Page 106 of Restless
“I’m not anymore,” Meggie said impatiently. “Please?”
“There! I’ll return in ten minutes.”
“I don’t want Johnnie to die,” Meggie said a moment later. Presumably, the nurse was gone. “Think of Kendall and his children.”
“Kendall not a psycho cunt no more, so we’ll make sure she’s okay.”
“Christopher—”
“Club business, baby.”
“It isn’t. This is personal.”
“Nope, the motherfucker used the stairwell without authorization. If there’s no threat, we don’t fuckin’ use it and give that escape route away. It’s club business.”
“But he was in the stairwell to see me!”
“Megan, baby, if you trying to save that motherfucker life, you kinda makin’ me want to put my hollows in and empty my clip into his fuckin’ head.”
Derby tugged at the neckline of his shirt; Digger looked morbidly ill all of a sudden. Even Dez shifted and sweat beaded Boy’s brow.
Fuck, if Mort wouldn’t be accused of disrespect, he’d hang up. But until Meggie or Prez ended the call, he couldn’t.
“Save your energy for club business,” Meggie begged. “If you kill Johnnie, it’ll traumatize everyone.”
“Club…who the fuck you been talkin’ to?”
“N-no one.”
She couldn’t lie to save her own life. Another motherfucker was plain fucked.
“I’m countin’ to three, Megan. If you don’t start talkin’,Imastart shootin’ the first motherfucker on my list.”
“Who’s on your list?”
“Johnnie, Mort, Digger, Derby, Nardo Grevenberg and his fuckhead old man…”
Mort, Digger, and Derby exchanged glances.
Meggie cleared her throat. “Nardo is under eighteen.”
“Don’t give a fuck. He the stupid motherfucker quotin’ a stupider motherfucker, and fuckin’ with Mort’s girl.”
“Erm, if-if…how would it matter if you k-kill Mortician, Christopher?”
“He could rest in peace.”
“Oh. Why do you want to kill Mort, Digger, and Derby again?”
“For fuckin’ with you.”
“I called Mortician, so he hasn’t done anything wrong. Neither has Digger or Derby.”
“You don’t evenlikefuckin’ Derby, yet you tryin’ to save his fuckin’ lifeagainwhen he disrespected you.”
“But—”
“I fuckin’ heard you tell him to takewhateverthe fuck up with me. I also fuckin’ heard you tell Digger to back off and you ain’t fuckin’ carin’ if he frustrated.”
