Rage Unleashed (2 page)

Chapter 1

Pain

Pain is what awakened Lelone French from her sleep at four in the morning. It was accompanied by her heart racing and sweat covering her brow. It wasn’t just the nightmare that had her feeling this way but the pounding and stabbing pains in her head, back and stomach; and the sound of the loud ringer from the telephone sitting on her nightstand. Before she picked up the phone she knew who it was and knew what was wrong.

The panic in her mother’s voice came through loud and clear and without allowing her mother to fully explain the emergency she told her, “Mommy try to calm down, I’m on my way. I’ll be there in a few hours.”

Tami, her mother, didn’t think to ask her how. In her mind there was only a few ways that Lee Lee would be able to make it to her side in just a few hours and that was by plane or train. So she would simply await the call for Lee Lee to be picked up from the airport or the train station, but it would never come. Because the moment Lelone got off the phone with her mother she grabbed her large overnight bag and stuffed about two weeks’ worth of clothes and necessities inside. After grabbing her purse and another large black leather bag she headed to her truck, so she could make the drive to her mother’s side in Sierra Vista Arizona.

She didn’t even bother to check her phone for flight or train schedules. She knew driving there was supposed to take her a little over five hours, but she would need her car and she didn’t want to  get stopped or delayed. She had made up her mind to be at her mother’s side in exactly three hours and nothing on this earth would stop her from being there in that time frame. She pitied those that may have a problem with how she would accomplish that goal. Because if her dream was as correct, as it usually was, she was in no way someone that they would be willing to deal with.

Pulling out of her driveway quickly, she burned tire tracks in the street as she took off. The only stop she made was at the nearest gas station that paired as a restaurant and small quickie shop to fill up. She was in no mood for food and in no need for coffee or caffeine due to the high volume of adrenaline running through her veins.

She stepped out of the truck; her slender athletic build covered in form fitting blue jeans and t-shirt, with a matching hoodie jacket and black high heeled boots and captured all the eyes that were currently present in her area. There was no way people wouldn’t notice the petite exotic beauty with her almond shaped pale blue eyes and jet black hair. Those two things alone made her stand out. People always wondered about her exotic eyes and overall look, but as always she was in no mood to try and be polite to anyone looking to ask dumb questions, throw out weak pick-up lines, or ignorant assumptions. She was on a mission and today she was not the one to fuck with.

She entered the gas station and walked directly to the counter to pay for her gas only to be intercepted by a tall burly man who had the look of a body builder, truck driver or biker or maybe all three rolled into one. He also didn’t look  like  he was in the business of being polite or respectful to women and the words that flew out of his mouth only verified that.

“Hey there you hot thang you. Why don’t you do me a favor and drop down on your knees so I can let go of this load I’ve been holding onto just for you.”

His friend standing behind him followed his rude comment by saying, “Hey Fred with something as pretty as that you might want to do more than just drop a load in her throat. That there is prime pickings.  She looks like she good and tight too. Way tighter than that last one we had whatcha think. Go ahead and loosen her up and pass her on over so I can get my turn.”

Fred looked over his shoulder and chuckled. “Sure thing Petey boy. But you may have to give me a nice little minute with this one here.”

Lelone didn’t wait for him to turn back around to face her nor did she respond to his brash comments as she attempted to make her way around him. As Fred turned around he noticed her trying to pass him and made the worse mistake of his life. He reached out his hand and grabbed her shoulder. In the flash of a second two things happened. One, Lelone saw a very descriptive scene of just what he and his hillbilly friend Pete did to their last victim. That they drugged at the bar, then took turns on her and when they were done, threw her to their other buddies for fun. And two, she broke his arm in three places, without even breaking a sweat or messing up her hair. Then she continued to the counter to pay the young shocked clerk who like most the men in the room no longer had lust in his eyes.

Fred lay crumpled on the floor screaming in agony. On her way out she stepped over him, as if nothing happened and walked to her car to pump her gas undisturbed. She got in placed her sunglasses on and sped off, leaving a trail of dust behind her.

