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Mamba laughed.
“Dude, really? That’s called cleaning up loose ends. In this scenario, you’re the loose end.”
He blinked.
“Please stop the bleeding.”
They both laughed.
“Yeah, no. How about you tell us who they are?” she asked. “I know him,” Eve said, pointing at Kurt Purcell. They’d researched him before hitting this house.
He was the parole officer who had apparently decided to go bad.
“She needed more help, and he knew a bunch of guys. I asked him to give me names, and I gave them to her.”
So that was how she found everyone.
Well, that was good to know.
“Did you hear that, Major?” Jinx asked. “Have Merry run his caseload as a parole officer. I’m going to bet he picked out the cream of that shitty crop to be bought.”
Merry did just that.
They’d be cleaning up after Artemis later, when they handled this mess.
Like with El Gato and the dirty cops.
“End him,” she said. “He’ll just be collateral for her game.”
Mamba didn’t hesitate.
She pulled her knife, and as he watched with big, wide eyes, she did the deed.
The gasp he made as the blade cut his carotid told the tale. From beside him, Silas Marx cried even more.
As.
He.
Should.
Only, they weren’t done.
“And who is this fellow?” Eve asked, punching the man in the balls to make him curl up like a shrimp.
The man spilled it.
“Elroy. Elroy Maldik. He was just helping us get the job done.”
“And what job is that?”
He whimpered when she put her boot on his bleeding leg.
“We were watching The Underground, running errands, and getting mercenaries to sign on.”
“And where is she? The woman who pays you?”
He looked scared.
