'Money'

Chapter 50 - Sawyer

- What do want me to do? Money asks.
- I think you know that, i say. Kill Sawyer for me, show me how protective you are of what's yours.
- Do you really want your ex killed? Money asks.
- Why else do you think i sent him to join your gang, baby, i say.
- No, Money says. You kill him for me, show me that he really means nothing to you...
- How would you like me to do it, master? I ask him, submissive and on my knees before him.
- Gun, blade, poison, all the above, you pick your weapon, you could go with poison and a blade, make it look like he killed himself when he heard the woman he loved, was now married to his gangleader, Money says.
- Yes, master, i say in a fake sub tone. When does master want it done?
- Give me a couple weeks with him first, make him think he is really part of the gang while i lead him like a lamb to slaughter, Money says. What do you say we make him watch you enjoy a real man as he slowly dies before our eyes...
- That would serve him right for what he did to me, and he sure as hell wasnt a real man at all, i say.

A couple weeks later, our backyard.
- Tonight we'll off him, all clear? Money asks.
- All clear, i say.
- Alright, lets do this, Money says.

As i go alone to meet Sawyer, leaving Money in the car, he helps me put on a wire before i go.
- Hey Sawyer, it's been a minute, huh? I say.
- Jackie Smith, look at you, still as hot as when you were mine, he says. So what do you do these days? Still a cop?
- Na, got canned, helped someone escape from prison, i say. Jacob 'Money' Harlon, you're in his gang now, arent you?
- I am, yeah, he told me he got help from his wife, Sawyer says, now looking at me with something that looks like fear in his eyes. Are you that wife?
- I am, and the reason Im now talking to you is that he wanted me to check you out, see that you werent a rat before he really lets you in to the gang, i say.
- Im not a rat, i swear, Sawyer says.
- You know what Shotgun said before my son killed him? I ask.

"Shotgun" being a keyword for Money and the guys to get closer to me, to be my shield.
- How am i supposed to know what he said? Sawyer asks me.
- I'll ask you again, i say, now bringing forth my gun. Do you know what Shotgun told my son before my son killed him?
- That he was disappointed that Money had named Cash his second in command....Sawyer says.
- And what else? I ask.
- That the only reason he married your daughter was to get to you...Sawyer says, now nervous.
- And do you know what else he told my son when he was drunk? I ask.
- No, Sawyer says.
- That he had made a deal with you that the two of you would take turns with me after you had either put Money back in prison or killed him if that was what you had to do, i say, cocking the gun and aiming it at Sawyer.
- Jacks, no...i would never, Sawyer tries.
- You have no right to use that nickname, you havent had that right for many years, the only two men with the true right to call me Jacks is my brother Danny Jackson and my husband Jacob 'Money' Harlon, i say, the sound of their names bring forth my brother and my husband and they stand like two human walls on either side of me with Nick next to his uncle and Cash next to his father. Ah, here they are, along with my sons Nick Harlon and Jacob Harlon jr aka Cash.
- Watch and learn, boys, you already know how i kill, this is how your mother kills, her style is a bit different than mine, Money says. She likes to play with her prey before she goes in for the kill.

I take one shot, high above Sawyer's head, his smirk tells me all i need, he thinks i missed him, but i took the shot high on purpose, to see what the best angle would be for a killing shot.

The next shot is aimed half an inch above his right collarbone, boom, a perfect hit, directly in his collarbone. He grunts and curses at me, i lock eyes with Money for a second, he looks proud.

My third shot is aimed at the same distance above Sawyer's left collarbone, another perfect hit and i can hear Cash roar like a young male lion behind me, he wants in on the fun but his father, brother and uncle are all three holding him back.
- Not yet, us guys will get to play with the prey too, but not yet, your mother isnt done with him quite yet, Money says.
- Dad, i want to kill him, Cash complains.
- I know, my boy, i know, but we must be patient, we must wait, he wronged you and he wronged me, therefore it is your mother's right as the gangleader's wife and the mother of the gangleader's children, to get the first strike at anyone who harms me, you or your sibblings, thats the rules of the gang, the rules are the same in your gang, are they not? Money asks his son. If someone would have wronged her, it would have been our right to harm or kill whoever it was that had done it, we may be strong, but just like lionesses protect their males and cubs, and just like male lions protect their lionesses and cubs, your mother has done things to protect me and you kids that i never even thought were possible.
- Yes, dad, the rules are the same in my gang, and i understand now, when you explained it like that, i understand, Cash says.

I turn to my husband and sons.
- Have at him, now he's all yours, i say and watch them deliver the final blows to Sawyer.