Lily gasped.
Canto looked toward the window but he didn’t see anyone there.“Was it Tomas?”he whispered with a ripple of fear in his voice.“He’s out there already?”
Lily nodded.
Ironman stood and walked over to gaze out the window too, he was careful not to be in front of the glass as he peeked out from the side.He looked back at Lily.“He’s brave to just stand out in the open like that.”
Looking ashen, she whispered, “Not sure about the braveness.He is arrogant like the rest of the family.But it was Tomas and he saw me.He drew a line across his throat.”
Canto slipped to the floor and shook his head.“When he comes in here, he’s going to slit our throats for failing our father.”
Ironman paused, then asked, “But why?He doesn’t know what really happened.”
Lily shook her head.“That doesn’t matter, not to Tomas.And it won’t matter to his men either.Just the fact that my father and uncle are laying out there dead while Canto and I are still alive is enough to condemn us.We aren’t even in the cells.Instead, we are here and we seem to be just fine.Not bruised or bleeding.Like we’re just sitting here without a care or a worry.”
“And that’s enough to condemn you?”Ironman exclaimed.
“In his eyes?Yes.”Lily sighed hard.“To the family we are already dead.”
“Not in our eyes.”Ironman growled.He reached for his phone and texted Titus.
A few minutes later someone knocked on the door.
Ironman got up and went to unlock it.
Titus, Bouncer and Boomer came in.
“What happened?”Titus asked.
Lily looked at him and replied, “Uncle Tomas is here and he’s pissed.”
“You saw him?”Boomer asked as he looked out the window.
Lily nodded.“He saw me and Canto just sitting here in comfort.No bars around us, no bruised or bloodstained clothes.He probably thinks we betrayed them all.He knows our father and uncle are already dead and he’s wondering why we aren’t out there under blankets as well.”
“What do you think he’ll do now?”Bouncer asked.
Canto looked up and told them, “I’d watch the front gate.He’ll probably try to ram his way inside.And if you have a back gate watch that too.He might try both at the same time.He’ll figure out how to get inside the gates, then he’ll bring hell down on everyone inside these walls.”
Boomer looked at Titus and nodded.“That makes sense, it’s what I would do.”
Titus left the room.
Boomer sat down next to Lily on the bed.“Are you afraid?”
She took a minute to think about what he was asking.Then she shook her head.“No, I’m not afraid, I’m getting pissed.Pissed at my father, pissed at my stupid brothers and pissed at Tomas.I mean I didn’t do anything wrong here.I’m not the stupid one that decided to go to war next to a fool like Todd that couldn’t keep his business in his own pants.Then Eduardo declared war on you guys and look at how that turned out.Now Tomas is out there thinking where my father failed he might just win but that isn’t gonna happen either.He’s going to split his men up too thin and you guys will be able to pick them off like shooting fish in a barrel.Tomas thinks if he has people coming in at every angle at least some of his men will make it through.”
“Well, that just ain’t gonna happen.”Boomer growled.“As you saw we have been to this rodeo before.”
Lily nodded.“And that’s where he makes his last mistake.You guys are ready for him.”
Canto nodded.“He’ll think we betrayed the family for our own skin.He’ll never think we did it to escape that same family.”
Lily sighed and admitted, “As you saw, I was ready to surrender my weapon.I refused to fight anymore after I called the men to arms, like I was expected to do.I gave it up, because I am just done with it.I had to be sure Joel was dead first.He was the worst of the worst too.He bought me, you know?He even said that to me...Like I was meat at the supermarket.”
“I could see you hated him...”Ironman noted as he remembered her blade.
“If he would have only been kind to me...”She halted and shook her head.“But no, he was the same kind of man my father and most of my brothers are.I did not like him, let alone...love him.He was a bully and mean as hell.We would have killed each other someday soon, because I was not raised to step back from a fight.”
