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Damian is waiting for me at the cabin up the mountain. He’s pacing and yelling into the phone and I eye him askance.
He hangs up and growls, running his hand down his face. “Family,” he grunts.
“Yeah. I know the name of that song. Let’s call Tomas. Have you heard or seen anything strange?”
“Not really. I heard something about a hunter, possibly a poacher being up her on the mountain where he’s not supposed to be. He’s actually been on this property.”
My head turns quickly and my mind races. That seems strange. I’m new here and there’s somebody on the property that I’m renting.
“Did they have a gun?”
“Must have if they thought they were a poacher.”
Nodding, I pick up my phone and call Tomas. “Hey, brother.” His face scrunches.
“You look blissfully happy. Ugh. Is that what a woman does to you? I hope to fuck I never have that happen to me. You’re smiling too much. It’s disturbing. You look like a serial killer.”
Damian laughs. “Well…”
“Hey! I never killed unless I had to.”
“Well, there must have been a lot of people just begging for it then.”
Tomas laughs. “Okay. That’s enough. I’ve got some news. I got a trail for you. You know that runt that was working for the Sullivan crew? The one that we got ahold of that turned on them before he had an accident.”
“Yeah. That wasn’t us. That was their own crew.”
“Well, apparently the boy was one of the enforcer’s boys. Like a nephew or something and he’s pretty pissed that the boss insisted on taking care of him. He blames you for it. So he’s apparently hired a hit man to take care of you.”
“Do we know who?”
“Yeah. Specter.”
“Jesus,” I growl and Damian stares at me.
“Who the fuck is that guy?”
“A ghost. Nobody knows what he looks like and he’s never failed to kill who he was hired to kill.”
Damian grimaces. “Okay. That sounds bad.”
My head comes up. “He knows what Scarlett looks like and he saw where she works and she doesn’t know who he is.”
“Neither do you,” Damian points out.
“I’ve got a fucking gun. She’s got a fucking cat. At her house.”
“Okay. That’s basically all you need to know.”
“What about Sullivan’s man?”
“Already working on it. We should have him taken care of tonight. He’s the easy part of this because you know there’s no way to call off the hit. You’ve got to get to him before he gets to you.”
“I know,” I huff.
Damian sighs. “I think we need to talk to Colt about this.”
“The fucking sheriff?” I holler. “Are you crazy? There’s no way he’s gonna listen to a damn thing I say. I’m kinda famous.”
