Total pages in book: 88
Estimated words: 81488 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 407(@200wpm)___ 326(@250wpm)___ 272(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 81488 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 407(@200wpm)___ 326(@250wpm)___ 272(@300wpm)
Roman spit the twig from his mouth and slowly climbed down the tree. As he drew closer to the ground, gun in hand, Grandpa and Jasper spotted him. They raised their guns at him in unison.
“Here’s the son of a bitch! Come here, kitty, kitty! Throw any weapons you have down, Roman, and put your gotdamn hands up in the air!” Grandpa ordered.
Roman chuckled slow and easy like, facing Grandpa, and tossed his knife in the direction of the car. It landed in the back tire, and the sweet song of hissing air began. “I got more where that came from. I have on bullet proof gear from head to toe, in case you get any ideas. You ain’t no cop. Neither one of ya. I gave you specific instructions, Jasper. Let me save both of you some time while you try and remember what those instructions were.” Suddenly, a gunshot rang out. A bullet zipped past Roman’s head, but he dropped to the ground in the nick of time and fired back, striking Jasper in the leg.
“GAAAHHHH! Fuck! MY KNEE!!!” Jasper screamed out before tumbling down onto the soil, holding his leg and rolling back and forth. His yells of agony echoed, blending in with the screams and crying from the ongoing video that kept playing in the background.
Grandpa took a step towards him.
“Remember that time that you told me that if you were in my face right now, you’d put a bullet in my leg and make me walk it off? Now Jasper can give you a first-hand account on how that feels. Oh, and by the way, your driver just slid out the passenger’s side of the car and ran off.” Grandpa’s ice blue ices pierced his. “We’re so far away from anything and everything, he won’t get far. I’ll track him down and send him to his maker if you push me too far today. I’ll finish Jasper off and make peace with my pending prison sentence by takin’ you out too, but it’ll be a slow torture—startin’ with your throat like you did my father. Then I’ll gut you like a pig, like you called my mother. Motherfucker, slacker on a cracker, if you come any closer, that’s going to be the outcome. Show me where I threatened someone’s life, and didn’t mean it. The magic show is over… It’s reality TV time.” Grandpa sucked his teeth.
“After what you did to my daddy, in the past and recently, how you talked about my mama, caused stress in my relationship with my lady because of the pressure you were putting on me, and the peril you put my life in, I will take my chances with the court—regardless of how many fans and flunkies you have. I’m an ex-Marine who was in foster care as you seem to enjoy reminding me about. You’re looking at a man that gives to charities, looks like an innocent sweetheart, has a drug addicted father and was dirt poor. I can pretend to be remorseful for snuffin’ you out cold. Sit there on the witness stand, blubberin’ and all, play the role like I’m Chris Pratt, and get a sympathy sentence. I’ve got enough money to probably bribe my way into getting treated like a king behind bars… get conjugal visits with my lady, too.” He smiled and winked. “That’s of course after they see the other copy of this VHS tape I got floatin’ around, ready to be hand-delivered to my lawyer. So that everyone can see what type of monster you REALLY are…” He turned and spit in the brush.
Grandpa visibly swallowed and stopped in his tracks.
“We can all leave here alive, or everyone but me can end up dead. It’s your choice. Drop your gun. I’ve got enough tricks ’round here, traps and whatnot, that all I have to do is move a certain way or push a button at my fingertips, and an arrow will come flyin’ right for your heart. Don’t fuck with me.”
Grandpa’s eyes seemed to turn blood red. He let the gun slip from his hand. Roman kept his gun trained on Grandpa, then made his way to the men. He patted down Grandpa and retrieved the bastard’s second gun, and a switchblade. He gave Jasper the same treatment.
“Jasper, I’ve known you since I was a child… I hate that it came to this.” He made his way back towards Grandpa. “Before anything else bad happens, before you make me turn this entire Jungle Book into the Red sea, you better listen to this information I have for you and listen good.”
“What do you have to say, boy?”
“I learned from the masters, you and my father. Only difference is, my father actually has a soul, and cares about other people besides himself. Because you’ve pissed off so many people at once, it wasn’t hard to get a little backup. Lennox, Kage, Phoenix, and Maddock know that I’m here. But guess where they are?”