Chapter 27
"Mom stop it, Colton is so not what you're thinking, he's so, just so everything."
"Yes, but don't you think you've gone into this situation too quickly, I mean for heavens sake katarina you just came out of a very traumatic situation how do you know it's not just PTSD or something like that?"
"Mom seriously, for the first time since that whole nightmare I feel like me only ten times better, it's almost like I was waiting for him all my life and it wouldn't have mattered if this tragedy had occurred or not, I just know we would've found each other somehow. He makes me feel whole mom, in a way that I never thought I ever could again."
"And I couldn't do that?"
"I'm sorry that this hurts you mom but no, it's him, I needed him I promise you that everything is okay. He's just, he's the missing part of me."
Mom turned and looked through the glass at Colton, "But he's so much older than you are baby."
"And maybe that's why, maybe that's what I needed, he makes me feel safe and secure but in a different way from you and dad and mom he loves me, I know he does even if he doesn't say it I can see it. He loves me mom, please be happy for me."
"I'm trying baby, I really am, I even have long talks with his mom, she seems nice enough but you have to understand sweetheart, I just went through that trauma with you, I was there, I saw what you went through, I felt that pain with you, I can't see you hurt again."
"And I won't be I promise, if there's one thing I'm sure of it's that Colton Lyon will never hurt me."
"But living together, why couldn't you two just date each other for a year...or two before taking that step, I think I would feel a whole lot better if you did it that way."
"Not going to happen mom, we both want this I can't imagine my life without him, can't see anything changing between us except maybe one day marriage."
"Why would he marry you now katarina, he has you in his house in his bed, why give you the ring?'
"Mom it's not like that."
"Then tell me how it is, help me to understand because all I see is a grown man taking advantage of a little girl."
"And that's the problem, I'm not a little girl anymore, I don't know when I grew up, if it was on that living room floor that night or a few days later when my best friend ended her life, but somewhere along the way I grew up I had no choice. I love that you want to protect me but if you don't accept us, you'll be hurting me mom and how is that good for any of us, shit here comes Colton."
"Everything okay out here?"
"What exactly do to think I would be doing to my daughter Mr. Lyon?"
"I have no idea but I know her and right now she's not happy so whatever it is that you're doing, cut that shit out."
"Colton..."
"Excuse me?"
"I understand that you have questions, you're entitled, you can pose them to me, but what you won't do, what I absolutely will not allow is you taking out your frustrations on her."
"Get out of my house."
"As you wish, Angel let's go."
"She's not going anywhere with you."
"I'm afraid you're sadly mistaken Tina, we're a package deal, where she goes, I go, and vice versa, I'm sorry you can't seem to get over whatever hang ups you have against me for your daughter's sake, but that's not going to change what is. We're together forever and not you or anyone else is going to do a damn thing to change that."
He took my hand and pulled me up from the chair where I was almost close to tears.
"I'll be bringing her back in the morning but if I get even the slightest inkling that you're going to f*ck with her head she won't be back. We'll be at the Fairmont."
And with that we left with mom staring after us in shock.
Of course she spent the night miserable, I barely got her to stop crying long enough to go down to the dining room with the others for dinner,I needed this shit like a hole in the f*cking head. As if the situation wasn't tense enough I now have a crying woman with a broken heart on my hands, what the f*ck is wrong with people anyway,it's not like I'm mistreating Angel far from it, I have only the best intentions where she's concerned, I understand Tina's fears after what her only child had endured at the hands of those monsters, she had every right to be wary but dammit, she should trust her daughter to know what the f*ck she was doing.
"Babe we're not gonna do this shit, I didn't bring you all this way for this bullshit, if your mom's going to make you this f*cking sad then you don't need to be going back there. We're not doing this negative vibes bullshit, there's no need for it, we have each other, we have life and breath, we're happy, everything else is f*cking superfluous."
"But she's my mom..." She sulked at me.
"Fine, I'll take you back."I started to get up from my seat.
"Wait, what, what do you mean?"
"Baby you know I always play it real with you, if you're going to try to please your mom then that's your call, you're the one who has to decide what it is that you want, you know I don't do that beating around the bush bullshit, I'm not telling you to choose between me and your mom I'm not that f*cking twisted but you need to stop taking on other peoples bullshit, she's known about us for weeks, you've spoken to her almost every night and she does this shit when we get here that shit's not cool."
Am I being too hard on her on top of her mother's shit, maybe, but I've come to know this girl and I know if I do this any other way she will drag this shit out and suffer, I'm not down with that shit.
"You'll take me back there and leave me?"
"If that's what you want yes."
