On their way through the common area, Tania glanced around but didn’t see Smokey.Was he upstairs with Carter?If he was, she’d see him soon.
Chapter Nineteen
“Prez says you havesomething I need to see,” Smokey said as he stepped into the small room Hawkeye and Pike used as a security office.It wasn’t an inaccurate name, but it was an incomplete one.They did use the room to monitor the cameras the club had placed around the perimeter and strategically around the rest of the compound.But they also used it as the command center.Smokey thought that was a more appropriate name for the room, but he’d been outvoted.
“Well, not so much see as hear,” Hawkeye said without looking up from his computer screen.“Have a seat.”He motioned to a dilapidated sofa along one wall.
Smokey glanced at the sofa and went to sit, moving the baby monitor receiver Rene had brought him to hang off his front pocket instead of being shoved in his ass pocket.How bad was it if they wanted him sitting to tell him what was up.
“First.I got a response back from Fletch.”
“What did he say?”Smokey’s stomach churned.
“He said with the parties involved, we need to do everything through the courts, the legal way.To do it any other way would compromise your case.”
Smokey clenched his teeth.The Werners had connections.Possibly more than the Fallen Angels had.This could go wrong very easily.
“That’s not as bad as it sounds.We’ve got a couple aces up our sleeves.However, you’re going to have to jump through a few hoops to get it taken care of.I’ve scheduled an appointment for you at a clinic in town tomorrow for a paternity test.”
Smokey started to protest, to say that he didn’t need a test to tell him Carter was his but Pike spoke up.
“It’s not for you.It’s for the courts.A blood test from a reputable lab will make it a thousand times easier to revoke his parental rights and have you established as Carter’s father.”
“All right, send me the information and we’ll be there, what else?”
“Fletch is working on getting the paperwork ready.He says he’ll have it ready by morning, then if we can get the fucker to sign it, we can have it filed.Then we have to wait for a judge to sign off.That could be anywhere from a few days to a few months.Once we have things filed, we can reach out to our contacts in the courthouse to get it pushed through but it has to be filed first.”
“Okay.”Smokey knew all of this would need to be relayed to Tania but she’d had a long day and he wasn’t going to add to it.Tomorrow will be soon enough to add more to her shoulders.
“As for the other thing,” Hawkeye spoke, turning in his gaming chair to face Smokey.“It’s big but because of everything else, we’re limited in what we can do, at least right now.”
“What do you mean?”Smokey scowled at the club’s hacker.
Hawkeye pressed his lips together for a moment as if he was trying to find the words to say whatever he needed to tell Smokey.
“I’ve been looking into your woman’s husband since you called.After the incident at the house this afternoon, I expanded that to be looking at his whole family.That’s expanded some as we unearthed things people thought they’d hidden.This is bigger than we thought.”Hawkeye’s gaze flicked from Smokey to Raven and back again.
