Man of Steel(31)

“You shut the fuck up.”

“I’m not one of your boys.” He did the air quotes deal and kept mouthing off. “You can’t tell me what to do.”

I just walked over and throat punched the fucker. “Educated idiot.”

He choked out and his legs started kicking like he was going into shock or some shit. I figure that was better than letting Deke cap his ass, which I was pretty sure would’ve been next.

“There ought to be a law.”

“What law is that boss?”

“Where you can shoot a motherfucker for being stupid. There are entirely too many scholastic institutions in this fucking country for people to be that fucking dumb.”

By the time dickhead got his shit together and crawled away with his tail between his legs Jake was making an appearance from the other side. “You better hope you didn’t do any damage to Jake’s house or it’ll be your ass.”

“Nah Jake’s cool besides he’ll agree with me. maybe I should tell him what that fucker did.”

“No you will not. There’re women and children here they don’t need to witness any bloodshed for fuck sake.” If there was one thing I knew from the years that I’ve known Jake and his family it’s that he’s very protective of the women and children. Somehow this woman and her son had become part of that unit. There’s no telling what the fuck he’d do to this guy, deserving or not.

He finally made it over to us. “I saw you spear chucking the asshole what was that about?”

It was nothing he was just mouthing off.

About what

Fucker's mouth barely moves but his eyes don't miss shit.

“It was nothing, just a little misunderstanding.” Jake cocked his brow in his ‘I eat fuckwits for breakfast’ way. Deke smirked at me like he had me and came within two minutes of feeling my boot in his ass

“Jake looks like your kid is trying to see how your grill really works.”

His head snapped around and he was moving "Where the hell is his mother? Fucking kid.”

Tell me about it.

I turned back to my own problem child but was waylaid by my daughter’s scream of excitement. The little ball of energy came flying towards us at top speed.

“Dee, Dee, Dee.” what the fuck?

She made a beeline for her boy, hands up ponytails flying and the biggest grin on her face. He on the other hand had knelt down and opened his arms for her. His smile was almost as big as hers as she kissed his cheeks and gabbed away before turning to me.

“Daddy.”

“Oh so you noticed me did you?”

She reached and I took her not the least bit put out that she'd gone to her big brother first. It was always jolting seeing those two together. Deke was as hard as they come but he'd come a long way from the menacing boy I'd put away years ago. Seeing him so loving and tender with my kid did something to me every time.

When she grew tired of us she climbed down and ran off to find her friends. “You’re good with her Deke. When are you planning to settle down and start one of your own?” I was just fucking with him because I knew his mind was nowhere near that shit, but his answer threw me.

“I’m thinking about it.” I followed his gaze to Jake’s tenant. Fuck!

“Deke, you fuck with that and Jake will have your ass boy.” He laughed it off and clapped my shoulder as he walked away but I wasn’t convinced. “It’s just a thought boss, just a thought.”

Shit.





I’d told Donna not to bring Steph until a little later in the afternoon. I figured by then any shit that could go south would be over and done with. She was a little skittish when she first showed up which was understandable, until she saw that all her boys were here. I hadn’t told the other crews about her they weren’t one of us yet and it was none of their business, but it would be good to see how they interacted with the kids.

She took a minute to warm up but the other kids soon had her running and jumping like the nine year old she was. Her mom was being cosseted by the sisters and all in all it was a good break for the two of them. My guys were on high alert and without being too obvious Jake’s men and mine were patrolling the perimeter. There was always the threat of one of Dwayne’s asshole pals showing up here and instead of shrugging that shit off and thinking no way, I decided to be cautious.

I watched the other MCs as they milled around and got acquainted, sussing them out I guess you can say. Slash made his way to me about ten minutes later. “She one of yours?” He nodded his head in Stephanie’s direction.

“Yep.” That was all the fuck he was gonna get outta me until I knew where he was going with this.