Rock Chick 07 Regret(185)

“Well? Are you?” I pushed.

Everyone stayed silent.

“Whatever,” I snapped and put my hands back to my hips. “Let’s play let’s make a fucking deal. All right?”

Cordell and Glover just kept looking at me like I was some unknown entity as yet undiscovered, not like I was someone who served them coffee on more than one occasion.

“I need clothes, nice ones,” I went on. “I’m not going on an international flight without good clothes. We’ll call my father. I’ll get the Caymans account info. We’ll all go on a trip. You can have it. All of it. Every penny. You just promise to let me go at the end of it and promise you won’t poison my father or hurt him in any way.”

Glover’s eyebrows shot up and Jerry pulled himself unsteadily to his feet.

“Sadie –” Jerry started.

“You, shut the fuck up. I’m tired of talking to you,” I clipped at Jerry then, apparently not tired of talking to him, I went on, “And by the way, you’re cute but you’re a crap kisser.” So stuck in my hissy fit, I was on a roll, I looked back at Cordell then at Glover, both of their eyebrows were at their hairlines after my “crap kisser” comment. I ignored this and kept right on talking, “I call my father, warn him about the poison so you assholes don’t kill him anyway, just to be assholes, and he gives me the account numbers.”

“What’s she talkin’ about?” Glover asked Cordell.

Cordell shrugged.

It was my turn to stare.

“What do you mean, what am I talking about? Jerry poisoned Harvey Balducci and told me if I didn’t sleep with him, he’d put that same special sauce on my father’s breakfast,” I informed Glover and Cordell.

They both turned to Jerry.

“Jerry?” Cordell called and something in the room made me snap right out of the hissy fit and start to pay attention. “I thought we were runnin’ an errand for Seth. Gettin’ Sadie out of a bad fix, gettin’ her free from Chavez. What the fuck is this?” Cordell asked, turning away from me and toward Jerry.

Jerry was looking pale.

Light, luckily, for me, was beginning to dawn.

“He was working with Donny Balducci,” I told Glover and Cordell.

Jerry’s eyes came to me. “Shut your fuckin’ mouth.”

Oh my.

I decided, since things seemed to be a bit confused and Cordell and Glover weren’t paying much attention to me, that I should start moving slowly toward the door.

So that’s what I did.

But I kept talking.

“The Caymans accounts,” I said to Jerry as it hit me. “The Balduccis wanted the money in those accounts. Revenge against my father. You were going to get your share, weren’t you?”

“Shut the fuck up!” Jerry shouted, starting to come toward me but Cordell and Glover moved, fencing him in, so he stopped.

“Mickey Balducci killed my mother,” I announced to the room. “My father avenged her death. The Balducci Brothers wanted retaliation. Jerry was working with them.”

Cordell and Glover didn’t move but Jerry’s eyes were locked on me and his face twisted with rage.

“You fuckin’ bitch,” he hissed and I kept moving slowly to the door but, for some bizarre reason, Jerry lost it, totally and completely and he kept talking. “I was Seth’s boy. Me. Then fuckin’ Chavez comes along and Seth thinks his shit don’t stink. ‘Hector this…’ and ‘Hector that…’ like he fuckin’ walked on water. Everyone knew, once Bernie left and Seth settled on his new boy, that new boy would get you. Everyone. We all worked on it, we all wanted it. We knew the only one Seth would trust with you, the only one Seth would trust to take care of you, was his boy. The one who’d take his place when he retired. That was me until fuckin’ Chavez came along.”

I couldn’t help myself, his words shook me so much, I’d stopped and was staring at him, mouth open.

“Then Chavez fucked us,” Jerry snapped, his eyes moving to Cordell and Glover. “He fucked you too. Made Seth look the fool and he fucked us all.”

“Don’t know about you but I’m still gettin’ paid,” Glover returned.

“You dumb fuck, Seth isn’t eligible for parole for years, do you think –?” Jerry started but Cordell interrupted him.

“Yeah, and for those years he put you in charge, he made you his boy again and now you’ve fucked him. So, tell me Jerry, who’s the dumb fuck?”

Then Glover remarked, his voice full of disbelief, “Shit, Jerry, you roofied Sadie? Jeez, Seth’s gonna be pissed.”