“I don’t think so, doc,” I growl.
“I have to check the stitching.” He looks at me like I’m crazy.
“Just the stitching,” I snarl. I swear it’s a wonder I haven’t ground my back teeth to dust since I started dating this slip of a woman.
Raegan gives a giggle, and it soothes me just enough to calm down to let him finish his exam. He finally leaves, and I sit back on the bed and adjust her covers.
“Now, tell me.”
“Well—”
The door hits the wall with a bang interrupting us once again.
“Jesus Christ!” I swing around ready to shoot the intruder.
Sutton, Roger, Claire, Rocky, Havoc, Riot, and Brass all come in as a group, and it has me running my fingers through my hair. They all rush to Raegan, and I know that I’m going to have to wait to get my answers. I catch a glance at her and see her giving me apologetic eyes as she’s given repeated hugs with the group.
Over an hour later, I’ve herded Sutton, Rocky, Roger, and Claire out of the room to go get my woman some real lunch so that we can get to business. Havoc and Brass both pull up chairs as I sit on the bed facing my woman with Riot standing at the foot of the bed. I need to feel her warmth after missing her these past few days.
“Okay. Now tell us what is going on.”
“After what happened with Dennis and Carly, I was furious. I made a vow that night after talking with my dad that I’d serve up justice to them. I started following him and checking his records.” She shrugs her good shoulder. “You know hacking and all. And I found that he’s been depositing large amounts of cash around the same time every month. It was around the time of the next deposit, so I started following him.”
Why didn’t Trick say anything about this? She been going around town like a gumshoe, and he didn’t think to mention anything?
“I took my camera with me and shot some pictures of him and who he was meeting up with. Some were city council or local business owners or Sutton’s father, but two days later he met some woman at an abandoned house on the other side of town. She looked familiar. I think she’s one of the girls that hang around the club. He also met up with some guys out on the side of the highway. From a distance I thought it was business, but we were well out of the city limits. My camera caught most of it, but I couldn’t tell who the men were. Just that they drove black SUVs.”
“Who?” I bark. “Who is she?”
“I’m not sure, but I asked Sutton to go and get my camera that’s in the closet. I snuck into the abandon house one night and snapped a few shots of what the house was like on the inside. There were papers and drawings scattered about. He is planning something, I just know it. Anyway, I was going to tell you the next day after the race, but…”
“Why didn’t you come to me when you thought a rat was affiliated with us?” I ask.
“I hardly ever saw you during that time. Sometimes you’d get home after I’d already gone to bed and then leave before I woke. Even when I tried to call you, I’d get sent to voicemail. I wasn’t even sure that she was part of your club. I only thought she was, and I didn’t want to accuse someone if I didn’t know for sure.”
I hate she didn’t tell me right away, but I know that she’s right. We were gearing up to take down the Vipers, and I didn’t have time to eat much less answers calls.
Sutton finally shows up with Raegan’s camera and laptop, and we get a full view of who is with Mayor Dennis Burns.
“That fucking bitch.”
“You want us to act like normal around them as if nothing has happened, and they aren’t fucking rats?” Reaper fumes after I have an officers’ meeting. It’s been a week since getting Raegan home and settled.
“I’m not sticking my dick in that bitch, no way,” Chains says in refusal and some of the other men follow suit.
I knew the reactions were going to be bad when Havoc and I told them about our little rat in the clubhouse.
“It’s just until we catch them at their next meet up, which could be any time now,” I tell them. If Raegan is correct, it could happen as early as today or tomorrow. We’ve got Hawk stalking their phones with the Pegasus Spyware Raegan implemented, and we placed a tracking device on their cars.
“Why not let her visit our guest house? I’m sure she’d sing like a canary within the first few minutes of her stay,” Ledger asks.
Havoc and I thought of that, but we need them to meet up and be at the same place without one tipping off the other.
“Got movement,” Hawk interrupts us from his seat where he’s got two laptops open and is working from. “The mayor just sent a text to her. Meet up is in an hour.”
“Guess it’s our lucky day, brothers,” I say to the room. “Here’s what going to happen…”
Forty-five minutes later, we’ve got our guys in place. Havoc and I have been working on ideas how we can surprise them and it go undetected. Brass has some of the guys looking like construction workers on the side of the street with cones out measuring something. Reaper has a crew with a van that looks like an internet company working on the pole three houses down. Havoc and I are planted in the shed behind the abandoned house. It looks as though the slightest breeze will have it come crashing down.
