Total pages in book: 134
Estimated words: 126485 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 632(@200wpm)___ 506(@250wpm)___ 422(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 126485 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 632(@200wpm)___ 506(@250wpm)___ 422(@300wpm)
My phone beeped with a message.
I’m at the docks. Where are you?
Aislinn. After what I’d just found out, I wasn’t really keen on seeing her. I didn’t know anything about the bug yet, but Aislinn was a suspect.
“Aislinn is here. Come on. I’ll bring you to her.” Finn followed to where Aislinn was already pacing around with a look of worry.
“Finn!” she said, her face lighting up. She wrapped him in his arms. Then she turned to me with a grateful smile. “Thank you for taking care of him.”
“We had fun, don’t we?”
“Yes!” Finn exclaimed.
Aislinn tilted her head, narrowing her eyes in confusion. “Is something the matter? You seem tense.”
I smirked. “The usual stuff. Nothing we should talk about now.”
She glanced at Finn and nodded. It was strange how well Aislinn could read my mood. Few were this adept.
“Can someone take us home?”
“I’ll tell Timothy to take you. He has kids, so maybe Finn will fit into the child seat in his car.”
“What about your car?” She looked around. “I don’t see it anywhere.”
“The engine isn’t running smoothly, so my men are taking a look at it.”
“Oh,” she said and smiled. “How will you get home then?”
“I’ll find a way.”
She came toward me, stepped on her tiptoes, and kissed my cheek. “Thanks again. I’ll be a very good girl tonight to show my appreciation.”
I forced a smirk. I called Timothy over who took them away. Then I returned into the warehouse.
I didn’t want to believe Aislinn was involved.
Seamus watched the boys taking apart my car.
“Anything yet?” I asked. The warehouse was a huge hall with many loud noises, so I doubted a bug would be placed here, and even if it were, it would be impossible to hear anything.
He shook his head.
“When was the last check-up?”
“About two months ago?” Seamus said with a shrug.
We usually checked all of our cars for bugs every other month.
Seamus stepped closer to me. “I made a list of people I remember being in your car. The list included himself and Timothy, five other of my men that had worked for my family for a long time—my brothers, and Aislinn and Finn.
“Well, it wasn’t you or Timothy.”
Seamus frowned. “I’m honored that you trust me, but you shouldn’t cross people off the list too soon.”
“What do you want? A meeting with Rody? You can withstand torture.”
“It wasn’t me all right.”
I rolled my eyes. “Yeah, thanks for the heads-up. So you and Timothy can be crossed off. I don’t think it was one the other men. I know them and their families. Fuck.”
“It could be them. Maybe the police made a deal with them. You never know.”
“I want to talk to them today. Call them over if they’re working somewhere else.”
“Will do.” He hesitated. “Your brothers are out of the question too, right?”
“Right.”
“What about Aislinn?” Seamus asked carefully.
I gritted my teeth, trying to suppress my rage over his suggestion even if the same thought had crossed my mind. “Let’s cross off the others before we suspect my wife.”
I could tell that Seamus didn’t agree, but he nodded.
“I bet Desmond is involved. I can feel it. He’s been on me for a long time.”
“Could be. He’s been lying low, but we always knew he’d eventually focus on us.”
“We should get our hands on him and question him.”
Seamus’s eyes widened. “You know we can’t release him after we torture him.”
“We tortured people before and then let them go. If they’re terrified enough, it works.” I shrugged. “Or we kill him. I don’t like his stupid face anyway.”
“If a police officer disappears, things might get really tough for a while and with our new business endeavor with Sergej …” Seamus blew out a breath.
He had a point. We couldn’t be at the center of an investigation while we tried to flood the market with counterfeit guns. Sergej wouldn’t like that.
But Desmond might be the only one who could shed some light on the bug situation.
“If it was Aislinn, it’s very possible that there are bugs in your apartment too.”
“I’ll check it tonight. Get me the men on our list now.”
Three hours later, I’d talked to every man on the list, alone and eye to eye. I couldn’t believe that one of them had betrayed me. But that was the problem with moles. They were often close to you.
“I want you to grab Desmond for me,” I told Timothy and Seamus as we sat around the table in the small kitchenette of the warehouse in the late afternoon after we’d searched every corner of it.
Timothy drew in a sharp breath.
“Tonight? Or do you want to wait for what your search of the apartment reveals?”
“It doesn’t matter what my search reveals. We need to know what Desmond has heard.”
“Did you reveal anything about the Russian deal?”
“Not in the car, not in my apartment. I’m not a rookie. These things were handled in person. I don’t think I revealed anything major in the car or the apartment, but we need to know for sure. I don’t want to stay in the dark.”