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Didn’t matter. After handing down sentence on Eyeball, Benjy was still in the mood for blood.
“Kill him,” he said.
“And if one of my dancers sold us out – told all our secrets, and stole all our money, and let another gang come in here and shoot us all to hell – what should we do to her?”
“Kill her,” he said angrily.
I was pretty damn sure he had no idea where I was going next, even though it was obvious.
“Venus cheated on you. She lied to you. She humiliated you. She told all the other girls you got a tiny dick and you can’t fuck worth shit. She banged a whole buncha guys behind your back, and she only fucked you for your drugs. She basically stole that coke from you. That was yours – I gave it to you. In fact, she basically stole it from me.
“Not only that, but she’s working with that same guy she fucked behind your back to bring down the entire club. She’s going to destroy the Midnight Riders, and she’s going to laugh about it when she does, just like she laughed at you while she was takin’ it up the ass from her stud and all his buddies. So – knowin’ all that – what do you think you should do to Venus?”
His lower lip trembled. “…Lou?”
I leaned forward in anticipation. “Yeah?”
“Her name is Ali,” he said softly, his voice sad.
Fuck.
At first I thought it was over, that all was lost. There was no way he was going to pull a gun on this girl, much less shoot her.
But I had another one of my genius flashes, and I saw my way in.
And it was all about her name.
“No, Benjy. Ali’s that nice girl you fell in love with… but she ain’t here no more. She’s gone. She started down the wrong path, buddy, and her mind and her soul got took over by a demon. Ali got replaced by a lying, cheating whore who’d do anything to get high. Venus took over. Ali’s gone, and Venus is all that’s left. You wouldn’t be killing Ali… you’d be killin’ Venus.”
He looked at me for a second, then asked in a child-like voice, “Like Anakin?”
The fuck?
“Huh?”
“Like Anakin. He went bad and turned to the Dark Side, and then he turned into Darth Vader.”
I didn’t know who the fuck this Anakin cat was, but everybody knew Darth Vader, so I just played along.
“Yes. That is exactly right,” I said, pointing my finger at him. “Exactly like that.”
“But… Darth Vader turned good at the end,” he whimpered.
Shit.
“That was a movie, Benjy. This is real fuckin’ life. You listen, and you listen good: Ali’s gone. That traitor Venus took her place. Venus is the one who fucked you over. Venus is the one who made fun of you behind your back. Venus is the one who made a laughingstock out of you and betrayed the entire fuckin’ MC.”
I could tell I had him… almost.
So I kept going.
“And if that traitor does destroy the club, you know whose fault it’s gonna be? Yours. Because you coulda stopped her. You coulda done something to protect me, and Jack, and Kade, and all the other guys in the club… but you didn’t. All for some chick who banged a bunch of assholes behind your back, and laughed at you while she did it. Not Ali – Venus.”
I could see it in his eyes. He was almost there. Just one more inch…
“You know how you want us to patch you in, but we haven’t yet?” I asked.
He raised his eyes to mine. “Yeah?”
