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Chief’s expression contorts into one of rage. “Then the deal is off! If this is how you’re going to be, then I’m better off reporting this. I could get promoted for such a big bust! You think Flames of Hell was my only option?!”
Flames of Hell?
The man tuts his tongue and casually produces a gun from his back pocket. “See, now why would you go and do that? Why threaten me? Hmm? Did you think paying you wasmyonly option?”
Is he going to kill Chief?!
My eyes widen as Chief Noah shrieks in fear. I watch in horror as the police chief, who I've respected for months, crawls on the floor in front of the criminal, trying to get away.
“Wait! No wait, please! Don’t kill me! If I’m dead, who will make her talk? I’ll cooperate with you! I’ll get the information from her! You can tie me up! I’ll pretend that I was kidnapped too! She’ll tell me if I ask her! Just please don’t kill me!”
Chief’s pleas are met with cruel laughter.
“Don’t beg me. You look ridiculous when you grovel. I’ll admit your plan is easier. If you could pretend to also be captured and get her to tell you where the stash is, you’d be cutting my work in half,” the man says.
Chief nods desperately. “Yes! Yes! I’ll make her talk very easily. She’s just a rookie. She doesn’t know any better!”
The man grins viciously. “Right… Your way is easier, but I think my way will work pretty well too. We don’t need you. Like you said, she’s a rookie. I wonder how long she’ll last when we start to torture her.”
My eyes widen. Did he just say torture?!
With all the research I’ve done on Sins of Man, I’ve heard all about the dangerous motorcycle gangs and how they tortured and murdered people. My throat goes dry from fear.
Am I going to die here? I haven’t even gotten my revenge!
Tears well up in my eyes, and I whimper quietly as they begin to roll down my cheeks.
“Please! Please don’t kill me! I’ll take the ten thousand and go! Please!” Chief cries.
“Nah.” The man angles his head to the side. “I don’t want to give you the ten thousand anymore. I think you’ll be more useful when she sees you dead on the ground with a bullet in your head. That will be a warning so she knows we’re serious, don’t you think?”
He raises his gun, pointing it at Chief’s head, but before he can pull the trigger, the side wall explodes inward on us.
Chapter 4
Rueben
“I’ll grab the girl. Keep watch.”
Smoke and debris fill the air as I step over the blown-up wall, my gun pointed downwards, but at the ready.
As it turns out, Tanner’s plan was perfect. Not that I had any doubts. My gang runs smoothly because I let people do what they are good at, and Tanner’s the best when it comes to this.
He’d gotten the location, time, and Flames of Hell’s defense layout from our spy. Since this was supposed to be a quick in-and-out job, we snuck up and set charges on the back wall. It was about the element of surprise, and to make sure they couldn’t react.
The charges weren’t powerful enough to do any real damage to the people inside, but I was still a bit worried about hurting “Captain’s” daughter. Tanner assured me a little injury would be better than what Flames of Hell had in store for her.
“Okay. We have five minutes before their backup shows up and we become compromised. Josiah and some of his boys are keeping the rest of the men busy. I’ll clean up our traces as we go,” Tanner says to me.
I nod. All of us are masked up and in full gear. The idea is to hide our identities as perfectly as possible. It can’t be discovered that we’re the ones who took the girl.
Ever since the man we knew as “Captain” died, our relationship with Flames of Hell has soured. The undercover cop was in charge of the deal. We turned in everything we got to him.
He died without telling them where the stash was.
That’s what they told us. They didn’t care that we had a forty percent stake in the deal. They didn’t apologize. They just said they lost even more than we did, and they expected us to keep our noses to the ground for any sign of the stash, and tell them if we found anything.
Now the police have brought them a lead, but they haven't bothered to inform us. If Tanner didn’t have a spy infiltrating them already, we would never have known. I’m sure they would have gotten the information from her and continued to keep us in the dark without giving us our share.
