Tulsa joined Jed as he checked out the five little white pills with the “E” imprint on them.The baggie itself was plain, with no stamp or sticker to identify who it came from.
“Who would be stupid,” Jed was going to add, “enough to impersonate a Son,” but like a light flipping on, it hit him.“What did this man look like?”
“He was around six feet tall, good shape for an older dude.His hair was graying, and he looked like he might be in his 50s.And he had one of those,” he pointed to Jed’s name patch.“It said Tinker on it.”
“Motherfuck,” Tulsa growled.
“I knew he was up to something.”Turning his attention back to Levi, he asked, “You know the man who paid you to sell that shit here was sending you into a situation that he didn’t care if you walked away from it or not.”
“What?”Levi choked.
“He wanted you to get caught, and he didn’t care if you got hurt in the process.That simple enough for ya?”Tulsa spelled it out.
Levi swallowed hard, and his face went pale.
Now he was getting it.
“What’s going to happen to me?”
“We could call the cops and turn you over to them.”Jed offered one suggestion.
“Or we could beat the shit out of ya and send ya on your way.”Tulsa’s suggestion made the kid look a little green.
“Do you have people who live out of town?”Jed asked.
“I have a grandma who lives in Boulder.”
“You need to go stay with her for a while,” Jed told him.
“For how long?”Levi’s knee started bobbing up and down.
“Until this is sorted.If you don’t leave town, Tinker’s going to find you, and you’ll be lucky to live.”No reason to sugarcoat it.The kid needed to be scared straight so he didn’t do something this stupid ever again.
“Oh my God,” Levi cried.“All I wanted was to make enough money to pay my rent.”He gripped his hair in both hands and started rocking in his chair.
“Snap out of it, kid!”Tulsa smacked him on the back of the head.“If you swear to never pull this shit again and that you’ll leave town, as in now, we’ll let you go with a warnin’.”
“I swear I will never do anything like this again!I swear it!Maybe I’ll see if my grandma will let me move in with her for a while.”He added the rest under his breath like he was thinking out loud.
“Then get out of here, kid.”Jed nodded for Tom to follow him up the stairs.“Send him out the back.”
Levi shot out of his chair so fast, they were surprised they didn’t see flames trailing behind him.
Tulsa laughed and shook his head.“Stupid fuckin’ kid.What was he thinkin’?”
“I don’t know.It pisses me the fuck off that Tinker would use a kid to pull something like this.And it worries me that he’s wearing our cut while getting into the drug trade again.We’ve got to find that fucker.”He started up the stairs, Tulsa right behind him.They climbed back into his truck, and he started it up and kicked the heat on.While he waited for it to warm up, he pulled his phone out, saw the time, and winced.He wasn’t going to have time to take Tulsa back to the clubhouse before he needed to be at Big Dick’s for Sadie.She’d be closing up soon, and he didn’t want her heading to her car without someone at her back.He shot off a quick text saying he was on his way.“Hope you’re not in a hurry to get back because I need to head to Big Dick’s.Sadie’s closing soon, and I don’t want her leaving alone.”
“No.No hurry.”Tulsa waited until Jed was pulling out of the parking lot before he started in with the questions.“So, you and Sadie, huh?”
One side of Jed’s mouth kicked up.“Yeah.Looks that way.”
“Cool.I like her.She’s hot.”
Jed glanced over to see Tulsa sporting the biggest shit-eating grin on his face.“You idiot.”
As he made the turn into the bar's parking lot, he was thrown off by how dark it was.The lights were off inside the bar, and the only light shining on the parking lot was at the entrance.The light in the far right corner, the one Sadie usually parked under, was out.When did that happen?
He swung his truck in that direction and just about lost it.Sadie was on her knees on the ground next to her running car.“Oh fuck!”He sped toward her, coming to a jarring stop.He barely had it in park when he jumped out.
