Page 63 of Resurrect Me

“My life being threatened at every waking second? Sure, I’m used to it,” I reply. “Just still trying to get used to the fact that my mother-in-law is the CEO of the worst thing to ever happen to the city. Or the state. My own fucking mother-in-law. The snake. The woman who wants to kill off those she deems inferior.”

“It’s the inferior who are tearing down our ability to manifest utopia. This world would be a much better place without the likes of them. The lesser races, handicapped idiots, the gays.”

“You’re fucking sick, you know that? Just because people are different than you and your idea of perfection, you want toeradicate them. What makes you think you’re so damn perfect, you old fucking fart?”

She chuckles again and aims at my chest. “Shut up, Solomon. Or I’ll blow you away myself. And then I’ll kill your wife and children.”

“You’d kill your own flesh and blood? The child you gave birth to. Your own grandbabies? I find that hard to believe…”

“I’ll take out anyone who steps in the way of our vision. A new world. A superior race of people with no illness or sexual perversions. People with intelligence. Vitality. And the will to erase anyone who threatens it. That includes family. How do you think my father rose to the top? You have to bulldoze over the lesser, use them as steppingstones, on your way to the top of the fucking pyramid.”

Vomit rises in the back of my throat. The realization that I married into the Org’s founding family hits me. But that doesn’t matter now. I swallow it back down. I love Tacy and my children. They are my entire world, and if I don’t take out The Org, they’ll never know true peace and goodness. No one will.

My phone vibrates and Judith motions for me to answer it. “Go on. Let’s see who it is.”

“Hello?” I act as if I don’t know who’s calling.

“Are you in?” Shawn whispers. “We’re ready for phase two, Boss.”

“Oh no, I’m not looking to extend my car’s warranty,” I say and wait.

“Boss? Oh…oh,” Shawn says. “Where are you?”

“I already purchased the one year,” I say. I’m trying to keep him on the phone long enough for him to track my location.

“Okay, just keep talking Boss, we’re tracking you now.”

“I’ve had a few problems, yeah. Engine seems to backfire,” my way of warning him I have a gun pointed at me.

“Got you. We’re coming,” he says.

“Thanks for the offer,” I say and force a grin at Judith just to throw her off.

“Hang up the fucking phone, Sol,” she growls. “Now!”

Declan bursts into the office and points his gun at me immediately. Now I have two guns to worry about.

“Call the boys,” Judith barks at him. “Scan both wings and meet back here. Whoever you find, bring them to me.”

Declan glares at me with hooded eyes. All that time he spent coveting the position of Governor and now look at him. He has no real power. He’s a lowly henchman.

“Now!” Judith yells. “Fucking idiots!”

It takes all of two minutes, which feel like a lifetime, when ten Org guards burst into Judith’s office. One young man’s holding Shawn at gunpoint. A woman with red hair has a knife to Thor’s throat.

“That’s it?” Judith barks at me. “That’s all you brought?”

She paces the floor. Shawn and Thor are panting, eyes darting back and forth. At me, then at her, at Decan, at the guards surrounding us.

“Want us to kill them?” The woman asks.

“Not yet,” Judith stills.

“What are we waiting for, Ma’am?” The young man asks.

“For the others,” Judy remarks.

Fuck. She knows there’s more than the three of us. It would be stupid for her to think less. She is the god damn CEO, after all.

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