Total pages in book: 96
Estimated words: 91925 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 460(@200wpm)___ 368(@250wpm)___ 306(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 91925 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 460(@200wpm)___ 368(@250wpm)___ 306(@300wpm)
Gun in hand, I grind my teeth and lift my chin. Whatever’s waiting for me, I’m going to face it head on.
“Welcome home.” I look the big gruff redhead in the face. “Thought my call would get you here sooner.”
I’ve met Brick a couple of times. He’s always been level with me, and that I respect. It’s the blond at his side who I know best and came to call a friend while posing as a Lost Soul in the LA chapter.
“I was told I’d find a ghost here,” Ice says. “Vault this motherfucker sat in our faces like he was one of us. Tell him how long it took for you to find out who he was.”
“I knew who he was the moment he came sniffing around as a prospect,” Vault replies.
“And still you saved his life,” Brick says to Ice.
Ice nods. “I did. I liked the kid, even though I knew he was a cop.”
I look around at all four men in my home. Gutter remains quiet as he glares at me. We’ve never met in person, but I’ve read plenty in his profile.
“Why are you here?” I bite out. “If you know so much, you know I didn’t hand over shit to indict a single one of you.”
“And that’s why I’m here,” Ice says. “You have a problem, brother. Someone wants you dead so they can pin the murder on us. I’m not going to let that happen.”
“But in order to prevent that, we need to do things our way,” Brick says. “It’s about to get messy before we all walk away clean.”
“Why? Why help me and why come here to tell me?”
“Like I said. I like you and I have respect for what you did for us while a part of our family. I told you, you have my loyalty for life. I meant that shit.”
“My Prez says he owes you a favor as well. So, we’re here to solve your problem and ours,” Brick says.
“Do you know what really happened that night you were shot?” Vault asks.
“No, I got a text to come inside. It was a little weird. Ice had said he’d be right back, he forgot something. The text came right after he left me.”
“You didn’t think something was fishy about that?” Brick asks.
“I did. The text wasn’t from his number,” I muse aloud.
When I got inside, I heard someone behind me, but they got off the shot before I could turn. From there, I remember bleeding out and Ice’s voice telling me to hold on. That’s all I remember.
“You were shot by a Falcon,” Ice says gruffly. “An Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms agent, named Eddy Broker.”
“Motherfucker. Can you prove this?”
“Sure can, that’s why he wants you dead,” Gutter speaks up for the first time.
“So what’s the plan?”
“We need him gone, but Eddy isn’t going down without a fight. He’s fucked over too many people to land in a jail cell,” Brick says.
“This is true. However, he and the others need to be revealed or else this shit will just continue,” Vault counters.
“We want to be left alone to live our lives in peace. You’ve been a brother. You see how hard we work. We don’t have time for this shit. It took years to get to where we are and we’re not going to let anyone take that from us,” Ice says.
“Then we need to expose him, not dispose of him,” I reply.
My phone rings pulling my attention. When I pull it out, I see it’s Rem. I frown knowing I can’t answer right now, I need to take care of this situation. I send the call to voicemail.
“He’s right, you know. We need to root out everyone involved,” Vault says.
“So tell me what you would do,” Ice says to me when I look up.
Reminisce
I look at my phone and grind my teeth. It’s the third time I’ve called Knight and received his voicemail. I know something is off. It’s a feeling I have.
I place the phone against my forehead. I should let this go and move on. It would be for the best. Only, my heart isn’t in agreement with that.
I dial my sister. She will be the sounding board I need. I have to get out of my head after the things Knight said. If I don’t, I know I’ll spiral into a panic attack.
“Hello,” Saga says, not sounding like herself.
“Everything okay?”
“I … yeah. It will be fine. What’s up?”
I pause for a moment. I don’t want to dump my shit on Saga if she’s dealing with something of her own. I release a sigh low enough for her not to hear.
“You know what. It’s not that big a deal. I’m going for a run. Call you later.”
“You sure?”
“Yeah, I’m good.”
“Okay, call me in the morning. We can talk then.”
I hang up, but her words linger for a moment. I stop analyzing them before I drive myself crazy. Saga will talk when she’s ready.