"Yes and I told him where we'd all be meeting. Rage killed his sister and buried her in a backyard like a stray dog. She's as good as dead."
One hundred and thirteen.
"What about the Colombians?"
I shook my head. "They weren't invited. They don't matter to me. Let my brother and Daddy clean up that fallout later."
"And what about the pretty boy?"
I looked away, staring back out at the gray, bleeding horizon. "Nothing about him."
The car went silent for a long stretch, the only sound the heavy hum of the tires against the blacktop.
"And when this is all done, Jamie? Then what?"
I shrugged, "Shit, Moses. I don't know."
Chapter Twenty-Nine — Jamie
The warehouse swallowed sound the way the ocean swallowed light—slowly, completely, until all that was left was the echo of your own heartbeat.
My hands were shaking. I was scared as fuck. I wasn’t scared of death, but I didn’t want to die now. Still, I couldn't dwell on it or I'd freeze. I watched Moses hang up his phone and waited for a few more of his men to pull up before I finally walked inside.
I stopped in the center of the concrete floor, the exact same spot where Vinny had shoved Rage down and saved her life. If only he’d let the bitch take that headshot, none of this would be happening. The bloodstains were still there—dark and dried into the cracks like they'd always belonged.
Fucked-up and poetic.
I got to work barking out directions. I had forty minutes at most before the rest of the snakes arrived.
"Ant, catwalk."
Ant nodded and headed for the metal stairs.
"Rico, behind the old crates."
He disappeared into the shadows.
"Moses... office upstairs with your other guys."
He stood his ground, not moving, an eyebrow raised.
"What?" I snapped.
"You know this plan is stupid."
"I do."
"You could still leave."
I looked toward the heavy warehouse doors. "No."
Moses shook his head, a somber look crossing his face. "Don't die. You too pretty, Brownie."
He disappeared up the stairs just seconds before the warehouse door groaned open behind me.
My first guest of honor had arrived right on time. I'd needed him here early.
"Marcus," I called out.
