Over the years, I’ve been told readers love to revisit characters. They can show up in a new book or even a blog interview. So I thought you might be interested in hearing from Jake and Angel of JAKE, A Southern Crime Family Novel. (The book JAKE is not a cliff hanger for the couple, but the other brothers have a piece of the mystery to solve.) Their story isn’t finished, because Sen’s and Ethan’s stories are yet to be published, hopefully next year, but let’s pretend they were interviewed by a local news reporter the day after their ‘forced’ marriage. (The marriage happened about half-way or so through the book.)
Reporter: Congratulations, Mr. and Mrs. Whitfield. Being from rival families, the excitement of you two getting married has the small town of Marystown in an uproar. Was that why someone fired on you during the wedding, Mr. Whitfield? As you were also shot at on while your father was being buried? Does someone not want to your families to be united?
Jake: Call me Jake. Look at my bride. Her ebony hair with red tips and all that goth gear she wears, you know she’s into kinky shit. Yep. She’s different. I like it. Besides with that plump ass in black leather, she’s made for spanking, who wouldn’t be jealous of me?
Reporter: I think you may be in trouble. Your wife is glaring at you.
Jake: [smiling big] She can glare all she wants. She knows who’s boss in the bedroom.
Reporter: [cough] Mrs. Whitfield, rumor is, you two had to get married because of your relatives’ wills.
Angel: [still glaring at Jake] As you know, such a stipulation is not valid. Please call me Angel.
Reporter: Yet, here you are married. Mr…uh…Jake, what are the police doing about the shooter or shooters?
Jake: [he narrows his eyes and looks away] Sand County Sheriff Department is looking into it. But I don’t hold out much hope. They haven’t arrested the person who killed my father and her grandfather. So I don’t expect an arrest for the other shootings.
Reporter: Yeah. right. [cough] Angel, I heard you’ve taken over your grandfather’s businesses. Are you and Jake and his brothers going to combine the…the…organizations?
Angel: No. My grandfather’s businesses will be transferred to my brother when he comes of age. I’m his guardian.
Jake: [Smirks] Now, sugar, you know your grandfather’s will made me his guardian.
Angel: [Glares again at Jake] We’ll talk about that later.
Jake: Sure. In the bedroom, while you’re on your knees.
Angel: Yeah, you and whose army?
Jake: You know you like it. Plus I could always ask Sen to help. He loves to share and watch. Or Ethan, tying up women is his thing.
Angel: Over my dead body…no, correct that. Your dead body. [Pulls out a knife from her boots and starts to clean her nails with the sharp tip.]
Reporter: [Looking nervously back and forth between the two] Okay. I guess I better end it here, folks. [The reporter turns off his recorder and runs for the door.]
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Carla
Carla Swafford, Author 