He handed me another burner phone.
Then I realized there was a small problem. “Uh, I don’t know my bodyguard’s phone number. It’s in my phone. Back at the house.”
So, they drove me back to Jesse and Katie’s house. No one said a word on the drive.
When we parked at the curb outside the gate, Blazer said, “I’ll wait here ’til he comes.”
“Thank you.” I glanced at him. He seemed to be looking at me now, but he never took off his shades, so I couldn’t see his eyes. Just his mouth, as he gave me a small, rather terrifying smirk.
I got out and shut the door.
“Jesus Christ, Jude,” I muttered to no one.I really hope I can trust you.
Then I went inside and called Darrell to come over. And when his car pulled up outside, a short while later, the SUV drove away.
Chapter Forty
Devi
The rest of the day was a very long and nerve-racking process of phone calls, updates from Jude, and nail biting on my part.
All I could picture was some clandestine meeting somewhere, maybe in a biker clubhouse, where my name and my husband’s were now being muttered in the shadows.
In the afternoon, Blazer and the same young guy picked me up again in the same SUV. They drove me over to the penthouse. When we got there, we met up with three more guys, other Kings, who were parked out front in a van that saidTriple X Securityon it.
I recognized one of the guys. Maddox. I knew him, kind of. He worked a lot of Dirty events, and I often saw him backstage, hanging with Jude. He nodded at me but didn’t say anything.
I didn’t ask questions or make conversation.
I just took them up to the penthouse like Blazer told me to, while he waited out in the SUV. I let them in, with their laptops and bags of equipment. I programmed the steel doors to stay open so I could hear them from the parking garage, where I waited. But they were dead quiet in there.
They came out about forty-five minutes later. I locked up, and we headed down in silence. Though I noticed one of the guys stayed behind, in the parking garage, doing something on his laptop.
Another one sat down in the lobby, cap pulled low over his face, and got to work on his laptop.
The building security guy, one of the team who worked at the front desk and Dane had made a point of introducing me to, didn’t even blink at him—because he was with me. He saw me and nodded a friendly hello.
I waved back without a word.
Outside, I got back into the SUV with Blazer and Maddox got back into the van.
As I was driven back to Jesse and Katie’s place, Blazer was on the phone, talking to someone for a while. Actually, he didn’t do much talking.
When he got off, he told me, “We found a listening device. Just one, in the living room.”
I exhaled. I wanted this to be good news. It was, but it wasn’t fun to hear it. “Great.”
“We’ll do some more digging. We can decode it, probably, see what it can tell us about who put it there.”
“Okay. Is that what they were doing on their laptops back there?”
And if so, why did they stay behind in the building?
Blazer didn’t even answer that, just looked out the window. Obviously, he wasn’t going to tell me anything more, if whatever they were doing was illegal.
It was, I was pretty sure.
If it was legal, maybe they wouldn’t have all been so creepily mute about it the entire time.
