Darin: The Pride of the Double Deuce - Erotic Paranormal Shapeshifter Romance by Kathi S. Barton

Douglas family. Nash thought he was going to enjoy killing them. And when he found Mer, he was going to kill that fucking brat of hers too while she watched him.
    Dealing in drugs the way he had, among other things, Nash had a pretty good understanding of the shit that was in the office. Taking what he thought might help him with the pain, he had Rocky torch the place. The body would still be found, but it would take them longer to not only figure out who it was but also how he’d been killed. Nash had a feeling that time was running out for them to get in and out of this town. There were just too many good guys waiting around to try and take him out. And those Douglas people were going to wish they’d never heard of Mer Crosby. He certainly did.
    “Why do you want her so much? I mean, really? What is she but a woman that hates you as much as you do her?” Nash had just popped several of the pain killers or he might have been pissed enough to hit Rocky. If nothing else, tell him to fuck off. “I mean, you’ve had other women that left you. Even a wife or two. Why haven’t you just killed her off and been done with her?”
    “She thinks she’s better than me. And even with a fucking gun to her head she said no to me. It wasn’t until I had it pointed at her daddy did she say yes when she was supposed to. And she lied to me.” Rocky said all women lie. “Yes, but this was when she said she’d love, honor, and obey me.”
    “Seriously? That’s it? You’re going to hold her to a promise that you made her give you with a gun to her head? That’s fucked up, Nash, even for you.” Nash smiled. “Really? What are you doing with her?”
    “It is, isn’t it? And anything I fucking want. She belongs to me until I say differently.” He was beginning to mellow out and smiled. “Really, it’s because despite the fact that I hurt her, dragged her through the mud and back, she never gave me what I wanted most. She never feared me. She might have been pissed about what I did to her, but she was never really fearful of me. And that is what it’s all about. I want to earn her fear.”
    “I’m pretty sure you scared the shit out of her when you tried to take the brat from her.” The drugs were giving him a nice buzz now, and he wanted to enjoy that in silence. But Rocky wasn’t quitting. “Nash, what are you going to do to her when you get her this time? I hope you know that she’s not going to be easy unless you kill that kid.”
    “I’m going to. While she watches. And when the brat is dead and cold, I’m going to kill Mer. But not quickly. I want her to know just what sort of monster she was married to.” Rocky said he was pretty sure she knew that. “Yes, but I want her to say it back to me. Tell me that I’m a fucking monster. I want to hear it from her own lips.”
    He let the good buzz from the drugs take him under. Nash wasn’t worried that he was in a car without his gun. There was a good chance that he’d not be able to lift it up even if he were to be under attack. But he knew that Rocky would make sure that he was safe. And that was what he liked the best about the man. He was loyal and reliable. Things he didn’t ever get from women.
    When he woke, he was in a bed. Nash looked at the soft cast on his arm and smiled. Rocky was going to get a bonus for this trip. The man had gone above and beyond his normal duties. As Nash lay there thinking about the fucking bitch of a wife, something else occurred to him that he’d forgotten to put on his list. She’d lied to him about her daddy.
    He remembered her telling him that he’d died of a heart attack before the brat had been born. He had slapped her that day, knocked her to the floor. And when she didn’t even shed a tear for what he’d done to her, he asked her where Daddy dearest was.
    “I told you, he died.” She might have, he remembered thinking. But since he rarely if ever listened to her, he hadn’t known. “He’s been gone for three