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Kasen nodded before turning back to her father. “I needone-hundred-and-fifty-thousand dollars before tomorrow night. Can you get it for me?”
“Of course,” he quickly answered.
“I can pay you back with my savings, and-”
“Stop it,” hescolded. “You will do no such thing.”
“What do you need that kind of moneyfor?” I asked, finally speaking.
Kasen’s hazelgaze looked back my way. “I have a debt to settle.”
If I thought that I was furious before, that was nothing compared to how I was feeling now. “The fuck you do,” I snapped.
“Maybe you can discuss this later,” Dr. Chapman suggested. “I need to see to that bullet wound.”
I gave him a terse nod,but as soon as Kasen, Renzo, and Dr. Chapman were out of the room, I turned to Carmine. “What the fuck happened out there?”
“It’s all on the dash cam,” he answered.“We were making the trade, then as soon as she was standing in front of us, she grabbed Enzo’s gun, then started beating that fool in the head with it.”
“What?”
Carmine just nodded. “She pistol-whipped the fuck out of him. Then, as he lay dying, she stood up, then emptied the gun into his dead body.”
That answered my question about whether she was in shock or not.
“What’s this about money?” I asked.
“After she killed ol’ boy, she took on his debt, telling Schulz that she owed him since she was thereason that he couldn’t collect from the dead man,” he explained. “You can see it all on the recording.”
I pulled out my phone, then dialed Morocco. As soon as he answered, I said, “Erase all the camera feed from Milton that shows Meier and Buckner walking into Kasen’s office. Glitch it out as soon as Meier makes his first appearance on the feed.”
“Sure thing,” he replied before hanging up.
I looked over at Aurelio. “With Ryan Buckner being reported as missing soon, Kasen can’t be the last person to haveseen him alive. I also need you to get her purse and things from her office. Everything needs to look like she left work like normal.”
Aurelio nodded. “Me and Morocco will take care of it.”
Turning back towards Carmine and Enzo, I asked. “How is shesupposed to get the money to Schulz?”
“She said that she was going todrop it off at the farmhouse before the end of tomorrow night,” Enzo answered. “She guaranteed the delivery, even if she had to deliver it herself.”
Since Schulz had called me fromKasen’s phone, I didn’t have his number. However, some of his men might still be there if they had Buckner’s dead body to dispose of.
“Wait right here,” I ordered. “I’ll get the money, then you guys can deliver it. I want this shit finished tonight.”
They both nodded, and as soon as I turned to head into the basement, Aurelio was walking with me. While most people had their safes in their bedrooms or offices, I had three different safes, and the biggest one was located in a basement that only Aurelio and my father knew about. Even Elio didn’t know that I’d had a walk-in safe built in the basement. It housed a small arsenal, bricks of gold, stacks of cash, and even some priceless art. However, it was mostly filled to the brim with guns.
As soon as we weredown in the basement, Aurelio spoke freely. “You need to get it together, Nero. I canseethat you’re about to lose it.”
“Those sonsofbitches shot my wife,” I seethed.
“And you’ll get your revenge soon enough,” he reminded me. “However, right now, this is about your wife. Even if she hadn’t been shot and knocked out, she just beat a man to death. Do you honestly think that she’s not going to wake up from this a fucking mess once the shock wears off?”
Opening the safe, I walked in, then grabbing a small black bag, I began stuffing it with cash. “I’ve got it handled.”
“No, you don’t,”he argued. “If you don’t want her going home with Renzo, then you need to get it the fuck together, Nero.”
“He’s not taking her from me!” I roared as I turned to look at mybest friend. “She’s mine!”
