Bronagh (12 page)

"Touch shit, princess."

Oh, my God.

I turned and tried to escape, I was going to run and jump off the platform but there was somehow a fucking cage around the platform now.

A cage.

I have never seen a cage around the platform.

Never.

"What the fuck is this?" I screamed and looked around.

Where the fuck did the cage come from?

"They lower it down on the second Friday of every month.

Oh.

That was nice.

I ran up to the nice cage, reached out and shook it with all my fucking might.

"Dominic!" I screamed.

I searched the crowd for him, his brothers, and my sister, but all I could see were drunk faces that danced to the pulsing music.

"Bronagh, watch out!"

I swung around when I heard Dominic's voice, I then screamed when I looked to Jennifer and realised she was coming at me. Literally.

I dove to the left and quickly scrambled back to my feet in time was watch Jennifer run into the cage. Usually I would call that person stupid, but I was so happy because I was hoping it would knock her out.

Not with my luck though because she got back up, and was angrier than before.

"Oh, Jesus... Oh, Christ."

"Babe, listen to me, okay? Put your hands up in front of your face."

I nodded my head and covered my face.

"No!
Guard
your face Bronagh, don't fuckin' cover it!"

I dropped my hands and held them out in front of my face.

"How the hell am I supposed to know what to do? I've never done this before?" I bellowed at Dominic.

I wish I knew where he was because when he spoke, it sounded like he was all around me.

"Is this a lovers tiff?" Jennifer asked as she danced around the ring while I stood still in the centre of it.

"No, this is normal for us. So normal that you would think we need a shrink... I'm actually considerin' goin' to anger manage- ahhhh!"

I kicked my legs out at Jennifer when she was close. I was meant to kick her, put my heels flew off and hit her in the chest and head by mistake.

The heel to the head hurt her though because she grabbed her head and fell backwards.

I screamed then ran to the cage. "Someone get me out of here, this is a mistake! I'm a lover
not
a fighter!"

"Move left. Left, left, left," Dominic's voice shouted.

I swung left. "She isn't on me left!"

"Your other fucking left!"

I swung to my right and instantly threw my hands up in front of my face. I felt a punch hit me in the side of the head and seconds later I felt my body hit the ground.

"Lift the fucking cage!" I heard numerous voices shout.

I was dizzy, and felt like I was going to be sick.

I tried to sit up, but I received another whack to my face then I felt a weight on my chest pinning me down. I opened my eyes and found Jennifer sat on top of me. I closed my eyes; covered my head with my hands and cringed.

I think I screamed when she began raining punches to my head, but it didn't last long because one second she was on me, then the next she was off.

I opened my eyes and turned to the right in time to see Dominic pin Jennifer to the ground and shout down into her face. Security guards got up onto the platform and took hold of Jennifer so Dominic moved over to me.

"Jesus, baby," he said, he eyes wide as he looked down at me.

I winced. "I'm fine, sore, but fine... I thought I was gonna die."

Dominic pressed his hand to my cheek and it hurt.

"What the hell happened?
Why
did you get up here-"

"I didn't," I cut him off. "She tricked me. It was her fella who you knocked out at the bar... she must have saw the whole thing from up here. She wanted revenge on me."

"Fuck's sake," Dominic growled.

I reached up and touched his face and then out of the corner of my eye I saw Jennifer break out of the security guard's hold and rush at Dominic.

I found the strength to pull myself up and pulled him to the other side of me. I don't know what I planned to do to Jennifer when she got me but I luckily didn't have to worry because the security guards caught her and pulled her back.

"Bronagh, what the fuck are you doing?"

I looked to Dominic and shrugged. 'What does it look like I'm doin'? I'm protectin' you."

Dominic blinked, his eyes softening. "Baby."

I leaned my head against his. "You were right about everythin'. I'm goin' to find a class or a course to help me deal with my emotions in the correct way. I'm in your corner with you for life, I love you."

Dominic swallowed. "I love you so fucking much."

He kissed my mouth but it was too rough so I pulled back and hissed.

"I don't mean to ruin the moment, but I feel like I'm dyin' so can you get me off this thing?"

"Of course," Dominic said.

After a few minutes we were back at our table, I sat down across from Aideen and Alec and groaned.

"Can we go home?" I asked.

"Were leaving now bumble be-"

"Alec."

I jumped at the loud female screech.

"Yes?" Alec asked the blonde-haired girl.

"Who is that bitch? Tonight's shag?" She snapped.

Alec looked down to Aideen who was half asleep on his shoulder and laughed. It looked like he was about to say something but he was cut off when the girl suddenly attacked Aideen.

"What the fuck?" I screamed.

Kane jumped over the table pulled the girl off Aideen who was holding onto her cheek.

"Get the fuck out of here!" Kane snarled to the bitch he was holding and shoved her away from our table.

She left but cursed everyone of us along the way.

"Aideen?" I called.

She whimpered.

"Fuck!" Kane snapped.

I frowned.

What the fuck was with all the fighting tonight?

"I want to go home." Aideen sniffled.

"I'll bring you-"

"No, I want Keela. Ring Keela!"

Kane and Alec shared a look.

Alec sighed. "Give me your phone and I'll ring her."

Aideen gave Alec her phone then went with Kane as he helped her leave. I frowned as they walked away.

Poor Aideen.

I winced then when my cheek throbbed.

Poor me.

"Ryder and Branna are waiting for us, Bronagh- wait, where is Aideen and Kane?"

I shrugged. "Some girl attacked Aideen."

“What? Why?”

I opened my mouth to answer Dominic but I didn’t know the girl attacked Aideen.

