30
Liam
“Ideserved at least a pinky after putting up with that goddamn flirting,” Tara fussed, wiping sweat off her forehead as we entered the main part of the warehouse.
The room we’d interrogated Kyzer in was on the other side of the warehouse. Mick had already checked to ensure the sound wouldn’t travel enough for Kyzer to hear us. Although, it was just an additional precaution because as far as I was concerned, Kyzer wasn’t going anywhere until we finished the job.
Mick tailed behind us, riding in his swivel chair, continuing to key away on his laptop, as we surrounded the table we’d set up with our equipment.
“Eh, he’s an entertaining guy,” Kyle said with a shrug. “Gotta be some fun in the sack. I thought Ty was about to storm the interrogation.”
“Tymight have if he’d kept on like that,” Ty said, sounding pissed at Kyzer for his persistent flirting.
Admittedly, I kind of enjoyed knowing he was getting riled up, because God knew I wanted to kick Kyzer’s fucking ass when he was talking about a three-way with Ty.
“I like Jealous Ty,” Kyle said.
“I think it’s a coin toss between him and Jealous Liam,” Mick noted with a smile, finally looking up from his laptop. “Thought you might snap his neck when he said that about messing around with Ty.”
“Are we going to talk about theboyfriendcomment?” Kyle asked.
It was a comment I knew I’d regret the moment it slipped past my lips. Not because of Ty, but because of these assholes.
“I’m not his boyfriend,” I spit out, checking Ty to gauge his reaction. He avoided eye contact. “Just said it to shut Kyzer the fuck up about wanting something else,” I continued. “Now can we all stop treating this like we’re gossiping behind the football stands at school.”
“I agree,” Tara said. “I hope you all got that out of your systems. Liam, while you were gone, Mick and I set up a room to keep Kyzer detained for further questioning…and apparently, we can let Kyle head that up since it seems he’ll be there anyway, unofficially, off the record. But remember this is a privilege, and one I will take away if you don’t take necessary precautions.”
“He’s harmless,” I assured Tara, “but I’d prefer to keep him in our custody until we capture Junior.”
“Still,” she said, “no weapons when you’re with him. No keys. Nothing he could escape with. Someone should always know when you’re in there.”
“Oh, if you all don’t know, then I’ll be doing it wrong.”
Mick chuckled, and Ty remarked, “This is a very different sort of code of ethics for a government agency.”
“Yes, it’s different,” I said. “CIA plays the same game. Sometimes deals get dirty, especially when you have such willing agents.” Kyle shrugged, his grin expanding. He already seemed excited about the sort of fun he would get to have with Kyzer.
Tara moved along, back to the issues at hand. “Let’s hit the highlights. It sounds like we have great timing since Junior will be attending an auction next weekend. That sounds like the place to do it.”
“You can’t just go to this guy’s house?” Ty asked.
Surely, he felt he was stating the obvious.
“Huh?” Kyle asked. “And shoot up his innocent kids and wife, or harem of wives, whatever he’s got going on?”
Ty seemed surprised by Kyle’s concern for Junior’s family. Kyle hadn’t warmed up to Ty very well, and certainly from our conversation before we’d picked up Kyzer, I knew he didn’t want to have much to do with me, but he was a good guy. Could be a real prick sometimes, but there was a reason I’d picked him to join us on F5.
“Kyle’s right,” I added. “We do our best not to drag innocents into this. Not saying we always have the option, but between the security he’ll have there and around him when he’s out and about, this auction is our best bet.”
“Even better,” Tara chimed in, “as Kyzer noted in there, the organizers of the auction limit the amount of personnel a buyer can bring with them. And with Kyzer having ‘escorted’ a few gentlemen to these events, he can provide us with the insider information we need. That gives us this weekend and next week to scope out the location and keep our target under surveillance. Then we can have him extracted and dealt with next weekend. Liam, we’ll need further details about that.”
I noticed the way Ty was looking at me when she said that. It was similar to the way he’d looked when Kyzer was flirting with me during the interrogation. But Christ, if he had a clue about how I felt about him, he would have known he didn’t have anything to be concerned about.
Ty shook his head, as though pulling himself from his jealous feelings. “So what exactly is this auction?” Ty asked. “And what did he mean about the Lorigan Trials?”
“The Lorigan Trials are a championship,” Mick explained.
“If you can call it that,” Kyle followed.