About ten miles down the road an officer and cousin of Fred pulled Lelone over. He had heard about what happened to him when he went to respond to the emergency call from the gas station that was accompanied by Pete’s call to his cell phone about his cousin. So when pulling her over it was not just because she was going 80 in a 50 mph zone. He wanted to lay his eyes on the one who they said broke his cousins’ arm and when he got ahold of her he planned to do more than give her a speeding ticket. He was going to finish what his cousin started.

Before walking slowly up to the truck Officer Tucker turned off his radio and made sure his patrol camera was turned off. He wanted to make certain there would be no one to witness what he was going to do to her.

As he walked up to the car she watched him through her rearview mirror and she could easily see the resemblance to the jerk who tried to grab her at the gas station. Shaking her head, she grabbed onto her purse to grab just what he would need.

After approaching the car Officer Tucker tapped his black baton on the glass while telling her to roll down her window, she obliged him while slowly removing her glasses. Then he made the mistake he would regret by telling her to get out of the car.

She slowly turned her head to face him completely. “Don’t you think that’s a bit much for speeding ticket officer?” miss.”

Opening the car door quickly he replied, “Just get out the car

Once she stepped completely out of the truck he turned her around and pushed her face into it while leaning into her and groping her roughly. “Next time you’ll be more careful about whose arm you break. And take it like everyone else has.”

As he was leaning against her boldly feeling her up on the side of the road, she caught a glimpse of all the other times he’d used his badge to harm unsuspecting women and travelers. She cleared her head to block out the visions and began to picture all that she would teach him, and it brought a hint of excitement to her in that moment. Though he would never know; because the only hint of a smile showed in her eyes as she replied, “If you knew who you were dealing with, you would’ve never stopped me in the first place. And you certainly wouldn’t have tried to do something other than your job. I guess like your ignorant cousin I’m going to have to teach you the hard way.”

And before he knew what was happening or could respond she had lifted her foot up and in a sharp quick movement jabbed the blade strategically planted in her boot into his groin.

In a  few  seconds  he  was  on  the  ground  completely unconscious and bleeding to death. She looked around quickly before she hopped back into her truck and drove away without even looking back to see if he’d regained consciousness. She felt no regret for her actions. In her mind there was no room to feel anything for someone like that. Because people like him lacked a soul and to pay for all that he had done to the women he was supposed to protect he lay in the road bleeding to death with only pieces of his manhood left.

She drove on for the rest of the distance without any interruptions or problems and she made it to her mother’s side of the hospital bed in exactly three hours as planned.

Chapter 2

Reveal of Truth

Lelone watched her mother crying with her head bowed in prayer. She was sitting in the hospital room next to Lelone’s older brother Lucian’s unconscious body that lay broken and beat to a nearly unrecognizable pulp. Lelone said nothing. She just let the thoughts run wildly  through her mind. Whoever did this will pay with their life.

“Lee Lee can you hear me?”

“Huh, oh yes Mama. I was just in deep thought that’s all. How is he?”

“He’s doing okay considering it could have been worse. He is unconscious at the moment and has suffered a concussion. He has four broken ribs and a broken arm and leg. But at least he’ll live. I can’t imagine how Lela is holding up, LJ was all she had.”

Confused she just stared into her mother’s solemn face. “Mama what does LJ have to do with what happened?”

Tami looked into her daughter’s clueless face and realized she really didn’t know. Then she remembered that Lee Lee had gotten off the phone before she had a chance to really tell her all that had happened. “Honey, this may be hard for you to take but LJ is dead. They shot him in his chest and head, killing him instantly.”

Hearing the words coming from her mother’s mouth seemed unreal. She couldn’t believe that LJ of all people was gone. He was like another brother to her. She had just spoken with him three days ago and they were laughing and joking about how his life was going to be different now that he was a parent of twins. She told him that she would see him this weekend and he told her that she’d better make her way there soon to see her Godchildren. That was the best news she’d had all week. That he was not only engaged and doing great in the business that he started but that he was a father and thought of her enough to make her the Godmother. All that joy and now this.

She would never get to see the look on his face as he struggled to figure out how to manage two small children. That laughter in his eyes replaced with the look of death and defeat as he fought for his life; not just for himself but for the people that needed him. That would need him to be there to protect them and now he was gone. Gone way too soon.

