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Ro sits up taller, fear swimming in her eyes. “Should we call the cops?”
I nod. “Probably. Except we’re both high and drunk, not to mention I’ve got a few baggies of coke stashed around my room. I pull out the baggie hiding in my bra and toss it beside the keyboard to make my point. “You know how cops are. They’ll toss me in a cell and forget all about the bikers. Then I’ll be dead, and no one will care.”
“Asshole outside could be bluffing,” Ro offers hopefully.
I snort a laugh and shake my head. “Doubtful. Given their reputation, they might kill me even if I succeed. The Iron Kings don’t fuck around. I don’t know? Maybe if I do this for them, I’ll meet a hot one and all my troubles will go away?”
I giggle like a kid. And that’s the thought that keeps my fingers flying over the keyboard, trying every method of breaching systems I can think of.
My biggest problem is that Angel Harbor County lock-up operates on a system that’s been around longer than my twenty-three years, and that puts me at a disadvantage.
But as I’m hunting for a way in, I have a lightbulb moment. “I have an idea!”
“What is it?” Ro gets to her feet and stares at the screen like she can understand any of the code.
“I’ll cut the power,” I tell her as I input code as fast as my fingers will allow, which isn’t fast enough. I stop and reach for the baggie that I’d just freed from my bra. I line up just enough blow to do a quick bump for both of us. A pick-me-up.
“So they’ll just walk right out of unlocked cells?”
I snort a line and hand my trusty mirror to Ro. I sit back for a second, letting the drug take effect.
“Girl, you watch too much TV. I’ll cut the power at the building that houses the county servers. That will crash the whole system and trigger a reboot. It’ll take at least ten minutes to get back online.”
“Okay,” Ro says after her bump, a dumb look on her face as she lays the mirror back on my desk. “And?”
I grin at her. “And in that time, I’ll update the records of the men arrested in a group.”
I’m still hesitant and scared as fuck to be inside any type of government computer system. They’ll lock me up in federal prison if they find out it’s me, but they won’t.
I hope.
“What if they find out it was you?” Ro asks because she is a worst-case scenario kind of girl.
“They won’t,” I assure her. “My method is invisible, and it’ll just look like a rolling blackout caused the outage, which, with the heat wave we’ve been having, is totally believable.”
Now I just have to pull it off in the next thirty minutes.
“Holy shit, Gia, you really are some type of genius. We have to get you out of this place.”
I smile at my best friend’s confidence in me. “I love you too, Ro.” She’s been my ride-or-die bestie since we were too young to know what ride or die meant. Always here, always encouraging me, always having my back. Hell, she literally saved my life last year when I tried to off myself after a few really bad weeks. When I come up, she comes up, and that’s just how it is.
“Gia, you can do this.”
“I’m in!” I shout the words after a hell of a lot of keyboard tapping and a few minutes of silence. “Now I just have to find them. It shouldn’t be that hard, right? I mean, the records probably have their known affiliations, right?”
The last thing I want is to let other criminals out who’ve done worse things than the Iron Kings.
“Okay, here we are.” I find the batch arrested on the same night and go through each file. “Charges dismissed. Release immediately. And that’s it, Ro. We did it!” I quickly exit the system and shut down my computer because I’m still terrified and full of coked-up adrenaline to think straight.
“Just a few minutes to spare,” Ro says and creeps to my bedroom window that overlooks the front of the neighborhood. “He’s still there, staring at the house like it might wake up and bite him.”
“Good. Let that fucker sit there until the full sixty minutes are up.”
Ro stares at me with wide eyes. “You sure about that?”
“That asshole put a knife to my throat. He deserves to sit and wonder if he’s going to end up in an unmarked grave beside me for as long as possible.”
“Gia, that’s not funny.”
