“I’m keeping her.” He kept walking ahead towards my place and I closed my eyes for a second for some damn peace. I need this shit. Ty the ass is gonna start his fuckery any minute now, as soon as he catches wind of this turn of events, and that girl is a menace.
She’s cute, no doubt about it, but she’s got a mouth on her, and knowing Cord and his…fuck I’m not going there. I guess Zak was right, I’d have to keep an eye on that shit. Poor girl, I almost felt sorry for her.
At least Gaby stood a chance with me, I had some give. That fucker didn’t have any, and I imagine that if she was the one he’d chosen, her life had just been derailed. Maybe I can have Gaby have a talk with her about how to mind her man. What the fuck am I thinking? She needs help in that department herself.
Fuck it; I just have to resign myself to the fact that the peace and quiet we’d all been in search of when we came here was a thing of the past; fucking women. I took enough time to lecture her about staying inside and most importantly not giving me any shit about having to stay inside for the next little while. Of course she gave me shit and asked me a million and one questions, but when there were no answers forthcoming she calmed down. Not that I trusted that shit, but with the clock running, I didn’t have time to sit on her ass. So with one last warning I left her to head back to the others.
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ZAK
“So, now we know one of the players involved, how do we figure out the rest, and are we still trusting the chief?” When dealing with shit like this, with these kinds of players, it was always best to keep shit close to the vest. I trusted the men in this room with my life, but I wasn’t about to trust anyone else. So far the commander seemed to have trusted the chief, but that was then and those two had a different kind of relationship. The chief certainly didn’t have any allegiance to us, and was only doing us a favor because of his ties to the old man. But if that particular family was involved, then there was no guarantee that we could trust anyone in government, which meant we were close to being fucked.
“We’ll keep digging. As it stands we have no reason not to trust him, and we don’t have any reason to, other than the old man’s word.
We’ll play it by ear and see what we see, but we need him for this, we just have to play it smart. I want everything we have on these fucks, the world knows the eldest son is part asshole, part fuck up, but what else do we know?
Who’s next in line to inherit? That’s what we have to find out. All their business dealings, even the ones that are listed under dummy corporations, we need ASAP. Zak, Quinn, I’m gonna need you to go deep on this one, do a thorough search, don’t leave any stone unturned. Davey you’re here because the old man liked you, you fuck with us on this we’ll bury you.”
The kid looked at Cord and swallowed deep before turning back to the task Lo had given him of running a search on off shoots of the family’s holdings. We all got back to work on our individual piece of the puzzle. With security boosted, it meant the women didn’t have any privacy, so whichever house they were in, whatever room, was running on a loop in the background.
We left the sound off to give them at least that much, but they were gonna be under a microscope until we got to the bottom of this shit.
I hit on something not even an hour later, but it wasn’t what I’d been looking for. I sent an alert to all of them except Davey with the warning not to react for the kid to see, and then I shut down what I’d been working on.
Lo and Con turned to look at me with their brows raised and I walked over to the printer to grab the paper I’d printed out. “We’ll be right back kid.” He barely picked his head up and went back to what he was doing, just happy that he was involved.
“What is it, what did you find?” Ty with his impatient ass hounded me as soon as we cleared the door. I just passed the paper off to Lo and the others waited for him to read it before passing it around. “Oh shit.” Cord had the strongest reaction. “Both of them? No wonder the kid’s so fucking good with a gun, it’s in his blood.” Cord looked a little green around the gills when reality kicked in. He walked away and bent at the knees.
“How sure are we about this?” Connor passed the paper back to me.
“The old man seemed pretty sure, but I don’t think he got as far as the DNA test, as you can see he was setting it up right before he died. I’ll keep digging but I don’t think he ever did anything, otherwise those two would’ve said something.”
“I wonder why he never said anything about this to any of us.”