Total pages in book: 117
Estimated words: 115186 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 576(@200wpm)___ 461(@250wpm)___ 384(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 115186 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 576(@200wpm)___ 461(@250wpm)___ 384(@300wpm)
“Your past actions prove you’re a dog,” Shade answered in his slightly slower pace. The Fury member spoke much better now than when Romeo first met him. It was more obvious years ago when he had to carefully choose his words. “Know how many dogs we’ve turned to ashes in this very oven?”
“What’s one more?” Easy wore a fucking grin that Romeo wished he could wipe off the other Fury member’s face.
Holy fuckin’ shit. “You’re gonna fuckin’ burn me to death?”
Both the heat and the thought of being turned into a pile of ash was causing him to sweat. If he had to die, this was not the way he wanted to go. Hell, they could incinerate him, flush his ashes down the toilet and his own club members would have no fucking idea what happened to him.
Here one day, flushed the next.
He threw out a hail Mary. “Don’t you think that’s gonna fuck up the alliance?”
“Who’s gonna know?” Easy asked. “You simply disappeared one day. Poof, you went up in fuckin’ smoke.”
“Ain’t gonna be nothin’ left of you. No fuckin’ proof what happened here tonight,” Shade added.
Romeo knew Shade was “off,” but to kill a president of an MC that was part of the Fury’s alliance? That was totally fucking whacked.
“Know your reputation, Romeo,” Shade growled. “Know you like to use women for your own pleasure, then kick them to the fuckin’ curb. Maddie ain’t a sweet butt. She ain’t for you to take advantage of. Hell, she ain’t for you. Period.”
“She tell you I took—” He slammed his mouth shut. He needed to carefully negotiate with them, not give them shit so they were tempted to say “fuck it” and push the rolling tray with his Black ass on it into those fucking flames.
He stifled his shudder at the prospect of burning to death. That had to be one of the worst fucking ways to die.
Stay calm. Keep your fuckin’ patience. Don’t let ‘em see you sweat.
Too late for the sweating part since beads were already covering his forehead and rolling down his temples just from the heat alone.
“Love my family. Will fuckin’ do anythin’ for ‘em. Last thing I want is for my girl to get burned by the likes of you. You got plenty of women to fuck with. Leave Maddie the fuck alone.”
That sounded like a warning for the future and not the threat of imminent death. Was this whole thing some sort of sick fake-out? He wouldn’t celebrate yet. “You had to go through this bullshit to tell me that?”
“Needed to make a statement. One you wouldn’t forget.”
Romeo could guarantee he’d never forget this shit. Not sure he’d ever forgive it, either.
“You fuckin’ tell her to leave me alone, too? Or do you just think it was one-sided?” he asked Shade.
“Don’t give a fuck if she wants to marry you and have your goddamn babies. Ain’t gonna happen. Find a reason to cut her loose.”
Didn’t he know that Maddie had already cut ties with him? “How’s she gonna like you interferin’ in her life?”
Shade didn’t answer, but Easy did. “Ain’t for her to know and you ain’t gonna tell her, either.”
One side of Shade’s mouth pulled up and it wasn’t in a smile. For the first time in his fucking life, a sliver of fear slipped down Romeo’s spine.
He could hold his own if the threat came at him from the front. But it was well known among those in the alliance that Shade was quiet and deadly. Unlike Diesel. Unlike Judge. Unlike Magnum.
Shade was more dangerous than all of them. He was on the same ass-puckering level as Diesel’s Shadows.
You’d be dead before you know what hit you.
He needed to convince Shade to reconsider his plans. “She tell you about her dick boss? And why I stepped in?”
“She tell you not to get involved?”
Ah, fuck.
“But you did anyway, didn’t you?” Easy asked next.
The two Fury members were tag-teaming him.
Shade tipped his head at Easy. “Slide him in.”
“Wait!” Romeo shouted. “Does Maddie know you’re doin’ this?”
“Not up to her.”
“She might have a fuckin’ opinion.”
“Opinions are like assholes,” Easy said on a dry laugh, “everyone’s got one.”
Fuck Easy. Romeo needed to concentrate on Shade. Easy was just that psycho’s sidekick. “She didn’t wanna tell you about that dick she worked for. She was afraid somethin’ like this would happen to him if she did. So, I took care of it, instead.”
“By gettin’ her fired.”
How much did Maddie tell him?
“You should be fuckin’ thankin’ me for handlin’ that asshole. Only wanted to teach that fucker a lesson for abusin’ her. Was tryin’ to help her goddamn career not fuck it up.”
“Well, you fucked it up,” Easy said. “All those goddamn years of college and now what? She’s back to livin’ at home and takin’ odd jobs. All ‘cause you couldn’t respect her decisions.”