Safe With Me

Chap. 25: That's Where We Put Everybody

• pig's eating •

             Elle's face is blank as the car doors slam shut. Her eyes look to the barn and pin of pigs outside. Happy shakes hands with a farmer, smiling at him.

                "This is all your fault." Alex says spitefully beside her, "This would have never happened if you'd just spread your legs and shut your mouth."

                 Alex gets out of the SUV, heading to the back of the vehicle. Brody opens her side of the SUV, giving her a soft smile.

                "Smile. Mr. Johnson and his wife, Laura are watching." Brody nods to her softly, "Come on."

                     Elle steps out and follows Brody to the back of the SUV. They pick up the buckets of chopped meat, walking to the pig pin. Elle tries to stretch a smile but she fails to do so. She looks to the pigs, which squeal as Alex pours the strange meat into their trough. Elle cringes at how the pigs fight for the meal, gobbling the food up. Brody clears his throat. The blonde looks to him sadly and then pouts her bucket of chopped meat into the trough. She nearly vomits at the thought of the meat being a person and then being alive not even so hours ago.

          Elle steps aside. Happy dumps his buckets into the trough, dumping one at a time. Brody then goes next. The guys all turn and nod to Mr. Johnson and his wife, Laura. They all put their buckets in the back of SUV before getting in.

           "They painted their house." Brody comments to Happy.

             "Yeah, like a sky blue." Happy nods, stretching a smile.

              Elle begins to feel nauseous as they begin to drive away. They all remain silent as they head back to the Snake Kings headquarters.

               "Did you put Dominique there too?" Elle says with tears in her eyes, her voice even.

             Brody stiffens at the mentioning of his former lovers name. Happy looks to his fiend and then to Elle in the rear view mirror.

       
           "Yeah." Alex answers, "That's where we put everybody."

              Elle closes her eyes briefly as tears roll down her cheeks. The blonde struggles to breathe.

              Jaelynn will never forgive me. Elle looks out the window at the sunset, sniffing. Will I ever forgive myself?

                Elle catches Brody looking at her in his mirror. She slowly nods to him before looking back out the window.

                 Elle wipes her tear stained cheeks. "Does it ever go away?"

                "No." Brody says softly, "Not really."

Hey readers! Sorry for the SUPER SHORT chapter. But I wanted to write this chapter so my readers won't ask what happened to Jake's body.