Page 234 of Lau Ahi
“Ori, you for real?” Yacouba’s ass was pouting but he should’ve known that Asha was going to get whatever she needed from me.
I waved him off unbothered enjoying everyone seeing her work. “Spousal privilege, Couba. You should know how that goes.”
“Ori, don’t be rude to our guests.” Asha was chiding me as she reached over and began to cut off Theo’s ear.
Theo’s screams melded into his father’s and when I looked over the front of his sneaker was missing.
I turned to glare at him but Yacouba shrugged as he unscrewed the silencer off his gun. “You heard Asha. Don’t be rude. Share and share alike, Ori.” Yacouba affected a British accent as he chastised me and I couldn’t do shit but roll my eyes at his immature ass.
I turned back watching Asha plunge a knife into Theo’s shoulder as he screamed again.
“Now he has a hole to match his father’s.” She was grinning happily as she admired her handiwork.
“Wahine!” I spoke to her forcefully so that she would snap out of the bloodlust I could see her working herself into. Asha’s head snapped up and she blinked slowly before she let out a giggle and pulled her knife out of Theo’s shoulder.
“Apologies. I get hyper-focused when I’m working.” She addressed the room apologetically the way she would do her students. My brothers seemed in awe watching her transform back to a posh princess brushing a stray curl off her forehead. She looked around for somewhere to put her knife since it couldn’t go back into her boots. She decided that James’ dick was the right location.
“FOCK! She’s gonna take off ‘is bollocks.” Liam sounded mildly sorry for James but that wouldn’t change shit. Even the worst of their wives would use guns, or insects like Frankie, and besides the Jerrica Merrick who liked fire, bullets weren’t messy. I’m sure watching my poised, protocol-following wife carve pieces off my uncle and cousin had them looking at her differently. Normally when they killed they weren’t that hands on but Asha wanted to know the deed was done.
“Liam, I assure you that the punishment I would face for getting anywhere near another man’s bollocks is not something I want. I just needed somewhere to put my knife. Since he was so fond of using that little thing to abuse women, it should feel some of their pain before he dies.”
“Are you done?”
“I am. Do your worst,kane.” She came to stand next to me because she knew what I had in mind. I kissed the top of her head tuning out the mutterings that I could hear going on behind us. All except for one.
“I told y’all. A mating ritual.”
My cousin’s cheek was still leaking blood, as was his toe and I knew he was fading fast. His father was just whimpering and my job right now was more clean-up than actual murders. Part of the penance I was happy to pay for the harm I’d caused my wife. I pressed the button as the large vat, which had been waiting on its time to shine was moved closer to where they were sitting until it was hovering in the perfect spot over their heads.
“Semira?”
“Yes,kane?” When she looked up at me with those eyes shining with the cathartic glee of violence shining in her eyes I contemplated allowing her to finish the job briefly.
“Do you remember how you told me you felt like you were the dragon lady?”
The brightness in her eyes dimmed slightly and I knew what was making her momentarily less enthusiastic. Our baby. One I would do my best to see returned to her even if I had to argue with all the gods of our ancestors to ensure their safe return.
“Of course. What does that have to do with anything?”
Wanting to bring the smile back to her face I wrapped my arms around her from behind.
“Do you remember what theKhaldid when the man who felt entitled to rule the Seven Kingdoms insulted hisKhalessi?”
A chorus of oh shits and damns sounded behind us as Asha turned around to look at me with joyful anticipation infused into every feature. My uncle and cousin were still wailing but it was now a dull background noise.
“I do.”
“Then know I have this handled for you.”
She took a step back but I held her hand because everything we would do moving forward would be together. From providing one another pleasure to murdering our enemies, past or future. I would always keep her with me.
Asha threaded her fingers through mine before we turned back for the controls.
“Y’all have tried and failed to take my spot. I know you were the ones who attempted to run me off the road. I could’ve almost respected it if my wife hadn’t been in the car with me. Then having some random try to blow my shit up? And insulting me by not hiring a professional? That’s the part that pissed me off most. Damn, put money on the table if you're serious about your business.”
“A spoiled rich kid wanting to talk to me about hard work. Business! You wanna sit here and talk to me about us like we ain’t shit. We been here while you were out there playing tin soldier.”
“I’m tired of hearing you talk. If you want your last words on earth to be about another man then so be it. James, you got anything to say?”
