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Page 3 of Dirty Little Deal

“It was all recorded on Maddy's laptop,” I whisper, regretting my words instantly.

“No…” Skid shakes his head as he stumbles backwards and crashes into the toolbox. “You’re lying. He would never… he loves her... he loves me. Sure, we fight, disagree a lot, but we’re brothers. He wouldn’t.”

“Jessie’s telling the truth,” Prez tells him. “I’ve seen the video myself.”

“You’re trying to tell me that my brother, r-r-r…” he stutters, taking a breath, unable to get the words out past his lips. “Raped and then killed my wife?” his voice breaks through tears.

“I wish we weren’t,” Prez says.

Skid lifts his head and looks at me, eyes bulging with rage and nostrils flaring like they might flame.

“Show me.”

“That’s not a good idea, you don’t want to see that, brother.” I shake my head, recalling the sinister brutality of what Chop has done.

“You show me that fuckin’ video.” Skid’s finger points between my eyes, and I’m about to argue back. I love Skid like a brother, and for that reason I can’t let him watch that fucking video. But Prez’s arm slaps at my chest.

“Jessie, go get the computer,” he says keeping his eyes on Skid.

“But Prez…” I try to argue, Prez must have lost his fucking mind.

“He needs to see it for himself” he explains, defeated.

“Fine, but I’ll warn you now, Skid, you can’t unsee what’s on that video,” I warn, before I leave and ride up to my cabin. Nyx is sat on my couch drinking a beer and watching TV when I walk in and grab Maddy's laptop from the table. He tells me she’s fine, but I check in on her anyway. Then making my way back down to the garage I prepare to ruin Skid’s life beyond any possible repair.

Skid sits at the desk in the small office at the back of the garage, and I set up the laptop in front of him, still not entirely convinced that this is a good idea. As soon as I hit play, I move to the opposite side of the desk, noting how Prez moves to stand beside me too. Probably for the same reason.

Carly’s sweet, excitable voice fills up the room, and Skid’s face automatically brightens when he sees her face on the screen. A sad smile tugging on his lips when she talks him through the memory of the first time they met.

There are no smiles from me and Prez though, we know what’s coming, and we also know it’s gonna destroy him. Right now he thinks he’s lost everything, in a few seconds he’s gonna realize that he’s lost a whole lot more. Watching his face is like watching the video for the first time all over again. She tells him he’s gonna be a dad, and his fingers shake as they reach out and touch the screen. His eyes filling up with tears, like in that moment he’s forgotten that she’s gone.

When I hear Chop in the video, I have to give him one more chance to back out.

“Skid, man you sure?” I check, and when his eyes flick up to mine, I know there’s no way he’s not gonna watch on.

I try to focus on something else as the sounds comes out of the speaker. Prez moves and leans next to me on the glass windows that separates the office from the garage that the two brothers have kept together for years. We watch on as all Skid’s pain turns to anger. The tears in his eyes dry, and after we hear the smug laugh that we know Chop lets out when he’s standing over Carly's body followed by, “who fuckin’ owns you now bitch?”

Skid snaps.

He pushes the table across the room as he stands up from the chair.

“Motherfucker,” he roars, grabbing one of the filing cabinets and crashes it to the floor. Ripping open the door he storms into the garage, and like a tornado he destroys everything that stands in his path. He’s lost his shit, and who can blame him after everything he ever cared about has been taken by his own blood.

How can anything ever be the same again?

When Jessie comes home I know he’s told Skid, and the thought of him having to hear what had happened to Carly breaks my heart.

We only have a short time together before Jessie has to go again. Prez called church and I guess that’s where everyone will find out about Chop’s betrayal.

The emptiness I feel when Jessie isn’t with me is unbearable, and it’s even worse now I don’t have Carly. Nyx is always close by, but he never really speaks to me. He’s far too wrapped up in his own head.

I have no one except for Jessie, he’s quickly become my everything and I feel myself needing him more and more as each day passes. It scares me that I’m losing myself, and I can’t help thinking what Hayley would tell me to do if she was still here.

I can’t let myself slip away. I need a purpose, a distraction from all the shit that’s happened lately. Sure, I’m young and I don’t have the life experience that the people around here do. But there is one thing I can do, something I’m not just good at, that I kick ass at.

Armed with a computer I can create just as much havoc as any Dirty Soul can. The Bastards killed my best friend, forced my mother to hiding. Tobias Saunders has taken another friend from me, and I’m going to make sure they all get nothing less than what they deserve.

Violence has always been something I’ve avoided at all costs. It scared me about Jessie at first, but I’m learning to deal with it. Whoever Jessie is when he was with them doesn’t matter, because when he’s with me he’s my Jessie. The caring, loving Jessie with a soft heart who would do anything to keep me safe.