"But what if it's not what I want?" She picked at her sleeve, head down in her old habit of hiding.
"What do you want?"
"I want to be with you."
"Even if your mom doesn't approve?"
"Yes."
"Then that's that now let's eat."
"Fine but can I have mozzarella sticks, I'm not that hungry."
I gave her the look that she knew well.
"Don't play the brat Angel, you know damn well I'm not going to let you eat no damn mozzarella sticks for dinner you can have them for your starter, and stop pouting."
The others had gone on with their conversations around us none the wiser, after that she seemed to calm down and settle.
For the rest of the evening she participated in the different conversations that cropped up and I breathed a little easier.
Tonight we relaxed, tomorrow night was the night the deed would be done, the next day we'd be heading out after she spent the morning with her mom if she wanted to.
That night she needed soft and gentle so that's what she got, until she started pleading with me to do her harder so I had to man the f*ck up and pound her ass into the mattress until she pleaded for her sore p-ssy. At least that put her ass to sleep for the rest of the night.
The next day the crew planned to visit some of the sites while I dropped her at her mom's, in reality some of the guys stayed with the women while a few of us cased the location of our little late night adventure.
I'd thought long and hard on the best way to leave Angel while I did what I had to do, it was set to go down at about one in the morning, she may or may not be asleep by then. I wanted to be absolutely sure that she did not wake up and find me gone. The best I could come up with was for all of us to hang out together and slip away when the time was right. I didn't plan to spend too much time on this a*shole anyway plus this way no one would be the wiser, anyone asked would swear we were all just hanging out together if the question should arise.
The only problem with that is that whenever we're anywhere together Angel's always with me at my side, how to get her to mingle with the sisters for just half an hour without any of them catching on to what we were up to? I finally decided the best course of action was the phone call trick, pretend I had to take a call about something to do with the business. I'll just make sure she stayed busy with the sisters.
We found a bar in the general area of where shit was supposed to jump off so I wouldn't need too much travel time. Out here the desert could be ten minutes away, that was good enough for me.
I dropped her off at her mom's after giving Tina a warning look, if I came back here and she was upset again I really would keep her away.
"Call me if you need me Angel." I told her after Tina had gone back inside after answering the door.
"I will I promise."
"Check your phone, make sure you have a signal."
"Colton it's Phoenix not the Mohave." It only took that one look to get her moving.
"And don't roll your eyes at me."
"Yes sir." She grinned at me the brat.
"Oh you're asking for it aren't you little girl?"
"Always."
"I love you."
The f*cking smile on her face was so worth putting my shit on the line, she squealed and jumped on me her arms and legs going around me. I didn't miss Tina standing behind the curtains watching us but I could give a shit, my girl was kissing on me all over my face I kissed the f*ck out of her right there on her mother's lawn until my cock did what it always did in her presence, pulling back I moved the hair back from her face.
"Well?"
"Well what?" She gave me a cheeky grin until I pinched her ass and made her giggle.
"Don't you have anything to say to me?"
"I love you too." We grinned at each other like two fools until I put her down, slapped her on the ass and sent her on her way inside.
* * *
Six of us went out to the designated spot, for all that it was only a few minutes right outside of the city it was a desolate, barren landscape perfect for our purposes. We had a little practice run through making sure there was enough space for what I had in mind.
The rest of the day was spent relaxing and being as normal as possible, there was no reason for anything to fall back on us but I wanted to make absolutely certain that we were in the clear.
After Angel had been gone for a good three hours with no contact I broke down and called her because I missed the f*ck out of my girl. She answered with a laugh in her voice. Good I wouldn't have to f*ck Tina up for hurting her looks like.
"Were your ears ringing I was just about to call you, I miss you."
"Yeah me too, you good over there baby?"
"Uh huh we're just catching up."
F*cking women, they talk everyday on the phone but they still have something to catch up on go figure.
"Okay sweetie make sure you don't go anywhere without letting me know first okay."
"Okay, we're not going anywhere just going to stay around here I think, what are you guys doing, am I missing anything?"
"Nah, we're laying low baby this trip was mostly for you." She didn't need to know that was a double entendre.
"Listen the crew found a place where they have that singing shit that you women like so much I was thinking you might enjoy that."
"You mean karaoke?"
"Sounds about right you game?"
"Sure I guess, I don't know about me singing though maybe Linda and some of the others might want to."
"Whatever babe as long as you're having fun but I might have to cut out for half an hour so, I'm expecting a call later on in the night and because of the time difference it's gonna put me at one o'clock in the morning or there about local time."
"Okay, anything wrong?"
"Nah just gotta talk to a guy about some shit."
"Okay then I guess I'll see you in a little bit."
