Page 79 of Justice for Radar

I droppedinto the seat on the other side of the glass and took up the phone. The white boy glaring at me on the other side like he was hard, or some shit picked up his and demanded, “Who’re you?”

“I’m the guy that’s making your ex-wife the happiest she’s ever been.” I said it with a slow, malicious spreading of my lips into probably the coldest smile I’d ever put on my face.

Dude was just about what I’d expected. Your all-American, light-haired blue-eyed washed-up high school football star. He stared at me all cold and I laughed a little.

“Look at you tryin’ to be all hard,” I said. “We gonna find out just how soft and gooey that center of yours is.”

He scowled at me.

“Gonna be a little tough for you there, big guy,” he said with a derisive sniff. “Me being in here and you out there and all.”

I felt my smile grow both in size and level of nastiness. I leaned back and caught one of Dom’s boy’s eyes several windows up talking to his fella on the inside and without giving too much away he gave me a sidelong glance and an imperceptible chin lift.

“Oh, we’ll see about that,” I said. “As for Justice, she’s gonna get some and your little Army school butt buddies? They try they’re gonna have another think coming. You get me? You might want to call them off.”

“Ain’t gonna fuckin’ happen,” he said with venom and I winked at him.

“Your funeral, man. Theirs too if you don’t. Iwilldefend her.”

“You tell that bitch she’s gonna pay. Those boys are gonna make what I did to her look like amateur hour.”

“Uh-huh,” I said. “Yeah, right. Have a nice life, you fuckin’ loser. What’s left of it. You’re gonna know first hand how she felt soon enough and the boys gonna do it to you? They’re gonna enjoy every minute of putting your rape-o ass on notice.”

I hung up the phone piece with a wink and got up. He punched the other side of the glass and one of the CO’s barked at him. Of course I couldn’t hear shit – but that was by design. As for if I was worried about them coming at me after this fuckwit died? Because hewasgonna die. How fast or how slow all depended on him – I wasn’t worried about getting got. I used a fake ass ID to get past the guards.

Romero Corazonhad a clean record and was about to be dust in the fuckin’ wind as soon as we were out of here. A personal touch on Data’s part. I owed that fucker several beers for not having to watch what I said to this human embodiment of the herpes virus.

I left, and outside I went to Atlas and our bikes in the far reaches of the parking lot. He shifted on his booted feet. “I just want to get the fuck out of here and back into our colors,” he said and I nodded. We’d gone slick-backed up to the prison. No identifying colors for either us or the SHMC boys. We weren’t about leaving bread-crumbs.

“Me fuckin’ either. You call my girl?” I asked.

“Yeah, she’s doing okay. A little butt hurt she woke up without us there this morning,” he said and he looked well pleased.

“What’s that look for?” I asked.

“She said ‘you guys’ plural,” he said and I rolled my eyes.

“You do know eventually you’re gonna get to hit it,” I said. “Just on her time when she’s comfortable.”

“Dude, I know!” he said. “Jesus Fuck, why you all acting like I’m brand fuckin’ new to this arrangement.”

I shook my head and smiled, “Not you, bro… me. Everything about Jussy is new for me. When you know, you know.”

“Shit, fuck me, man. You only ever say that shit when it’ssuperserious.”

I nodded.

“She’s not some passing flight of fancy, man. This isn’t some project for me that I get her back on her feet or whatever, get bored, and move the fuck on. That ain’t me. That’sneverbeen me.”

“I know that, I just ain’t never seen you move this fast and I’ve never had you get territorial withmeover any female before except…”

I nodded. “My last ol’ lady,” I affirmed.

“I’m thinkin’ I love the feel of your woman’s soft skin and I don’t mind rubbing her down, but for the first time, I feel like getting my dick involved is like, overstepping or gonna be counterproductive to our relationship and partnership in some way and I gotta say while I find thatweird, it’s not abadweird.”

I searched his face and nodded carefully.

“I appreciate that, man.”

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