Page 22 of Cage's Ruin

The same facts rolling around in my head. I didn’t feel anything. Not guilt, not shame and not even regret—I couldn’t help but think, something was really wrong with me, fuck what was I becoming?

HAWK

Never been a man to do the right thing, unless when it came to my family. I was a selfish bastard and my family was one thing I was selfish over. Still to this day, I would not regret what happened with Emily. I loved her with my whole heart and because of her, I got my daughter, Autumn and my son Jacob.

The whole time in rehab gave me time to think. Think of how my two kids were everything to me. In some ways Autumn has saved me from doing the one thing I could never do, and that was to kill Emily for betraying us. However because Autumn has pulled that trigger, it has numbed her. She hadn’t dealt with the grief that comes with killing someone.

Hell killing a stranger is one thing, killing ya own blood—that shit you don’t come back from. So I wasn’t expecting Autumn to be back who she was before she pulled that trigger. She lost her innocence when she killed Emily.

And now I was going to do everything in my power to get her back to living again. That including letting Cage in her life. Was I happy about it? No. Was I going to let him fuck her under my roof? No. But I was going to let him be with my daughter, because for some reason that man made Autumn want to live. I just hoped it wasn’t too late.

Cracking the front door open, I spotted Cage immediately sitting on the couch. Cigarette in hand, and his gun on the table. I frowned for a moment. Had Autumn not came home? He was meant to be waiting here for her for when she showed.

“You alright brother?” I asked walking into the room.

He eyes go from the burning cigarette to me. Picking up his phone from the coffee table, he tossed it at me which I caught.

Seeing the message on screen.

We know what she did

Five words, which didn’t make sense to me. I glanced back at Cage. “What’s the problem?”

He inhaled on his cigarette, and then turned to look at me. “Autumn killed the Cartel’s right hand tonight.”

I couldn’t kill my reaction to myself I begin swearing. “Did she know who it was? What happened! Car accident or what!”

“Execution.”

“She executed someone!”

“Not just anyone. Dylan Decoder. The Cartels right hand—and he had a family.”

“What the fuck was she thinking!”

“That’s just it Prez.” He got up. “She wasn’t.” He takes the phone from my hand.

“What the fuck are we going to do?” I ran a hand through over my mohawk.

Cage smiled dimly. “I’m going to do what I always do.”

I looked into his eyes.

“Hawk, I’m not letting them take her from me.” His words sent fear through my body because I knew he had meant every word. “I’m not skilled at many things but killing never scared me. However losing Autumn, scares the shit out of me and I won’t let it happen.”

My eyes lock with Cage’s. “You and me both son.”

Cage walked back to the table, picking up the gun from the table.

“You planning on starting the manhunt tonight?” I asked him, seeing him tuck the gun in his waist of his jeans.

“No.” he glanced at me. “Autumn needs me tonight, and no sane man will come here knowing you and I are both here.”

“Tomorrow it is then.”

He nodded his head. “Tomorrow the war begins.”

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