“So, will you help me? Or do I slit your throat and send you to hell where Rebel will soonjoin you?”
During the Harley drama, Tabitha texted Johnnie and asked him to meet her in Megan’s rose garden. As her uncle-in-law, he decided to humor her. A few minutes after Bailey ran out, Diesel walked in with no explanation as to his absence.
At the sight of her husband, Tabitha scurried away, while Harley begged Mort to allow her back home. Uninterested in the back and forth, Johnnie made his own escape. He’d expected to find Tabitha waiting for him. Instead, the rose garden was silent and empty.
He had no idea how Christopher situated an outside garden amid a hallway, home gym, and natatorium, but that’s exactly what he did for Megan.
The roses weren’t in bloom, but the area was still charming with its benches, swings, and lamp posts.
“Uncle Johnnie,” Tabitha cooed.
Ignoring the stone ashtray, Johnnie tossed his cigarette on the ground then turned. She wore a belted sweater dress with color blocked sleeves and a silk scarf around her neck. Her diamond jewelry sparkled. If she knew about the colored diamonds, Diesel would’ve had to pay up, too. Every time Johnnie saw her, she was in a sweater dress, and he wondered if she owned any other clothing.
She sashayed to him, her hips swinging, her tits bouncing.
Johnnie narrowed his eyes. “What do you want? I’m sure you’re not wasting my fucking time by trying to throw pussy at me.”
“I have very good pussy,” she said. “Why wouldn’t you want to stick your cock in young quim instead of—”
“Enough. You will respect my wife.” He had a lesson to teach Kendall, but she washiswoman. He could do whatever he pleased to her. On the other hand, he wondered if she was finally coming around to his side. She’d thrown digs at Megan just as he’d asked her to do two and a half weeks ago during their vacation. “You have two seconds to tell me what you want or I’m fucking leaving.”
“Fine. Convince Aunt Meggie to take a vacation and go to my friend’s cabin.”
Johnnie thought about Rory’s warning from a few weeks ago.Oneof his son’s warnings. Tabitha must have nefarious intentions if she repeatedly asked to persuade Megan to go to a secluded spot. WassheBash’s plant?
Possibly. He wouldn’t expect anyone to figure out a bitch so obvious.
Bash had called Johnnie stupid at their last meeting, which just proved how ignorantthatmotherfucker was. Johnnie had the brains to wipe all evidence of Megan’s naked photo. He had the wits to see that it not only never happened again but Christopher never found out.
“Do you think she’ll go if you talk to her?”
Tabitha and her fucking insistence Megan take a vacation annoyed Johnnie, considering his recent conversation with Bash. “Why? What do you have planned?”
“Nothing. I swear! Haven’t you seen how rundown and worn out she looks? My God, the woman’s aged twenty years in a matter of weeks.”
If only. “You look older than she does,” Johnnie barked.
Tabitha glowered at him. It only made her uglier. Shemusthave good pussy. Otherwise, he couldn’timagine what attracted Diesel to her. Certainly not personality. Hers stank.
“I never said she wasn’t pretty!”
A part of him waited for Megan’s beauty to fade. But she only grew more stunning. More confident. Justmore.
Until Christopher pointed out that it took Megan over a decade to catch up to the ages they were when he and Johnnie met her, it never occurred to him just howyoungshe’d been.
“Let’s try this one more time, Tabitha. What the fuck do you really want?”
“Just to help her! I swear. Sometimes, I think Diesel hates me because she doesn’t like me. If I do something nice for her and get on her good side, he might…he might…” Her lower lip trembled and she sniffled, her nose reddening. “He might l-love me.”
She sounded pathetically pitiful. Johnnie softened. He knew how much unrequited love hurt.
“Rebel hates me,” she continued, drawing Johnnie to her side a little more. “She’s a dirty little spiteful cunt. She fucks Diesel and they make me watch!”
“What?”
“But I’m sure that doesn’t matter to you since it wasRebelwho took Mattie to meet Eric and Billy. Mattie’s a sweet girl and that wretched slut influenced her. Diesel is so pussy crazy behind her, he doesn’t care that he can go to jail!”
“Or that Christopher will kill him.”
