“You hurt her and that will sign your death warrant, you know that right?”Cassie growled.
“All I want is to know where that little puke Robbie stashed my gold!”Banger yelled.“No one needed to get hurt here but you and her both just refuse to just give me what I want.Damnit, I spent ten years inside the big house, praying every day that I’d be able to find the fucker who took it and get my own revenge for what he did to me and my life.But now all I have is you two.Tell me where it is!Right this minute, tell me where that little puke hid it.”
“No,” Cassie told him calmly.“I’ll tell you when you turn Peaches free.That’s my price.I have no guarantee that you won’t kill her if I tell you.The gold is there and you can get it anytime but you have to let Peaches go, then I’ll tell you.”
“You little bitch.”Banger seethed.“You aren’t in charge here, I am.You tell me and I’ll leave her alive.If you don’t, I’ll slit her throat.”
“You hurt her anymore than you already have and you’ll be looking over your shoulder every day for the rest of your fucking life, but you know what?You’ll never see the bullet with your name on it until it’s too late.And you’ll never know who was behind that bullet, it could be her husband Iceman, her father or grandfather.Hell, it might even be me by the time it reaches you and pierces your heart.But it’ll be too late for you to beg for mercy and by then you’ll never find the gold.Your life will be wasted for nothing and that gold will just sit there covered in dust and some other soul will find it one day and he’ll live like a king from the riches you left behind.”
“Over my dead body.”Banger growled in rage.
“You let her go and I’ll tell you what you want to know,” Cassie told him simply.
“You come alone and I’ll let her go,” Banger countered.
Chapter Two
Cassie caught her breathand looked over the table at Deke.
He kept shaking his head.
They had been just about to go to bed when the call came in.She too had put the call on speaker and Deke heard most of the call but he kept quiet until now.He opened his mouth but Cassie put her free hand over his mouth and shook her head.
Deke glared at her then picked up his own phone and texted Iceman.
Cassie took a deep breath and said, “Tell you what, you tell me where you are and I’ll send someone over to collect her, it won’t be one of the bikers but someone I trust.As soon as he gets there and sees Peaches, I’ll tell you what you want to know.”
“And how will I know you’ll tell me the truth?”Banger grumbled.
Cassie scoffed.“I don’t lie, whether you believe that or not, but why would I lie?“
“For the gold.”Banger growled.
“What the hell do I need the gold for?”Cassie snarled.“I have a fortune of my own.Plus, I don’t want what I can’t earn myself.Nor do I want something that doesn’t belong to me.Janelle Walden had plenty of gold hidden in her walls too.She got it from selling children, that gold had too much blood on it to be worth anything to me.My blood and the blood of each child she sold into slavery.It was already tainted when the boys in blue got to it.”She paused, then said, “Robbie would see it and dream about the things he could buy with it.He was just as bad as his so-called mother and the monkey on his back taunted him to find his own gold that only he could spend.That was when he made his biggest mistake.You had what he wanted so he lied and he set you up to take the fall for him.Then he went after your gold.He took it and hid it but the monkey on his back wouldn’t leave him alone.He had to have more and more.So Robbie fell hard.He didn’t know the more he grabbed the harder that monkey would ride him.That’s when he got stupid and crossed one too many lines.He thought no one would ever catch him and he got careless.Then someone did catch him and he died by the same violence he tried to push on me.I survived but he never had a chance.I think in the end he knew it.”
“Oh, boo-hoo.Poor Robbie finally faced judgement, what do you want me to do about that?”Banger quipped.
