“Name them. I know Harley wants your blessing. I want to make it happen.”
“Good. You know I’m not too pleased you let her be taken on your watch. What were you doing that some hilljack was able to get the jump on you?”
“With all due respect, I’d rather not say.”
“I see.” He smirks and shakes his head. “Well you bring me Tiny Leone’s head and I’ll give you my blessing to marry my daughter.” He grins menacingly at me. “Need a shot?”
I suck in a deep breath. “That’s what you want?”
“That’s what I want.”
“Then I’ll bring you his head on a silver platter,” I vow.
“Harley will be staying here in Drag Creek until you do.”
“Over my dead body!” I shout at him as anger boils in veins.
“That can easily be arranged.” Without even blinking he pulls a gun from his lap and lays it on the desk next to his shot glass.
“Only death will part me from your daughter.”
Rebel picks up his piece, cocks it, and aims between my eyes.
I don’t dare to even breathe. But on the insi
de, I am whispering a silent prayer I walk out of here alive.
The office door bangs open and Harley gasps. “Daddy! What are you doing?” She shrieks.
“Making my point,” he states coolly.
“I can’t believe you. I am so telling Mom,” she says like that will make any difference.
Rebel isn’t a man who is going to back down.
“I’ll pay your price,” I tell him, “but Harley stays where she chooses.”
“She’s not your property. Not yet,” he warns.
My fierce woman folds her arms over her chest, pushing her cleavage further out of her shirt and even in the face of death the sight makes me hard.
“What’s he talking about?”
“You’re to stay here in Drag Creek until your man here delivers.”
“You don’t own me. I’m no man’s property,” she spits her words at him. “Let’s go home, Quinn.”
Like a dog chasing a cat, I follow her without looking back. If Rebel Black wants Tiny’s head that’s what I will bring him.
Hades is really going to tear me a new asshole for making this deal but in the end we will all get what we want.
One day I will tell my children how I cut the head off a cartel king if I live to tell about it.
The End