completely loaded and ready to be used in the most extreme way possible.
“You have to know that this doesn’t end well for you, Jordan. Jamison is not the kind of man that is going to lie back and let you ride off into the sunset. This can’t be much of a surprise to you and maybe you have already thought about that.” Timothy had is eyes on a mirror that showed him exactly what he wanted to see. He saw Jordan in profile with the gun drawn and ready to use it. Knowing exactly where he was made it easier for Timothy to conjure up some sort of reaction to what had already happened. “You don’t know what the love of a good woman does to you. During one of your drunken binges, you admitted to all of us that you have never found the one that would make you think that anything was possible. You thought that people were fooling themselves into thinking that they were happy. I actually believed you at one time, but that was until Lila. She showed me that there has to be a better way and that I’ve only been making it possible for somebody to come around and take my place. We’re both feeling that age creeping up on us. It’s just a matter of time before we find ourselves playing second fiddle to some young up and coming cocksure bastard.” Jordan was not the type of man anymore that would shoot a man in the back. He could only wait until Timothy decided to do something. Timothy was not the only one that was using the mirror to his advantage. Jordan saw the gun and took a slow deep breath with his finger on the trigger. It wasn’t going to be long before the ticking of the clock was not the only thing that would be heard in this enclosed space. “Love has always been for fools. I thought they you were able to avoid those kinds of trappings. I guess if it could happen to you, it could happen to anybody. I’ve always been about the next available body. All the horsemen have been trained from the very beginning to deny themselves love in any form. It makes us a honed a weapon that is hard for anybody to overcome. You do know that Joseph is going to come for you. He might be already in the house.” Timothy was using whatever he could to make some sort of distraction. He saw the Jordan wasn’t biting or even flickering from his concentration. He was losing a lot of blood and he was sure that Jordan was right about cutting into his femoral artery with one of his bullets. Jordan could see that Timothy was swaying back and forth like some kind of drunken man after last call. His shoulders had fallen forward and he looked ready to call it quits. It wasn’t like Timothy had anything left to lose and that made him a very dangerous man. He was already dying and taking Jordan with him was probably foremost on his mind. “Love is the best thing that has ever happened to me. I didn’t know if I was capable of such an emotion. We’ve both been living with that cold and empty bed for too long. The feeling of reaching out in the middle of the night to find nobody there is not a pleasant one. I don’t want that kind of life anymore and I don’t know why others like us haven’t thought about this in the past. The steamy way that we look at each other is better than any call girl worth her salt. They are only holes to be filled, when the only hole that really needs filling is the one that’s in our heart.” Lila heard every word and was touching her chest and feeling that kind of love that made it impossible for her to think of any way out other than with the man that she had fallen for. Her past had defined her and she was starting to think that maybe she didn’t have to allow it to be that way. “I know that he’s an honorable man and that he won’t kill a man in cold blood by shooting them in the back. Part of me wishes that he could, but I also have to believe that death should not come that easily. We should all have a chance to face it and hopefully not blink when the time comes to survive at any cost.