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The girls were indeed under the impression that we were going on some fun trip, and when we mentioned that their new friends might be joining us, they grew even more animated.
Baby Zak got caught up in the excitement and was clapping and drooling as she sat on her favorite uncle’s lap. I guess that was by default too since he was the only one of us who spoke her language, what a pair.
It felt good even with what laid ahead to kick back and relax. No one had made mention of Susie’s attack or any of the other shit that had been going on around us lately, and that only served to reinforce our decision not to tell the women what was going on. I’m pretty sure if we did they would spend all their time worrying.
“Davey, you’ve been pretty quiet you okay?” I clapped his shoulder as he sat on the other side of me from his sister. I have to talk to the others about making arrangements for him. He was young yet, but as the old man’s son it was only right that he have a place here with us.
For some reason, my mind went to the portrait in the old man’s room, and I made a mental note to take it with us. Maybe whatever it was that was bothering me would reveal itself after I’ve had time to study it more.
It was almost time to make that final run and the men exchanged looks. It was never easy escaping the women without them catching on that something was wrong, but Gaby saved us from having to come up with an excuse.
“I hope we have an opportunity to plan our weddings where we’re going. I have all these ideas but until I can get out and into the stores…” Every man in the room groaned and the women got all huffy, which started them on their favorite argument.
I rubbed my finger over Susie’s ring finger and whispered in her ear. “Soon!” She pinked up and giggled as I tickled her ear with my tongue.
“Damn bi…I mean whipped boy.” Ty cleaned up his language for the baby, but his eyes were looking dead at me. “Pitiful.” I gave him the finger and ignored him since he had Vicky damn near seated in his lap next to the baby.
“So…” Lo held up his hand as his phone rang cutting him off. “Yeah! Incoming? What does that mean?” he looked around the room at the rest of us before getting to his feet.
“I’ll be back.” I kissed her temple before easing my arm from around her and following the others.
Once we reached outside away from the women, he took the phone down from his ear. “Mancini, the others are here.” We headed for the gate and looked through the security monitor to see a couple SUVs lined up out there. Somebody started leaning on the horn, but we weren’t about to open up until we knew for sure who was out there.
The scanner showed Lyon and his brood in the first one and Law was in the middle with Creed. I can only surmise the other men were Mancini’s. Con hit the button and the gates slid open.
“What the fuck? Who you expecting? The invasion of Genghis Khan or some fuck?” Those were the first words out of Lyon’s mouth.
“Don’t pay him no mind, that fucker bitched all the way here on the plane.” Law came over to bump fists with us, while Colt looked around with his hand around his woman like he was expecting someone to jump out and nab her from right out under him.
Creed was his usual self, watching everything from behind his shades, making sure there was no danger before releasing his hold on his girl. The women stood off in a little huddle with the kids who were all Lyon’s apparently.
That youngest daughter of his seemed way more interested in what the men were saying than what was going on with the women, and I remembered her in that room when none of us knew she was there. That’s some freaky shit for a kid to pull off.
“Where’re your women?” Lo nodded his head in the direction of Zak’s house and Lyon whispered some shit to his woman and she headed off with the other women and kids in tow. The little one dragged her feet and kept looking back at her dad, while the older ones looked around like they were on an adventure. Who knows what the fuck Lyon had told them.
“Mengele get a move on, nothing back here to see.” Looked to me like the kid was taking our measure. “That’s one interesting kid you have there, Lyon.” I kept my eyes on her as she literally cased the joint. I think if she had breadcrumbs she’d have been dropping them every few steps.
“Nosy fuck. I hope you boys don’t have anything hazardous laying around this bitch, cause promise to fuck my lil princess will find a way to blow some shit up.” He seemed genuinely worried about that which made the rest of us crack the hell up.
“This fucker tell you where he’s taking us?” he eyed Mancini who had that smirk on his face as he stood back with his men.
“Nope, but we figure there’s enough of us to take him if he tries anything.” Lo joked in answer to Lyon’s question.
“Asshole seems slippery to me.” We talked shit for a little while because we all knew that the situation had to be seriously fucked if the men in that circle were willing to uproot their lives even if for a little while.
But soon it was time to broach the subject of why we were really here. “You boys ready to get out of here?” Mancini finally broke his silence and it brought our attention to the two men and one woman he had with him.
“We have one more run to make before we leave.” Lo explained about the tunnel and the three newcomers reacted. Mancini said something in some kind of fucked up language and they settled down.
“My people have seen the worse of what that shit can lead to, you’ll have to forgive them.” They looked pissed as fuck, especially the woman who started looking around as if she expected to see some shit going down right then and there.
“Well, let’s get to it. I have it on good authority that the heat is on. I’ll leave my people here with the women and children. I know I know your place is secure, but we’ll all feel a lot better if they weren’t left alone.”
We each sized up his crew. It was one thing to go out on a limb and trust the man himself, but now he was asking us to leave our most precious possessions in the hands of strangers. This is why we’d made that pact so long ago, my brothers and I. Never to settle down with some woman, put her through the heartache of having to wait for us while we went off to who knows what.
“They’re fine, his uncle already vouched for him, so if they’re with him, unless he’s a dumb fuck, then they should be clear too.”
“Thank you Lyon, always so eloquent.”
