tugging on the rope that would take him to the top. The fire was starting to
gain intensity, and he didn’t want to be holding flammable containers in his hand if a
spark should fly his way.
They had a hell of a time turning the truck and trailer around on the snow covered
icy road, but they had to leave because of the light from the fire blazing in the inky
darkness. If any citizens were around and about tonight, the light would be seen and
reported, and they wanted to be gone way before anyone showed up to investigate.
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Chapter Ten
It was a good thing that Mondays were slow and that they didn’t normal y open the
bar until four in the afternoon. River was dragging ass and Maisey wasn’t her usual
cheerful self either. The drive to the bar was treacherous, and unless the snow stopped
soon, they might be forced to stay in the back room for the night because by nine that
night, Mother Nature had dropped another six inches of snow and the bar was empty of
patrons.
River made the decision to close the place. “We’ve been dead all night, and the few
drinks that people bought won’t pay the electric bil for the day. Let’s close up shop and
try to make it home so we will have some extra time to pack and be gone by first light if
we want to be.”
Maisey looked around the empty room, “I’m going to miss it here. It’s the first place
that I’ve been in that I felt like a normal woman, you know? After al the years with
Wolfman, and then he started giving me to his brothers and friends, I felt like garbage.
Like it wouldn’t matter if I died, because I was already dead. A few of the brothers were
nice to me, but they felt sorry for me and I knew it.”
She looked at River and shrugged. “Did I tell you there was a young girl that Sea
brought into the club last Christmas? She was only fifteen years old, and they…” She
couldn’t go on talking about what had been done to the girl. “I saw them, and I
remembered how I felt when it first happened to me. I tried to get her to leave, but she
was scared. I found her in the shower with her wrists slit and that was the day I decided
to start killing them, the men. I got all of them but Zero, and he died with Wolfman, so
my ghosts are in harmony about what I’ve done.”
She stood and lifted the chair to place on the tabletop. “I never actually considered
that I would get away with it, I thought that one of them would wake up and kill me when
they realized what I was doing. It wouldn’t have mattered at the time. Now I have a
future and I’m not sure what to do with it. Crazy, right?”
River knew the feeling, she hadn’t actual y believed she would succeed in gaining
revenge for the deaths of her family members either. She had prepared for the real
possibility she would be killed when they realized she was the one causing the club so
many problems. The two of them had more in common than helping each other rid the
earth of the vermin that caused so much misery. They’d been ready to die to do it.
As Maisey said, “I have a future, and no idea what to do with it.” The words played
on her mind as they began shutting the place down, and locking the doors. River pulled
the folded envelope from her pocket just before they left through the backdoor, and set
it on the cash register. It was her resignation and an apology all in one. She hadn’t
elaborated on her reason for leaving, only that, It is time for me to go home . She
thanked them, and wished them every success in selling the property.
River was thankful for the four wheel drive in her old truck. She found that as long
as she took it no faster than ten miles an hour, the roads could be negotiated since her
truck was higher off the ground than a car would be.
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By the time they got to the rented trailer, her hands were shaking from gripping the
steering wheel. She had
gain intensity, and he didn’t want to be holding flammable containers in his hand if a
spark should fly his way.
They had a hell of a time turning the truck and trailer around on the snow covered
icy road, but they had to leave because of the light from the fire blazing in the inky
darkness. If any citizens were around and about tonight, the light would be seen and
reported, and they wanted to be gone way before anyone showed up to investigate.
JK Publishing, Inc.
Starting Over by Ryder Dane
Chapter Ten
It was a good thing that Mondays were slow and that they didn’t normal y open the
bar until four in the afternoon. River was dragging ass and Maisey wasn’t her usual
cheerful self either. The drive to the bar was treacherous, and unless the snow stopped
soon, they might be forced to stay in the back room for the night because by nine that
night, Mother Nature had dropped another six inches of snow and the bar was empty of
patrons.
River made the decision to close the place. “We’ve been dead all night, and the few
drinks that people bought won’t pay the electric bil for the day. Let’s close up shop and
try to make it home so we will have some extra time to pack and be gone by first light if
we want to be.”
Maisey looked around the empty room, “I’m going to miss it here. It’s the first place
that I’ve been in that I felt like a normal woman, you know? After al the years with
Wolfman, and then he started giving me to his brothers and friends, I felt like garbage.
Like it wouldn’t matter if I died, because I was already dead. A few of the brothers were
nice to me, but they felt sorry for me and I knew it.”
She looked at River and shrugged. “Did I tell you there was a young girl that Sea
brought into the club last Christmas? She was only fifteen years old, and they…” She
couldn’t go on talking about what had been done to the girl. “I saw them, and I
remembered how I felt when it first happened to me. I tried to get her to leave, but she
was scared. I found her in the shower with her wrists slit and that was the day I decided
to start killing them, the men. I got all of them but Zero, and he died with Wolfman, so
my ghosts are in harmony about what I’ve done.”
She stood and lifted the chair to place on the tabletop. “I never actually considered
that I would get away with it, I thought that one of them would wake up and kill me when
they realized what I was doing. It wouldn’t have mattered at the time. Now I have a
future and I’m not sure what to do with it. Crazy, right?”
River knew the feeling, she hadn’t actual y believed she would succeed in gaining
revenge for the deaths of her family members either. She had prepared for the real
possibility she would be killed when they realized she was the one causing the club so
many problems. The two of them had more in common than helping each other rid the
earth of the vermin that caused so much misery. They’d been ready to die to do it.
As Maisey said, “I have a future, and no idea what to do with it.” The words played
on her mind as they began shutting the place down, and locking the doors. River pulled
the folded envelope from her pocket just before they left through the backdoor, and set
it on the cash register. It was her resignation and an apology all in one. She hadn’t
elaborated on her reason for leaving, only that, It is time for me to go home . She
thanked them, and wished them every success in selling the property.
River was thankful for the four wheel drive in her old truck. She found that as long
as she took it no faster than ten miles an hour, the roads could be negotiated since her
truck was higher off the ground than a car would be.
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By the time they got to the rented trailer, her hands were shaking from gripping the
steering wheel. She had
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