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But we couldn’t deal with it right now. We couldn’t take on another threat when we still had to survive this one.
“He seems confident that the inside person can take care of this entire situation if he gives the word,” Sierra said. “Virgil doesn’t seem like an overconfident, stupid man. If he’s that confident, there has to be a good reason.” She leaned into Frankie’s desk and looked at Tommy’s laptop in the center of it. “Have you thought about all the new people you’ve let into the household?”
“I made a list,” Frankie said, glancing down and pulling a thin file from an organizer beneath his desk. He plopped it on the desk between us.
Louis sat his empty glass on the corner, pulling it toward him and opening it. “You think he’d be this confident about a made man?” Louis asked skeptically.
“If he’d stop talking in fucking codes, we could be a little more certain about the person’s title,” Frankie countered, his jaw ticking. “For now, these are the people we’ve initiated in the last six months.”
“A made man doesn’t make sense,” Sierra countered. “They don’t have access to your house. Do any of the people working for you even know where you live?”
“Only the most trusted lieutenants know where we live,” I said. “We have a house where we do all our business and stay occasionally, but this place is off the record. It’s why it’s safe for you to be here and remain unseen.” I placed a hand on her knee and stroked my thumb lightly across it.
“Who else knows about it?” she asked. “Maybe we should start there.”
“You,” Louis commented, raising a brow as he looked over her body slowly, eyes lingering long enough that I reached over and smacked him in the back of the head. He only narrowed his eyes. “That’s about it.”
Despite the way he shot the accusation toward her, the force of it felt somehow diminished. He was still a relentless ass to her, but I could see the distinct differences between the way he acted with her now and the way he acted with Bella. It felt almost like an act with Sierra, and I wondered when that shift had happened.
“Okay, feel free to look into me as deeply as you want to later,” she said, raising her hands. “But for now, Louis, let’s look into threats who could physically hold up against any one of you. People who know where you live and people who could accomplish killing you.”
She had a point, and Louis shrugged, seeming to understand it, too. If Virgil had a mole, he would’ve chosen someone able to challenge us. He never would’ve sent someone unable to complete their job without significant backup. Sierra wasn’t a practical threat to any of us, and Louis had to know it.
“None of the made men know about our home here,” Frankie said. “Hunter and Sierra know about us, though Hunter doesn’t know the full extent of our job. Right, Carlo?”
“I’ve never talked shop with him,” I confirmed. “He’s solid, has been for years, and nothing would change that now.”
“Could one of your recruits have tracked you here?” Sierra asked. “It’s not difficult to track people these days.”
“It’s possible,” Frankie conceded, looking at Tommy. “If you needed to track someone, would it be difficult for you?”
Tommy huffed a small laugh. “For me? Absolutely not. I could hack the city’s security cameras and track a person everywhere they went. But nobody could’ve used that method on us. All the security footage within a square mile of this place is blacked out.”
“What about a tracker on your vehicles?” Sierra asked.
Nobody said anything for a long moment, and Tommy nodded. “That’s more than possible. I have signal jammers in the garage, but it wouldn’t be hard for someone to go to where the signal is jammed and stake out the area until they saw one of us. We’ve done good at staying hidden, but if Virgil wants us dead badly enough, I’m sure he could found a way to work around everything I’ve done.”
“Okay, so we just narrowed it down to…nobody,” I said, shaking my head and groaning. “We’ll dig deeper into this entire list of made men, then.”
“Virgil would only choose someone he could trust. Someone who would slip under the radar easily and get the job done swiftly,” Sierra said, bouncing the knee where my hand rested. “Have any of you had new girlfriends in the past year?”
“A girl isn’t going to be able to take all of us out,” Frankie said with a touch of amusement in his tone.
“No, but one could be responsible for delivering information to Virgil, and that’s all he’d need. If he got the right information, he’d be able to find holes in your defenses and infiltrate.”
“You’re the only new girlfriend,” Louis said.
I expected her to shoot back that she wasn’t a girlfriend, but Sierra only offered him a dull look. “I imagine you’re not the girlfriend type,” she said before looking at Tommy.
“What the hell is that supposed to mean?” Louis asked at the same time as Tommy shook his head and said, “None who have made it past the talking stage, and nobody since I got shot.”
Sierra looked over at me, and I shook my head. “Nothing that went further than a night in a hotel room.” She narrowed her eyes and gaped up at me as a smirk pulled across my lips. “A man has needs.” I didn’t bother telling her that none of the women came close to comparing to her. I could enjoy what they’d given me momentarily, but what Sierra offered was unlike what any of them coulddreamof offering. Sierra was mine, and I would throw every single one of those women into a flaming building for her. If she even asked me to do that, I wouldn’t hesitate.
“I’ll have you know my body count in the past two months is thirty-two,” Louis said, bringing himself back into the conversation. Everyone’s heads whipped to him as he leaned back in his chair, smirking at our reactions.
“I think you miscounted,” Tommy said, and Louis narrowed his eyes.
“I’m aiming for two hundred this year. I can assure you I’m not exaggerating.”
