“It doesn’t matter, does she know how much danger Lucas is in or why we have him hidden away? One day her meddling is going to get one of her sons killed,” Tucker yelled.
“Listen, calm down, you and I know she means well, and she loves her kids to death and wouldn’t do anything to hurt them intentionally.”
“Yeah, well, if something happens to my family I won’t forgive her.”
“I get it okay, and I agree with you. Marilyn is the kind of mother I think my mom would be, meddling in my life trying to fix everyone’s problems and putting herself last. Just remember she’s doing it out of love and care.”
Tucker knew Jaxson was right. Marilyn cared about her sons, but at this moment, her need to fix the family’s problem of everyone finding out about her husband's infidelity could put the man he loved in danger. “If you’re done lecturing me, want to tell me why you came in here?”
“I think we might have found Gianni."
“Where?”
“News came in the pen that the police have a man cornered in a warehouse.”
“Are you sure it’s Gianni?”
“Yeah,” Jaxson answered.
“What aren’t you telling me?”
“We think he might have hostages in the building with him. They are not sure how many. But that’s how we found him.”
“You better have a good reason to be stalling, Jax,” Tucker said to his friend.
“He keeps asking to speak with the shadow.”
“What?” Tucker yelled standing to his feet. “Shadow is Lucas’ code name. Gianni must have found out from January.
“We need to find a way to take over the scene,” Tucker said, then a thought came to him. “How did the cops find him so easily? We’ve been searching for him for months, and suddenly he literally falls into our hands just like that, I’m not buying it. Are you sure it’s Gianni?”
“Don’t think I haven’t thought about that, we already have a working theory that he was working with someone else in the Seeker organization. Only a select few know exactly that Lucas is in hiding and not on vacation. What if this is a way for Gianni and his partner to try to bring Lucas out of hiding?”
“Asking to speak to Lucas would definitely do that.”
“I get it, okay. It all seems too easy, but our only choice is to go with it. If we can bring Gianni in, we can get Lucas home.”
Tucker nodded. “So, what do you think we should do?”
“Give them what they want,” Jaxson said simply.
“Are you out of your fucking mind?” Tucker roared, but Jaxson didn’t back down. He was used to Tucker’s yelling whenever he fucked up on a mission. “I’m not letting my husband walk into danger all so that we can catch this mother fucker.”
“I never said it had to be Lucas,” Jaxson snapped back. “Did you forget he has an identical twin brother?”
That took the wind out of Tucker’s sails. “Shit, would Tyler go for it?”
“All we have to do is ask him.”
“All right, let’s call him and find out, we need to get over to that warehouse before we lose Gianni to the cops completely.” Jaxson nodded and pulled out his cell phone calling Tyler. It was a gamble they were taking, Tucker felt anxious, and he didn’t know why he had the strangest feeling that something was going to go wrong, and he prayed that no one he loved ended up dying. But if everything turned out okay, he could have his family home by the end of the night.
* * *
“Areyou sure you can do this?” Tucker asked his brother-in-law.
“Yeah, I want him home as much as you do, it’s odd that I miss seeing his ugly mug,” Tyler said with a smile.
“I’m sure he misses you too.” Tucker smiled genuinely for the first time in days. They’d made it to the warehouse, and the place was swarming with cops and a few SWAT team members.
