Shelter: Book 2, A Long Days Night by Ira Tabankin Read Free Book Online Page A

would have given you a warm welcome. The cocktails would have cooked you inside those LAV crap boxes.”
     
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    John looks at the monitors displaying what’s going on inside Jay’s house. After seeing the biker leader kill one of the mob leaders who attacked their property, John nods to himself and types instructions into his laptop. A moment later the lights start going out in Jay’s house, followed by Fred’s, Rich’s and every other house in the compound. He leans back thinking, next time you shouldn’t attack people who were minding their own business. Soon, you’ll be sleeping for a very long time. Soon, the vengeance will be ours. We will take back what’s ours. Soon asshole, you’ll be waking up in hell. You’re tearing up our homes, you’re tearing up the fields we worked so diligently to produce our food. You’re stealing what’s ours. You should have let the food grow so you’d have something to get you through the winter. Without that food, you’re going to freeze or starve to death. Winter is a harsh mistress. She is a long day’s night. She is a dark, cold hearted bitch. Jay, Tony and I are heartless bastards when it comes to revenge and we’re going to be coming for you. We’re going to send you to hell. John smiles to himself, knowing revenge is going to be sweet.
     
    Chapter 3
    Ricky whispers to Sammi, “There he goes again, he’s driving me crazy. All he does is walk the halls all day and night. Doesn’t he have something to do, you know, like figuring out how to get us out of this bargain basement?”
     
    “Honey, leave him alone. He has a lot on his mind. He’s most likely just checking everything to make sure everything is running correctly. He has a lot of responsibilities. He’s trying to take care of forty people.”
     
    “Sammi, I understand he’s your father and you unconditionally love him. I’m telling you, I’m going nuts in here. He’d better figure out how to get us back into the house. I want to feel the sun on my face. I want to be able to take a dump without worrying about who’s sitting in the stall next to me. This is worse than the dorms in school, I moved out of them due to their lack of privacy. We have no privacy down here. What about Linda, God knows what she’s picking up in here. Some of these people don’t bath every day. Look at how some of the parents allow their kids to run wild. And a mobster? We have a mobster who’s second in command, I didn’t get a vote on him and his friends living with us. What is he teaching Linda? I’ve tried to tell Linda not to spend time with Tony’s kids, but your father put all the kids together in a large playroom. There’s no way to keep Linda away from the bad influences like him.”
     
    “Ricky, it’s going to be OK, I promise you. We’ve only been here for a few weeks. I know my dad, he’s working on a way to return us home.”
     
    “If he doesn’t do it soon, I’m going to propose he be replaced as the leader of the community.”
     
    “Ricky, don’t. I’ll be really upset with you. He’s my father! Look at all he’s done for us. He saved all these people. He saved ours and Linda’s life.”
     
    “How do we know that? If he hadn’t pushed us to come here, we’d be back home safe and sound. When he brought us here, he placed all of our lives in danger. He’s the cause of our problems. I wish we’d never come to visit him. We didn’t need his blood money as much as we needed him to leave us alone.”
     
    “His gift wasn’t blood money. It was a gift based on his love.”
     
    “No, it wasn’t. It was blood money. He bribed us to come down here. He built a fortress, if he’d only shared his food with those who were hungry we wouldn’t be hiding here underground like a mole. I hate it here. I don’t know why your father couldn’t have arranged a sit down with the people who attacked us. Why couldn’t he have just found a way to negotiate a truce of some sort? He had