“No, but Fort Knots does.”
Reno slowed down. “But I thought you said Rats wasn’t in Fort Knots. When Lolo said he was in it, you said he wasn’t.”
“I lied,” said Mick as he hopped behind the steering wheel of his Escalade.
Reno and Sal looked at each other. “What you gonna do?” Sal asked. “Cause neither one of us can beat his ass.”
Reno was disgusted with Mick, but he knew it too. He got in the SUV.
“We gonna go get him now?” Sal asked Mick.
“We’ve got to find him first. I had my guys searching for him after I found out Dirty had been grabbed.” Dirty was Mick’s nickname for Dommi. “But we couldn’t find him. He was underground then, and still is.”
“Dammit!” said Reno. “Always something.”
“We’ll have to find him first,” said Mick. “But don’t worry. We’ll find him.”
Reno knew it too. But all of the waiting was beginning to get to him.
CHAPTER THIRTY
Three days later, while they were still waiting for word of Rats Scorvino’s whereabouts, they received an unusual visit.
When Hamilton “Hammer” Reese stepped into the penthouse, everybody knew it was something big.
“I only have a few minutes,” he said as he ordered Reno, Trina, and the “principals” at the house, to come with him. Those that were there were Mick, Sal, Tommy, Monk, Big Daddy, and Mick-and-Big Daddy’s half-sister and Hammer’s wife Amelia. They all looked at each other nervously, wondering what in the world this was about, as they followed him into Reno’s office and Tommy closed and locked the door.
They stood in front of Hammer as he leaned against the front end of Reno’s desk.
“What’s this about, Hammer?” Reno asked him.
Tommy’s people weren’t able to retrieve the video off of Trina’s badly damaged phone,” he said, “so Charles got in touch with me.”
Reno was shocked. “Got in touch with you?” He looked at Big Daddy. “You told him, Big Daddy?”
“No, I didn’t tell him,” Big Daddy said to them. “But I told him that there was a video somewhere out there with information on it that could ruin Katrina. Because guess what? It could! So yes, I told him that there was a video out there. But no, I didn’t tell him what was on it. I didn’t have to.”
“Why not?” asked Sal.
“Because I already knew,” said Hammer.
Another shocker. “How would you already know?” Amelia asked her husband.
“When the wife of one of the most powerful men in the world is a target of an assassination attempt, it gets my attention. When that husband and wife are related to me by marriage, and my children are in their bloodline, I take a closer look. That is why, while he was hospitalized, I made a visit to the home of the man with whom Trina was in that motel room. Mr. Javon Douglas.”
“And?” asked Reno.
“And I found the video he had hidden inside his residence. Very deeply hidden. It was encrypted with triple layer encryption. Which meant he knew what he was doing. But my guys uncovered it.”
Everybody looked around at each other, and then at Trina. Was Hammer there toarresther?
But Amelia, who did not know about the video, was confused. “What was on that video that has everybody looking like they’ve seen a ghost? What was it?”
“I’m going to play it, Katrina,” Hammer said.
Trina’s heart dropped. “Why do you need to play it? I don’t want anybody seeing that!”
“But I need you to see it.”
