Salient Secret

Chapter 37

Kai's pov

"Lorenzo where did dad go?" I ask my brother who has won yet another fight.

"I have no idea, he said he would meet us here," I sigh, I could be with Avery and Palmer now but noooo, I have to babysit my dad and my big brother. I walk back into the main area of the gym where everyone is clearing out because the fights are over for today, I can't see my dad anywhere.  I swear he does this more often than not, he wanders off like a 4 year old child at Disney land. 

"Uncle Arlo, have you seen my dad?"

"No not since his fight," he responds. Great. I decide to try him on his phone, no answer. I walk outside to see if maybe he just needed some fresh air, he is nowhere in sight. 

"Hahahaha," I'd recognize that laugh anywhere, it's Torez' laugh. I follow it to the alley near the gym and see Torez and Malachi holding my dad up against the wall while Gena tasers him. 

"Hey get the hell off of him!" I shout running towards my dad, Malachi tries to stop me but I punch him in his face and then knee him in his abdomen and he crumbles. 

"Oh come on baby we're just having some fun," Gena says trying to sound innocent. She tries to taser me but I stop her hand that's holding it right before it comes into contact with my rib cage, then I push her aside and she hits her head against the wall.  

"Oh so you're done playing nurse," Torez mocks dropping my dad who moans when he hits the ground. He then pulls a pocket knife and tries to cut me but I move back.

"What do you want with him?" I ask.

"It's always fun to torture a Grayson, you remember how it went with you right, or was it Lorenzo, no it was definitely your bitch mothe-" he pushed all the wrong buttons, I cut him off before he could even finish that sentence by slamming him against the wall, holding him there with my left hand and punching him repeatedly with my right one. After a few blows, I drop him and kick him in his stomach a few times to make sure he stays down. I turn my attention back to my dad.

"Hey, you're going to be okay let's go," I say helping him up, he is still twitching from the taser, which means they must have did it a few times to him, it takes all my strength not to go back and beat the shit out of all of them again, it's moments like these where being around professional fighters all the time comes in handy. I need to get him inside and make sure he is okay, being electrocuted after a fight that nearly concussed you can't be healthy. 

"Dad!" Lorenzo says rushing towards us with TJ as soon as we step into the warehouse.

"Who did this?" he asks after we lay him on the table, I notice there's blood all over his body, they didn't just shock him, they gave him a few cuts too. 

"Gena, Malachi and Torez," I reply.

"Those little shits are going to get what they deserve..." he says storming out of the warehouse with TJ, I leave them because they're probably gone by now. 

After an hour, Uncle Arlo offers to take him home, I've patched him up so he is all ready to go. I decide to follow them home because Lorenzo and TJ are still MIA, I need to make sure they come home tonight. We get to their house and my dad falls asleep the second his head hits the pillow, I can't blame him, I gave him pretty heavy medication for the pain. 

It takes about 2 more hours for Lorenzo to walk through the door, "Where the hell have you been?" Uncle Arlo says to TJ, 

"We had to make this right," TJ says just before Lorenzo walks in with Malachi over his shoulder like a sack of potatoes.

"What the fuck did you do ?" Uncle Arlo says grabbing TJ by his shirt. 

"And why would you bring him here??" I add.