Chapter VIII:

12 hours later a very well rested Kody walked down the stairs and after pouring himself a cup of coffee joined John, Beth and Kayce at the kichen table. Kayce said, "As I was telling Dad Jamie got the Bureau of Prison's record Terrell Riggins. He found something that he will tell only you."

Kody nodded as he shrugged into his duster and grabbed his rifle and walked out to his truck. He had just climbed behind the wheel when Beth walked up to his open window. He locked eyes with her and said, "Don't worry I'll be careful."

Beth said as she lit a cigarette, "You do that; you know I don't trust Jamie."

Kody chuckled as he said, "Me neither but if he wants to tell me who he thinks is responsible for the attack on us then I'll listen but make no mistake if I find out he was in on it I'll kill him very very slowly."

Beth said, And I'll help you get that fucking cowardly traitor. I owe him for what he did to me."

Kody reached out and cupped his older sister's cheek as he said in a fierce snarl, "Rest assured Beth me and Jamie will settle up on that I promise you that."

Beth thanked him and told him one more time to be careful. He told her he would and with that he sped off.

When he got to Jamie's office, he once again walked in unannounced much to the dismay of his secretary. Jamie looked up and said, "It's alright, I was expecting him."

She nodded as she left, closing the door as she went. Once she was gone he shrugged out of his duster and threw it on the small couch and lit a Parodi as he asked, "What'cha wanna show me?"

Jamie put his head in his hands and said through his sobs, I think I fucked up. I need your help; you're the only one that can help me."

Kody heard the utter fear and desperation in his older brother's voice and his protective instinct kicked into overdrive as he asked, "What's wrong Jamie; talk to me and I'll fix it."

Jamie raised his tear-streaked face and told Kody all about Garret Randle and how he was his real father and about his connection to Riggins and his suspicion that Randle planned the attacks on the Duttons."

Kody felt a tremendous amount of anger and sorrow for his older rother. After several minutes of thought sorrow won; for Jamie was always trying to prove that he belonged in the family and that drove him to seek out Garret Randle who manipulated and used him. Suddenly all the anger toward Jamie shifted to Randle. He embraced his brother and allowed him to cry on his shoulder as he said, "It's goin' to be alright Jamie, I'll fix it."

Jamie said, "That's not all."

Kody said, "Tell me the rest."

Jamie nodded as he told his younger brother about Christina and their son then he told him, "I don't care what happens to Garret Randle or Christina; I just want my son."

Kody nodded as he said, "I just got one question."

Jamie replied, "What is it?"

Kody asked, "Are Randle and Christina connected in any way to Market Equities?"

Jamie replied, "Christina runs their legal department and she was responsible Randle being released."

Kody nodded as he said, "And Randle hates our family and saw Market Equities attack as an opportunity to rid himself of our family and get out from under Market Equities."

Jamie nodded as he asked, "What are we going to do?"

Kody replied as he shrugged back into his duster and grabbed his rifle, "You are going to go to the ranch and come clean to the family."

When he saw the fear stricken look on his older brother's face he said in a reassuring tone of voice, "Relax it'll be okay. They'll be understanding trust me."

Jamie asked, "Even Beth?"

Kody chuckled, "Okay maybe not Beth but I'll talk to her; trust me it'll be okay. Now get."

Jamie chuckled as he and Kody left.

30 minutes later Kody pulled up to Garret Randle's house; He found the man in the yard chopping wood. He left his rifle in the truck as he walked up to the man that would see his family dead and said, "Garret Randle; we need to talk."

Randle glared up at him and spat, "I know who you are and we have nothing to discuss. Now get off my property."

Kody smirked cruelly as he advanced on the older man and drawled, "Wrong bitch; we have lots to talk bout. Like the fact that you orchestrated the attack on my family to further both yours and Market Equities agenda and that you tried turning my brother against his family."

Randle reached behind his back and pulled out a 9MM GLOCK 17 Gen5 and said, "Everything you said is absofuckinglutely true and once I've killed you, I'll deal with the rest of your family."

Kody heard the sound of a pump shotgun being racked and glanced over his shoulder and saw Christina standing behind him. He chuckled darkly as he said, "Y'all ain't goin' to like how this ends."

And with that he kicked the GLOCK out of Randles's hand with a round kick and knocked him unconscious with a roundhouse spinning back fist combo. Then he turned to Christina and said, "Give me the shotgun now. I don't wanna hurt you."

She snarled, "You won't hurt me. All you Dutton's are the same; you think you can bully whoever the hell you want and frankly I've had it."

He advanced on her as she screamed, "BACK UP; I WILL KILL YOU THIS IS YOUR LAST WARNING!"

He reached out and wrenched the shotgun from her hands and tossed it away. She ran at him; her fingers into claws and tried to claw his face. He grabbed her hands and spun her around and cinched in a sleeper hold and held on until she passed out. Then he scooped her up and carried inside the house and secured her to a high backed kitchen with a coil of rope he found on the table. Then he went the gas stove and turned on ever burner and broke a nearby gas main and casually walked back outside and grabbed Randle by the collar of his shirt and drug him to a tall oak tree. He dropped the limp body to the ground and went to the barn and grabbed aa larg coil of rope and cut about 15 off it and fashioned one end into a noose and carried it over to where he'd left Randle. Randle was just coming around when Kody threw the rope over the tree and slipped the noose over Randle's head and tied his hands behind his back and stood him on a nearby stump as Randle asked in a voice filled with false bravado, "What are you doing; where's Christina and the baby?"

Kody replied, "The baby is with my family I I had Lloyd come get him while y'all were out. I'm hangin' you and as for Christina she'll be taken care of-"

He was cut by a tremendous explosion and the house went up in a huge conflagration. He continued, "Right about now. Now as for you before I hang your no account ass I wanna know what else you have set in motion for my family."

Randle seethed you won't get away with this. You just murdered that poor girl. Think what Jamie will say when he finds out you killed the mother of his child and his father."

Kody pulled out his bowie and sliced Randle's button up shirt open and sliced a large gash in his side as he bellowed, "Jamie knows what I'm doin' he asked me to. And you ain't his father John Dutton is you're just a drugged up ex con sperm donor that killed his mother. Now tell me what I want to know."

Randle spat in his face as he snarled, "I'm not telling you shit."

Kody wiped the blade of his bowie on Randle's cheek and sheathed it as he said, "Have it your way."

And with that he kicked Randle's feet and watched the man strangle to death. When Randle had taken his last breath Kody climbed into his truck and calmly drove away.

Hope y'all like this chapter. I'm blending the events in the show with my original creation