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“Is that what you did all night?” Zakh raises a brow.
I give him a wicked grin. “She needed some help. Don’t worry, brother, consider it an ice breaker if I need it.” Last night was one hell of an icebreaker, if I’m calling it that, but on a serious note, Gwen knows me now, and I can use that to my advantage if I need to.
“Alright, well, you might need it because we have a problem.”
Fuck.Things are already sketchy as hell. Problems are the last thing I need.
“What happened?”
“Manolo’s funeral is next Thursday. The lawyers are going to transfer all the Navarro assets to Diego the day after. That means he’ll take charge of the cartel as well.”
I grit my teeth and ball my fists. Time was already a motherfucker, but this news places the clock right over my head.
Diego is set to become the next cartel king.
If I fail here, he will be.
Right now, because the legal heir is unknown and unable to be located the board of directors of Santiago’s pharmaceutical company have the real control over everything including the cartel. They act as Santiago’s executors. That limits control to a degree because they choose who runs the company and the cartel, but I’m sure they were under some influence by Manolo and Diego because they are Santiago’s family. Having the real heir eradicates that and takes away all control from everyone.
“Damn it.” I bite the inside of my lip. “We have to step things up.”
“I know, and with that said, you’ll be glad to hear I’ve eliminated Daisy Shaw.”
She’s one of the women on our list.
“Really?”
“Yeah, her father is the town priest the residents here believe is a prophet. He paid off Daisy’s mother to keep her quiet.”
Jesus.That makes me wonder what other sordid secrets are floating around this town.
“So, it’s down to Gwen and Allyson.”
Zakh nods.
Gwen is on the list because Zakh found an old picture of Santiago with Gwen’s mother back when she was a model. The picture was taken on the beach. Allyson is there because Zakh found multiple footage of Santiago at her mother’s house.
Both women had daughters who are roughly about the same age and have no fathers present on their birth certificates or any other records.
“Do you have any other ideas?” Zakh asks.
“Give me a few days.”
I know what I have is essentially a very long shot because we could be wrong about both Gwen and Allyson, but it’s a risk I’m going to take.
Since Zakh and I have been here, we’ve investigated each woman; the only thing I can do next is get close enough to them to see things I can’t find by digging around or investigating.
“This mustn’t get messy, Malik.”
By messy he’s warning me not to home in on the ruthlessness known to men in our world that would tell me to take the two women, test them both to see which is Santiago’s daughter, then dispose of the one I don’t need.
Although I’m not averse to the idea of taking them, I’m not that fucked-up yet to become the psycho who would kill the one I don’t need.
“Don’t worry. Whatever I do won’t leave a mess anyone can track back to us.”
“Better not.” He reaches for a document on the table and slides it over to me. It’s a printout of a police report. “Here’s something you need to know about your girl, Gwen.”
“What’s this for?”
