“You did good fighting her but you clearly need help with this part, Sullie.”
I would’ve laughed if I wasn’t too busy trying to catch my breath.
“This is nuts.”
“Here. Handcuff her. I’ll put the socks in her mouth. I stole them from Uncle Leon’s bedroom. They stink so bad.” She watched as I handcuffed the lady and even critiqued the way I did it. “Tighter. Now make sure they’re locked.”
“Where did you get handcuffs from?!”
She motioned for me to roll the woman over and I watched in horror as she stuffed the dirty socks in the woman’s mouth and then handed me the tape. “Go on. Tape it around her mouth and head.”
I found myself going along with her instructions. I wound the duct tape around the woman’s stupidly perfect hair and face a dozen times before ripping the tape and patting the end down. I made sure her nose was clear and then turned on Charlie.
“Where are Ollie and Lee?”
“They’re fine. I locked them in Uncle Dom’s office with their tablets.” She held up a key and grinned. “Now, come on. We shouldn’t leave her out here like this.”
And that was how I found myself dragging a bound woman across a billionaire’s perfect grass with a child encouraging me. I was going to need to process things later but Charlie seemed so much calmer and put together than I felt so I was listening like a good little criminal.
“What’d this lady do, anyway?”
I dropped her feet and put my hands on my hips.
“You helped me handcuff and tape up a woman and you didn’t even know if she’d done anything wrong? What if I was just having a bad day and attacked her for no reason?”
“Yeah, right, Sullie. You’re too nice.” She motioned to the woman. “Now, come on. It’ll be easier to drag her while she’s still knocked out.”
My mouth flapped open and closed a few times before I grunted an agreement and continued dragging her. With Charlie supervising I got her into the bathroom of the pool house and then stood with my back against the door, breathing hard.
“You did good, Sullie. Theo’s going to be proud when he sees what you did.” Charlie bounced in place and then pointed to the door handle. “Now you need to find a way to tie the handle of that door to something out here so she can’t open it and escape if she manages to get out of the handcuffs.”
I let my head thump against the door and blew out a deep breath.
“We’re going to talk about how much you know about this when things settle down.”
“Sure, sure. Now, come on. I’m hungry. Can we watch a movie? We need to get some food for Killer, too.”
I scoffed.
“I’m not a killer. I just knocked her out for a bit.”
Charlie giggled and rolled her eyes.
“Not you, Sullie! The dog! We named him Killer.”
I threw my hands up and searched the pool house for something to tie the door shut but ended up using the rest of the roll of duct tape to tie the doorhandle to the handle of the door on the opposite side of the hall. “There. Good enough, Young Godfather?”
“It’ll do.”
CHAPTER 46
Leon
“A few more moves and Dimitri Stanovich is done. It played into our plans perfectly that that sonofabitch finally crossed the wrong person. We get to give him the justice he deserves and step out of the business as cleanly as possible.” Dominic looked over to me as we left the warehouse where we’d been meeting with Declan Sullivan, the head of the Irish family Dimitri had pissed off. “Once we take out Stanovich and his gang, we’re done. We’re out of this life.”
I checked my gun for the fifth time and rolled my shoulders. I had a feeling that something was wrong but I couldn’t figure out what it was.
“Have you checked the cameras at the house?”
