“’Law?” CJ asked in a trembling voice, staring at his father with fear.
Outlaw deflated and drew in a sharp breath, the pulse in his neck pounding harder. “Son, I ain’t ever fuckin’ told you to keep any-fuckin-thing from your Ma and my ass hatin’ to do it now. But don’t tell Megan nothin’ you fuckin’ heard today. Okay?”
“Okay, ‘Law.” He was quiet and then, “Why?”
“Cuz…cuz it’ll make your ma sad and we ain’t wantin’ her to cry, is we?”
“No, ‘Law.”
Outlaw bared his teeth, attempting a smile. “Okay, boy. Diesel, take CJ and get him something to eat.”
“Yes, sir,” Diesel said.
“You okay?” Cash asked once Diesel and CJ were gone.
“As soon as I fuckin’ kill Kendall, I’ma be fine.”
“I have no love lost for her but I know you don’t really intend to kill her,” Cash said.
“The fuck I don’t. This time that cunt gone too far. She pissed over Charlotte and Brooks, instead of thankin’ me—Megan—that those two fuckheads alive, she wanna get fuckin’ revenge, so she goin’ after her favorite fuckin’ target. My girl. Kendall hate Megan so fuckin’ much, she made my boy cry. Cry. And she made me tell him to do some-fuckin-thing I never want him to do. Lie to Megan. I ain’t sure what I gotta kill her first over.”
Cash swallowed, wondering where Fee fit into all of this. He hoped the other stuff took precedence over confronting her. Cash needed to warn her that Kendall had betrayed her, after all. “You can only kill Kendall once, brother.” Unfortunately.
“I can fuck her up in degrees,” Outlaw snarled. “Keep revivin’ her ‘til I chop her fuckin’ head off.”
“That’s John Boy’s old lady, Prez,” Mort said into the deathly silence.
“She fucked with Megan and my boy. If that bitch wanna fuck over her kid and Johnnie ain’t givin’ a fuck, that’s them. How-fuckin-ever, her death would be their fuckin’ salvation. She fuckin’ up all of them.”
“She’s pregnant,” Cash said.
Outlaw paused, a muscle ticking in his jaw. As if the world were suddenly turning against Kendall for all her many fuck-ups, Meggie rushed in, a shell-shocked look in her eyes.
“Where’s Kendall? I need to talk to her…CJ’s crying because of her.” Panic entered her eyes. “He said Kendall told him…”
“What the fuck our boy say happened, baby?”
Her chin wobbled. “I k-killed Traveler and…and Mama. I’m a murderer two times. What did he mean?”
“Meggie girl,” Mortician started, halting at Outlaw’s glower.
“What did CJ mean?” Meggie grabbed her head and released a small sob. “No, I-I know what he meant about Traveler. I-I killed him. My bullet took his life. Not yours.”
“Megan, baby, listen to me, I ain’t sure why Kendall sayin’ that bullshit but she just fuckin’ with you. Me, Mort, Val, and Digger was all there. We all looked at that motherfucker. I killed him. Your conscience clear. You just disabled him and saved me.”
Swiping the back of her hand across her cheeks, she nodded. “But Kendall has said this several times, Christopher. Even Stretch implied it. For her to say the same to CJ…”
“Don’t mean fuck-all,” Outlaw snapped. “You trust me for every fucking thing else, why the fuck my ass gonna lie to you about this? I woulda told you you shot that motherfucker ass off to save my ass. I woulda reminded you, if you fuckin’ hadn’t, I’d be fuckin’ deader than fuck. My head woulda got blown the fuck off. I woulda asked you why the fuck you cryin’ over killin’ a motherfucker who meant to kill me, even though I know your first kill fuck with you the rest of your fuckin’ life. Something about knowin’ what the fuck you done and maybe something else coulda been done, so you wouldn’t become a goddamn executioner. But none of that the case, baby.” Jaw clenched, he looked at Megan again. “I swear on Ma grave, your conscience clear.”
“And Mama? H-how did I kill her?”
“That just go to show you, that cunt fuckin’ with you, yeah? You wasn’t even at the clubhouse when Dinah got fucked up.”
She thought for a moment. “This is going to be another long pregnancy with Kendall, huh?” she asked in a shaky voice.
“Shit gonna be fine,” Outlaw swore. “Trust me. Now,” he said when she opened her mouth to speak. “I’ma send these motherfuckers home with their bitches and I’ma have Bunny watch our kids, so me and you can fuck. Okay, baby?”