I stand between Travis and Vin and grab each of their hands. Travis squeezes mine and takes a deep breath. The large metal boulder begins to swing and we all watch with bated breath as it slams into the second story. The loud noise it makes has neighbours coming out to the street to watch the scene.
“Damn, that just gave me a chub.” Emmett groans.
“Seriously?” I look over at him.
“Don’t encourage him.” Adri says and shoves Emmett’s shoulder.
The wrecking ball swings again and we watch as the roof crumbles in and glass begins to spray. We’re at the beginning of the driveway so nothing can reach us this far out.
“I’m expecting to hear voices like the witch from The Wizard of OZ, I’m melting.” Emmett does his very best witch voice.
I snort at that one, “I’ll get you my pretty!” I mimic the witch as well.
Adri snorts next and quickly covers it with a roll of her eyes.
“Hold on!” Emmett exclaims, “I can keep this going, and your mangy little dog, too!”
Vin is the first to detonate and erupt into full laughter, Travis is not far behind and Adri has her hand covering her mouth. Emmett and I share a similar snort then roll our eyes at each other. That’s been happening a lot lately, we catch each other doing the same thing at the same time or finish the other’s sentence and sometimes even waking up and meeting each other in the hallway in the morning at the same exact fucking time. I can only imagine how eerie that would’ve been if we were raised together.
Travis is the first to stop and I follow his line of sight to a hideous sphinx statue. There’s two of them flanking the driveway beside the gates. Then he walks across the street to his car and pulls out two bats. No way… is he going to get destructive too? He comes back across and immediately passes me a bat, like he knows this is something I would find pleasure in with him and he’s fucking right.
I wait and watch him with the others as he walks up to the first sphinx and swings his bat into its face with enough force to shatter the head into crumbled pieces of concrete.
“He had them commissioned to his likeness.” He growls.
I turn to look at the one remaining sphinx face and nearly choke on my own saliva. He really fucking did. Robert Greene was a narcissistic cunt who thought way too highly of himself without paying much attention to what everyone else saw him as. Like I said, cunt.
As much as I want to bash in the concrete version of that piece of shit’s face, I know someone else who is more deserving of it. I hand the bat off to Vin and motion for him to go and beat the shit out of his father’s smug mug. He takes the bat with a look of pure disgust and stalks towards the fucking statue. Then I watch his bulky arm muscles bunch and flex as he swings the bat back and slams it with all his force into its face. The whole top half of the statue literally explodes into a cloud of dust and pebbles. My man is a force.
As they bash in the rest of the statues the rest of us turn and watch the wrecking ball hit one final time on the second floor and the whole structure crashes down. The bulldozers begin flattening walls and moving debris. It feels like a colon cleanse but for the soul. I’m purging all the evil in Whitsborough, one fucking shit at a time.
I have Emmett with me in Shelby as we follow behind Travis’ Civic and Vin’s Hummer. “Call Carm on speaker.” I tell Emmett. He doesn’t ask any questions and does as I ask.
“Hermanito, what can I do for you?” Carm’s velvet smooth voice flows from Emmett’s phone.
“I need an update, Mano.” I tell him with an edge to my voice.
“Ah, mi hermana demonio.” He chuckles, “I have one. The guard that looked after the opponent that day was bribed by Wade to give the guy a knife. I have killed my guard slowly and I expect you will want to do something about Wade?”
“You betcha.” I snicker, “call a Head’s meeting for this weekend.”
“On it,” he agrees. “What will you do?”
“Not sure.” I grin. “Let’s just play it by ear.”
“Okay, I’ll see you Saturday and bring mi hermano demonio, tambien.”
“I’ll see if I can clear my schedule.” Emmett grins.
“Ciao.” Carm chuckles and hangs up.
“So, Wade is a dirty little bitch. Are you really going to play it by ear?” Emmett asks me.
“Of course not, I have every single detail already planned, but I will only ever let my immediate family know that. Understand?”
“But Carm…”
“Is in New York, with enough going on.” I cut him off. I know he’s fiercely loyal to Carm being that the man is his older brother, our older brother but I need to look after the family I have here in my house first.
“Yeah.” He relents.
“I’m not ever going to do anything to put him in danger and if by chance I do, I will always get him out of it. No matter what.”
“I know.” He nods and flashes me his smile. “I just worry about him there on his own, at least he has Trent now.”
“Yeah, it’s good that Trent decided to live in the compound and take over the head of security.” Much to Carm’s disdain. We know he had Emmett trained for that very position but finding me put a wrench in that plan.
I pull into our driveway just behind Travis and Vin. All of us being here eases the stress and I
