Chapter 269 - Coming And Going (2/2)

”I will be there.”

”You'd better be.”

With that, Malene walked off, going in the direction that Laz was coming from.

As for Laz, he just stood there and watched her walk away, the wheels in his mind going a million miles a minute.

Just when he was debating going after her, a hand landed around his shoulder, waking him up.

”Damn brother. What a s.e.xy animal of a woman you have there. Honestly, she's like an angry lioness one moment and like a gentle kitten the next. How the hell do you tame something like that? Anyway, not important. I'm not about to end up whipped like you. Hey, Don't look at me like that, I'm just calling what I see. And besides, just seeing you look at her walk away is breaking my heart. Take some advice from this master at game, it's better to let her be free than to try to keep her close. No, hold on. Let me explain. We all are people living our lives right? You and her are the same way. She's got her life to live and you've got yours. Doesn't mean you can't love each other just cause you ain't always together. Some relationsh.i.p.s are just like that. That happy ever after shit is just the biggest f.u.c.k.i.n.g lie we are told as kids. There is no happy endings cept the ones you pay for, got that? Good. Let's go eat. I'm starving.” Laz had wanted to interrupt several times, but Dwayne cut him off each time. Since it looked like he was stuck with him, he just let Dwayne lead him to a restaurant down the road from where they were.

...

Unknown to Laz, laying in pools of their own blood, there were several bodies that were currently pulled off the road and piled together in heaps in trash bins. If one were able to identify them, they would see that these used to be the people who were in charge of watching the Vodun.

...

Laz ended up eating and drinking at some BBQ restaurant that Laz didn't remember the name of. After that, he and Dwayne went their separate ways, agreeing to meet up at the shop on the night of the operation. Laz had to go inform Freya and her kin of the plan while also going to find Julia who was probably still working since he had skipped out on doing it today. He figured he should also look in on Abraham and see how he was progressing.

Now that things were coming together, the hardest part was going to be actually doing it. This wasn't the kind of thing Laz had done before, minus the one time he tried to sneak into the home complex where he rescued Leona. While he did live through that, he also understood that being captured again would probably have a far worse consequence this time. And besides, he wasn't going to be the only one involved.

He couldn't help but hurry on his way, quite a bit of worry on his mind.

Back at the shop, Dwayne had just returned was went looking for his aunt and uncle to chat with them for a bit before settling down to cultivate. Now that he had the new technique that Laz worked out, he wanted to do all he could to stabilize himself in the next few days before the mission.

Just as he was coming up on the drawing room where he felt his aunt and uncle were sitting, he noticed another strange energy signature, one that he had encountered only hours ago.

Sure enough, walking into the room, he saw his aunt and uncle speaking respectably to Malene, although it seemed like their was some tension between them.

”Boy. Now isn't a good time. Go make yourself scarce and we can talk later,” his uncle Aaron said, seeing Dwayne enter the room.

When Dwayne finally saw how everyone was sitting, how tense Aaron and his Aunt Cal were and yet how relaxed Malene seemed, he went a bit absent minded.

”Oh. It's you. That makes sense I guess,” Malene said with a rather wicked smile.

”You... you know our nephew?” Aaron said, wondering what the boy did now.

”We just had the p.l.e.a.s.u.r.e of meeting not too long ago. And what a bold young man he is, trying to sneak way too close a peek at me...” Malene answered back.

Dwayne was about to apologize again, but before he even had a chance, his uncle was in front of him with a rush of wind. Before Dwayne could even understand what was happening, his uncle had buried his fist in his stomach and sent him flying out of the room with a painful yell.

Getting back up off the floor, all Dwayne could see was his uncle and his aunt apologizing for his rudeness and asking for forgiveness.

Dwayne felt like his eyeballs were going to pop out of his head.

”What the hell...” he muttered.

”It's fine. It's already been taken care of. Besides, what's the worse that happens? I take his eyes? Or maybe his head? No problem.” The way that Malene said that put a chill down Dwayne's spin the way nothing had done before.

'WHERE THE HELL WAS THE SWEET LITTLE KITTEN THAT WAS NUZZLING HIS BUDDY A FEW HOURS AGO?'

Dwayne felt like his brain was going to melt. Either way, he apologized himself before running away as fast as possible. Whatever they were talking about was not a god damn concern of his.

After Malene left, Dwayne's uncle and aunt went to come find him and ask him the whole story which he told without leaving anything out.

”Who exactly was she?” He finally asked when he was done.

”Someone's who had helped us immensely but is also downright crazy....”

”They be calling her 'The Spirit Girl.' I be talking to da spirits fer many years now, but compared to her, I be like a infant learning to walk. Mangine suddenly being dead one day, a hole right through yer head and not even knowing when you be killed. Dat because she can have those spirits kill yah just like that and you don't even be knowing dey be there. But dat ain't even it. She be having da taste of blood and she go real gone. On da way here, she be taking it upon herself to be... removing all the watches outside dat yous uncle missed. The stronger ones, a second layer they gave specially for us. Didn't even be knowing they were there. And that was just a greeting gift.”

”Damn...”

”So listen to me boy and listen good. You even come across her again and you be polite and go the other way as fast as possible, got that?”

”Yeah. Yeah.” Dwayne said, his thoughts still a wreck.

”Still though. They not be forcing us with nothing which be better than you thought.”

”Yeah. For now... but she's right. It's only a matter of time.”

”But at least we be having time for now. Come and rest husband and let this old woman take goooood care of you...” Madam Cal, even though she no longer carried the look of a much older grandma, was still ages older than Dwayne. So hearing his aunt talk like this cause his mind to sober up in an instant as he once again decided to run.

”FOR THE LOVE OF... DON'T DO THAT SHIT IN FRONT OF ME...”