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“Where are you getting your information?” Brogan snarled.
“Poppa Bear’s with them,” Donny admitted. “He’s been part of Kai’s group for several years. Before that he was with Chandler Mackay. But he’s always been a federal agent and informant. ” He gave Dawg and Brogan a hard look. “We don’t have much time. Now do we get onto that fucking houseboat?”
Brogan’s gaze sharpened on the other man. “Kai has more than just Eve,” he guessed in a dangerous voice. “What does he have that the FBI is after?”
Donny’s lips tightened as Sandi whispered something to him. His gaze shifted to Brogan furiously as he gave a tight nod. Sandi stepped back. “One of the files Kai Maynard stole had a list of agent code names assigned to several subversive Homeland Security groups. If he gets away with that file, a lot of agents are going to die. ”
“He’s definitely a dead man,” Brogan declared as he turned to Dawg. “You ready to go?”
Dawg nodded, his smile savage. “Let’s go. ”
TWENTY
Eve sat on the bunk, her arms stretched above her and secured to the bottom of the metal bunk frame with a pair of handcuffs. Her fingers bit into the metal slats above her as she held onto them in an attempt to keep the pressure of the cuffs from tightening around her wrists each time her arms got tired and slipped. Not that holding them up by her fingertips tucked beneath the slats was really helping a lot.
“Here you go, cutie pie. ” Poppa Bear gripped her shoulder and pulled her forward to tuck another pillow behind her without asking if that would make her more comfortable.
She glared at him, taking in the Santa look of the full head of gray hair and the well-trimmed beard and mustache of the same color.
“Why are you doing this?” she whispered, staring up into the dark brown eyes that held a twinkle of a smile.
“Because it makes me happy,” he laughed jovially.
He may look like that jolly little elf, but she couldn’t remember a single story where Santa took hostages or where he threatened to kill them. Unless that was fun and games in his off hours, she thought half hysterically.
This was just wonderful. She was definitely living on a much shorter time line than she had ever imagined and here she was worrying about Santa.
“Too bad we lost Kraig,” Kai grumbled as Poppa Bear moved back to his seat just inside the hall where he could keep an eye on her. “He’d make a hell of a scapegoat. ”
“Once we get the gold we’ll just take care of both of them. ” Poppa Bear shrugged as he looked back at Eve, grinned and winked merrily. “Don’t worry, sweetie, I’ll make sure it don’t hurt. ”
She sneered back at him.
Yeah, that was a comforting thought. It just wouldn’t hurt.
Kai laughed at the other man’s comment as Eve glimpsed him prowling about the other side of the kitchen.
“How long do you think it should take?” Kai asked. “I have to call them soon. I don’t want anyone getting any ideas if they figure out we have the boat and where we are. ”
“It’s all depending on where that gold is. ” Poppa Bear shrugged. “It will take them a while to load it, though. Chandler never got it all transported after he stole it. Though, I’d say Dawg can get it all in one haul in that heavy-duty delivery truck he has for the store if he can get it to wherever his daddy hid it. ”
“Too bad it wasn’t hidden in the house. ” Kai grimaced.
“I spent three nights searching that house after Chandler died. ” Poppa Bear sighed. “If it was there, it was hid so damned good that even my electronics couldn’t find the shit. ”
What gold?
God, she hated this. If she ever got out of it alive and Brogan kept so much as one damned secret from her then she was going to end up shooting him.
Besides the fact she was way too damned nosy and hated, absolutely hated, not knowing what was going on, she had also not been prepared for Kai Maynard. Perhaps if she had known what was going on, she would have been prepared.
“If we could have gotten rid of Brogan’s sister, then none of us would have been identified,” Kai snapped, his anger obviously brewing. “Son of a bitch, Bear, this is ridiculous. How the hell did he manage to fuck up?”
“We warned him,” Poppa Bear seemed to be reminding him. “Samantha Bryce ain’t no man’s dummy. And her instincts are out of this world. She was already gettin’ suspicious of him and he wouldn’t hear it. ”
Kai muttered something that caused Poppa Bear to chuckle in amusement. “Just ’cause she’s a lesbian don’t make her no dummy, Kai. ”
“Fine, she’s no dummy,” Kai snapped, his tone hard and angry. “Kraig wasn’t stupid either. So how did she manage it?”
