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“I know you took my money,” Julian spits. “I know you did. I want it back. You give me my fucking money back or I’ll kill him. We’ve been having a great time getting to know each other.” He digs his finger even harder into that wound and Priest closes his eyes, agony flashing over his face. “But I’ll end it right here if you don’t give me my shit back.”
The agony on Priest’s face makes me feel agonized too. He could be anywhere, and there’s nothing we can do if we don’t know where the fuck he is.
Something monstrous rises up inside me on the heels of that agony though. I feel like I’m about to explode out of my skin. I’ve never wanted to kill someone as much as I want to kill Julian fucking Maduro in this moment.
“Fuck you,” I spit, letting all my rage and hatred come out in those two words.
Julian sneers. “I should have killed you when I had the chance,” he says. “You and that bitch I married. Her pussy was the only thing I needed, and I should have gotten rid of her when she gave me what I wanted.”
Blood roars in my ears, and I can barely hear Julian as he keeps talking, over the pulse pounding rage that I feel.
“Doesn’t your friend mean more to you than money?” he’s saying, taunting us all now. “I thought you were all family or some stupid shit like that. Would you really let him die over money that doesn’t even fucking belong to you?”
He sounds angry, but so sure of himself. So sure he has the upper fucking hand. He knows how much we care about each other and that this is the best way to manipulate us.
Rage boils up inside me, and if there was a way to reach through the phone and kill someone, I’d do it in a heartbeat. Out of frame, he does something else to Priest, and we hear the grunt of pain that follows.
I stare hard at the phone, taking in what I can see, and then, all of a sudden, I have a moment of perfect clarity. Like all the desperation and anger and worry distills down into something that points me to exactly what I need to see.
There’s a window off to the side in the room where Julian is holding Priest. Just in the corner of the window, I can see a green highway sign. I can’t read what the sign says, but that doesn’t matter. The building has a view of the highway, which means there aren’t any other structures on that side of it to block the view.
Only the last row of buildings in this area are close enough to see the highway, and there are only two in that row. One of them is boarded up and abandoned, and I don’t think Julian would have taken the time to pry the boards off the windows and doors when he had Priest in tow and knew we would be coming after him.
Which means he has to be in one place.
“Give me my money back, or I’ll kill him,” Julian says. “And I’ll fucking enjoy it.” He ends the call, and the screen goes black again.
Knox looks like he’s about to explode, and Gage and Ash just look angry and sick. I look at all three of them.
“I know where Priest is.”
