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“No. There’s no direct link to him and Gerald Morkham or Triple Z that I can find, but I’m going to keep digging. If Gerald got him to trash Eveline’s place, then he might’ve approached a middle man who knew Randall needed some extra cash because of his situation with the Desert Snakes. He’d be homeless because no one would want to be associated with him. Likely all his friends were fellow gang members, so no way would they want anything to do with him.”
He agreed with Cass’s summation. “Are you thinking then he was murdered by the Desert Snakes, or someone else had a beef with him?”
The police still believed Randall had ended his own life, but he didn’t believe it.
“With sleeping with Jerome’s—he’s the leader—woman, yeah killing him would definitely be payback, but I’m not sure.”
“What about her? Is she still alive? Seems to me Jerome would be just as pissed at her as he was at Randall.”
“Unless she made it out that Randall forced her, which would give more credence to him eliminating Randall.”
Eveline turned the corner, and Ox started the car, edging it forward. “Evie’s out. But keep me posted if you find anything else. I like the way your mind’s tracking. The fact that Jerome let him live long enough for the guy to be able to be employed to do a crime has warning bells going off in my head. Seems he’d want Randall of out the gang and his life, so he’d kill him straight away.”
“Yeah, there’s that too. I’ll keep digging.”
“Don’t work too long. Make sure you head home in thirty minutes.”
“You’re as bad as Irish,” Cass grumbled and hung up before he could retort.
The door opened, and Ox’s sweet Eveline climbed in.
He couldn’t deny there was an immense amount of pleasure welling up in him when Eveline climbed into the car.
Ox hadn’t graduated to leaning over and kissing her in welcome, but he was damn close to it.
Tonight, he had plans. He was going to take her out to dinner. There was this great little place that served the best Thai food he’d tasted. It was out of the way, but he didn’t care.
“How was your afternoon?” Ox asked.
Because he was now watching her closely, they’d met for lunch daily. He deliberately kept the chatter light and didn’t ask too much about what was going on—he heard most of what she was doing, after all. The only time it went silent was when she went to the bathroom.
“Boring, as you would know.” Eveline sighed and tapped her fingers on her thigh. “I think this is a waste of time. Gerald isn’t doing anything. The guys are all acting differently from when they first arrived. It’s like a spell has been cast. Now I’m wondering if I imagined the ill feeling I had toward the new guys. Maybe I wanted them to be bad. For whatever reason that would be, considering I don’t know why I would think that. It’s just…frustrating.”
“I understand, baby, but it’s only been three days. They’re probably doing this deliberately so you start second-guessing yourself.”
“Maybe.”
So far Ox hadn’t told her about his life before opening Alliez for Grayson and Riley. How when on a mission, he and his team observed the same thing for days and weeks believing that their intel was wrong, only for it to change on a dime and then all hell would break loose.
“Trust me when I say, the waiting is the most painful part of any mission,” he said.
Ox had opened the door a little, and now he would see if Eveline would push it open or if she’d not touch it.
For the first time since she’d made her way back into Kyle’s life, he was giving her a peek into his past, and she was going to take it.
“Mission?”
“Yeah, you know I was in the military.”
“Yes. Army, right?”
“Yep, I was special forces.”
Special forces.
“Like a SEAL or something? I mean I know they’re Navy. What’s the Army equivalent.”
“There’s a few—Rangers. Green Beret. Delta.”
