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“So it’s our women, ‘Our’ women, but why? We never killed any women or children when we went after that fuck, so what’s he up to?” I can’t believe we missed it. All this time we thought the only reason the girls had been in danger was because of their association with us. That it was my brothers and I they were really after. But what if they were the targets all along? And if so, why?
“Why would The Fox go after women? If this thing was about us running him to ground and destroying his operation, why not just try to destroy us, why them? This doesn’t sit right. We’re missing something I just don’t know what the fuck that can be. But I’m no longer willing to sit around trying to figure it out while they take shots at us.”
“Okay, the embezzlement thing with Dani’s firm, we’re agreed that was a separate issue.”
“Or a coincidence Logan. I didn’t know her and she wasn’t that close to the commander. If what Cord is saying is true, then they knew that Susie was the commander’s kid. How they know is yet to be seen, but they know.”
“And what? They’re trying to kill our women because we went after Khalil? That still makes no sense.”
“Well Dev, we’re just gonna have to connect the dots because that’s the only thing that makes any sense.”
The more we stood there trying to figure shit out, the more I wanted to go be with my woman. I needed to feel her next to me, to reassure myself that she was okay. I hadn’t even had a chance to look at her neck, fuck. Just as I was about to leave Lo’s phone rang.
CHAPTER 11
CORD
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“I see you left us a little present, next time the girl won’t be so lucky.” Lo had the speaker on so I heard that fuck loud and clear. “Cord…” I held my hand up to stop him from saying anything else. My temper was up a few notches and there was no outlet. That’s a dangerous fucking thing.
“You have the trace on?” He nodded yes and followed as I headed for the commander’s place. “Let’s see who our caller is.” The fucking call hadn’t been long enough, no trace and the voice didn’t sound familiar.
“I’m taking point on this one Lo, I’m not gonna argue with you about it.” My phone rang this time before all hell could break loose. “Yeah.” Lo was still giving me the look that meant this wasn’t over but for once I was willing to bear his wrath.
“This is Susie and Davie’s mother, where are my children, what happened to them?” I barely bit back the words of anger that burned a hole in my tongue. “They’re here, with me.”
“Why, I thought I made it clear that I wanted them home with me.”
“Really, where were you when your daughter was almost strangled in her fucking bed? You wanted them home but couldn’t even spare one night of your busy fucking life?” The others moved forward, each man ready to cut me off, but the shit needed to be said.
“Give me the phone brother.” My hands shook in anger as Con took the phone out of my hand. I walked away because I had no interest in anything she had to say. Con got off the phone a few minutes later with a heavy sigh. “Cord…”
“She’s not going back there.”
“For fuck sake Cord they’re her kids.”
“I really don’t give a fuck Lo, and the first one to get in my way on this is gonna land on their ass.”
“Okay-okay, let’s throttle back everyone and remember we’re all on the same team.” Zak stepped in between us.
“I know you’re not gonna let her go back and she’s of age but what about the boy? He’s still under his mother’s care.” Lo posed the question that I was sure we all already knew the answer to. He was the old man’s blood, no way any of us were gonna put him in danger.
“He stays.”
“And the mother?” He lifted his brow at me.
“She has a lot of explaining to do, but either way they’re not going back there.”
“I told her there was a situation but that the kids are okay and we’ll keep them here for now. I made it sound like a break-in. She’s naturally upset, and I offered to come get her and keep her here if she was afraid to stay in the house, but she said she has a place to go. She’s one strange woman. I thought for sure she’d put up more of a fight, but she just said to keep the kids safe and hung up the phone.” Cord shook his head as he passed the phone back to me.
We’d been trying for weeks to pin her down to get some answers but she kept evading us. We all knew the kind of man the CO was and there was no way he would’ve left his kids unprotected and unclaimed.
So far none of the notes we found had said much of anything about the situation, except for that one entry where he mentioned a suspicion that the two kids might be his. I wasn’t sure how that shit worked since they were a few years apart, and I’m thinking if she pulled it off once how in the fuck had she fooled the CO twice?
No one could come up with an explanation for that one, and we still haven’t told them that the man they knew and loved as a friend was actually their dad. We’re still waiting for the right time to make that play.
In all the time her kids have been coming over she never once set foot over here to see what kind of people we were and we’d seen her a total of two times. Granted Susie was of legal age, barely, but still. That shit gave me the impression that she was neglectful at best and I didn’t even want to think about the worse.
