Sold To the Grizzly Don (Alcee and Bruno) novel Chapter 88

Chapter 88

“You actually kill chickens?”

“Not anymore but I have. I prefer working in the doctor’s office than on the farm. I don’t even like eating eggs, let along collecting them.”

“Did you ever see Torq actually kill someone?”

Lorita nodded and looked away, “a few times but most recently it was a guy I was seeing.”

“He killed your boyfriend?” Amal was stunned, “I thought my father was strict.”

“He hit her.” Alcee held the twins‘ gaze with a pointed glance.

“Oh fuck no.” Amal grunted. “I mean, I took a lot of shit from a horrible potential mother–in–law, but no man would put their hands on me and live to tell the tale. My father would have made a big deal about killing him.”

“He shot him right in the head in front of me. Told me if I couldn’t do it myself, he would always protect me and do it for me.” Lorita whispered.

“What did this gay

da?”

“I accused him of cheating, and he smacked me around while he was drunk. He stayed drunk for a few days and when he showed back up to my apartment, he found Torq waiting for him. My mother called Torq to tell him. I was angry at Torg for killing him because I was sure he didn’t mean it, but Torq and Tito gave me shit for not having any self respect.”

“Look, I’m not saying the guy hitting you was okay,” Susana said quietly, “but what I will say is, it’s not your fault you thought he was going to regret his actions, or you might have deserved it. Men who hit women always find a way to make them feel it’s their fault or they are really sorry and will make it up to them. The number of women in our community who’ve cried at our mother’s kitchen table thinking it was the last time, or he didn’t mean it.” She shook her head, “let’s just say, it’s not uncommon for you to want to defend him, even after what he did.”

“You know,” Lorita said sadly. “I was angrier when I found out he actually was cheating than the fists he put to me? It was the cheating which pissed me off the most. He hit me because I accused him of it and dared to insult his integrity as a man and turned out, he’d actually been fucking the woman at the club in the bathroom and she wasn’t even the first one,” Lorita paused, “that night.”

“Oh snap,” Amal said. “Torq did you a favor.”

“A bit one but I still feel really badly. He was an asshole, but did he need to die?”

The resounding answer from all three women made Lorita giggle and then they all roared with laughter.

The sound of Torq’s office door opening made them all pause in their conversation as they made wide eyes at each other, and each sipped their glasses at the same time to stall their laughter and words,

“Why do you all look like you’re up to no good?” Tito asked as he came into the room with eyes narrowed and accusing.

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