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I nod. “Okay. There must be something we can do though.”
“Look after your women and your families.” He looks to each of us, even me.
I’m the only brother here who isn’t in an actual relationship.
They all have kids, or are about to. Gabe’s Charlotte is five months pregnant and Vincent has a newborn. Nick has a two year old and he’s the youngest of us.
I have Mimi.
God…
Mimi… my babygirl. I can’t get her out of my damn head.
I keep my breathing still. Even and slow. I’m doing my best to be in the same room as Gabe and not lose my shit, but it’s hard.
“Okay, sure,” I agree and dip my head.
It’s time to go. If I’m being told I should keep out of it I need to go and resume my attempts to process the bomb Mimi dropped on me.
Mostly, I need to get away from Gabe. I stand up first, ready to leave. It’s uncharacteristic of me. Vincent turns his attention to me with that same look of awareness he previously had.
“We done here?” I ask.
“Yeah,” Vincent answers. “Bro, stay back. I wanna talk to you.”
“Can it wait?” I can’t hide the irritation in my tone and he notices that too. Vincent is as close as any of the guys to me but I know not to fuck with him in tone or action. He’ll pull rank on me as my older brother and as underboss of the family. I just don’t give a flying fuck right now.
“It can, but I’d rather it didn’t,” he answers and Gabe and Nick exchange curious glances.
“Let the man go Vincent,” Gabe chimes in with a broad smile. The sight of him smiling ignites my blood and I press down hard on my back teeth. “He’s probably anxious to get back to hisbabygirl.” He chuckles and …I see red.
It starts with a flash.
A flash of red sparks before my eyes and seeps into my mind, working its way through my consciousness like poison. Suddenly I don’t care who he is, or that he’s changed. I don’t care or give a shit. I just recall what he’s done to my girl.
My babygirl.
Yes… what he said would have normally been funny because of the strange relationship Mimi and I have. But there’s nothing fucking funny about it today. I don’t want him to talk about her or think about her. He has no right.
The flash turns into a wall of red as he’s about to continue his taunt and I lose my shit.
I lose control of my mind and land a fist straight in his face.
I hit him so hard the impact sends him backwards, falling off his chair. And I don’t stop there.
I lunge forward onto him and then find myself punching. I hear Vincent and Nick somewhere in the background calling to me but they sound far away.
They call at me and I don’t hear anything and I lose focus when Gabe sends a bone crunching fist to my jaw that hurts like a motherfucker.
We’re always fighting and pulling guns on each other, but we never mean it. I think it was one time only that I’d ever gotten into a fight with any of my brothers and it was a real fight. That was with Vincent and he didn’t joke to hand me my ass and mess me up.
This is real. Gabe sends another fist to my face and then I lose all control. One fist after another lands in his face.
I get a good few in before Vincent and Nick pull me off him.
I didn’t even realize that Gabe had an opening he could have taken to get me good but never took it. He just lay there and allowed me to beat the shit out of him. He’s a man like me who would never allow that.
Only for me though.
