“Tough luck!” Seth sneered. Then, he shot the seven-ball into the pocket.
“Call it!” Austin said.
“Eight-ball, corner pocket. Right corner pocket.” I noticed it was closer to the left one, but Seth wanted to be a show off. He shot the cue ball, it struck the eight-ball and sent it right into the right corner pocket. “God damnit!” I cursed, slamming down my cue stick.
“Pay up!” Seth held out his hand to Austin who had been given both hundreds. I nodded for him to give him the money. He was in a good mood after that.
“You know what I’m going to do with this two hundred bucks?”
“What?”
“Go to the pawn shop and buy Reagen a ring.”
“You can find good shit there.”
“Yeah, I know. I’ve had my eye on this diamond ring, I think it’s perfect. It’s two hundred eighty bucks, which is all I’ve got.”
“Well, what are you waiting for? The shop is still open, go get it,” Austin said, pushing him out the door.
“Wait, Seth.” I opened my wallet and pulled out forty bucks. “It’s the least I can do, since I was a total ass to your woman.”
“Thanks, Tony.”
“Hey, it’s Maxum's money.” I shrugged. “It might as well go to something good.”
“Thanks.”
“Think if I got Kara a ring she’d fuck me?”
“No.” Austin laughed. “I don’t think she’ll ever fuck you, dude. Time to look for someone else. And since when do you care if Kara will fuck you?”
“I was fucking kidding,” I claimed. “I don’t want to fuck her either. If I married her, that would make Maxum my dad, and I don’t want Maxum as my dad.”
“No one ever said marry, we all just said fuck.”
“Yeah, but fucking tends to lead to marrying.”
“Not always. I fuck the same bitch every night, haven’t put a ring on her finger yet, and don’t have any plans to.”
“Yeah, but your bitch is a fucking whore who won’t be tied to one man. She walks around the halls butt naked half the time.”
“She’s a wild cat, she can’t be tamed. If I wasn’t okay with that, I wouldn’t get my cock sucked, and man, can she suck a cock.” He grinned.
“Yeah? What else can she do? What good is she other than a piece of ass?”
“What are women for if not a piece of ass?”
“If Kara is the Prez, that attitude has to change,” I reminded him. I got the feeling I’d have to do a lot of reminding of that to the men. Though, I was sure she would have her own special way of doing just that too.
“Hey, I’m good to my woman. I don’t beat her up, she’s free to come and go, and I don’t ask questions I don’t want to know the answers to. She may be a piece of ass, but she has her freedom.”
“Fine. We should head back.” I dropped a wad of bills on the table, waved to the waitress, and then we headed out.
As soon as we stepped outside, we were jumped. Austin was thrown to the ground, and I took a bat to the gut. My jacket had extra padding, so I didn’t feel it as much. I spun on my attacker and took him down. I removed his helmet and found one of the traitors under my boot. I kicked him in the stomach with all my might. “You fuckers don’t learn.”
“You’re going to get what’s coming to you, Tony,” he shouted up at me. I kicked him again in the gut and once in the head, knocking him out. Vince came out of the bar and dragged the asshole’s unconscious body through the door. He’d spend the night in the freezer till we figured out what to do with him. I didn’t care if he died there, we’d just throw his body out with the trash. The other guy was dead— Austin had snapped his neck. He was dragged to the freezer too.
“You know what, forget the kid, I want to use these fuckers to send Maxum a fucking message. Clearly, he didn’t get our last one. I’ll call up my relative and get him down here to handle it.”
“Are you hurt?” Austin asked.
“Nope, you?”
“Nothing too bad.”
“This is going to be a fucking everyday occurrence. I’m so fucking done with this shit. I can’t do fuck when I have to constantly watch my fucking back. Let’s get back to the clubhouse. We need another officers meeting. When Seth gets back, tell him I want to see him. I got a new plan for the kid we got downstairs.”
My new idea was simple— the kid would join up or die. I needed to replace my lost men.
We returned to the clubhouse.
“You wanted to see me?” Seth asked.
“Yeah, I got my head full of dynamite, so I don’t need the kid for that. So I was thinking we’ll offer him one chance, to join us or die. But we’ll wait. Keep him down there, give him food and drink for a few days, and get the doc down there to check on him.”
“What do you mean you have your head full of dynamite?” Seth asked.
“Those fucking cowards tried to jump me and Austin. One’s dead, the other will be dead. He’s spending the night in the freezer with his dead companion. I’m going to have his companion’s head removed and stuffed with dynamite. If he’s still alive, he’ll be the one to deliver it to Maxum. Then boom! I doubt the blast will actually catch Maxum, but it just might do some damage to his home and make a nice bloody mess in his yard and send him a message. I don’t even give a shit if he didn’t send them, I want to send him a message. Then we’ll do Kara’s idea.”
“You got it.”
“Kara around?”
“Nope. I can’t find Reagen either. My guess is
