Total pages in book: 43
Estimated words: 40859 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 204(@200wpm)___ 163(@250wpm)___ 136(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 40859 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 204(@200wpm)___ 163(@250wpm)___ 136(@300wpm)
He doesn’t look at me but instead locks eyes to Diaz. “I’m here, bastard. You called, I came. Although, having this audience seems a bit much for what you intend to do.”
“And what do I intend to do?”
Benny looks me in the eyes and I feel the tears pooling. “You want me to watch as you end Leigh as punishment for my denial of your job. Then you’ll end me.”
“You got it wrong Benincio. You didn’t deny my job, you denied the Irishman. And you did it in a way that Bianchi saw her enemy coming. You gave her an advantage she shouldn’t have had. All for the love of this whore.”
“She’s a lot of things, Diaz. She’s not a whore,” Benny tells him calmly.
“Well, for loving this whore, you were dumb. You deserve to die now. But knowing what’s to come you are rather smart Benincio. I don’t think she’s worth your life. Alas, you came as if you could do something. Always trying to save her. When will you learn, Benny? A whore will get you killed.”
“Didn’t live before her, didn’t live without her. Only time in my life I can say I was breathing with the intention to keep doin’ it was when I had her. I don’t have that anymore, so you wanna end me. Do it. But don’t you think for one fuckin’ second I’m gonna let you hurt her.”
Diaz approaches me as Benny comes closer as if he can somehow step between us.
“Look at her,” Diaz states waving his hand like he’s showing a display on a tv show. “She’s wearing another man’s clothes. She doesn’t even have on panties or a bra. She’s in his clothes. She smells of him, Benny boy.”
I drop my head in shame.
“She needs to have another man. I’m not deserving of her. And you should know for all of this, I got a mark on your head Diaz. So kill me, you can live, kill her, and you will die before the sun rises tomorrow morning.”
Diaz laughs, “Still think you have some power here. That’s the problem Benincio, you have always thought you had some control and you don’t. You’re a hired gun. Nothing more, nothing less. Always dispensable.”
Benny shrugs his shoulders not denying the statements.
“Get closer,” Diaz says taking a gun from the man beside me and pointing it at Benny. “Move to your woman, smell her Benny. Inhale the stench of biker. She came down south and learned how to be trash.”
A noise outside makes me stop breathing. I have a trigger happy cartel boss who wants to make my ex watch me die alongside a dozen other men who will kill me before letting me be able to identify any of them. And now a damn bird wants to fly into the door.
Diaz orders two men to check it out. He moves back slightly and I use the space to my advantage to talk to Benny.
“I’m sorry, Benny,” I whisper. “I didn’t know he would use me to get to you. I thought you had found me.”
“Baby, in my life everyone close to me is leverage. I let you go to save you from this,” his words hit me hard. “I didn’t look for you because I knew Giulia would do everything to keep you out of this life.”
Benny didn’t follow me. He loved me so much he refused the job to kill me.
Time passes, but it’s hard to say how much. The men Diaz sent out haven’t returned. Another bang on the door, Diaz sends more men out as I look to Benny.
He shakes his head unsure of what is going on.
“Who did you bring with you, Benny?” Diaz asks.
“No one. I work alone.”
This is true. Benny didn’t have partners or even friends really. I only met Carlos Diaz and his wife Elena once at a charity event my cousin was hosting. Benny introduced me as his partner and not Giulia Bianchi’s cousin. Why didn’t make sense at the time. Now … now I wonder if even then he was protecting me. Benny knew Giulia would help me leave. She’s my best friend.
“It matters not. I set things up so the Legion’s Demons think you hired them to send a message to her and Giulia. They will be tied up in a war with the Kings of Carnage because bikers apparently go to war as much as the cartels do. Either way, when I finish today, none of this comes back on me.”
I want to scream and tell him, the Kings are smarter than he gives them credit. Rogue will come for him. This isn’t the end. He doesn’t get off free. I may not understand biker life yet, but I do see their loyalty.
And loyalty, I understand.
Diaz doesn’t. He thinks no one can be loyal or trusted. Not even a lover or a wife.