"Alec, why did that girl address you before she jumped on Aideen?"

Alec scratched his head. "I think I fucked her and her boyfriend last week."

I deadpanned.

He was such a slut.

Dominic shook his head and helped me up. "Are you ready to go home, baby?"

I nodded my head. "We're out hours, I need to check on Tyson."

"We feed him and let him go the bathroom before we left, he is fine."

"He is a puppy."

Dominic groaned. "Okay fine, let's go check on your baby."

I smiled and kissed his cheek. "I love you."

"And I love you."

"Do you love me?"

I looked to Alec and grinned. "Oh yeah."

Dominic chuckled. "Are you leaving with us?"

Alec shook his head and stood up. "I've to go help Kane with Branna's friend. I've to ring..."

"Keela," I provided.

Alec nodded. "Yeah, I've to ring Keela."

"Be nice to her, is the early hours and you will be wakin' her up."

Alec laughed. "I'm ringing a girl to come pick up her friend, I've got this."

He turned and walked off.

Dominic frowned. "Maybe I should go and call Keela instead of him."

I shook my head and squeezed Dominic's hand.

"Nah, let him do it. You never know, it could be the start of somethin' beautiful."

Slater Brothers, Book Two

Releasing August 17th, 2014.

"Miss Daley? Open up! I know you're in there, your car is outside in the tenant car park!"

I groaned at the sound of the loud voice, and flicked my eyes open then quickly re-closed them. It took a few moments for me to be able to keep them open, and when I could, I couldn't see very well. I squinted through the darkness waiting for my eyes to adjust to the minimal lighting. When I could finally see, I quickly narrowed my eyes at the fat snoring male beside me. I shoved him hoping to knock him off the bed, but instead of falling off like I'd hoped he only farted and rolled over in my direction then placed a big sloppy kiss on my mouth.

"Storm!" I shouted and wiped at my mouth and tried not to heave, but the smell of Storm's breath made that very hard.

Storm lazily got to his feet, stretched and made some weird noises then proceeded to belly flop on top of me until I gasped for air. Storm, my two year old German Shepherd, needed to be put on a diet or one of these days the fat baby was going to smother me in my sleep.

"Off!" I gasped and shoved at his large body with both of my hands.

Storm did as ordered and got off me. But he didn't get off the bed, instead he just rolled back over to his side - yes, my dog had a side of the bed - which was just typical. The only time he willingly moved was if it was breakfast time, lunch time, dinner time or pretty much any time he knew there would be food in it for him.

"You pathetic excuse for a guard dog," I muttered as the banging on my apartment door started up again.

Storm replied with another fart that had me opening the windows before I left my bedroom to proceed down the hallway to open my door. I stubbed my toe on one of Storm's doggy toys as I walked and cursed the person on the other side of the door for making me get out of bed - it was the middle of the night for God's sake!

"I'm comin', keep your knickers on!" I shouted when I reached my door and began unlocking all the locks. There were five of them in total because in the area where I lived, one lock was not enough. I switched on my hall light and jumped when the bulb blew, coating the hall in darkness once again. I sighed as I turned to my front door, even though I was pretty sure I knew who was on the other side, I still looked through the peephole just to be safe.

When I confirmed the noisy menace at my door was in fact my neighbour, I unlocked the final lock and pulled it open then harshly glared at the man who was stood before me. Mr. Pervert - his real name was Mr. Doyle - was a middle-aged man who was the CEO at Perverts 'R Us. The man was a major creep, and I hated that I answered the door to him dressed in nothing but my nightdress because it gave him free rein to ogle me with his ever-roaming eyes.

"Can I help you, Mr. Per-Doyle?" I asked, biting my tongue so I didn't laugh at almost calling him Mr. Pervert out loud.

He snapped his eyes up from gawking at my legs to my face and cleared his throat as he lifted his hand - a hand that contained one single envelope. I simply stared at the envelope for a moment then flicked my eyes up to Mr. Pervert and found his eyes weren't on my face anymore. I knocked on the outside of my door with my free hand which made him jump with fright and me inwardly snort. When his eyes were once again on mine, I nodded to the envelope in his hand and then raised my brows in a silent question.

He cleared his throat again before he said, "I've been away the last few weeks and found this in my mailbox when I got home a few moments ago. It is addressed to you, but has my apartment number on it instead of yours."

I wanted to throat punch him. I used the light from the hallway outside of my apartment to look back inside and lock my eyes on the clock hanging on the wall behind me, it was twenty past three in the morning.

Couldn't he have just waited till morning before he delivered it to me?

I sighed as I turned back to Mr. Pervert, who was back to looking at my body. I reached out and gripped the envelope and gave it a little tug until Mr. Pervert released it.

"Thanks, I appreciate you goin' out of your way to make sure I get me post." I faked a smile and then pulled the hand that now held the envelope away until it was tucked safely behind my door - along with the rest of my body - so Mr. Pervert couldn't see me anymore.

He blinked a few times and looked at my face, because it was now all that he could see.

"It was no problem at all, sweetheart."

Sweetheart?

Bleh!

I smiled and nodded my head as I inched my door closed. "Good night."

"Good-" I closed the door before he could finish his sentence.

I shook off my shivers then I relocked all of the locks on and closed the bolt at the top of the door. I breathed a sigh of relief when I heard Mr. Pervert's footsteps trot back across the hall and into his own apartment where he closed the door behind him. I looked at the envelope in my hand and decided to open it because I was curious as to what was inside it. I couldn't see very well because the hallway was still dark but I knew it wasn't a bill, it didn't feel like the envelope bills came in, it was thicker. From what I had seen it looked nicer than a bill envelope. Fancier.