"Let's get out of here then. You gotta set them straight."
He nodded his head, agreeing with what I was saying. "Yes, we gotta go. We gotta go. No, strawberries, though. I don't like those fucking strawberries."
"You got it, brother." I stood up, and he stood up with me.
He looked down at the woman I just shot in the head. He hovered over her body, bending down to get close to the wound in the center of her head. He used his hands to wipe the sides of the woman's face. "She’s so pretty when she sleeps. What are you thinking, pretty girl?" Before I could stop him, he used his finger and dipped it deep into the gaping hole in her skull. He moved his hand around before letting his finger slide out of the hole with an audible pop. "Nothing but dick, guns, and drugs." He stood up and walked towards the exit.
Before I followed him, I turned to where Lucky was standing, "Lucky, I need to get Tex back to the compound. You clean up here, don't leave anything behind." I pulled out two of the small electrical fire starter devices that I had and gave them to him along with the controls. "When you’re done, make sure you torch the place. Do the shit right, Lucky. Don't fuck around."
He reached out and grabbed my shoulder, squeezing it a few times. "Don't worry, bro; I got this here."
I shrugged him off, "Good, I'll send someone to come get you in a bit."
I hurried to catch up to Tex, the last thing I needed was for him to wander off and I have to find him again.
"Tex!" I yelled for him as he turned to walk past the car. I grabbed his arm and tried to pull him back. That was the wrong move.
He turned around with a swing, the wild haymaker just barely going over my head as I ducked. I let his momentum turn him and I caught him in a bear hug.
"No, get off!" He roared, I barely had a hold on him.
Tex was a beast of a man, all muscle.
"Tex, it's me brother, it's me." I tried to keep my voice low; let him see I wasn't a threat to him.
He struggled against me for a few more seconds.
"Shep?" He turned to look at my face, clarity coming back momentarily.
"Yeah, it's me. I came to bring you home. Let's go." I grabbed his arm again and softer than the last time I pulled towards the car.
He got in the back seat and laid in the fetal position. For such a big man, he was nothing more than a little baby when he was in this state of mind. "Shep, I can't think they won't let me think. Make them shut up." He begged softly.
"I have your medicine, you going to take it?"
"Mm-hmm," he put his hand out, and I turned quickly and emptied two pills into his palm. One was a sedative, and the other was his anti-psychotic medication. He popped them both in his mouth and swallowed them without water.
I got in the driver's seat and pulled out, by the time I pulled onto the main street Tex was already nodding in and out of sleep. It would take him a day or so to bounce back, but he would be back to normal soon.
I let out a deep breath; finally things were looking up.
Chapter 11
Shepard’s POV
"You got to be fucking shitting me!" I bellowed.
"Shep, I may be tripping, but it looks like our shit is on fire."
I ignored Tex, I pulled into the parking lot and ran out to help my brothers who were all outside and staring at the white smoke that was billowing out of the doors and windows.
"Rooster? What the fuck is this? What's going on?"
"Your bitch!" He stormed over to where I was. "That dumb ass pulled the fucking electrical line out from where she was and started a fucking fire. The lower level is fucked."
"What, where is she?" I looked around the crowd for Gianna. How the fuck could she have started a fire tied up.
"Is that what you are worried about, Pendejo, what about your brothers? What about your home?" Rooster was still in my face.
"What you want me to do Rooster, everyone is good, the compound is good, you want me to cry or some shit?" I was tired of him in my face. Of course, I was upset that this shit was going down, but there was nothing that I could do about it now.
"No, I don't want you to cry. I want you to realize how your woman is fucking everything up. Get her on a fucking leash, or I will make sure she isn't a problem anymore."
"I'll handle her. There is no need for that shit."
I have seen women walk out of Rooster's room no longer able to fucking talk. It didn't matter who the person was once you crossed the Spawns of Chaos, he was going to come after you.
"Make sure you do, oh, and all the damage done is on you. Get this shit fixed asap."
Great another bill. She was becoming more of a problem than she was worth. I looked around the area again.
“Wait, where is she?" I didn't see her in the crowd. Maybe she got hurt in the fire?
"Hatchet and Kat took her to the back." Rooster said nonchalantly.
"What the fuck!" I took off running towards the back of the compound, I didn't know what they were doing back there, but I was sure none of it was good.
"What you think you too good for my cock?"
"She one of those good girls, Hatchet, maybe she's a virgin?"
I could hear the two of them before I turned the corner.
"What the fuck do you think you are doing back here with her?" I turned the corner to see Gianna on the floor in front of them, soot covering her beautiful face, a gag in her mouth, and completely naked.
The pure rage that exploded inside me at that moment was more than I was expecting. I rushed Kat catching him clean in the jaw with a right cross, and he went down hard. Hatchet backed up and tried to swing on me himself, but I caught him with an uppercut before he could make any contact.
"What the fuck Shep, we were just playing with her," Kat said from his position on the ground, a bruise forming on the side of his pale face.
"Nah, not this one. She is mine. Put the fucking memo out; she is mine. Don't fuck with what's mine, and I won't have to lay you out. Do it again, and I promise I won't leave you in such good shape." I looked at both of them to make sure that they got the message.
They were nodding their heads, yes, but their eyes were saying no. I could tell this wasn't going to be the last time that I was going to have to fuck them up for going for Gianna.
I pulled her up from her knees, and she latched onto my arm like I was her savior. I took the gag from her mouth and waited for the fire that she usually had for me to come spewing out.
"I was so scared you wouldn't come back in time. Are you ok?"
This woman was just in a fire, had been left to suffer in a basement for days, and was almost brutalized by two of my brothers, and she was asking if I was ok.
"Yeah. I'm good." I picked her up in a bridal carry and walked back over to the front of the compound. The white smoke that was coming out of the windows and doors was now just a small fog.
I turned to Coco, one of the whores, "They letting people back in?"
"Yeah, the fire is out. Upstairs is fine, but the main area is still being aired out a bit." She smiled at me and turned to pick up a bag to bring back into the compound.
I walked back into the compound with Gianna in my arms and everyone staring at me like I was crazy.