The elevator doors opened and he walked out, sweeping his arm toward my car. “So, you just follow the drive back to the east, that’s your right, and head for that big sign that says EXIT. That means-”
“I know what the fuck an exit means.”
He held up his arms and looked at me in mock surprise. “I’m just trying to help. You look like you don’t get out very much.”
I ground my teeth, biting back the retort on the tip of my tongue. It wouldn’t do any good to engage a neanderthal like this.
“So, anyway, you follow the road through the exit, and then you head for the gate. You don’t have to do anything. They know to open that big thing- the gate, and let you out.” I turned to leave and he shouted after me. “I like your suit! It makes you look very….distinguished.”
I turned and stormed back to him. “What’s your name?”
“Sinner,” he grinned cockily.
“Sinner, someday you’ll learn to keep your mouth shut before it gets you into trouble.”
“Shit, trouble is my middle name. I happen to like trouble. It’s a lot of fun.” He leaned in and lowered his voice like he was telling me a secret. “That’s when you do things for pleasure, enjoyment. Know what I’m saying?”
“You’d better watch it. You might have too much fun one day, and then I’ll be coming for you. It might be sooner than you think.”
He nodded, smiling the whole time. “I’ll be ready, but you should know, my version of fun involves guns and massive explosions.”
He fucking winked at me and turned the other way, leaving me absolutely fuming. I stormed off to my car and got inside. My phone rang before I could leave, and this was a call that I couldn’t let go unanswered.
“Cortez,” I answered crisply.
“Do you have them?”
“We have Collins. Parker wasn’t there, but we think we have a lead on him.”
“Get to him. If you don’t take care of this, you’ll find yourself looking for a new job. Understand?”
“Perfectly.”
“Don’t fuck this up.”
He hung up without another word. I fisted my phone tight, wishing I could just break the fucking thing and walk away. I would get that fucker and finish this job, and then I was going to find a way to separate myself from the senator once and for all.
A text came in and I pulled my phone out to check it. I needed some fucking good news right now.
We’ve got Parker. Chopper is waiting for you.
My phone pinged again with an address just outside of town. I grinned to myself. I was less than a half hour from having all this shit wrapped up.
Chapter Thirty-Two
Cap
I watched the fucker walk away, but forced myself not to move yet. I had to wait until he was out of here. Blake had been right to make me step down. There was shit that I still needed to take care of, and while the FBI only had arrest warrants right now, when they realized that Blake didn’t have the journal on her and neither did Parker, they would be coming back with search warrants, and we needed to be ready for that.
The doors slid closed and I watched the security monitor as the agents made their way out to the parking garage. Sinner was fucking with Dennick. Just what I needed. He got in his car and a few minutes later was pulling out of the driveway. I burst into action, pulling out my cell and barking out orders.
“Becky, conference room, now! Tell everyone.”
“What’s going on?” Blake’s father asked.
“I’m sorry. I hate to push you out, but we have shit to take care of.”
“We can help,” Todd insisted.
“You can’t. I wish you could, and I know this is your sister, but I promise we’ll do everything we can for her. But right now, we have to make sure that when those agents come back, they have nothing to find. Otherwise I can’t help her.”
“You expect us to just leave?”
“Look, if you stay here, then everything she said was for nothing. You’re supposed to be here only because I was worried about her. If you stay, it looks like we’re working together. Believe me, they’re going to come back, and when they do, they’ll be looking for anything they can use against her. They’ll try and slap you with interfering in a federal investigation. Will your sister hold out against that?”
“They can’t do shit to her. All they can do is hold her,” Matt argued.
I shook my head. These guys just didn’t get it. “Do you really think that’s true? You have too much faith in government if you think they won’t use any tactic necessary to get the information they need. You don’t know the shit your sister stepped in, but there are powerful people involved, and I don’t even know the full extent of it yet.”
“But they-”
“Look, she did something and they hunted her down with a fucking blackhawk helicopter. Not just anyone can get their hands on one of those. That tells me that whoever is after her will go to any lengths to make sure that she doesn’t talk and they get what they’re looking for.”
“Cap, what’s going on?” Becky asked, rushing into the room.
“Guys, I need you to leave now. I’m serious, don’t wait around. Get home and go on with your lives.”
“We can’t just walk away from her,” Todd argued.
“Fine. Rob!” I shouted as he hurried down the hall. “Get a burner phone.”
He nodded and raced back to the IT room.
“I’ll give you a phone that you use only to talk to me. I’ll call you with updates as to what’s going on. Under no circumstances do you use it for anything else. If something happens, if the feds show up again, you call me immediately.”
Rob rushed in the room and handed me the phone. I gave it
