Page 46 of Lucifer's Revenge
“You fucking fired me?”
“No, after our conversation at our last brunch together, when I told you that until you apologized to me for being a two-faced bitch, I wouldn’t be your friend. I would only be your boss.Youwere the one that called Megan and the others to cover your shift so you could use your PTO.Youused it all up because you were butt hurt that I called you out on your double standards.Youwere the one that didn’t show up for the following two weeks.Youwere the one that lied to the unemployment office. This is all on you, Sally, not me. If you’re such a crappy person that you can’t even own up to your own mistakes, then you deserve what you get in life. You brought all this on yourself. If you still feel that way, and that I had a hand in having Lucius fire you, that’s on you, but I’m going to say this right here in front of witnesses, and one of them is a police officer.”
“What’s that?”
“If something happens to either Lucius or myself, I will come after you. Everyone says that Lucius takes revenge on the people who have done him wrong, well, bitch, you haven’t seen anything yet. Oh, and if you go crying to anyone about me throat punching you, good luck in a court of law. I defended myself from an attack from a deranged woman. I felt threatened.” Lilith stared so coldly at Sally that Lucius even shivered, but his respect and love for the woman rose several degrees.
“This isn’t over,” Sally said as she stormed toward the door, and screamed in frustration when she had to wait for Bandit to move out of the way before she could leave. As soon as Banditfollowed her out, Lucius turned to Lilith, grabbed her hand, and pulled her into his lap.
He felt her trembling and just wrapped his arms around her until she calmed. When the trembling stopped, he looked at her and nodded. “You good?”
“Yeah, I don’t know what came over me. I’ve never resorted to violence like that.”
“She had it coming, and if you had done something wrong, Bandit would have cuffed you. It was exactly as you said, you felt threatened by a deranged woman trying to attack you.” He looked at her with his signature scowl. “It’s all on video.”
“Really?”
“Yes, so if she tries to come after either of us with lies, or wrongful termination, I have it all on video. That was one of the things I wanted with the new building, in house surveillance. The only room that doesn’t have it is the patch room. What goes on in there is no one’s business. From the hall, you can see who goes in, and who comes out, but not what goes on in there.”
“Good, so you’re not mad at me for pointing out that Ann and Sally are the same person?”
“Not at all, thank you. The only worry I have now is who is this guy?” He pointed to the picture of Sally, Brenda, and an unknown guy sitting at a coffee shop.
“Maybe Richard can run his features or something.”
“No offense, but if he’s retired, I really don’t want to bother him. I’ll have Bandit take this photo and do what he can at the police station.” He cocked his head to the side and looked at her with a grin, because they both heard a bunch of bikes pull into the parking lot outside. “Looks like I’ll be in a meeting for the next couple of hours.”
“I’ll go down and help Misty. I only have one question.”
“What’s that?”
“When do I get to see the new building?”
“After the meeting, it’s done. I need to get Starr over here because Brad wants to do a run through, in full makeup, before the actual Bash. That’s four weeks from now. I thought we could do the run through in two weeks.”
“To be able to get all the bugs out?”
“Yeah, and Brad wants to know the size of the horns Starr’s going to give me to make sure the coffin is wide and long enough.” At his words, she did a little dance on his lap, and sighed heavily.
“I cannot wait for this Bash. Will you have room enough?”
“Yes, at last count, we’ve sold five hundred tickets. That’s it, fire code occupancy is six hundred. I figured with the sale of the tickets at five hundred, then the entire club and employees, it won’t add up to an additional hundred, but there’s room to move around, and we won’t be violating any codes.”
“Good for you,” she sighed, then reached up and kissed him. It was several minutes before they broke apart. They left the office hand-in-hand, and when Lilith went to go downstairs, Luc kissed her again, then walked over to the patch room. At the last minute he went back to grab the papers and his laptop to show them what they would be dealing with.
*****
Hours later, the patch holders of Hell’s Coffin went downstairs, and before they went over to the new building, Luc caught Lilith’s attention and asked if she could take a break. When she said yes, he had cook take over running the bar so Misty could join them. They walked through the old kitchen and into the new one. Everyone took their time inspecting everything, and when they entered the main hall, it was almost pitch black. Luc had them wait as he used the flashlight app on his phone to find thelight switches. He flipped them one by one, but he didn’t see what lit up, he watched the faces of his people, especially Lilith.
It was her gleeful laugh that rang out first. “I love it!” she said as she ran up to him and threw her arms around him, kissing him in front of everyone. Because he was so comfortable with her, he didn’t bother ignoring her. With his arm around her shoulders, he walked around and gave everyone the tour. The same one as Brad gave him. When they looked to their heart’s content, then met back in the middle, Luc cleared his throat.
“I have yet to tell Starr, but dress rehearsal is in two weeks. Brad wants to see if I will fit in the coffin with whatever horns Starr gives me. We want to make sure we’ll be able to move and see in whatever they do to us, so we can interact with our guests. Oh, speaking of guests, if your tickets are sold, then that’s it. Last count was five hundred, and with all of us, our ole ladies, and the staff, I don’t want to go over occupancy.” He looked around and saw the prospects and strikers standing there. They had been in the bar and joined them when they went to tour the new building.
“You guys will be at the door. No ticket no entrance. I’m firm on that. I’ll get you the stamp to put on their hands at the entrance.” He looked at everyone. “The stamp will glow beneath these lights. If you don’t see a glowing stamp, they need to be asked to leave.” Everyone nodded that they heard him, and they stuck around for a couple more hours, to discuss things, but Misty and Lilith had only stayed for about thirty minutes before they went back over to the bar. At the entrance, Misty turned back and called out,
“Lucifer!”
“Yeah!”
