“I gotta get back baby, just mind what I told you okay and keep your head down.” I left her and headed back outside. My mind had already switched gears and moved on to the next issue. Dev, Quinn, Ty and Davey were the only ones in the mansion when I got there.
“Where’s everyone?” I went back to what I was doing before Lo called a halt. There was a deeper sense of urgency now. I knew we were playing it cool, but beneath the surface we all knew that we were sitting on a powder keg. The names on that list were no small time drug dealers. If they were involved in whatever this is, then we were in the middle of some serious shit.
Now I was convinced more than ever that they had done the commander. If word of this shit ever got out, it could overturn a lot of apple carts, and men like these would do anything not to let that happen.
“The other bitch-made douchebags are sniffing around their women most likely.” Ty looked at the kid. “Hey kid, scram.” Davey looked at Dev and I before leaving the room for the kitchen. Since we’d been spending so much time there lately the sisters had stocked up and the kid did eat a lot. “What’s with you, why’d you nix the kid?” Quinn scowled at Ty.
He looked over his shoulder to make sure the coast was clear. “What the fuck are we gonna do about Cord and the sister?” “What do you mean, what the fuck do you wanna do?” He threw a few peanuts in his maw and rocked back in his chair.
I kinda knew what he was getting at, I’d had the same thoughts myself after all, but there really wasn’t a damn thing to be done. “She can’t handle him, those two are like oil and water.
We all know how Cord gets with a female; he’s nuttier than squirrel shit. And the way he looks at this one, she’s not like the others. Still, I wanna go on record as saying this shit will not go down well.”
“We don’t know that.” Dev, who come to think of it seemed to be the only one other than Quinn who didn’t have a woman on his scent was still pretty laid back. “Brother are you serious, have you seen the way she tries to talk back to him? We all know where that shit’s headed. Somebody better check his fucking house for a playroom or dungeon or whatever the fuck. All I know is that little girl is in some serious shit.” I’m not sure what the fuck he expected any of us to do. I guess because he was running scared from his own little filly he thought the rest of us should too.
“They’ll be fine, can we get back to work now, seeing as how I’m the only one not with a female on my dick at the moment?” Quinn grouched as he turned back to his computer screen.
“You and me both brother.”
“Yeah you keep telling yourself that Tyler, but as much shit as you talk, your ship is already sunk.” I hid my grin as the two of them went back and forth with that shit. By the time Lo and the others showed up we were back to work trying to piece shit together.
Chapter 6
LOGAN
Things are heating up in more ways than one. I’d had to move fast after finding the commander’s instructions in the codes, but we were finally getting somewhere. So far we hadn’t found what it was that he had uncovered if anything, but we knew he had been on the right track.
Zak’s findings today had changed things up a lot, put a whole new spin on things. If what the old man had suspected is true, then we were dealing with some dangerous fucking individuals. The men themselves may not be much; I could take those fuckers with my bare hands in my sleep.
But that’s usually the way with these types. No, their strength came in the form of the power they wielded.
They had money and standing not only here, but internationally as well. It had long been rumored that these fucks were in bed with the devil, as far back as the first world war. If you ask me, if you wanted to trace the axis of evil, all you need do is study all who gained from that shit. After I’d sent my brothers off to secure our home I went in search of my woman. I needed to look at her and reassure myself that she was okay.
I knew there was no way anyone was getting in here to harm her or any of my family, we’d seen to that shit when we built the place, but still. These players were nothing to sniff at, they had access to everything the army did and wasn’t shy about using it on their own. We should know, we’d seen some questionable shit when we were on the job.
One thing we’d learned as a unit was how to survive. When we’d been building this little haven we’d put a lot of security measures in place.
One, because Ty was convinced that one day the threat would come from our own, and two, we didn’t trust one fuck. I guess Zak and Con had the same idea as I because I saw them both leading their women off to their homes. Cord came up beside me and I braced myself. It’s always the quiet fuckers you have to watch out for. “Something on your mind brother?”