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“Same,” I said. “They threatened your families?”
“Yeah,” Fury replied. “Gavin’s ready to go burn down anything connected to Arthur Dalton.”
“Probably not the best idea,” I said. “Tempting though.”
“The three of us need to come up with a plan,” Fury said. “Something that’ll protect our people without giving Arthur what he wants, but giving us enough time to figure out how to take him down.”
“Is Gavin with you?” I asked.
“No, he’s at home with Carrie and the kids,” Fury said. “Let me conference him into the call instead of us trying to figure out the best place to meet. The sooner we get this taken care of, the better.”
“Yes, please.” I closed my eyes and rubbed my forehead. “This is crazy.”
“That’s a good way to describe Dalton,” Fury said dryly. “Give me a minute, and I’ll get Gavin on the line.”
A few seconds later, I heard Gavin’s voice. “Hey, Sienna. You okay?”
“Freaking out a bit,” I admitted. “Probably the same as you guys. I mean, I don’t have a spouse or kids or anything, but?—”
“People you love are being threatened,” Gavin interrupted. “Doesn’t matter who they are. It’s … a lot.”
“So how are we going to do this?” Fury asked. “I’m assuming that hiring a hitman to kill Dalton isn’t a real option.”
“Don’t tempt me,” Gavin said.
“I can tell Vanessa to stay with her parents, but I don’t know if that would end up putting more people in danger since they just live in Brooklyn. They’d be easy to find,” I said.
“She can stay with someone in my family,” Fury offered. “All of them have top-of-the-line security, and I guarantee they’ll all be locking down once I tell them what’s going on.”
“She can also stay with my family if she doesn’t want to stay in the city,” Gavin said. “I’m sending Skyler and her grandparents, along with Carrie and the kids, to our vacation home for a while. Vanessa’s welcome to join them.”
“Thank you.” A rush of gratitude warmed me. “I’ll let her know she has options and find out what she wants to do.”
“Family protects each other,” Gavin said, as if it were that simple.
As if I’d ever had a family willing to do for me a fraction of what Gavin had.
“We take care of that first,” Fury said. “Get our people safe, and then we go after Dalton.”
“How do we do that?” I asked. I felt completely out of my league here.
“We go on the offensive,” Gavin said.
“I’ll dig deeper into his finances,” Fury said. “See if there’s any way to squeeze him that way.”
“And I’ll reach out to my connections, see if anyone knows anything about him we can use for leverage,” Gavin added.
And suddenly, I knew what I could do.
“I’ve got connections too,” I said. “In some … different parts of the city. I’ll ask around, see if there’s anything there I can use. Maybe we’ll get lucky and he’ll have a coke addiction or something.”
Even as I said it, though, I knew it wouldn’t be that easy. Nothing ever was.
CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
Sienna
I watched Vanessa toss another pair of socks into her suitcase, visibly frustrated. “I fucking hate the idea of you being stranded here alone while I’m whisked away with your boss’s family to some swanky summer retreat,” she griped. “If Gavin’s family has space for my ass, they sure as hell could accommodate you. Christ, you’re the one who actually works for him.”
