Page 24 of Dirty Cops Next Door

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Grant

“I wish she’d stayed,”I said to David the next morning as we stopped at a local fast food place, getting our usual breakfast of country ham biscuits, spicy fries, and scalding hot coffee.

We both needed the protein, especially after last night.

“She has to maintain, man. I’m sure Eric’s old enough to realize his sister might need a man, but explaining two of us would be difficult for even the most seasoned woman out there.” David smiled as he took the bags from the woman in the window and drove away. “Besides, I don’t think we could have fucked her again after that last time.”

I grinned at the memory of Toni riding David’s cock that last time around two a.m. She’d been eager to fuck, and we’d been just as eager to fuck her. The woman that had walked into our house hours before was totally different from the Toni we’d come to know. That woman knew exactly what she wanted and wasn’t afraid of getting it. I loved it.

I opened my biscuit and took a bite of it, but it didn’t taste of anything. It didn’t taste as sweet as Toni’s lips, it wasn’t as succulent as that honey pot between her thighs, and it wasn’t as tasty as her nipples. I put the biscuit away and turned to the coffee instead.

It was hot, but it was just as flavorless. I made my way through it, quiet as the memories of Toni played over again in my brain.

“We’re fucked, aren’t we?” I spared a glance for David as he pulled into the parking spot assigned to us at the station.

“I think we might be, Grant. She’s perfect. If she’s up for it, I think we might have found the one we thought didn’t exist.” He gave me a rather solemn look as he turned the car off.

“I think so too. She’s beautiful, she’s smart, she’s funny, she’s just perfect. As long as she doesn’t run out of town now in some kind of self-loathing fit. Or ghost us. Man, that would suck!”

“I highly doubt Toni is going to ghost us. She’s just as hooked as we are.” He grabbed the bag with his food and his coffee, the lid still sealed. “Let’s get through this shit today and figure out where we go from there, eh?”

I had to agree. Today was the real beginning of taking down that prick ruining our town. I pushed my sunglasses to the top of my head as we walked into the building. We had a few things to get done here, and then we were starting the next phase of our operation. I’d brought down the packages hidden in the house, and they were now safely out of sight in the trunk of the car.

An hour later we were following Avery Winslow on the highway leading to the other end of the town, the other man’s black Lincoln an expression of how important he thought he was.

“You know, maybe once we take this dickhead down, we can get that farm we’ve been looking at all these years.” I fiddled with my phone, bringing up the webpage advertising the one I mentioned.

More than enough land for farming, maybe some cattle too. We didn’t just engage in mind-blowing sex with the ladies, after all. We had plans, ideas for our futures that didn’t involve putting ourselves in danger. We’d both skirted around the idea of having a wife and family because we didn’t think we’d ever find a woman who’d let us share her.

Toni had my head spinning with ideas though. I’d felt something last night.

“You felt it too, right? Last night was different.” I glanced out of the window, watching trees disappear behind us.

“Yeah, she’s different. I think, well, I don’t know what I think right now, but she is different.” David’s face went soft, his jaw relaxing.

“Do you think she’d like the house?” The farm had been up for sale for a long time, it was just on the outskirts of New Hope, but the owners had a man maintaining it.

The owners were the sons of the former occupant. They’d moved up north to New York and become lawyers, making their parents proud, but they had no interest in farming. The owners had passed away over time and the sons had been trying to get rid of it ever since. We’d been saving up for it, hoping every payday that the house hadn’t been sold. So far, we’d been lucky.

“I think she’ll love it. Now, we need to focus on the task at hand, Grant.” He paused as he steered to the turn Avery’s car had taken. “We have to keep our minds on this, on ending all of this, so we don’t end up in a town like Portsmouth.”

That’s all he needed to say for cold reality to settle in again. I’d been lost in a dream world all morning, but those words were like cold water being poured over me.

“Understood.” I settled back into my seat, put my phone away, and watched the car now three cars ahead of us.

We remained silent as David drove, following the car at a distance. I pulled out a tablet and found the app for tracking the car ahead of us. We’d managed to get Avery’s cellphone number and email address, and David had worked out the rest. We could track him through it without having to go through the normal channels. We were trying to keep this as low-key as possible. We didn’t want to tip Avery off that we were anything other than what he thought we were, dirty cops.

We’d been working with him for the last couple of months, taking a chance on him being the greedy fuck he was. He thought we were on his payroll, that we’d let him do anything he wanted, but we’d been gathering evidence the whole time. We only needed the hard evidence that it was him orchestrating all of this because so far, everything had been done through his hired hands. We’d never actually met the man of the hour.

That’s what we had planned for the next few hours: get the dirt on the man we knew to be a felon, and get out of this mess.

I thought about those last few moments before Toni left this morning, how I’d laid out our plan for her, though it was a short description. She didn’t need to know all the details, I just wanted her to know we might be tangled up in work for the next few days. I didn’t want her thinking we were ghosting her or that we were really bad cops if any of this exploded in our faces.

“Right, he’s stopped at the old flour mill. Pull up here somewhere and we’ll walk over,” I said, putting the memory away as the green dot on the screen turned red and started to blink.

David did as instructed and before long, we found ourselves in the building directly across from the old factory. Avery seemed to have a penchant for operating out of defunct factories. Maybe he owned them, I would have to look in to that later. Abandoned buildings went cheap, after all.