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“Yes, we’ve been through it. It was self-defense, defense of another. And they were trespassing and they were armed. I will do my best to make that go away, and we certainly have a case to get you out of a manslaughter charge. But you’ve violated your parole.”
I rake my fingers through my hair. “Sitting down with some idiot was the last thing on my mind for the last two weeks. And the guns are mine. I own them.”
“I get that. I do.”
I shake my head. “You don’t know what was going on with Savannah, Lola. She was taken by the McAllister family, and she was going to be forced into marriage to Miles McAllister.”
Lola’s eyes widen.
“Yeah, Savannah is a member of the Bianchi family.”
“Damn.”
“Right? I wasn’t going to let that happen. He was about to rape her when we found her.”
She takes a deep breath then slowly exhales. “I’m sorry, Falcon.”
“If you want to arrest somebody, get someone thrown in the slammer, go after Miles McAllister.”
“He and his family live in Austin.”
“So? Get them investigated.”
“I work for your family, Falcon. I don’t work for the state of Texas.”
“I know that, but how have they been able to exist? Get away with this shit?”
She shrugs. “The same way organized crime has been existing for the past several centuries, Falcon. They buy people off.”
“There should be some kind of punishment for all that.”
“When the DA can catch them, there is. They go away for a long time. But these families are experts at laundering money, experts at buying off cops and judges. It shouldn’t happen, but people aren’t perfect. They see money, and they take it.”
“Is it money? Or is it the barrel of a damned gun?”
“Sometimes it’s both.”
“It shouldn’t be allowed to happen. This isn’t Chicago in the twenties.”
“No. It’s a hell of a lot easier for these people to operate now,” she says. “With the Internet, the dark web, all the technology they can use to protect themselves, they’re virtually impossible to catch.”
“I’ll testify,” I say.
“You can testify, and the two guys who trespassed—make that one, because the other’s dead—will probably go down. But if that man is important to the family, they’ll find a way to get rid of the witnesses.” She narrows her gaze at me. “That’s you, Falcon.”
I cross my arms. “No one will touch me. No one touched me on the inside, and no one can touch me on the outside.”
“There were rules on the inside, Falcon. You were able to figure them out and learn to play by them, make them work in your favor. But this is the real world. You and I both know that. And as far as these families go, there are no rules.”
I shake my head. “I can’t go back inside. I need to protect Savannah. I can’t do that from the inside, Lola.”
She shuffles through some paperwork. “I’ll get the parole revocation hearing scheduled as soon as I can. But I can’t get you out of jail right now. You’re a convicted felon, and they’re not going to release you on bail.”
“So I’m just going to sit in here? Rot with these other miscreants?”
“You’ll be moved to a different cell. And I can at least fix it so they don’t send you back to prison. You’ll be held here in the county jail until your parole revocation hearing.”
“And when will that be?”
