Page 24 of Seamus: Unconventional
The huff Shadow gives him is a huff and a half, getting a laugh from the President with the funky sad eyes and smile. “You don’t know any old K-9s and I’ll okay the retirement compound right now.” Kristos is answering my partners chip convo. They’re all crazy.
I turn to Shadow. “You really are a bobble. I should have bought the one I saw today. The meet is tomorrow, get with Light and the girls for whatever you want on your plan without bothering Pres any more than you have already.”
My partner has us all laughing when he bolts away like Mase is on fire and chasing him. It’s a good end to the heart wrenching subject that got us here.
Chapter Four
Two days
Maestro Club
The jolt has my eyes pop open as the chilling, tingling sensation going down my upper back registers. Shadow jumped on me before I’m even awake? Those jowls are definitely Shadow. “Did you lose your bloody mind!? Get off me. I’m not in the bed brace, eejit.” The words come out in ajust woke upwhisper that makes this huge dumbbell’s eyes bulge more than the cartoon picture that Light shows with exaggerated big eyes, inches away from Shadow’s face.
He is daft. I’d laugh at his whole body bouncing up and to the side but the tingling sensation hasn’t left yet and my body is bouncing with the weight of the huge bastard re-landing on the mattress. Air finally makes it into my lungs and I take a minute to just breathe before glaring at the fuckin’ nut. “What the devil are you thinking?”
Light and Izzy bound in. I need everyone here, apparently. Light growls pulling the rolls of skin hanging on the side of Shadow’s face. It’s effective and I’m alone on the bed again. No jarring movements work for me right now. Fuckin’ Shadow.
I shake my head and pull me up using the bar above me. “I fell asleep in the shower brace.” I explain as if they can’t see it now that I’m uncovered or hear the clicks as the knee hinges bend when I push a leg over. I close my eyes and breathe again. “I’m okay. I need clothes and the skeleton.” Moving my legs to the side with more clicking, I use two hands to pull, lift and turn me.
Light drops clothes beside me and Shadow brings the skeleton in pieces. I don’t roll my eyes, but do ignore the question mark and bed brace picture. It’s obvious I didn’t put it on and they’re not my mother.
Izzy sends me an emoji with a big smile. I laugh. “It’s not an open position and you already have jobs.”
They’re all amused and throwing chip pictures around. “Why’d you jump me? You don’t jump on me anymore,” I ask the clown who stopped that bad habit when I landed in the chair.
A picture of the bed brace shows. The bed brace…he thought I had it on and was safe. I shake my head at him. “You’re trying to get rid of me so you can have a water park at the retirement home?”
Light leans against my side so I can stand and I feel his body shaking. He’s trying to contain his amused bark, haughty huff, or he’s holding himself back from the disapproving nips at Shadow. Either wayI’mamused.
Izzy finds that funny and chuffs.
Shadow shows me the schedule. “We have a job? Kristos said a couple of days.”
‘Need’ shows so I nod. “I need the Ops cargos.” The ones on the bed are just utilities. “A threat to us means we’re all in gear until the threat is clear, per Cort.” I say it out loud so they all hear since I don’t know who is going.
Shadow moves fast while ignoring Light’s glare. I smile, not caring, because we have a job today.
Yesterday was a mess of feeling shit no one ever wants to feel. The boys will move here if something happens to Leon which we all know is happening to Leon. Kristos has meets with lawyers - which could be just Alder, then meets with Asa, Brann and my partners for whatever is making it to the retirement home for partners. That, of course, turned into a retirement home for elders and K-9s in the Badass crazy-land that is bigger than Disney at this point. I was grudgingly included and gave the land in Scotland to sell along with the financial intel that Light decided is theirs when I die. I say he decided because he showed Ranger and the girls that there is enough for them too. One of the Omega group, Wilson, is good with numbers and Izzy sent him my financials like everything that was mine is now ours collectively. Thank fuck they can’t fit in my clothes, ride my bike and drive my truck. I should never think that where they can see or they’ll be driving my truck and want bikes. Pushing those thoughts away, I move on.
Anything I protested was shot down by a picture of a headstone with my name on it. Light is right, I’ll be dead. If they can live freely, I don’t care what they do with the money, but I don’t want it paying for a headstone. He agreed to an urn and marker at the Badass cemetery. I didn’t know we had a Badass cemetery but was told Badass is taking care of abandoned and bankrupt cemeteries. I’m never asking but how the hell does a cemetery go bankrupt? People die daily and need to go somewhere. This led to the K-9 section of a cemetery that will be addressed by the lawyers when we go to that meet. Planning sucks. I figured it would be one plan with one meet. Now, I’m stuck in plural meets with plans I didn’t think through, won’t be alive for and get no say on.
The loud bark gets my attention. “What?”
Shadow whips my helmet up so it flips in the air. I watch then shake my head when he catches it gently in his mouth with a flick of his eye my way to see if I watched the smooth move. “No. I haven’t worn it yet and can’t ride until next month.”
Izzy riles me up with her ‘work yes, play no, ?’ signs.
I’m disgusted and show it. “That’s what Alder said. Light sending him the Evel Knievel stunt that we did in Kandahar sealed it. He initially said the vibration would be too much but after seeing Light’s video, he had the bikes lock if I try to log on one to ride. The video wasn’t even real, that jump was a good thirty feet lower, they just made it look scary.”
She doesn’t care and Light walked out so my ire serves no purpose. Letting it go isn’t hard. I finish dressing knowing I’m like a flash bang going out as quick as I get pissed. My piece is said so I move on, again.
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BSC Chopper
Seamus
Shadow catches my attention with Numpty. My eyes go right to him. “Who?”
