screws loose, looked up from where he was still reading a book at the picnic table. “What?”
“Can you come here and read while making sure no one gets close to her?” Sin asked. “That way I can go save dumbass over there?”
“The fucking moron who started this all?” Deke asked. “How about you just let him die?”
A shiver ran through me.
Deke wasn’t all there.
Not in a ‘he has something wrong with his brain kind of way’ but in a ‘he has no fucking morals’ kind of way.
That was why he was in here.
Some asshole had thought it’d be funny to hurt his kid.
So what had Deke done? Deke had run over him with his car. Twice. Popped the douchebag’s head like a watermelon by running over it.
Then, when he got out and the guy was lying down on the ground, bleeding and broken, Deke had pulled his gun and shot him in the dick.
Though, granted, Deke had been kind of justified, which was why he’d only gotten ten years in here, and not life.
See, it came out in court that the same moronic motherfucker had tried to come onto Deke’s sixteen-year-old before, and Deke had told him to back off.
The guy obviously hadn’t taken the warning for what it was, and Deke hadn’t been playing around.
“What’s in it for me?” Deke went back to his book.
“The ‘good inmate’ thing that allows you to have macaroni…” Sin left it hanging.
Good inmates got special privileges. Like being able to buy Kraft Macaroni from the prison store and using a special lounge to cook it.
Deke really fucking liked that.
Then again, who didn’t like macaroni?
“Fine,” Deke grumbled as he unfolded his massive frame from the picnic table.
The table groaned as it was relieved of his weight, and it was only then that I saw the entire thing shift back to where all four legs rested on the ground instead of only three.
“Thanks, Deke.” Sin tossed me a look over his shoulder that clearly said ‘stay here.’
I stayed.
I wasn’t stupid.
I wasn’t going to get into a hundred men battling it out to the death.
There were no rules here.
But I also wasn’t going to be able to lie around and allow a fellow guard, inmate or not, to have his life taken away.
I moved slightly to the side when Deke stood directly in front of me and started to read again.
“If you stay behind me, nobody will see you, and I won’t have to do anything besides stand here. If you move, and people see a guard behind me, that means that they’ll come over here and engage. Which, I don’t want to do. I haven’t finished this book yet, and I’m on the last chapter,” Deke grumbled.
I sighed and moved a little farther back until he was covering me. Mostly. And then peeked around his arm again.
Sin was stalking across the courtyard, avoiding punches and kicks, looking like the utter badass that he was as he made his way toward Drummond.
Drummond was turning purple now, and the man on top of him was laughing.
Sin stopped when one guy flung himself into the path that Sin was making toward Drummond, with a shank the size of his arm in his hand.
Sin shook his head and held up his hands placatingly.
The man swung at Sin, but Sin did a complicated move that I never even saw coming.
One second he was standing, the next he was on the ground with a gasping fish face after Sin had all but punched him in the throat.
Sin stepped over him, picked up the shank, and kept walking.
This time, nobody stepped into his path. Maybe it was the really pissed off face that Sin was wearing, or the fact that he had a shiv. Whatever the reason, when he got to the man choking Drummond, all he did was place the crude plastic to the man’s throat and poke him.
The man dropped the shirt, which Sin then picked up and tossed over his shoulder casually, making me realize that it was his.
He gave one last look at the inmate who was quickly getting up off the guard and then reached unceremoniously for Drummond.
He had him by the collar of his flack vest and was dragging him our way when it happened.
Drummond seized the weapon in Sin’s hands and yanked it out of his hold, causing his entire hand to filet open.
Sin cursed and dropped him to the ground, kicking him away from him as he used the t-shirt in his hand to