“Yeah, I did,” he told her just as quietly.“It holds with what I know of Demon’s writing technique.I already knew what to look for.But I’m glad you were honest about it.”
Daisy sighed into the phone and told him, “I’m not looking for points here.I’m alsonotlike my father and brothers.Which is why my father needs to shut me up at any cost.If I was like them then I wouldn’t have warned you about those damn pills.I wouldn’t have told you what my father had for a plan to take you out and take over your compound.I don’t know you from Adam and I don’t want to know you.You scare the bejesus out of me.
“You know I’m going after them, don’t you?”Satan asked in a growl laden voice.“I can’t let them get away with what they tried to pull and I won’t give up the place I call home.”
“And I wouldn’t ask you to,” Daisy assured him.“My father and brothers have enough sins on them, but I don’t want a street war either.”
“I ain’t looking for that either, little girl.But me and Demon?We got a score to settle now and the odds aren’t with him.You get what I’m saying here?”
“Yeah, I get it,” Daisy admitted.“Can I ask just one thing?”
Satan snorted and replied, “You can always ask, doesn’t mean you’ll get it but sure, you can ask.”
“Just end it, once and for all, just end it,” Daisy begged him.
“Where is all this hate for your dad coming from, little girl?”Satan wanted to know.
“When I was ten years old, he took my mama out for a ride on his bike.He came home three hours later...alone.When I asked him where mom was he told me a gator got her and there was nothing he could do to save her.Later that day when I was washing his bike as per my daily chores, I found fibers of rope stuck between the seats.I also found blood on the bike.I don’t know for sure what happened but I don’t think a gator got her without a lot of help from him.I think she knew something about him that might have sent him to jail for the rest of his miserable life and he didn’t want her to tell the world his secrets.I think he tied her up and left her there bleeding.He made sure he cut her so the scent of her blood would call the gators to her.I don’t even know where he left her body.”
“Damn, little girl.That is a harsh way to go.”
“Yes, it is.And she was the only decent family I had.So now, it is time for him to go.
“You think he really killed her like that?”he asked.
“Yes, I do.Demon’s a prince that way and it is time to dethrone the prince.”
Satan chuckled.“Yeah, it might be long past time to dethrone the motherfucker.”He ended the call.
Daisy handed the phone back to Pope.Then she planted her face in Torin’s chest and cried.The pain she held in for eleven years finally let go and she began to sob.
Torin growled and swung her up into his arms then walked down the hall to his bedroom.He slammed the door behind them then he went over to the chair that looked out into the backyard and sat down with her on his lap.
He just held her while she wept.
Chapter Fifteen