She didn’t have to say anything. Her mother knew what she was thinking. She could read her which was both a blessing and a curse. This was the time she didn’t want her mother to know what she was thinking. This was the time she needed to be able to hide it from her. She sat there, eyes darkening, not a single tear on her face. Now wasn’t the time to mourn. Now was the time for revenge and she would get it. She would make sure that before she buried her best friend, the family of one the ones responsible would be planning a funeral as well. Tami knew her daughter’s agony but she also knew that she needed to know what happened.

“Honey are you okay? I know hearing this is hard for you.” “Yea, it’s real hard. But the hardest part is that I saw it as it was happening and could do nothing to stop it or protect them.

That’s the hardest part of all. I wonder how Luke is taking this news. Wait before we go into all that. Tell me. Tell me what they told you happened.”

After listening to her mother give her the details of what happened to Lucian and LJ, Lelone walked to the hospital’s morgue where LJ’s body was waiting to be claimed by a close friend or family member. He was marked as a John Doe because he was brought in with no kind of identification, which didn’t make any sense if he was driving when the police pulled him over. LJ never went anywhere without his wallet. He liked having his own money with him.

Lelone knew that with all that was going on inside her mother’s head she wouldn’t wonder why LJ’s parents, Lucas and Lela, weren’t present at the hospital. Looking down at his cold corpse she knew that those responsible had stopped at nothing to get away with what they had done to Lucian and LJ, including taking LJ’s I.D and dumping her brother into the nearest creek. She wondered how their faces looked when they realized they had made the mistake of killing an innocent man, who was also well connected in ways they would have to deal with later. She wandered how the Police Chief would handle knowing that his dirty cops were responsible for the death of his lead detective’s only son.

Lelone knew her gift would allow her good friend to tell her what happened in the last moments of his short lived life. So she took a deep breath and placed her hand on the top of his head. All at once the vision hit her, overtaking her completely and placing her with LJ and Lucian as if she had been present through the entire ordeal.

She watched as he sat holding his twins while watching the game with Lucian; when his wife Della grabbed them from him while saying jokingly, “Give me the babies. I’m sure Lucian didn’t come all this way to sit and watch you coddle your children all day. Shoo!

Get out the house for a few hours and enjoy the game somewhere else. I have to finish preparation for Friday’s dinner and I don’t want you greedy goblins in here eating up all my work. You guys would only make my job harder.”

Laughing, LJ replied, “Oh, so now you’re kicking us out huh? Come on Lucian. I don’t think we’re welcome here any longer. Don’t get too excited though little lady we will return shortly. You won’t be able to get rid of us for long. After all, we have to help you taste test everything. It wouldn’t be fair to leave you to do all the work alone.”

Her response was a hit on his butt, a kiss on his lips, and three loving words. “I love you.”

“I love you too. But all jokes aside we won’t be gone long. We’re going to go to the Champs not too far away to grab some food, watch the game and play a few rounds of pool. Be back shortly.”

Getting into the car Lucian turned to LJ and said jokingly, “Man. You know Della just wanted us out the way. She was more than happy to kick you out and do all the work alone. You’d think she didn’t want to share the food. I mean she was talking like she wasn’t going to be tasting the  food herself while she’s cooking. I think she’s just being a little selfish if you ask me. But hey you wifed her, I guess you like the ‘starve your man and his best friend’ types.”

LJ joined in laughing and responded, “You know what? You’re right. We weren’t bothering her. She just wanted the TV and those sneak tests all to herself. I mean, that’s messed up. I know she’s excited about being able to eat what she wants now that the twins aren’t running her appetite, but the way she’s going about this is all wrong. There is nothing wrong with sharing. I mean when we got engaged we said we would share everything. And I think that included those mid-meal taste tests.”

“Yeah man you would think so. If I were you I would march in that house and teach her a lesson. She has to uphold her end of the deal. Then she spanked you and stole your kiss on the way out, that’s just wrong.”

“Yeah you know what? When I get back, I’m going to give her a good talking to. She’s going to know not to cross the  King  of the castle like that. She can’t be stealing kisses and spanking me. Especially when I didn’t nothing wrong. That’s just plain disrespectful.”

