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

enough food stashed away to feed them and us. It was his greed that caused all of those people their lives. You saw the piles of bodies up there. You saw how he killed those people in cold blood. He’s nothing more than a cold-blooded murderer. Look who he hangs out with, the local mafia boss. No wonder your father’s a killer. I want us out of here ASAP. This is no place for our daughter. If he doesn’t get us out of here soon, I’m going to take us home.”
     
    Sammi gets up the courage to smack Ricky across his right cheek. “Ricky, my father did NOT kill those people in cold blood. He fought only because they attacked us. We didn’t cross the street to attack them, they came to kill us and take what’s ours.”
     
    Rubbing the bruise on his cheek, “They attacked us because he didn’t offer to share what he had with them. He had more than his fair share. Sharing was the right thing to do and he refused. He might as well have condemned those poor people to death by not feeding them. Look what happened, they have the food anyway and we’re stuck down here in this cesspool. It smells down here. I want us out of here, I want to go home. If your crazy father can’t figure out how to take his home back, I think we should sneak out in the middle of the night and go home.”
     
    “Ricky, how do you expect us to get home?”
     
    “We locked our car in his garage, I bet it’s still there.”
     
    Todd walks by their room saying, “Hey guys, what’s going on?”
     
    Ricky looks at Todd with hate in his eyes, Ricky says, “Nothing, why aren’t you following the old man. Your nose is usually stuck up his ass.”
     
    Todd stares at Ricky trying to decide if he should punch him or not. “Ricky, normally I’d take you down, however, you’re too dumb to know why you got a beating. Why don’t you do something useful or stay in your room?”
     
    “Have you seen the size of our room?”
     
    “Yea, they’re all the same size. Mine, yours, Mom and Dad’s.”
     
    “I don’t think so. I think he’s got another room he keeps hidden. He and Lacy sleep in the hidden room, they show off the small one so everyone feels good knowing that we’re all the same. We know we’re not. Everyone knows that Jay and his mafia friend must have better accommodations someplace the rest of us don’t know about.”
     
    Todd shakes his head in disgust, “Ricky, I really feel sorry for you. You have a serious problem. I suggest you not go around spreading that rumor, certain people hearing it might pay you a visit. You won’t like the result if they link you as the source of the rumor.”
     
    “It’s no rumor. It must be true.”
     
    “Why must it be true?”
     
    “There’s no way the high and mighty Jay or the mobster Tony would stay in the same type of small room as the rest of us.”
     
    Todd walks away shaking his head muttering under his breath, “Man is certifiable, he’s nuts. I don’t know what she sees in him. I better warn Jay or Tony, he could be a real problem. I bet he tries to open the door and leave. If he did, it would put the rest of us in danger. I better ask John to keep a sharp eye on his comings and goings.”
     
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    Lacy finds her granddaughters in the children’s playroom. She asks Nancy, who watches the kids if she can ‘borrow’ her granddaughters. Nancy says, “Lacy, of course. Is something wrong?”
     
    “No, Fred had an idea how to snap Jay out of his depression.”
     
    “I get it, use the kids to tug at his heart. I bet it works. Do you think they’ll be back today?”
     
    Smiling and hugging Nancy, “I hope they're not. If they don’t return today, it means Fred’s idea worked.”
     
    “I hope so, Tony and I miss the old Jay.”
     
    “So do I, Nancy, so do I.”
     
    Lacy takes the two girls to her and Jay’s room, she says, “Do you want to play a special game?”
     
    They jump up and down saying, “Yes!”
     
    “We’re going to play, tag. Do know how