All In - Soul Seductors Part I - An alpha bad boy paranormal romance - XXL Teaser (3 page)

Of course, the idiot opens it to
o. Probably thought Maria Maria was
coming back for seconds. He’s a big enough man. Broad shoulders,
muscular. Not enough to say he spends day in day out at the fucking
gym but enough to determine that he keeps himself in
shape.

“
What’s that all about?” Maria Maria asks, taking Zorn’s place
in the front seat.

“
The idiot says he needs a manicure.”

“
A manicure?” She looks to me and then to Zorn, her mouth
falling into an O as she watches him land fist after fist on the
Pastor’s jaw. “Stop him!” she screams, attempting to open the
door.

I pull her back. “He’s not gonna hurt him too bad. Best you
just sit down and take it as him fighting for your
honour.”

“
Some messed up group of friends you are,” she shakes her
head.

“
Hey, we’re more like family,” I smile, resting my hand on
hers, “and you’re one of us now. One big messed up
family.”

The Pastor’s body is flush against the front wall of his
house, his t-shirt fisted in Zorn’s hand. There’s fear written all
over his face. Fear and anger. He doesn’t fight back though. Not
saying he’d be able to whip Zorn’s ass but judging by his size and
the shit I know he used to be up to in the past, he’d at least be
able to get a couple punches in if he tried.

Zorn cocks his head to the right and smiles at me. I shake
my head disapprovingly. He sends a final punch sailing into the
man’s jaw. Bloody spit flies from his mouth sprinkling forward and
to the sides. His perfectly white walls are no longer white but now
wear hints of his own blood.

Before dropping the pastor, Zorn pulls the fucker higher up
on the wall, so they’re eye to eye and plants a fucking kiss on his
forehead. Fucking creepo!

“
Come on, man,” I call out to him.

Zorn says something to the pastor then turns around and
walks toward the car. His fucking shirt is covered in blood and a
part of me feels like driving the fuck off and leaving his ass
there.

The senseless beatings are part of Kraze’s ammo and at this
fucking point in time any memory of Kraze pisses me the hell
off.

“The fuck was that about?” I yell to Zorn as he comes
closer to the car.

“
Don’t be a puss, Hawke.”

I step out of the car, meet him face to face.

“
You better take that shit off. I don’t need no Pastor’s blood
holying up my car.”

He holds his t-shirt by the neck and rips it over his head,
tossing it on the Pastor’s lawn.

“
You look pissed, Hawke.”

“Well, yeah. We’re supposed to be making the girl feel
comfortable and you pull this shit. You’re not Kraze, dude. You
don’t get to fucking act like a maniac.”

Zorn pushes a hand against my chest, signalling for me to
calm down. I step into him, rejecting his gesture.

“Listen man, I followed this fucking case. Followed that
shit for what? Almost five fucking years. I was a kid back then and
my parents dragged me out of the house to help search for the
little boy. So you know, fuck me for getting a little sentimental
and shit but… the man deserved it. You said the same shit to Maria
Maria. Just ‘cos he done cleaned up his life don’t make him a good
person. Hell, Maria Maria walked into that bitch and he didn’t
think twice about sinking balls deep in her.”

“
Just shut the fuck up and get in,” I say, looking at Maria
Maria to make sure she wasn’t offended by Zorn’s last
statement.

“I don’t feel like a bad person,” she says when we’re both
back in the car.

“
Why not?” I ask, reaching over to pull her seat forward,
making more room for Zorn in the back.

“
He just didn’t feel good.”

Zorn and I both struggle to contain our laughter.

“
That’s not what I meant. God. You perverts.”

She slaps her hand against my arm. Over and over
again.

“
I meant that he didn’t feel like a good person. That, you
know, it just felt like he had some kind of evil still left in him.
Uggh. You idiots. Stop laughing.”

This was
the first time Zorn, Maria Maria and I laughed together.
Life threw us a fucked up situation but together we managed to let
some aspect of it tickle the hell out of us. It was the night Maria
Maria really became one of us. I remember the fucking joy I felt
just being around the two of them; the way we drove around for
hours without a damn thing to do but still, more entertained than
I’d been in a while. But something happened in the months leading
up to Zorn’s disappearance. And it wasn’t just him vanishing into
the fucking wind that changed the dynamics of our group. There was
more. There is always more. I’ve grown comfortable with the way
things were and I hate when shit fucks with my comfort. If I have
to lift heaven and fucking hell to fix it, that’s just what the
fuck I’ll do.

We never chose this life. Sometimes the things we do are
downright awful. Sometimes the repercussions are much worse. But
sometimes…sometimes it’s a good life. In the end, it’s better to be
one of us than one of them.

And
I’m not done fighting until this is all over.

The first full size novel in the Soul Seductor series will be
published on Amazon in early October.

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