"The heart is an arrow. It demands aim to land true."
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

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Do we have an understanding Abraham?

"Yes, Ms. Mabel. It will never happen again."

Herschel leaned against the kitchen sink as Ms. Mabel sat at the kitchen table while Abe stood before her. He wore his holster on his hip with his gun ready just in case Abe really didn't understand the dire predicament he had placed himself in when it came to Mabel and her propensity to shoot first and sort things out afterwards.

"Now get out of my sight." Mabel said with utter disgust.

Abe made haste to leave the home with out another word or glance towards Herschel his superior.

"If it wasn't for my Birdie I would have shot him right where he stood." Mabel stood from the chair and pushed it under the table.

"Mabel you can't just kill for every slight or offense that you feel is against you."

"What makes you think that I don't know that? Ain't Mike still breathing? Anyone that will be pushing up daisies on the farside of the back yard will be him. He is on a timer."

"Timer?"

"I plan to kill his whole Goddamn family if they don't come up with all the money Michonne paid to all his Bookies and Loan Sharks. One by One by motherfucking one."

"Mabel..."

"He will be the last one standing. He will wish he was just dealing with the corner Bookie believe motherfucking me."

"Mabel..."

"Don't Mabel me. I don't play about family money. Michonne was foolish with her hard earned money that's one thing but family money...my name attached to it...I take that shit personal. Right now I got someone aiming for his stuttering uncle Charlie."

"What amount are we talking? Family money that is?"

"Three point four million."

"He gambled that much?" Herschel found it hard to believe, hard to comprehend that sum of money gone at the tables or the horses for that matter.

"Not all was gambled. Shiesty investments and I will be taking care of the schucksters too. They will be paying me as well to keep me off their asses. I've got everyone positioned and ready to go."

"How many people are we talking?"

"Don't worry they are not going in the backyard. I want them right there where they lay. Each and every one of them. Mike's ass is mine if it comes down to him being the last one standing. I plan to take his ass out if he don't cough up my money. Those who know my work will know my name was written all over that shit. Don't play with my Goddamn money."

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Michonne awoke with the sunlight creeping in the partially closed curtains. She buried her face more into her pillow as she felt the heavy hand resting on her ass as she listened to the light snore from the man who completed her the moment he kissed her. He was sleeping heavy she could tell.

The sound of his snore didn't bother her in the least and it may be because she was in love. In love with everything about him. His face was facing hers as he laid on his back and she on her stomach. In that moment she knew she wanted to have all his babies along with the hairless cat and dog.

"I love you." Michonne said softly.

Rick snoring ceased and his eyes slowly fluttered open, "Hey, how long you been watching me dream about you?"

"Just a few minutes. Did you know you snore?"

"No. I guess I was sleeping pretty heavy. Deep sleep. I haven't slept good like that in a long time."

"Move in with me."

"I am not divorced yet."

"I don't care."

"You don't care?"

"I care but I want this."

"I want this too."

"Move in with me?"

"Don't get me wrong Michonne, I want too... but I don't want that to be the excuse Lori uses to not sign. It will get back to her that I am here with you."

"Move in with me." Michonne was inches from his lips. She was pleasantly surprised that his morning breath wasn't foul and based on his reaction her's wasn't either.

Rick turned to get on top of Michonne as they began their languid dance of building a fire between their bodies. His face was flush as he tried to control his pace which he was finding difficult to do with Michonne meeting him thrust for thrust with a quick pelvis jerk that had him breathing heavy each time she did it. Half the things he said was incoherent but one thing that was clear was "Marry me Michonne. Marry me."

"Yes."

"I'm coming Michonne. I will so fucking move in with you...Oh Chonne..."

"Yes. Yes. Yes." Michonne screamed out as her orgasm slammed through her body as she clung to Rick and he to her.

Knock. Knock. Knock.

"Hey Babe," Andrea said on the outside of Michonne's bedroom door, tempted to turn the knob but she thought better of it, "I am hoping your Yes, Yes, Yes means you two are done but we have a Pastor Gabriel sitting on the couch waiting for you and Rick to come out. There is also an envelope for Rick."

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"We have another job Rosita." Rosa hung up the phone and glanced over at the four people playing poker for sums of money and one of them being Rosita.

"Honey Bees or Road kill?"

"Both."

"Which one is for me?"

