Chapter Thirty-Four
Ice water inher face startled Fallon out of a deep slumber. Stretching her limbs, she wiped her face with her hands.
“Get up, bitch. You got some stuff you need to do for me. And if you give me any lip, I’ll beat your ass. This has taken way the fuck longer that it should’ve.”
Fallon glanced behind Shanna and saw Annie, who stared at her. Cruelty etched her face.How could she pretend to be my friend all this time?
“Get the skank to the fucking bank so I can blow outta this damn state.” Annie lit a joint.
The man who had been following Fallon came in. “Are you up, princess?” He stroked her cheek and she flinched. “Don’t you like my touch?”
“Will you stop it, Tae? It’s not funny,” Annie fumed, shooting dagger eyes at Fallon.
“Shut the fuck up, slut.” Tae looked back at Fallon. “You’re not a slut, princess. You’re a good girl. I don’t see many of them.” He chuckled and ran his finger over her jawline.
“You’re the one who was following me. Did you cut your hair?” she said softly. She caught on that Tae was in charge and he was taken with her. She had to play into it if she had any chance of surviving.
He laughed. “It was a wig. I wanted to make sure you stuck around. Then I got to liking you and wanted to have a little fun with you.” He kissed her cheek, and Fallon gritted her teeth to keep from dry heaving.
Annie rushed over and threw her arms around Tae, kissing him. He shoved her away and she jumped back up. “Don’t you throw me away. What do you want with a crippled woman? Have your tastes gone over to the freak side? If you think I’m gonna stand around and watch you flirt with this skank, you’re fucking wrong. You need me for this to go down, so don’t fucking piss me off!”
Without warning, he punched Annie in the face. The girl howled and fell back. “Don’t you ever fucking threaten me again. You’re nothing but a trashy whore, spreading your nasty legs for some juice. You pathetic, slut.” He hit her again and Shanna rushed in.
“What the hell are you doing, you dumbass? How the hell can she go to the bank now with her face all bruised up? You never were the smart one of the family. Daddy was always beating your ass for stupid shit you did. I should do that now.”
I didn’t know Shanna had a brother. He must’ve been the one she was talking to when I overheard her that day. I’d thought it was Charlie. The dumb sonofabitch got played big-time by Shanna. He never knew about my grandmother or the inheritance.
Shanna glared at Fallon. “I’m in charge here, and you’re going to do exactly what I tell you. You’re going to go to the bank and withdraw your money. I’ll be with you holding a gun to you in case you try to get cute.”
Fallon laughed. “Are you serious? Do you think the bank is going to just give me seven hundred thousand dollars in cash without me calling first? Most banks don’t have that much cash. I’d have to call ahead to request it.”
“Is that true?” Shanna turned to Tae.
“I don’t know. It sounds good.”
“Sounds good? I should’ve done this by myself. I knew involving you and your druggie girlfriend would fuck this up. You should’ve investigated all this.”
“Why the hell didn’t you?” Tae snapped.
Shanna sighed in exasperation and turned back to Fallon. “I think you’re making this shit up. You’re going to go to the bank and ask for the withdrawal.”
“I’m not doing shit. And you’re not going to do a damn thing about it because you need me. Annie can’t go to the bank looking like she just had a round in the ring. You’re nothing but a money-hungry bitch.”
Shanna raised her hand to slap Fallon but Tae intervened. “You can’t bruise the merchandise, sister. Take Annie and leave me alone with the princess. I’ll get her to play ball.”
Shanna went over to Annie and she flipped out, screaming and crying, her arms swinging everywhere. “I can’t control her. You take care of your bitch,” Shanna said as she stormed out.
Tae leaned over and whispered in Fallon’s ear, “I’ll be back, and I promise to show you a good time.” He licked her earlobe and went over to Taya. Pulling her up by her hair, he dragged her from the room, the young woman screaming the whole time.
When they’d left, Fallon frantically looked around for a way to escape. At that point she realized she was in the back part of the warehouse. Since Charlie had died, the fighting gigs had stopped and the ring girls had moved out. She knew there was a back entrance behind the partition. As she struggled to stand up, four loud shots exploded.Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!The noise reverberated around the room.
Silence.
What the hell happened?Her skin crawled as though she had millions of ants on it.Maybe Diablo’s here.Hope shot through her but quickly turned to despair when Tae walked back into the room.
“What happened? Who fired those shots?” she said, her voice laced in panic.
Tae sat down next to her and jerked her to him. “Shh, princess. No need to be worried. I took care of some business.”
