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“Teagan?” Ethan asked when he came out. “I’m sure you’ve been told that children should not get involved in grown folks’ business.”
“I’m not a child,” he said, keeping his gun on me. “Who are you?”
“A humble employee of the boss,” I said with a smile.
“Well, he ain’t the boss anymore,” the idiot replied. “My Grams said it was finally time for our family to rise. The Callahan family has been using us for their dirty work for too long.”
“Teagan?” I took a step forward. “Grams doesn’t like you very much, does she?”
“What—”
I snatched the gun from his hands and punched him in the face. He fell back against the car door. I put the gun to his lips. “The only reason you throw a lamb into to a lion’s den is if you want it to be slaughtered.”
“I don’t understand.”
Huh? Frowning, I glanced over to Ethan. “Do they not teach poetic devices in schools anymore? That was pretty clear, wasn’t it?”
“Where is your grandmother now?” Ethan asked him, ignoring my question. Fine. Work first.
I shot him in the arm. “I suggest you don’t lie.”
“Fuck! What about the truce?” he screamed and I glanced over to Ethan, amused that this idiot actually believed that. His face was as blank as ever.
“Forgive me.” I removed the gun from his face. “You were saying?”
“She’s at home.”
“Thank you. And just so you know. We are the lions. You are the lamb: weak and defenseless against us. That was the point I was trying to make earlier.” I fired once into his skull before he could reply. His body slumped to the ground at my feet and I looked over to Ethan who stared down at him.
“Do you need a moment?”
His green eyes shifted to me and he frowned, obviously upset. “Who is it you had date with?”
This again… now of all times?
“Why don’t we go deal with the crazy old woman trying to threaten your family?” I asked him, picking up my shit and walking to his bulletproof Vision Mercedes-Maybach 6. Taking a seat into the passenger side, I lifted up my shirt to look at the bullet wound in my shoulder. Luckily it hadn’t hit the bone, but the bullet was still in there.
“Leave it. I’ll take it out once we get there,” Ethan instructed as he sat in the driver’s seat. The inside of the car lit up once he put his hand on the steering wheel. He touched the home screen, calling the one of few women he could trust right now. He pulled out of the parking lot as the phone dialed.
“Well, if this isn’t the surprise big brother, how can I help you beautiful—”
“McGlinchy betrayed us.”
She was silent for a second before exhaling harshly. “What do you need me to do?”
“Send a clean-up crew to the McGlinchy factory, then burn the place to the motherfucking ground.”
“Their family?”
“Being handled now.” He disconnected before calling the second woman he trusted.
“Ethan, I was next to Dona. I can’t see what happened in the factory; the cameras are down,” Helen informed him and he glanced at me. I smiled and gave him a peace sign. He focused his attention on the road.
“Then I need you send me all the video you have of the McGlinchy family, as well as a private feed for their house, and shut down your side. I need access to their security feed.”
“Do you need backup? My father is—” she asked.
“Do only what I ask, Helen, nothing more.” He hung up. It was only when he did that I took out my phone, holding it towards the factory that was fading in the distance.
