Daddy's Shortcake🩷
...14 years ago...
Knox and his brothers sat in silence in the living room.
They were still dressed in black and had hardly spoken since
they’d come home from the funeral. Ma had been silent all
day, while Pop had done everything he could to tend to Ma
and provide her the comfort that she needed.
It wasn’t normal for parents to attend their own child’s
funeral. Especially their nineteen-year-old child. Knox could
feel the tension building by the minute when looking around
the room. Each one of them felt helpless and guilty.
Pop walked in, still wearing his suit. He looked exhausted,
as though he hadn’t slept since the day that they had found
Celeste’s body. Not that any of them had slept, really. They
all seemed to just be going through the motions.
“Boys,” Pop said roughly, “I know how much you all loved
Celeste. We’re family, and no matter what blood runs
through us, we have to stick together.”
One by one, Pop looked around the room at each boy as
they all nodded their heads.
“We must honor Celeste’s memory forever,” Leo said.
Knox blinked back the tears forming in his eyes and
nodded without looking at his brothers. He knew they were
all feeling the same.
“I’m going to put Ma to bed. I love all of you, my sons,”
Leo said, nodding his head sadly before disappearing from
the room.
It was silent for a long time after that. Occasionally
someone would sniff or clear their throat, but it seemed like
just sitting together was comforting enough at the moment.
“We are going to kill every one of them. One by one,”
Angel said after a long while.
Angel had come from the most traumatic background of
all the boys, and he was also always the quietest. Everyone
looked over at him and then at each other.
Beau cleared his throat. “I’m in,” he said.
“Me too,” Knox said.
“We kill every single one. Wipe them off the fucking
planet,” Wolf said.
Hawk leaned forward and nodded, “Count me in.”
“I’m in,” Ash said.
“Me too,” Colt and Maddox said at the same time.
Angel nodded, “We need to stay under the radar, work in
the darkness of the shadows and be invisible. We’ll hit each
one when they’re least expecting it, and we make it painful.
Just like they did to Celeste.”
They all nodded. Most of them had come from violent
backgrounds, and Pop was the head of the biggest illegal
underground fighting circuit on the West Coast, so violence
was something that they didn’t fear.
They had all worked for Pop in the circuit and while he
had kept the boys’ jobs as clean as possible, it wasn’t
unusual for them to be around during fight nights, watching
the fights that turned bloody and sometimes resulted in
death. Leo had also taught each of them how to box and
fight in his MMA gym, which was his only legal business.
“We need to fill Pop in just in case anything comes back
on us. We need to protect Ma at all costs,” Wolf said.
The boys sat up all through the night and made plans to
wipe out each one of the most dangerous gangsters in
Washington. And they all knew that they would enjoy every
minute of it.
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