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Tuesday was more of the same, except we’d had no sightings of the girls again. None of the potential partial licenses led to any viable locations. Things were looking really grim, and I’d barely slept more than a few hours each night. I was exhausted, afraid of making a mistake, and overly emotional. The only thing keeping me functioning was the knowledge that Violet and Tori needed me to find them. My thoughts were driving me mad. Uncle Helios’ words from Monday bounced around in my head. We were missing something. But what?
It wasn’t until Wednesday morning that we finally caught a small break, when Xochil came running into my office.
“You have to hear this,” she said, grabbing my arm and pulling me toward my work office.
Miguel, Elias and Roger, who had been released last night but not allowed to try to shift just yet, were huddled together around one of the computers. When I reached them, Miguel pushed play on the recording he’d put on speaker.
Unknown person 1: Go get the damn passports. We’re leaving tonight and if we can’t make him see reason, we’re getting the fuck out here.
Unknown person 2: They’re not going to come for us. They don’t even know about us.
Unknown person 1: You don’t know that!
Unknown person 2: We’ve given them no reason to attack us.
Unknown person 1: Are you fucking kidding me? Nickolas took Huitzilopochtli’s family. The god of fucking war hunted down his own siblings for centuries when he thought they killed his mother. Do you really think anyone connected to Nickolas is going to be safe right now?!
Unknown person 2: But w—
Unknown person 1: We had a plan, and Nickolas fucked with it. We’re not ready to take on Huitzilopochtli and all of his allies. Tezcatlipoca isn’t even corporeal yet, much less at a strength where he can fucking touch them! Nickolas has lost his damn mind, and I’m not going to get swept under with him.
Unknown person 2: So, what do we do?
Unknown person 1: We’re going to go see him and hope to the fucking night that he’s not hurt those girls, and he can return them before the entire plan goes to shit.
Unknown person 2: And if we can’t?
Unknown person 1: Then we fucking hide and wait for instructions from Tezcatlipoca himself. We’ll be fine. We’re the ones running the legit business. We can run another one somewhere else while we recover from this shit show. Tezcatlipoca might even promote one of us if Nickolas gets himself killed.
Unknown person 2: We’d have to recruit more, get to run things for once.
Unknown person 1: Calm the fuck down. We have to survive this shit show first. Call Nickolas. I want to talk to him.
There was silence for a moment.
Unknown person 2: There’s no answer. It says the number is disconnected.
Unknown person 1: Call that fucked up torture club he loves so much. He’s been hiding there since they raided his office.
Unknown person 2: It was called Pleasures someth—
Unknown person 1: Forbidden Pleasure. Ask for Master Yogi.
Silence again
Unknown person 1: Nickolas, what the hell were you thinking? We’re not fucking ready.
Silence
Uknown person 1: I don’t give two fucks. You took their goddamn women. Kill the fucking men if you want to. You know how wolves get about protecting their women.
Silence.
Unknown Person 1: Tezcatlipoca isn’t ready. Your plan is foolish and half-cocked at best. I don’t care what your plants said, there’s no way we can— You’ve dug your own fucking grave… I DON’T FUCKING CARE! YOU’RE ON YOUR OWN.
Silence
Unknown person 1: Forget the cars. Get our passports, our money and call the lawyer to sell this fucking place. We’re getting the fuck out of this country while we can. Nickolas has lost it.
