are
hired help. Unimportant. We don’t retaliate if a guard is killed,
only if family is touched.”
“ I don’t share your way of
thinking. My guards are my possessions, and when someone takes one
of my possessions away from me, I get very angry. And worse, when
they take a favorite possession away, I always retaliate. Two of those guards were my
favorites. I loved them, yet one was killed without thought, while
the other is being kept from me.” The Black Russian leaned forward,
making the Padre push his head back into the seat. “And all because
of your family.”
“ No, because of my dead brother.
You can’t punish me for his sins, plus you said he’s solely
responsible.”
“ I didn’t use the word ‘solely’
and you still deserve to be punished for using one of my
possessions without permission, and when I find him, he better not
be damaged.”
“ You’re meant to protect me, not
harm me. That was the agreement you struck with
Christo.”
“ I will do as I
please.”
“ You can’t! Put this plane
back down, I refuse to go with you.”
“ Are you giving me an order,
priest? Because if you are, I will kill you instead of imprison
you.”
The Padre shook his head, his eyes panicked. “We can
fix this. Christo will find the soldiers who killed your guards and
hand them over to you.”
“ From what I hear, the D’Angelo
Don has already had them killed. And what about what you did to Jagger? He’s
the reason why my Black Guards were with the D’Angelos: to protect
him from you.”
“ I have freed him.”
“ You had no right to claim him
in the first place.” He pointed at Thierry. “He may be willing, but
I heard Jagger was not. I know what you did to him and
unfortunately for you, I like him very much. You will pay for
hurting him by learning what it’s like to be used as a sex
toy.”
The Padre ’s eyes widened. “You wouldn’t dare touch
me!”
“ Don’t flatter yourself, you’re
not my taste. I would sooner kill you than touch your body. I only
touch beauty and you are not beautiful. However, you are muscular
and my sister likes muscular men very much.”
The Padre ’s eyes widened even more, looking like
they were about to swallow his face whole. “I am a man of God! No
Daughter of Satan shall touch me!”
The Black Russian started to laugh. “I
love how you speak. You shall be very entertaining. I hope my
sister doesn’t gag you.”
The Padre pushed to his feet, the fury on his face
strong. The two blonds lifted their guns, barking at him to sit
down. He flopped back in his seat, wincing, probably from his
injury.
“ See, priest,” the Black Russian
said. “You have no power here, so if my sister wants to fill you
with little blue pills to make your cock hard so she can ride you,
you will swallow them as your nephew will swallow my seed. And if
she wants to kiss and paw your body,” he laughed, looking like he
was getting perverse joy out of the Padre ’s horrified expression, “she shall. And she knows
about your unusual cock. When I told her I was procuring you for
her, she decided to invite all her friends over for some unholy fun
with you.”
“ I will kill any Daughter of Satan who
touches me!”
“ You won’t be able to if you’re
tied to my sister’s bed. By the way, priest, I’m a twin too. My
sister is my other half. Do you fuck your brother like I fuck my
sister?”
“ No!”
“ Odd.”
“ You’re the Devil!”
“ Yes, I am, and welcome to
Hell.”
5
RITA
I’d lost the FBI a while back,
although one of the bastards had grazed my arm with a bullet during
my getaway. I’d wrapped it with a strip of material I’d torn from my
shirt. I just hoped like hell it didn’t get infected after I had to
spend the night under a bush, hiding from Julio’s
agents.
I took another bite of the apple I’d
stolen from a tree further down the road. I was sitting behind an
abandoned farm building, waiting for Christo’s call. A few
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