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“That’s my business,” the kid huffed, crossing his arms over his little chest. “Now, are you going to give me what I want for my birthday, or do I go find King and tell him you have Sugar hiding in your room?”
“What the hell?” I sputtered.
The kid was trying to shake me down!
There was no winning with this brat.
I’d seen him take down some of the brightest minds in the club.
None of us were safe around him.
“Fine. You win. I will do what I can to persuade Sugar and get you her boys, Don Corleone.”
“Who?”
“Never mind. Now tell me what I need to know.”
“Jerkface took off in a red truck headed for town,” he said firmly, reaching into his pocket, before handing me a sheet of paper. “Here, I wrote his license plate number down for you.”
Holy Fuck!
Looking at the kid, then at the paper, a trickle of fear raced down my spine. “Cameron, how did you get this?”
Cameron looked at me as if I was the dumbest person on the planet before walking away, saying, “I did what manly men do. Now go get me Benny and Sean!”
Holy shit!
That kid scared the crap out of me.
“Mike!” I shouted, running into the sheriff’s station, only to come to a screeching halt when Mrs. Linda glared angrily at me.
Yeah. She was another person who scared the crap out of me, but for a whole different set of reasons.
“Eugene Michael James. Is that how you enter a place of business?” Mrs. Linda chided me as if I were still a small boy.
Sitting behind the counter, watching her daytime soaps, sat Linda Perkins. The woman was an institution in Rosewood. Feared and loved by all, nothing got by the woman. She was also the one woman besides my parents, who had no problem putting me in my place.
Mrs. Linda never had kids.
Well, none that I knew of.
She was married once, but according to town gossip, Mr. Perkins went out for a gallon of milk and never returned.
It was a big mystery.
One no one could solve.
Like most of the residents, Mrs. Linda had lived in Rosewood her whole life. She was a sweet woman whom I’d literally known my entire life. The whole town claimed her and did whatever she asked.
She was strong with a firm hand, but gentle and loving.
She was also like a second mother to me, which is probably why she scared me. She had that glint in her eyes that dared me to disobey. You know, the one only mom’s reserve for their children or errant husbands. I was very familiar with that glint, and right now, Mrs. Linda was giving me the glint.
“Sorry, Mrs. Linda. Can I speak with Mike?”
“I don’t know. Can you?”
Groaning, I silently cursed.
