“You can’t mix two of those ingredients together.If you do it will poison whoever took it.And you can’t make something like that into a powder.It will concentrate the power of the plant and that's not something you want to make as a concentrate.”
“What will it do to the person taking it?”Cardinal asked.
“Well, the proportions are all wrong.This isn’t going to give you a rush, it'll kill you instantly.”
Thumper stared hard at her.“Are you sure about that?”
Daisy nodded.“In one of the books my grandmother left, she wrote pages and pages of ingredients that you can’t mix together.She also wrote a warning about plants that you can’t dry and mix with other plants.”She looked back at the screen.“Those big dummies.If they tried to sell these pills they would have killed people.Like this is worse than the very worst dose of fentanyl.”
Pope nodded at his brothers and then at Thumper.“And who would the cops have come after if people started dying?Not Demon, that's for sure.If the plan was that Satan would be the runner, then the cops would have nailed his ass to the wall, and Demon would have skated.Right down a hole.”
“Holy shit and shineola!”Cardinal exclaimed.“And Demon would have stayed in that hole until the heat went away, then left town and started all over someplace where nobody knew his name.”
Thumper shook his head.Then he looked at Daisy again and asked her a question, “Is that why your dad demanded to get Digger back?”
Daisy shrugged as she looked upset.“Maybe but I think it was something else entirely.You see, Digger knows more of my dad’s secrets than anyone I think?Like too many and that makes him dangerous to my dad’s empire.If Digger ever got caught, my dad wouldn’t trust him to keep his big mouth shut.No he has to keep Digger close to his side or risk Digger making a deal if the cops ever got him.”She pointed at the screen.“But if my dad wanted that to make him money?He’s going to be very disappointed.All that’s going to do is make him a killer.Like a mass murderer really and if he got Satan involved, well he set up a dangerous man with a killer MC behind him.”
Chapter Thirteen
Daisy looked at Popeand asked, “Did you take Digger's phone before you put him in that shed?”
Pope nodded at her.“Of course, but why do you ask that?”
“Because I’m betting that my father met with Satan before this morning and knowing him as well as I do I think he gave him a sample of the product.”
Pope went pale as he asked her, “You think your dad is that stupid?If he knows those pills are pure poison, giving them to Satan and his men will kill any deal they might have going.Satan and his men will be dead.”
Daisy nodded.“And I think that was the plan from the beginning.I don’t happen to believe Demon and my brothers would want to work for this at all.No, they always take the easiest way out or to something.If my brothers or my dad found those pages with the recipes then they also found the warnings grandma wrote, about mixing the plants.Demon has been thinking about relocating for a while now.Even he knows the people around our town are pissed about how they are being treated and it only takes one to cause trouble and bring the state cops in or even the Marshals.They are federal and that’s something not even Demon can beat.”
“What are you gonna do with your brother's phone?”Bishop wanted to know.
Daisy looked at him and said, “I know that Satan’s number is on there as Digger always acts as a go-between in the deals Demon makes.I’m going to warn Satan what my father is doing and that if any of his men take the samples that they are going to have to bury them.”
Cardinal shook his head.“Honey, you’re playing with fire there.”
“I’d rather play with fire and get burned than see blood in the streets,” Daisy told them.“Because if Satan is going to go ballistic, it should be on my father, not innocent people.I think it's finally time for my father to face the devil, don’t you?”
