Total pages in book: 196
Estimated words: 180438 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 902(@200wpm)___ 722(@250wpm)___ 601(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 180438 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 902(@200wpm)___ 722(@250wpm)___ 601(@300wpm)
“Oleander is the only one that sounds familiar. Something called Datura and Cali, something or the other.”
“Calotropis Procera?” He looked spooked.
“Yeah, sounds about right.”
“Oh shit!”
“Oh shit, what? What is that?”
“Um, let me get back to you on that.”
“It’s poison, you fuck; get back to me on what? What the hell is she up to? First, the snakes, then the spiders that she swore were for silk, my ass, the poison fuck fish, and now this. Is this why you talked me into moving to the island? Because she couldn’t get her shit in the US?”
“Really, Colton? You think some customs drone on a line somewhere could’ve stopped her?”
“What dafuq are you people raising?”
“Uh, she’s your daughter Lyon.” Flanagan found his first laugh of the day.
“Oh yeah? Did you forget that your kid is one of her best buds?” Laugh at that, you ass.
I turned on my computer and headed to Google to see what the hell Kat’s spawn was cooking up to make my life more of a living hell than her mother already had. Desert? They’re in the desert? I should’ve left Kat’s ass in the desert in Arizona years ago and spared myself this shit.
“What’re you mumbling over there?”
“None of your damn business Hanky. And when dafuq are we getting out of here? I’m done with this place.”
“We’re not leaving here without my wife.”
“Oh, I forgot.”
“Speaking of wives, yours still not answering?”
“Nope!” And it’s going to be her ass when I get back on that island. I guess their little spy crew didn’t realize that we were back online, at least visually, and could see them even if we still couldn’t hear them. The only man left on the island was the Pothead, which is like saying there were twenty kids instead of nineteen.
Right now, he was playing with my youngest on the terrace while the women were in a huddle inside, planning who dafuq knew what.
Mengele and her crew were in the lab looking innocent as pie, their little legs not even touching the floor as they sat on their stools around the little table they used to do their experiments. “Mancini, what dafuq is she doing? What’s in that vial?” He came over to peer at the screen and tried to read whatever was written on the label, which was hard to see.
“I think it’s a mixture of poisons.” Just as he said it, each of the girls dipped their fingers and tasted whatever was in there. Flanagan walked over to look over our shoulders.
“Lily wouldn’t taste poison; she’s not stupid.”
“They’re very smart, actually; that’s the best way to immunize yourself from toxins.”
“Mancini, did you know about this?”
“C0lt kill the shit, okay, you knew all along that every time she poisoned her brothers, she was inoculating them.”
“What about when she gave them the runs for fucking with her.”
“Well, she’s still a kid, after all. Anyway, two birds with one stone.”
I’m not staying here, and I’m not going back to the island. I’m heading back to my shop and my life as I knew it before these fucks came into it. I have no kid… fuck, then there would be no Kat. Fuck my life.
Chapter 86
*Lyon*
“We’ve got sound.”
“What, they let you back on the island?”
“They don’t know we’re back in.”
“I’m pretty sure Russo had a hand in this.”
“You would be right; only he could pull off something like this. That’s why we need him on our side.”
Another ingrate. “You still haven’t told me how you found every one of us.”
“Well, I was doing your job.”
“I’m not looking for fuck.”
“You found Lorde.”
“He found me.”
“If you say so.”
“I’m not in the mood for your hoodoo bullshit.”
“It’s the law of attraction, Lyon; they’re all coming home. Don’t you find it strange that the kids in Cali all found each other without knowing about their ancestral past? We should talk to Catalina about this; I’d love to hear her take on it.”
“You talk to her. I ain’t saying shit to that kid.”
“You’re just salty because she’s your carbon copy but in a cuter package.”
“Kiss my ass. By the way, if she has those lions on that island, I’ll leave the whole lot of you there to get eaten, dumb ass.”
“They were taken back to where they came from.”
“If you say so.” I wonder when he’s gonna wake up and realize that my kid has been playing him for years. Kat doesn’t even bother because she’s scared shitless of the kid, so she plays him and me off against each other instead. If I say no, Uncle Hank will most definitely say yes, and vice versa.
I’ve known it all along and thought he did as well, but sometimes I’m not so sure. “So, where do you think she sent Arianna?” Now he’s asking me questions.
“She’s still in Cali because the plane hasn’t left, but other than that, I have no idea. Her murdering ass can’t be here for long, not that she left any evidence behind, but still, I don’t think she’d hang around here for much longer, which means we should be leaving in another day or so. Make sure everything is packed up.”