to shut up while they cleared the room, leaving the handful of sick fucks with the Royal Bastards. He looked at the space that had recently held the poor victims, but now sported the ‘Daddies’ in the same positions, except for the Mayor and the Langley’s.
“You realize none of you are leaving here alive, don’t you?” Koyn asked in a casual manner.
“You can’t just kill us. He’s the mayor, I’m the sheriff.” The man puffed out his chest.
King hauled his arm back, punching the retired sheriff. “Does that look like I give a fuck who you are?”
“Dammit, you started without me?” Dragon strolled in, looked at the group then went to the one who had yelled earlier. “What’s your story? You get taken off the street as a kid and fucked up so much you got Stockholm Syndrome?”
The guy turned his face away, refusing to answer. Dragon shrugged. “Don’t matter to me. The fact is, you are now doing that very thing to innocent people, which makes you enemy number one.”
When Dragon pulled a wicked looking knife out, the room gasped, all but the Royal Bastards.
“Oh, now the party is getting started.” Katana rubbed his hands together.
“They’ve even got a big old fireplace. Perfect for burning the bodies when we finish.” Traeger came around with some ropes in his hands.
“What’s that for?” Duke asked.
“I like to play with rope when I’m bored. I found these in one of the rooms back there when I was checking to see if the place was empty. I loaded their computers into the vehicle so you can do that thing you do?” He wiggled his fingers like he was typing.
Keys nodded. “Oh Gramps, just to let you know, your grown-up Little Thomas, he’s dead.” Keys took out a knife, tossed it in the air and caught it. “Damnedest thing, you know. He came outta nowhere, scared the shit right out of me. I think he fell on my knife, right here.” He pointed at his forehead. He didn’t really scare Keys, but it sounded good when he was telling Coker the story. He watched the way his words hit their mark.
“You killed my Thomas?” Mayor Coker asked, jumping to his feet much spritelier than he’d thought the old bastard would be able to.
None of them had thought to restrain the old man or check him for weapons. Keys, holding the throwing knife watched Palmer’s grandfather reach for a gun inside his jacket. He didn’t let his relation to Palmer stop him from releasing the knife, knowing he’d have to face Palmer afterward. A bullet rang out, creating a huge hole in the middle of his forehead. The man who should’ve been good but was evil to his core wouldn’t be hurting anyone again. Keys knife hit a second later, but Mayor Coker was already dead.
“What the hell did you shoot him with?” Keys asked, looking at Dragon then at the Mayor, who was bleeding all over the floor with a wound the size of his fist.
Dragon shrugged. “Illegal shit. Who’s next?”
The two Langley boys began to wake up. Keys went over, need for vengeance and retribution filling him.
“Leave my boys alone.” Claire yelled.
“Got it.” Katana moved faster than Keys could track, slicing her throat before Keys could ask what he’d planned.
He waited to feel remorse, but none hit. Every single person in this home had tortured and took pleasure in it. He didn’t even know the exact scope of their deeds, but the fact Koyn had brought his MC brothers up from Tulsa, left his pregnant ole lady home, called King and his MC brothers in California was telling. With Bermuda and Copper along with Koyn digging into all the ‘Daddy’s’ records, they went deep making sure they had enough dirt to destroy all the motherfuckers in the woods, to where no questions would be asked.
Katana fucked up one of the Langley’s, almost to the point Keys knew it wouldn’t be any fun to do anything other than end his miserable life. “Dragon, can I borrow your gun?”
“Ain’t you got one of your own?” Dragon asked, coming to stand by him.
“Yeah, but I wanted to see what he looked like with a bigger hole in him.”
Blaire and Blaine tried to roll away, the zip ties preventing them from doing anything more than look like idiots flopping around.
“Got it,” Katana called from across the room.
Duke yelled a no, but Keys knew there was no stopping the man.
He and Dragon took a collective step back, watching