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“What did you think was going to happen?” JJ asked. “That he would send out a search party and help? Maybe if it was you or me, but no one else. He doesn’t give a shit about anyone but himself. He’d only find us to make himself look better. You know this, yet it’s like you’re surprised when you hear it.”
I released JJ and shoved him. “Easy.” Perry was doing what he thought was best.
“We have to call the cops,” Perry said.
Hard and fast, JJ said, “No. Hell no. We get the cops involved and they’ll be salivating at the mouth to find anything to incriminate me. Do you know how many times I’ve been dragged into a holding cell?”
“Doesn’t your dad have cops on his payroll?” I asked.
“Of course he does, but not the whole precinct. To involve them would pull the old man into this too, and fuck, I don’t want to deal with him more than I have to. We need to go down to my shop ourselves, get into the building, and figure out what the hell is going on.”
“That I’m on board with,” I told him. We should have already been on the road.
The cops would make a big show of things. Fly down there with lights and sirens. I didn’t know what was going on, but the last thing I wanted was to make it worse.
I didn’t wait for JJ to say more. I strode to my desk, opened the drawer, then entered the passcode for the small safe I had. When it opened, I withdrew a handgun. I had two more in my SUV.
Palming the gun in my hand, I let the familiarity of it wash over me. I could shoot like it was an extension of my body. Years of training, of practice, made handling a gun second nature. I checked the magazine to make sure it was full, clicking it back into place.
Perry walked out of his office; his eyes widened as they settled on the gun. “Pey…”
“You knew I had this. I haven’t had to use it before, but I will now without hesitation.” I rounded my desk to stand in front of him. “I need you to go home with Greer.” I was sure he was still working.
“I’m not going to pace the floor while you’re out there. Fuck that.” There was the Perry I was used to. The fiery one. I didn’t want to take him with us, but Perry knew how to shoot so if I gave him a gun, he could handle it. The thought of him getting hurt made me sick though. He wouldn’t stay home. If I tried to keep him there, he’d find a way out.
Retrieving my phone from my pocket, I dialed Greer.
“Yeah?” he answered.
“Are you still at the office?”
“What do you think?”
“I need you to grab your gun and meet us in the garage.”
“Be there in two minutes.” He hung up.
My brother didn’t need asking twice, just like I wouldn’t if the tables were turned. That was what we did. No questions, no background. I needed him. He was there.
The four of us piled into my SUV, Greer up front with me. He had two guns on him, one he retrieved from his own vehicle, the other he kept locked in his desk like I did. Perry gave Greer a quick rundown of what was going on, while I white-knuckled the steering wheel as my mind ran through terrible scenario after terrible scenario. I couldn’t help it. Sure, Dominic was tall and had some muscle on him, but he wasn’t trained to fight like Greer and I were. He didn’t have to throw fists in his life like JJ did. If nothing was disturbed in his apartment, it made me wonder if whoever he was with was someone he knew.
“Does Dominic know any of your employees?” I asked JJ, interrupting their conversation.
“Not that I know of. The people who work for me are mechanics. They live with grease under their fingernails and a wrench in their hand. I don’t know Dom that well, but not once had anyone mentioned him. My crew knows who I am, knows who Perry is. They keep what we do there separate. At least they used to. Now I’m bringing some of them to PJS.”
Greer turned in his seat. “How tight is your system?”
“I paid a shit ton for it and there’s a company manning it twenty-four seven. But I don’t know tech like you do.”
“Pull up your app and give me your phone.”
JJ did, handing it over to Greer. I couldn’t see what he was doing since I was focused on the road. The only thing I noticed was the light emitting from the screen out of the corner of my eye in the otherwise dark interior of the SUV.
“This is on a loop,” Greer muttered. “It’s well done but not perfect. You can see the slight glitch in the bottom left-hand corner. Whoever got in there has control over your system, which we knew, but they also got in undetected so either they knew the code or are really skilled, which I don’t think they are, considering the fault in this feed.” He handed the phone back.
JJ growled low. “I’m going to kill whoever did this.”
“You’re going to have to get in line,” I bit out.