"Your very good with Road kill. I will take the Honey bees because you can't seem to swat them quickly without getting stung. You know how you get when you are stung."

"La Madre!"

"You get very messy and you make it hard on the clean up crew to ensure all the blood is cleaned."

Emmanuel a 7 foot tall and all muscle body builder agreed, "Your mother Rosa is right. You get very sloppy when you are in a rage. You need to kill quickly instead of toying with Bees."

"You too, Emanuel?" Rosita was surprised by the criticism of her work.

"Me three." Said the barely 4 foot dwarf female named Lolita that had a winning hand. "Biggest gripe from the clean up crew is you and the way you swat bees."

Rosita looked to her mother, "Who's the road kill?"

"Stuttering Uncle Charley."

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"Lori signed the divorce papers?" Shane played dumb.

"That's what it looks like." Rick remarked.

"Wow. Congrats. I guess that fight had her rethink her life."

"I am divorced." Rick was finding it very hard to believe.

"You don't sound to happy about it."

"I don't know. I have mixed emotions a bit."

"What? What do you mean?" Shane asked as the two stood outside of Michonne's home while her and Andrea were inside talking with the Pastor.

"Something just not right. I need to call her."

"What for?"

"This is like a complete turn around for Lori. She was just at the party fighting and then to give me a divorce and just leave it here at the house. A divorce that is already signed off by a judge...This makes no sense."

"So you plan to take your ass back in the house and tell Michonne that you feel weird about finally being divorced?"

"No. Of course not she would not understand."

"Hell, I don't understand. Isn't it what you wanted? You finally have a chance to be with the person you want to be with but you going to worry about the old lawn? What the hell?" Shane was nervous for his friend who could potentially put himself in Mabel's radar and not in a good way. "Are you going to Marry that woman inside or not?"

"So tell me again what Lori said to you when you talked to her after the fight?"

"She said she was going to take a trip. She was going to be gone for a long while."

"Did she say where?"

"I didn't ask."

"Wouldn't that been a normal thing to do is ask her where she was going?"

"You went twenty years not knowing your wife was on birth control I am quite sure with that record you can go a day or weeks or the rest of your fucking life not knowing where the hell she is. Now do you love that woman inside that house to marry her or not?"

Rick thought about the love they made and the way the puzzle was completed in everyway with Michonne. He liked being and feeling free with her more than anything he could think of. He knew he was in love with Michonne even though he was concerned about his first wife Lori. He was divorced. He was no longer the jock who married the cheerleader and the world didn't stop based on that change. He was now Rick, who was in love with a woman named Michonne and he was not defined by that and it was ok.

"Yes."

"Then get in there and get married."

Okay.

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"What are you thinking Babe?"

"I am scared Andrea."

"Talk to me."

"My Granny has something to do with this." Michonne paced back and forth in the backyard of her home while Rick and Shane were standing in the front yard.

"Mabel's signature. You smelled the fresh paint in the front just like I did."

"Lori is gone."

"What do you want to do? Do you want to snitch?"

"You know I wouldn't do that. Not against my Granny. I would never do that. I would take the hit before I would do that to my Granny."

"Talk to me. What's the problem?"

"She is forcing Rick's hand. I feel some kind of way about it. She moved Lori out of the way. I didn't know she would do it so quickly. I didn't know it would get back to My Granny so quickly."

"She is a chess player. Luckily it did. Could you imagine the bloodbath if she would got the story wrong. Ms. Mabel reacts with a heavy hand especially where it comes to Money and her family. You do know that. Shouldn't be any surprise to you. She keeps people alive long enough till she get what she needs and then lights out."

"Who would have told her?"

"Me."

"You're the birdie?"

"I am one of two in this location."

"Andrea...Since when?"

"Since she got me out of some shit. I had to call her Michonne. I needed help and she cleaned it all up for me."

"How long?"

"Five years now. If Mabel goes down a lot of people will follow. I mean a lot."

"Mike is on her list."

"He brought that on himself and Rick will be too if he doesn't marry you."

"I am also nervous about Rick. What if he comes in the house and says no to getting married. Married before the ink is dry on the paper?"

"I hope he really loves you Michonne and will fall into place and do what is in his heart all along to do. Anything else would be suicide. You would have to choose your Granny or him because she will kill him if she thinks for one second he wronged you in any way, especially with her thinking she did him a favor."