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“Doing their job,” I added, pleased my team did as they were trained to do. Jesse nodded.
“They were in there for maybe four minutes,” Jesse narrated. We saw the door fly open, and Sonny looking fit to kill. “Then Sonny left. He seemed even more upset than Cameron was.” The camera feed switched to the elevator where Sonny made a call asking for someone to ping Matt’s cell.
“So, hedidfind out about Matt’s death tonight.” Jesse looked at me, and I knew we were in for something wild when we got back to Vegas. Matt and Sonny had been close for years. “Okay,” I let my mind go, “if Sonny found out about his business partner being dead, that would explain Sonny’s behavior but not Cameron’s. Something’s not adding up.”
Brick addressed the whole room. “Maybe Cameron had Matt on retainer. That would explain why he’d be upset he lost another client.”
“Matt has a lawyer, Peterson and Lowell,” I answered. “They’re in Chicago.”
“Oh, shit,” Jesse pulled our focus to him again, “look what I just got. This is the last time we can find any video footage on Matt Myers.” He switched the TV to an outside feed, and Brick instantly tuned in. We watched as Matt and two other men walked inside Minnie’s club.
“Fuck me.” Brick hurried to the door and pushed it open. “Minnie, get in here.”
Kenna
“Yikes, that doesn’t sound good.” I turned to Tess as we watched Minnie disappear inside the trailer. Tess had a puzzled look on her face. “What?”
“Something’s going on.” I stood when she did. “I’ll text Rail and see if I can get a feel for what’s happening.” She moved a few steps away, and I looked over my shoulder.Fuck it.
I hurried over and quietly opened the trailer door. The guys stood in front of a giant TV watching a video. I froze when I saw the man on the screen.
“No, Minnie!” I covered my mouth as everyone turned to stare at me in the open doorway. “How could you!”
“I didn’t,” she shook her head, “I swear, Kenna. I would never.”
“Then how?” I pointed at the screen.
“I don’t know. Honestly.” I should have known she’d never tell my secrets. I’d just panicked. The stone wall inside me started to crumble as I realized what I’d done.
“You know who that is?” The shock on Grim’s face made it ten times worse.
“Something really big is going on, Kenna.” Minnie moved closer to me. “No more secrets.”
“You’re one of us, Kenna,” Trigger said from the far corner, “inner circle. Means no fuckin’ secrets.”
“It's not like that.” I looked at the floor and tried to pull up some courage from deep inside. “I wasn't trying to keep it from you, I was trying tohelpyou.”
“Meaning?” Grim studied me from where he stood. I took a deep breath and fought to think straight. “From the beginning,” he added.
I nodded; it was time. I dropped heavily into a chair and began.
“Since I was about fifteen, my father began to have a magnitude of men over. I can’t remember a time when the house was ever empty. I was told one of his clients came with a team and that’s who they were. I was eighteen when Sasha Landry arrived with a few others.” I shifted uncomfortably.
“Don’t stop now.” Grim waved at me, and I looked up briefly, his gold eyes burning into me.
“Over the years, I’d hear things. Anything important was done in Dad’s office. Everything else was just mindless chatter in the background. But there were a few rare times, when they’d forget I was home and hold a meeting with the door open. The day before I met you,” I looked at Grim, “I got a call from Mom. She needed something scanned from dad’s office. I got home and did what I needed to, and just as I was finishing up, I heard someone come into the house. I slipped out of the office and hid behind a door across the hall. I never liked being in the house alone with any of them.”
“Speed the story along.” Grim was clearly impatient with me.
“I’m trying,” I snapped back, not needing his assholiness.
“That guy, Matt,” I pointed to the screen, “and another guy stopped outside dad’s office. They were discussing Matt’s alibi and how it had to be perfect before he testified in court. That he had to stick to the script so everyone else's matched up. Matt,” I pointed to the screen again, “promised he was ready and that’s when the other guy held up some photos.” I paused; I remembered that awful moment all too well. “Well, I knew I had to do something. So,” I took a deep breath, and Minnie cleared her throat.
“That’s where I come in.” Minnie tried to help me out. “I got a call from Kenna saying this Matt guy was going to be at my strip club that night, and that when he arrived, she wanted me to call her. When he came in with a few other guys, I made the call. Ten minutes later, she arrived.”
“Why didn’t I know about this?” Brick hissed under his breath.
“You were in LA,” she reminded him.
