Bishop by Ashleigh Jameson

Author:Ashleigh Jameson [Jameson, Ashleigh]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-06-14T16:00:00+00:00

13

Rykard

“Yo, what was so important that you dragged me out here in the middle of the night?” Jax asks, yawning as I let him into my flat.

He saunters over to the coffee table, topping my glass up from the nearly empty bottle of bourbon.

I still feel shitty about sneaking away from Lorraine’s place, but if I stayed I would have started smashing up the place.

Jax’s eyes scan the room now, taking in the upturned arm chair, broken glass on the floor from where I smashed a crystal decanter against the wall, and an ugly hole in the plaster from where my fist went through.

“What happened?” He asks.

“I got a call from one of Chen’s boys tonight.” I dust the plaster dust off my bruised fist. ”They’ve been watching us. Me.”

“And this surprised you?”

“Not particularly. Its what they said after that pissed me off.” God damn it. Every time. Every fucking time. You’d think I would have learnt my lesson after the first time.

Jax walks closer, stepping over the remains of my decanter, and hands me my glass.

“Drink.”

I take a hefty gulp, focusing on breathing deeply. Trying to regain my composure as rage simmers inside. The need to maim and kill slowly rearing its face.

“They threatened me. Which I’m fine with, my life revolves around that shit.” I say.

“But that’s not all they did, is it?” Jax asks, stopping in front of a framed picture from Ellie’s surprise 28th birthday party. It’s a photo of her shocked face when she entered the house. “You don’t respond to threats made against you. You couldn’t care less about them. So what did they threaten you with?”

“The Greenhouse.”

“And?”

Here it comes. I suppose I have to tell him at some point.

“Besides telling me they’re going to burn the bar to the ground, they told me how they’ve been watching me and Lorraine.” I ball my fists up again. “I’ve been spending time with her recently.”

Jax looks back at me, signalling me to continue.

“They want to make her suffer. Said they’ll grab her, and make her death slow. Painful. For revenge.” As I speak the words, my old friend resurfaces inside me. I’d kept him at bay with the drinking. Turning off my thoughts. But that isn’t working tonight. The rage begins consuming me, and I’m surprised the glass hasn’t shattered yet in my grip.

“What do you want us to do, Ryk?”

“War. This has gone on long enough Jax. First they hit us. Then we retaliate. They go into hiding, then launch another attack. This fucking cycle repeats itself again and again. How long are we going to keep this up?” I ask, “We have an unwritten truce with the other families in London. The Russians, Japanese, Italians, we all get along. Focus on the money, reduce the bloodshed. These fucking Triads, though. They want it all. And frankly, I’ve had enough.”

“Yea, you and me both brother. But we can’t go to war with them.”

His words pierce through me like an ice dagger. Jax knows I’d lay down my life for him with a smile on my face.

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