Page 34 of Pirate's Plunder

“I don’t give a fuck. Drop her. It might make her smarter.” I stare at him, and he smirks at my eye patch.

“You think you can take her?” He smiles and nods like he’s won.

“Go ahead. Try.” He moves the gun to her head, and I freeze.

“Yeah, I think I will. Just like I took your parents.” I start to lower her slowly to the floor, and I catch movement behind Marco.

Fucking Rafael.

Before I can signal him to stop he’s tackled Marco causing the gun to slide across the fucking Italian marble. I dive for it and it turns into a three man scuffle as we wrestle for the fucking thing.

Until it fucking goes off.

BANG!

“You stupid peice of shit! You could have gotten yourself killed!” I hiss as my baby brother wraps the wound on my arm.

“And where would you be now? Face it, you need a fucking doctor in your merry band of bikers,” Rafeal grins at me.

Genesis is sitting on my lap, staring at her father hanging from a meat hook in Alfonso’s living room. I wonder how many times she asked what the eye hook was used for while growing up here.

“You can’t hurt him. He’s my father,” she says out of the blue and then turns away from him to look at me.

“Oh, I know. Ask him how I lost my eye.” I nod at the asshole.

“Tell her. Tell your precious daughter what a piece of shit you really are. That you sold out my parents, to save your own life, and took my eye so…Wait, I want to get the words right.” I shift her off my lap and stand, leaving my brother cursing because he was still working on my arm.

“So you could look into my eye and remember the scared little boy who thought he could beat you.” I smile at his gagged face.

I turn, and Spector offers me a gun.

“Who’s scared now?”

BANG!

“You never fucking deserved her. But thank you ‘cause I’m going to treasure every single fucking day I have with her and show her what true love really is.” I watch the blood start to flow down his leg as the silent wail he had trapped in his chest finally breaks free.

“She’ll hate you forever after this.” I glance at Genesis and see the opposite of hate in her eyes.

She’s looking at me with love in her eyes. I know without a shadow of a doubt that if I leave him alive, we will never know a moment’s peace. I’m not raising a family looking over my shoulder for this motherfucker or risking any more of my brothers.

She sees the moment I make up my mind, and bless her soul, she nods in understanding.

“You give yourself too much credit. She’ll fucking get over it. By the way, congratulations, you’re going to be a grandfather, and no, we won’t be naming him after you. Say hi to the Devil for me. Tell him to keep my seat warm.”

BANG!

I stand and watch his body swing until someone taps my shoulder.

“It’s over now. I’d like to go home.” I couldn’t deny her anything, let alone this.

“Okay, Preciosa.”

Epilogue

Ten months later

“Itold you to cut through the park!” Genesis moans from the back seat as I take another curve too sharply.

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