down my face. This is just adding salt to the fucking wound this morning. Learning about Lakeland’s engagement to him was bad enough but to add this fucking shit on top is a kick in the dick. “Any casualties?”
“Mase called it in and said six were taken out, four injured and the other five of our guys managed to pop at least eight of their guys,” Tay answers.
“Any alive for questioning?” Xander asks.
“Yeah, we got two of the fuckers. Mase is bringing them here now.” I shoot my boys a dark smile. Taylan wiggles his brows in excitement knowing we are about to extract our pound of flesh from these fuckers. The three of us are a little fucked up from bullshit in our pasts, now we use every opportunity to torture as an outlet.
My mom wasn’t a shitty mother, she is great and she is the only parent the three of us have ever known. Xander's parents abandoned him, Tay’s stepfather used to beat him when he would drink so he came to live with us as well. “Let’s go, fuckers, Mase should be here by now.” Xander and I both nod as we follow after Tay. On our way to the basement my mom spots us from her place at the kitchen counter and clears her throat.
“That can wait five minutes.” I fight the urge to roll my eyes and tell her it can’t but when both my boys make their way toward her, I begrudgingly follow after them. We each place a kiss on her cheek before standing on the opposite side of the counter waiting to hear what she has to say. “I saw the news, Knox.” My spine stiffens.
“And?” I grit out, her eyes narrow slightly.
“Don’t take that tone with me, it may work on your men but I am not them.” Feeling like a dick for biting her head off I mumble an apology and grunt when Xander elbows me in the side. I shoot the fucker a glare but he matches it with one of his own, warning me not to fuck with Mom again or we’ll be throwing hands. I fucking love how both of them are so protective over her and would lay down their lives without a second thought for the woman who raised them. “Giovani is old enough to be that girl's father. What are you going to do about it?”
Anger thrums through me, so I take some calming breaths before I answer. “Nothing. She made her bed and now she can lay in the flea infested fucking thing.”
Mom’s eyes fill with anguish. I tear my gaze from hers unable to see that look in her eyes. “Knox–”
“I got shit to do. Lakeland isn’t my fucking problem anymore,” I force out through clenched teeth. As I make my exit heading straight for the basement, bloodlust courses through me. The need to inflict pain on these fuckers takes control of me as I descend the stairs to see Mase and a couple of my other guys strapping them to the metal chairs that are placed on top of a clear plastic sheet. Upon my entry, the two fuckers look toward me, the fear I see in their shit colored eyes feeds the fucking monster inside me that thirsts for blood.
“Boss, these are the only two survivors,” Mase says as he comes to stand beside me while we wait for the others to finish strapping these fuckers down.
“How much did they get away with?” I ask, not taking my eyes off my victims. He hesitates so I turn to face him making sure he can see the rage in my eyes. “Need I remind you of the laws of the R.D.S?” I grit out.
Mase shakes his head. “No, sir. They managed to take over half of the powder and the entirety of the arms.” I grind my teeth so fucking hard that they begin to ache. The guns those fuckers stole were supposed to be shipped to Bishop Murdoch. I managed to secure a deal with him in the hopes that a working relationship with the Murdochs would somehow come in handy one day. They normally deal with another family but I made a promise to double their quota and at a better rate but now, I may have just fucked us. Mase is one of our best guys and I know he is shitting himself, worried about what I will do to him for this fuck up but I’m nothing like Roberto. I will never harm my men and expect them to remain loyal to me. This shit is part of the job and more common these days thanks to Giovani being pissed that I was recognized by the other families as the head of Canada and offered a seat at the table with the other heads and he wasn’t.
“Scout all of Giovani’s known haunts and I want men following his brother. If anyone is going to fuck up and lead us straight to where they are hiding the guns it’s Christiano,” Xander says as he enters the room. Mase nods and motions for his guys to follow him out the back door leaving me, Xander and Taylan alone with these spineless pieces of shit.
Reaching up, I grip the back of my shirt and yank it over my head, tossing it to the side before moving to stand in front of these bastards. Their gazes dart between the three of us when Tay hands me a pair of brass knuckles. Slipping them on my right hand, I clench and unclench my hand as I crack my neck side to side.
“He’s going to kill you bitches!” the fucker on the left shouts and without pause I dart forward so fast he has no time to prepare for the force of my jab. He roars in pain and rocks back in his chair, whimpering as he spits out a couple of teeth. His buddy starts to pale and that’s when I know he is the weaker of the two—he’ll squeal soon enough. That is where Gio is a dumb cunt. These men are prepared to rat him out because of how he treats them. My men risk their lives for me so I think it’s only right I compensate each of them fairly and look after not only them but their families as well.
Tay doesn’t wait for my go ahead as he rushes forward and begins to land punch after punch on the pussy to the right. Xander and I share a look before we step forward and go hit for hit on the bastard in front of us. I would have loved to break out the tools and peel their skin from their bones but I can already smell the stench of piss permeating the air, these cunts wouldn’t survive that so we are left to dole out a good old beating.
“Please!” the one behind me screams. I take one last jab at our guy before turning back to Tay’s guy. My brows raise at the sight of him. Tay truly fucked him up. I shoot my friend a loaded look and shake my head.
“Taylan, how many times have I told you to use your fists and not slice and dice our guests?” Tay stands there covered in blood while gripping the hilt of his favorite knife, his chest rising and falling in quick succession. I focus back on the rat. His arms, chest and thighs are littered with cuts, even his face has a few but the one that stands out the most is the gaping hole on his cheek that is gushing blood. I cluck my tongue and chuckle. “Did he make you hold your mouth open while he stabbed your cheek to see if he could get the blade through the other side?”
The little bitch has tears streaming down his face. “Y-yes, please, I’ll tell you whatever you want to know.” Xander comes to stand beside me and rests his elbow on my shoulder acting bored.
“But how would we know you’re telling the truth? For all we know you could just be bullshitting us so Tay won’t keep slicing you.” His eyes widen and he shakes his head.
