“Right...them?”
“Them.”
“And the guys who hit me?”
“Theirs.”
“Right. And the first dead guy?”
“Yeah, that was me.”
“Sheesh,” he said with a frown as he drove off. “I’ll get back to you on that one. Right around the time that the image doesn’t make me want to throw up.”
I couldn’t help but smile. “Normally, I’d say you get used to it, but that’s a lie; you never actually do. But even so, I’d never want you to get used to it.”
I was forgetting something.
“I don’t like that you’re used to it,” he said.
No,wewere forgetting something.
I leaned the good side of my face against the window as he rolled to an unnecessary stop at an empty intersection. “Betterthat I’m used to it than you ever needing to try to get used to it. I would do all this again if I needed to.”
What the hell was it?
“That’s sweet and all, but?—”
“Dom?”
“Don’t pull a speech on me, Levi. I’m not in the mood.”
“Where’s the signal blocker?”
“The—”
We both flinched, the truck screeching to a halt as a ball of fire flew into the air above us, and I watched debris rain down through the side mirror. It wasn’t enough explosives to destroy the entire office building, but there was a giant flaming hole in the middle of it for sure. It had been more than enough to take out anyone in the meeting room and anyone unlucky or stupid enough to be outside it as well.
“Does your insurance cover uh?—”
“Acts of gang war?”
“Yeah.”
“No.”
“It’s nice to see insurance is just as useless for gang bosses as it is for the rest of us.”
“At least clean up will be easier. I’ll have Will work on handling the investigation...and arranging a few meetings with the police to make sure they know everything has calmed down,” I said, wanting to scowl but knowing that moving my facial muscles might make me pass out. “That is, if I don’t strangle him first, interfering busybody.”
“I should probably call him, get our story straight. Because this was definitely not the kind of rescue mission I thought I’d be doing.”
“Say what now?”
“I’m not good at this shit like you are, but hey, there might be a way to get you back on the right side of things.”
“Excuse me?”
“God, Augustine is going to have a field day with us after this.”
