Chapter Fourteen
Ace and his brothersopened the door into the kitchen and as they walked inside Ace caught Charli’s eyes.He nodded and she rushed toward him.He wrapped his arms around her and just held her for a moment.
She leaned back and asked, “So that’s my uncle Ray?”
Ace nodded.“Yeah that’s him and we told him we knew he came here to kill you.”He shrugged, “He never denied it.What he did deny was the fact that he’s committed treason to this nation.He claims he has immunity because he’s under Gypsy law.He seems to think we can’t judge him and we’ll never find the evidence Shay needs to arrest him.”
Luna and Collette looked at each other then back at Ace.
“There might be one way to track those guns,” Luna told them.
Ace and his brothers stared at her.
Deuce walked over to her and knelt in front of the chair she sat on.“What are you saying, baby?”
“We know that when Whittaker left he tried to run,” Luna explained.“But he didn’t get very far because you guys froze his money.Then Traven got his hands on him and he showed him what his faulty equipment did over in the sandbox.It was brutal and exactly what that monster deserved.We also know his entire list of inventories went missing and no one could find it.We also know that Carmen’s death was just as brutal and then his inventory went missing.If Ray took them to start over in another location, we might be able to find it before he can move it.”
Just then the front door opened and Shay walked in with a few of his own men.He’d caught Luna’s statement and he stared at her then he asked, “And just how do we do that?”
Luna had an answer for that too, “Gauntlet and Whittaker were very paranoid.They thought they needed control over everything.Whittaker micromanaged every aspect of his life and every person that lived in his house.”She shook her head.“When we were young, he even had us tagged, so he would know wherever we were.Of course, he never told us about it but he was a cold arrogant man and we were just another thing he thought he owned.”
Colette nodded.“Even after Carmen took me away from that house, he would taunt me that Whittaker knew exactly where I was and if I didn’t do my obligation as a wife, he could still discipline me or my sister.”
Shay frowned and growled.“He tagged you two?”
Luna and Collette nodded.
“I couldn’t even remove it when I found out,” Luna said.“Then when I found out that Collette was dead something inside me broke.The day I ran I realized what Whittaker was going to do to me, I figured I had nothing left to lose.”
Deuce shook his head and explained it, “When I found her that morning I knew she was running from a nightmare she couldn’t stomach anymore.When we heard her story, I think that was when Whittaker knew his reign of terror was over.He tried to run before we could get him on treason charges but that didn’t work out so well for him.”
“So how do we find his guns then?”Shay asked.
Luna looked at her sister and at Colette's nod she rattled off a frequency range for a radio.“Whittaker traced everything, his vehicles, his so-called daughters, his staff and mostly his guns.I wouldn’t be surprised if he didn’t tag his friends and his enemies.”
Ace smiled evilly.“And we might have a possible location for his compound.We found his vehicle stashed in the woods and he has a GPS screen.If you hithomeit might give you a location.”
Shay’s lips curved up into a grin and chuckled.“Finally, we’re catching a break.With this arrest, we’re only down to one man in cracking Whittaker’s entire empire.Now we’ve only got Hammer left to find.”
Mario froze then looked over at Charli.
She was now looking back, almost studying him intently.Then she remembered something and her eyes widened as she stared at her cousin.
Mario looked devastated as he looked back at her.
She took a step back and raised her hand to cover her mouth.
