“What,” I snap.
“We have a problem.”
FUCKING DAMMIT!
“I’ll put her in solitary but wait until after Nik is done with her before you go at her,” I instruct heading for the door.
“Oh, and Vaughn?”
“Yes?”
“You ever touch or threaten Alley again, and we will have a repeat of high school.”
With that I leave his office. When I enter the hallway, I find Gunner yanking Alley back by her hair. She spins around only to go face first into him. His nose is bleeding and his eyes look as though his gaze will set her on fire.
Jesus, does she ever quit?
“Baron wants her to be in solitary; will you take her? I have urgent business to attend to,” I bark.
“With pleasure,” he says. He lets go of her hair and quickly throws her over his shoulder.
“Motherfucker,” she starts to fight to get free. “LET. ME. FUCKING. GO!”
He slaps her ass, turning on his heel and walking down the hall. After they have turned the corner, I head off towards the security room. A loud slap fills the air, followed by a grocery list of cuss words followed by Gunner’s maniacal laughter.
Chapter 7
Shadow
3 years ago
My interest for my Little Monster was piqued when I was serving with Declan’s unit. Roger wouldn’t shut the fuck up about the girl he lost. He went on and on about how she was the one that got away and he never got to rekindle that flame before she died, blah, blah and fucking blah.
To shut the blubbering idiot up, Salvatore brought up Titus’s ex friend with benefits. He talked about how insane Alley was and how one night she hit her ex-boyfriend with her car when he came at her with a hatchet. He said she claims she only hit him going five miles per hour. Then proceeded to date him. Her skewed common sense was entertaining to listen to.
Declan even would add tidbits here and there about her personality. He said that she is a fighter, stubborn but has a heart of gold. Titus would chime in about how she would never shut up especially if scared or excited. He would talk about how mouthy she would get if she felt threatened or was angry. He also said she had the stature of a corgi.
Every time they talked about her, it would push my need to see this insanity packaged in a short little thing. When their sex life got brought up, I decided I needed to meet her.
The last night before we all went back to our respective homes, we threw Titus and Declan a bachelor’s party. They both got so drunk that it was easy to get information about her from them. Declan told me about her divorce and how he couldn’t handle her pain, plus his wife would lose her mind if she knew he even spoke to her. Titus, on the other hand, said he talked to her here and there just to make sure she hadn’t offed herself yet.
That struck a nerve with me and I pried more. Titus would only spill the naughty details about her but kept his mouth shut on her outside of that. Declan, though, spilled his whole past with her, in detail too. I would say he was more in love with the girl way back when but wouldn’t admit to it.
Once we got back to the States, I found myself stalking her every movement. Whether it was the tracker on her phone I had installed, watching the cameras in her apartment, or just following her in person, I couldn’t get enough. I like to say I never found my opening but that is not entirely true. Honestly, I loved watching her when she thought she was alone.
Right now, she sits in the booth behind me at this hole in the wall diner. Her and her best friend, Marney, are cackling like two witches throwing fire at unsuspecting trespassers. I know for a fact it has to be about the guy she hooked up with last Sunday.
I checked the tracker on her phone after my meeting with Eagle, Killer, and Wolf. It took way longer than was needed, but when you are scheming to end a decades long war planning is key. The tracker had her at the generic woe is me guy’s house. I hate that she was on dating apps but I have no say, for now.
I broke every traffic law on my motorcycle to get there. Only to spend the next few hours on his living room couch in the dark. He left his bedroom door open and Alley has a loud voice as is, so I could hear the conversation. Let’s just say it was unoriginal, boring, and awkward at best. It’s when he started to make his generic moves, I was left listening to the most obnoxious fake orgasm in my life. The sad thing was the dude thought it was real. He even called a buddy afterwards to brag.
“He couldn’t have been that bad,” Marney laughs.
“Oh, he was.” Alley tries to regain her bearings. “I had to fake it based on his facial expressions because I couldn’t even feel it.”
God damn!
“ Did he have any redeemable qualities,” Marney asks.