Business and Pleasure (Book 1)

Chapter 56- Andy

The shot rang out and I looked down at my body but he didn't shoot me, besides me Dante dropped to his knees grunting in pain.

"Dante." I dropped beside him, running my hand over his chest, I couldn't keep my damn hands from shaking. His chest wasn't hit. I looked down to his thigh where I saw blood gushing out. I immediately put pressure on the wound and Dante cried out.

"It's going to be okay babe." I told him, he looked at me his body already drenched in sweat. The tears were pouring down his face freely.

"Fuck Andy. It hurts." He gasped out. The pain and desperation on his face made me want to scream.

"Enough, I've been here too long. Standup Andy or the next shot will be a bit more fatal." Weldon said waving the gun around. He wasn't afraid to use it.

"Please he losing a lot of blood." I begged desperately. He shrugged.

"Either you do what I say or I'll kill him. The faster you do what I say, the better chance you have of saving your precious Dante." He bit out. I stood hesitantly removing my hands from Dante's leg. I stared down at all the blood on my hands, I couldn't get them to stop shaking. At first Parker and Kennedy were who I was worried about but now Dante was injured and I couldn't do any to save him until this threat was neutralized.

"What do you want me to do?" I asked looking up at him.

"Why not me Andy?" He asked his voice trembling a little.

"What?"

"You picked Dante and Parker and even now Kennedy. Why not me?" I looked down at Dante who even through the pain looked just as confused as me.

"We've been together for years." I told him.

He lowered his gun slightly "What?" A looks of confusion crossing his face.

"We've been in a Relationship since college, Dante, Parker and I. 15 years." I said my voice shaking.

"I thought, wait. No, no no. Y'all showed no signs of it." He said in frustration.

"For a reason. Maddie told me I needed to be open to the partners but I refused. Then you found out about Parker and started harassing him." I said

"Fucking shut your mouth. I was not harassing him, I wanted him for myself. I always did and then I thought he chose you over me and I was upset." He said, his last words coming out softly. I snuck a look at Dante. He was extremely pale. I needed to end the situation to get Dante help.

"Andy." It was Parker's voice, Weldon spun around am his gun in that direction and taking a wild shot. Parker was leaning against the doorframe and the bullet hit the wall next to him. "Fuck." He dropped to the ground.

"Parker."  Dante cried out trying to stand but failing. My heart was pounding in my chest. He almost hit Parker.

"Fuck, Parker how are you awake right now? I'm sorry I didn't mean to shoot at you." Weldon said rushing over to him. Parker seemed too groggy to comprehend who was standing in front of him.

"If you hurt him I'll kill you." Dante growled. He looked too weak to hurt a fly. Parker's shook his head and blinked a few times. He looked up into Weldon's face and paled.

I took a step towards them but Weldon was aware and pointed the gun at Parkers head.

"Andy, take another step and I'll give Parker the next bullet." I froze.

"Weldon, what are you doing? This isn't you." Parker murmured reaching up to softly wrap his hands around Weldon's wrist.

"Parks." Dante whispered again trying to get up. Parker's eyes searched do Dante's voice, he had a hard time focusing. When he finally found Dante his eyes widened and tears sprung to his eyes.

"You shot him." He tone was accusatory as he looked back at Weldon. He pushed Weldon's hands down so that he wasn't pointing the gun at his head.

"I just didn't want to get beat up again. I need to get you and Kennedy out of here without being stopped." Weldon said couching down in front of Parker. Fear shot through me, I didn't want Parker to say anything to Weldon that would set him off. Parker's eyes flicked to me the speed showed my that the drug was wearing off more.

"Where are we going?" Parker asked slowly.

"I have a place in the Cayman Islands. We'd be safe and comfortable. And after today we wouldn't want for anything." Weldon said reaching up and stroking the side of Parker's face. Parker flinched at the touch and anger coursed thru me. I wanted to tackle that man and beat the living daylights out of him for hurting my family. I looked back at Dante and had to look again. He broke the zip tie around his wrist but was holding them behind his back.

"Why after today?" Parker asked his voice shaking. Weldon stood and turned back to me pointing the gun in my direction.

"Because Andy is going to wire 10 million dollars into my offshore account. If he doesn't I'll kill Dante, if that bullet doesn't kill him first." He reached into his pocket and pulled out a cell phone then slid it across the ground to me. Parker whimpered at the movement before Weldon was so wild with the gun swinging around. I looked at Dante he was still pale but he also looked pissed off. I think his adrenaline was starting to kick in even though he was kneeling in a pool of blood. The trickle seemed to be slowing and I was praying his body clotted well.

I bent slowly and picked up the phone. "Don't do anything stupid. You can't call out the only thing you can do is use the wire transfer program on the phone." Weldon warned. "If you attempt to do something stupid I will shoot Dante in the gut so that he suffers before he dies." Parker started to cry silently behind Weldon, I could tell by the way he was sitting he was still weak. I hoped Kennedy stayed down until this was over. This sight would not be good for her.

I opened the phone. "My bank will not let me transfer large sums of money electronically without verification. They will call if I transfer anything over 100,000 in a 24 hour period." I told him calmly.

"DON'T FUCKING LIE TO ME." Weldon yelled, he shot at the floor in front of Dante, so close that I though he hit him. Parker cried out crying harder.

"Please Weldon. I'm not lying. I swear." I told him taking a few steps closer to Dante. Who I saw shifting in my peripheral vision. Weldon's eyes flickered to Dante then back to me.

"I swear if you lie to me I'll kill him." Weldon said. "Parker, stop crying and go get Andy's phone. If you do anything stupid I'm going to shoot Dante in the head." Parker whimpered and shakily got to his feet. He slowly walked towards me the fear in his eyes made me feel sick. I needed to do something once he was out of sight.

I turned my head as I watched him go into the room, then looked down at Dante who gave me the smallest nod. The mouthed "Duck." I dropped to the floor as he rolled. Sliding behind the counter and out of sight.

Weldon yelled and shot the island after him in rapid succession. 3 shots, his gun was small and didn't look like it could hold more than 9. We were taking a chance. I scrambled to my feet in time to see Dante barreling towards Weldon.

"Dante no." I yelled but it was too late. Weldon spun towards Dante's approaching form and aimed as a ear piercing scream filled the room.