I could hear Tina in the background joking about the fact that we couldn't even go for a few measly hours without talking to each other, looks like she was getting over her bullshit whatever it was.
"Stay safe baby I'll be there to get you soon." We said our goodbyes and I glared the f*cks who were all in my business to silence or at least I tried to.
"Shut the f*ck up Storm."
"I didn't say anything bro."
"Yeah but I can hear you thinking it."
"F*cking sap." The jerk laughed at me.
"F*ck you." I threw a playful punch but the bastard blocked it.
"She's got you rescuing old men off the street what's next, stray cats and dogs, you going to turn into one of those grumpy old men with like a million cats collecting empty bottles and shit?"
"You're one to talk Tommy, Linda has your nuts in a drawer somewhere, when's the last time she let you use them anyway?" We all knew we were letting off steam, relieving some of the stress of the night to come.
* * *
When I picked Angel up a couple hours later she was all excited to see me.
I watched her all evening wondering at the strangeness of life. A few months ago I didn't even know this person, now she was my f*cking world, what I was about to do might very well put a blemish on my soul, I hope not, but hopefully I'll be forgiven for ridding the world of another evil piece of shit whose only purpose was to prey on the weak.
I kept her close all night, kissing her every chance I got regardless of the snide remarks from my men, or the teasing she took from the women, it was a relaxed carefree atmosphere, just what I wanted.
When the time was about right Zack had slipped away to track our prey, he was known to frequent a place a couple streets over almost every night and he pretty much kept to the same routine. He wasn't very well liked in these parts but because of his father's money he got away with shit, it appears that Katarina and her friend were not his first victims and he was still up to his old tricks, after tonight this little slice of earth will be free of one less a*shole.
When the call came Jared, Pete, Tommy and Paul stood up to leave, they'd already told their women they needed to step out just as I'd told Angel earlier.
"You don't leave this place until I get back you hear me baby."
"I hear you, I'll be right here when you get back, though I think Linda is planning to drag me up there to sing."
I looked towards the stage where some chick was muddling her way through Whitney Houston's I'll always love you.
"You can't be much worse than that babe, I'll try to be back in time to hear my baby do her thing." I kissed her goodbye and held on tight for an extra minute.
"I love you so f*cking much baby."
"I love you too, you sure everything's okay?" She was beginning to know me too well, she was giving me that look like she knew something was up but couldn't quite put her finger on what.
"Everything's golden babe, no worries."
I left before I couldn't and followed my boys out the door.
"Let's get this shit over with, you guys ready, remember..."
"Boss don't start that shit again, we're in, that's the end of it."
"Okay Tommy, let's ride."
Zack was in the big truck we'd commandeered for the night.
We picked up Taylor's truck just before the turn off for the desert, instead of letting him go straight on the highway we closed him in and forced him to take the turn with Zack riding hard on his shoulder. He laid on the horn and I could see him flinging his arms around and yelling at us, daddy's little rich boy was accustomed to getting his way, he wasn't accustomed to anyone f*cking with him, too bad.
When we'd got him to where we wanted him, far enough away from the highway and into the dark desert night we circled him with the bikes. I could see the fear dawning on him through the windshield. He seemed almost frozen as he stared out at us trying to see who we wee behind the shields of our helmets.
I got off my bike and approached the driver's side door, he checked that it was locked and tried to reverse but Zack's truck had him locked in. I used the heavy chain link in my hand to break the window.
"What're you doing are you mad, do you know who I am?"
I didn't bother to answer him I just threw the picture of the two girls through the window into his lap.
He turned white enough that I noticed that shit in the moonlight which was about the only light out here except for our headlights.
After I'd given him enough time to grasp the situation and plead for his pathetic life, which he did, I reached in took the picture back before pulling him out through the window kicking and screaming.
My guys started up their bikes and got in position as I wrapped the chain around his f*cking neck, I said the only thing I had any intention of saying to him then, I whispered it in his ear.
"This is for Katarina."
I dragged him into the middle of the circle of bikes where my men proceeded to lasso his legs and arms with their chains.
"Please you can't do this, it wasn't my fault it was the meds man, please you can't do this." He pleaded and screamed to no avail, I was deaf and blind to his plight the lying f*ck, only last week he'd been up to his old tricks again, the meds my f*cking ass.
Climbing back on my bike I revved up and pulled off with his screams in my ears. The five of us took our bikes in opposite directions with the chains wrapped around him and attached to the bikes, it didn't take long for his body to break under the pressure, his screams were chilling but they were lost in the desert night.
I'd taken his head and each of my guys had got a limb, he hadn't been drawn but the f*cker had been quartered.