Laughing, they pull out of the neighborhood and headed to Champs Bar and Grill that was only a short distance away. They were stopped just as they passed the local trail and camping park. Confused about what was wrong LJ pulled over anyway.

As he rolled down his window, the two officers said, “Turn off the ignition and get out of the car.”

“Is there a problem Officers?” LJ asked as he stepped out the

“Yea,” Officer McFalley said. “You’re driving a car that fits the description of an assault that just happened and on top of that you are driving a better car than me. How you get that car boy? What you do? Sell rocks?” He glanced over at his partner before he continued. “Officer McKinney pull his little friend out the car and check the car for drugs.”

After being tossed to the ground LJ said, “Officer there must be some mistake. I think you have me confused with someone else. Let me take out my ID so you can see for yourself. I live not too far from here and I’ve done nothing wrong.” LJ reached into his pocket for his wallet.

“Did I ask to see your wallet? Are you trying to argue with me?” Looking over to his partner he said, “I think he’s trying to sass me; what you think?”

Officer McKinney yanked Lucian out of the car and threw him onto the ground. “Sounds like it to me. I think we should teach these boys a lesson.”

Lucian spoke up for the first time. “Man this is harassment. We’ve done nothing wrong and you know it. Why’d you pull us over? We know and always follow the rules his father is—”

Before he could finish his sentence he’s struck in the head with the officer’s club repeatedly until he lay unconscious.

LJ was yanked to his feet to watch while being held in handcuffs. Snatching away, he started toward the other officer while yelling, “Please stop. You don’t have to do that. We are not resisting anything and we aren’t lying about who we are! Please let me show you proof that we’re not lying.”

He reached for his back pocket to again attempt to take out his license, but he never got the chance to even open his wallet. He was shot four times and dropped lifeless face first onto the ground dropping his wallet open onto the ground next to him.

Shaking, Lelone removed her hand from LJ and headed back to her brother’s side to get the rest of the story.

Stepping into the room, Lelone noticed that her mom’s coat was there but she was nowhere to be found. She assumed she went down to the cafeteria to try to grab something to eat. This would allow her the privacy to do what she had to do without her. She didn’t want her mother to know the details. She could handle it, but she didn’t think her mother would be able to.

Taking a deep breath, she placed her hand on her brother’s head. She saw everything she’d seen in the visions she got from LJ only from Lucian’s point of view. She saw from her brother’s images that LJ was showing no threat and was a few feet away.

After regaining consciousness Lucian watched LJ step toward him and stop a few feet away while saying. “Stop! Wait! Here we’re not lying let me show you what he was going to tell you—”

Lucian watched both cops pull out their guns and heard four shots ring out. He reached out towards he best friend falling lifeless to the ground, dropping his wallet beside him.

Officer McFalley stood over LJ’s lifeless body laughing. “I guess we taught him a lesson. Next time he’ll just do what he’s told. I guess it’s time to deal with the other one then get rid of the car.”

Officer McKinney walked over to LJ’s body and picked up his wallet and took a hard look and immediately went pale. “Hey McFalley. You may want to take a look at this. This boy’s name is Farmouth, just like the new Lead Detective.”

“What does that mean? This boy here is clearly black and our detective is white. There’s no relation between the two don’t worry about that. We’ll handle this as if he didn’t carry any ID and gave us problems if someone asks about what happened; that’s if they find out about it. I plan to make sure that this stays between you and me. Now let’s take care of the other one.”

Hearing these words Lucian struggled to stand to his feet. He didn’t want to die like his friend. One of them had to survive to take care of his baby girls. With all the strength he had left he stood to his feet and took off toward the woods.

From behind him he heard, “Where do you think you’re going?” Then the shots went off. He felt the pain rip through his shoulder. Then nothing. He blacked out from the pain. Only to awaken form the shock of the cold water. It hit him like a ton of knives. Then it was filling his nose and mouth and he was feeling himself go again. His last thought was; God don’t let me die this way. Then darkness, darkness filled with voices he couldn’t place filled with panic and fear, worry and wonder. Then more darkness and the sound of his mother’s voice, but he couldn’t wake up. No matter what he tried he couldn’t wake up to tell her not to cry and let her know that he could hear her and that her prayers were already answered.