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“There’s more to this thug thing than I realized.”
“Don’t worry,” Daly said, slinging an arm over her shoulders. “We’ll get you up to speed in no time, Rookie.”
“He’s in 4D,” she said when they got to the fourth floor.
Four apartments to a floor, so they didn’t have to go far to find his door.
Hock, at the head, turned to the side and barged the door with one powerful shoulder, forcing it from the frame.
When she stopped, jaw loose, he shrugged. “What?”
“You didn’t think to knock?”
“He was rude,” Hock said like the motive was obvious.
It was done now, so when he pushed the door open, she followed him inside.
One guy stood in the middle of the living room with the TV on behind him; looked like they’d startled him out of his chair. The ferocious anger on his scrunched expression changed hue when the guys kept on coming. Yep, it wasn’t just little her bugging him through a speaker, she had reinforcements.
The front door closed and the two unknown guys passed by her to grab who she assumed to be Sneddon and slammed him into the wall.
“Do we have to be so full on?” she whispered to Daly from the corner of her mouth.
“They’re checking for weapons. After that…”
Hock spun the armchair. Snuff kicked a table out of the way and killed the TV’s power by yanking its cord from the wall.
Satisfied, she guessed, her two extra thugs threw Sneddon into the chair.
“He’s clean,” one of them said, though the pair remained flanking him.
“What…? What is this?” the pale Sneddon asked.
She smiled. “Like I said, I have a few questions.”
“You’re… you’re his…” Sneddon took in the scene. “Fuck.”
“Yes,” she said, still wearing that smile. “This may be a fuck situation for you, depending on how you cooperate.”
“I’ll cooperate.”
“Great.” She took a breath. “As I’m sure you were alluding to before, I’m Alderman McLeod’s granddaughter.”
Though he could’ve been aiming for one of the other numerous men in her life.
“He… he’s dead.”
“Yes.” A “duh” seemed appropriate, but she refrained. “Murdered, to be precise. I’m sure you’ve seen the news. Though, I suppose, you know it better than anyone since you were the only other person in the building when it happened… You were the only other person present, weren’t you?”
“I… I was on that night, alone, yeah, I… I didn’t see nothing.”
“I don’t care about things; I care about people. You were on security that night and your protectee ended up dead. Horton said you haven’t been back to work. Whatever you saw must’ve shaken you up if you were traumatized. Just what did you see exactly?”
“I gave a statement to the cops.”
It didn’t bother her that Sneddon’s attention darted from guy to guy. He should be aware of the threat, that was only smart. And it let her slip under the radar a little.
“Police statements are my brother and father’s wheelhouse. I care less about what should be said, or what might be judged, and more about the truth. No one here is looking to secure a prosecution.” Though the group at large hadn’t actually decided on a collective course of action. “We don’t care what you were doing, what else was going on, we care about who killed him.”
