Total pages in book: 142
Estimated words: 132031 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 660(@200wpm)___ 528(@250wpm)___ 440(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 132031 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 660(@200wpm)___ 528(@250wpm)___ 440(@300wpm)
“You’re what?” Shanna barked. Her utter surprise yanked Dev’s undivided attention to her but not his movement. It may take him ten minutes to get to Cash, but when he did, he was going to fuck the guy up. They thought he’d tried to head butt before. Wait until his forehead smashed that pretty boy’s nose.
Cash gave his sister a distracted wrinkle of the brow as if her question was nothing more than an annoyance. “Settle down, Dev,” Cash commanded. “Agent Fox, under the authority of the US Attorney General, from this point forward, you and Joe work for me. Any communication with your current superiors must go through me first. It’s the way it has to be for now.”
Cash got to his feet with those catlike reflexes that had driven Dev wild. Now they only pissed him off at how much he missed. All the signs were there. Of course this guy was too good to be real. He reached across the far side of the table, handing Shanna an iPad.
“Forgo reasoning with him and show him what’s been done to him. We have to calm him down before we can hope for any rational dialogue.”
She looked disgruntled as hell but took the offering.
“So Cash isn’t DEA?” Dev watched from the corner of his eye as she asked the nerdier one with the shaky hands. The guy shrugged.
The gravity of a situation Dev didn’t fully understand landed in Shanna’s troubled stare that was pointed back on him. She got to her feet, letting go of a deep sigh. Tension filled the small room. “This just got way more serious, brother. You need to listen to me very carefully.” She went around her chair, pushing it back toward the table. “Can we move him closer to the table so he can better see what I’m talking about?”
He could no longer see Cash. Those stealthy wildcat ways had slipped somewhere behind him. He heard a deep sigh and the gag at his mouth loosened. “If you make one more move to hurt yourself with the table or the pad, I’ll tie your chest to the chair. Got it?”
The gag came out of his mouth. Every bit of saliva went with it. He had to work his jaw with his lips completely closed to make everything inside his mouth work properly again.
“Let my hands and feet go. I won’t do anything,” Dev countered, hoping he sounded truthful. Cash tilted him back on the two legs and pushed his chair forward again. The defiance embedded in his soul couldn’t help but try to actively make his body heavier to complicate the movement.
“We’ll take it in steps,” Cash said once Dev was settled. The frustrating man casually took his seat again as if he hadn’t made all the tension in the room palpable.
Dev held his tongue mainly to see what intel Shanna had that caused her to turn. His club, his brothers, and Keyes needed to know.
Nothing had changed for him. By doing this, they may have pushed him back into the underbelly of the club he’d been trying so hard to break free from.
Fuck the DEA.
Fuck the attorney general.
Fuck the AG whatever unit.
But he’d need his brothers’ help to exact the retribution he planned. They thought he was the devil before. They didn’t understand the meaning of fires of hell raining down on them. But they would…
Chapter 23
Cash watched silently as Shanna spoke in meticulous detail about what the DEA knew of Dev’s outlaw bike club activities. She didn’t reveal everything, only enough to make Dev understand the government was fully aware of the Disciples’ illicit drug dealings.
What Shanna didn’t know, what most people in this room didn’t understand, was how far reaching the drug operation really was and how much had been stolen from both the enormous drug loads as well as the actual money from the sale of those drugs. The theft of money was currently the hardest part to pinpoint.
The layers involved in moving those drugs were deep. The longer the questions went unanswered, the graver the danger for every member of the club, their families, and all the innocent undercover operatives involved in running those operations.
Cash had already risked too much by allowing Shanna to reveal so many truths to Dev, but he saw no other way to shift Dev’s allegiances. If they could somehow manage to gain Dev’s cooperation then prove his worth in the field, perhaps they could better determine the source of all the thievery before the cartel, or worse, the rogue agents, put their boots in the Disciples of Havoc brothers’ asses.
Havoc was too big. Tens of thousands of members worldwide. The potential bloodbath on American streets would rival any war zone.
If Dev didn’t cooperate, then Cash had played his cards all wrong and risked every person’s life inside this room as well as the lives of many innocent agents on the streets.