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The rest of the ride was done in silence. We each had a piece, but if things went right we wouldn’t use them. Last thing we wanted to do was discharge a firearm in a crowded club. Not only would the chance of collateral damage be unacceptable, but we didn’t want to draw attention to ourselves.
We left Knox in the SUV three blocks away from the club. Several city lights were out in two separate directions from our location going to the club. No doubt Ripper and Crush’s doing. It gave us an alternate route to and from the club so we could stay in the shadows.
As we approached the back, we met Venus as she strolled out of the building like she didn’t have a care in the world. She was dressed in her ever-present pink. This time with pink dreadlocks instead of the long curls she normally sported. The woman was tall and solidly built, but compact. Muscular without being overly so. She had the body to back up any skills she had. Definitely not a woman to fuck with.
“Way is clear. You have at least half hour before bodyguards miss check-in.” She nodded at Rocket but didn’t break her stride. “See you back at club.”
“Ain’t going back to Bane, Venus,” Rocket said.
“Me neither.”
I missed a step. Rocket looked over his shoulder and narrowed his eyes.
“I got a bad feelin’ about that,” I muttered.
“Yeah.” Rocket shook his head but kept moving. I thought I saw him fighting a grin, but it could have been a scowl.
Once inside, the driving bass of the music pounded through me, even away from the main room where the speakers belted out a rhythm. I was wrong. We could probably have a whole entire fire fight upstairs, and no one would notice.
Lock met us and jerked his head for us to follow him. He took us up to the third floor. The music wasn’t as obnoxious but still ever present. He took us to the end of the hall where Thorn stood outside the door. Two men lay at his feet while Blood, the sergeant at arms of Bane, and a couple other men were busy packing them into bags to be moved out.
Scrub moved around us to Blood’s side and the two men conversed while Thorn and Rocket greeted each other.
“They’re so high I doubt they’ll give you much trouble.” Thorn shook his head. “I really expected gettin’ rid of these guys would be harder than this. I’ve got everyone in my club in the immediate vicinity staked out around both here and in the blocks surrounding the club, as well as Alfonso’s headquarters. All his underbosses and capos are where they’re supposed to be with the appropriate number of men with them.” He shrugged. “They must have a really poor opinion of us.”
“What about the MC they’re partnered with? They accounted for?”
“Yeah. Fortunately, the club’s still pretty small. We took out most of the players several years ago, but the cockroaches keep comin’ back. This time, I’m pretty sure Alfonso’s put one of his men in charge. I’ve got eyes on ‘em. They had a couple members in here tonight, but Venus took care of ‘em.” Thorn hesitated a moment before he continued. “Expect a visit from her.”
“Visit?” Rocket stiffened. “Christ, I feel a nightmare comin’ on.”
“Hey, man.” Thorn grinned. “What’d you expect when you made your old lady your vice president? The women smell blood in the water and are headed your way.”
I’m not sure what I expected Rocket to say or do, but the laugh he barked out wasn’t it. “If she’s even half of what you say she is, you’re lucky she’s not runnin’ your show.”
“Yeah, well, it was touch and go for a while, but I convinced her we were small potatoes. Told her if she wanted a real badass club, she needed to head to you guys or Iron Tzars.” The other man had a grin from ear to ear.
“You givin’ your blessin’ if she wants to patch in?”
“In all seriousness, I hate to lose her. Venus is one of the best assets we’ve got. But if she wants to patch into another club, I’d never stand in her way.”
“Figured she’d end up with her sister in Bones.”
“Well, it wasn’t for lack of trying. Millie threatens to take her back to Kentucky every time she visits.”
Rocket nodded to the door. “You ready?”
“Knock yourself out, brother.”
Rocket entered the room first. The women entertaining the two mafia men were pushing a steady supply of cocaine on them. Both men were partaking, laughing, and looked like they were having the time of their lives. They didn’t even notice we’d slipped in.
The girls noticed. Instead of acknowledging our presence, they kept the men focused on them, keeping Alfonso and DeLuca between us and them.
Rocket took out a phone Crush had given me and snapped a few pictures to send to Byte for positive ID on the men. The last thing we wanted was to kill the wrong men. Not that I’d personally mind. If they were part of Alfonso’s bunch -- even if they were decoys -- I could give a good Goddamn. But I wanted Alfonso dead for what he’d let DeLuca do to Cecilia.
It took less than a minute for Rocket to hear back from Byte and Crush. He nodded at me, and we each took one man. The girls didn’t make a sound. We didn’t kill them. We weren’t ready for that yet. I wanted both men to know why they were getting ready to die.
Securing them wasn’t hard. They both fought, but the drugs and the fact that both Rocket and I were much stronger and more skilled than either of these men made all the difference. Once we had them under control, I moved around in front of them. Rocket ushered the girls out and waited just inside the room until I finished this.
