Whiskey Smash by Jen Talty

Author:Jen Talty [Talty, Jen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Jupiter Press
Published: 2021-03-30T04:00:00+00:00

7

It had been eight years since Sawyer laid eyes on his father’s mother.

Sawyer thought his father was bad news, but his grandmother was a different brand of trouble.

His father was the kind of evil that couldn’t be fixed or reasoned with. His father had no excuses for his actions because his father was a broken man. His father in some ways had been a victim and a product of a hellish environment created from the kind of power that fostered greed and bred criminals who had no remorse. No boundaries.

MacKenzie cared about one thing and one thing only.

And that was holding on to her power and that meant providing a legacy and since Sawyer had literally killed the next in line, MacKenzie had lost some credibility. If she couldn’t control her own family, who could she control.

So she got rid of them. That was the deal and Sawyer was happy to walk away from that world.

Of course, MacKenzie always held strings, but Sawyer wasn’t having it. He wanted a clean slate. The law had given him a second chance and he wasn’t going to blow it.

But he wasn’t going to let his fucking grandmother ruin anyone else’s life.

“How is MacKenzie your grandmother?” Kevin asked as he strolled to the other side of the yard, snagging another beer. He held up a second one. “There was nothing about her in all the news articles about you. The names aren’t even right.”

“Here’s a short history lesson.” Sawyer met Kevin halfway and pointed toward the house. “I think our time is very limited.”

Kevin nodded.

“My grandmother had a small pot growing business. As she moved up the ranks in the crime world, she changed her name, but just when dealing with drug dealers. She thought it would help keep her family life and her crime life from colliding. After my grandpa died, she just didn’t care anymore. I think she did it to protect him.”

“When was that?”

“About five years before I killed my old man.”

“I’ve only known MacKenzie for the last year and a half, so I don’t know anything about her family. Fill in the blanks about your dad and where he was in her organization,” Kevin said.

“He wasn’t. My dad was a bit of disappointment in that sense when it came to my grandmother. So, when my dad beat the crap out of my mom, killing her, and then I in turn killed him, my grandmother thought I was going to be her next in line. She thought she’d be able to groom me.”

“Did she say that to you?”

“The arresting officer was one of her men and she was the first person I saw after I was taken into custody.”

“Fuck. That’s crazy,” Kevin said, twisting off the beer cap and taking a long swig. “What happened?”

“Long story short, she tried to muscle me into being her muscle. I told her no way, that I’d rather die. She told me if I didn’t do what she wanted, I’d spend the rest of my life in prison for killing her son.

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