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Bailey started to squirm, fidget and fret, straining against his restraints fruitlessly. After a few moments of struggle, he sank into the chair, breathing heavily, looking like he was on the verge of tears.
“Now I think he’s starting to get it,” Wyatt said.
“What do you people want?” Bailey pleaded. “I mean, you want something, right? You don’t do all this shit unless you want something.”
“I want your balls to fall off, and your dick to turn purple and…” Carly began to yell at him, but Jocko stood in between her and Bailey, trying to calm her down.
“Listen to me, dipshit,” Wyatt said, ignoring Carly’s antics to focus on Bailey. “You want to walk away from this with a minimum of damage? You testify that you planted those drugs on Carly. You testify that Harris paid you to do it. And in return, we’ll lose the gun and forget about the breaking and entering.”
“Yeah, and the attempted killing,” Carly added over Jocko’s shoulder. “Or whatever the legal-ish type term is for that.”
“You play ball and cooperate, you might even get a light sentence and minimum security. Which is more than you deserve, but it’s better than facing down attempted murder, breaking and entering, illegal firearm possession… that right there is twenty years’ hard time, at best.”
“Shit. Shit,” Bailey whispered, looking down at the ground.
“Is that a yes?” Wyatt asked.
Bailey began to fidget again, shaking his head, looking around the room like a trapped animal. If his hands hadn’tbeen restrained, he would’ve been pacing and running his hands through his hair compulsively.
“He said, is that a yes, motherfucker, or do I start chucking ninja stars?” Carly shouted with surprising volume and violence in her voice.
Bailey jumped a little, startled at the sudden rage directed at him. He cringed away as Carly darted around Jocko and full-on lunged at him, her arm cocked back with a piece of shiny sharp metal in her fingers.
“Easy, easy,” Jocko said, getting back in between her and Bailey and gently holding her back. Back toward Bailey, though, he said, “You better make your mind up quick, man, she’s fucking crazy, I’m telling you.”
He gave Carly a little surreptitious wink. Carly, in turn, ramped up the performance, struggling just a little against him.
“Let me fuck him up!” she said. “Let me fuck up his business!”
“You’re gonna let them do this?” Bailey said to Mackenzie.
Mackenzie said, “I don’t see a thing.”
“Okay, okay!” Bailey said, his eyes on the ninja star held at the ready in Carly’s hand. “Harris paid me, yes!”
“Paid you for what?” Wyatt said.
“To set her up. To plant the drugs on her.”
“And you’ll testify?”
“Yes!” Bailey said. “Damn, man! What the hell? Who uses a ninja star, anyway?”
“This girl does,” Carly said, calm now, smoothing down her sweatshirt that had gotten a little rumpled during her outburst.
Jocko led her a short distance away from the others, saying quietly, “You good?”
“Yeah, yeah. Just really got into it there, you know?”
“Yeah, I noticed. Let me fuck up his business?”
“I don’t know. It was all I could think of. No good?”
Jocko shrugged. “It worked.”
“Right. Right. You have… very broad shoulders,” she said, squeezing the solid delts she had felt during her fake struggle performance.
Jocko said, “Thanks.”
