AllFreeNovel
Share Us
He nodded as his whole body started to shake.
‘Free one of his hands,’ I said to Jax.
Jax walked over to Joey and cut the ties on one of his hands, freeing it from behind his back, before holding it out to me.
‘No! Please?’ Joey shouted as I leaned down and placed the pliers on the tip of his thumbnail.
‘I have some questions, Joey. And if you don’t answer me honestly, this will be a very, very long and painful day for you. You understand me, cabrón?’
He nodded as I pulled and tore the nail from his thumb in one swift move.
He shrieked loudly and started to sob.
‘That was just a taste of what is to come. I will start with your fingernails and then I will take your teeth. And after your teeth, well…’ I looked at Jax.
‘Fingers?’ Jax suggested.
‘Hmm? Or maybe as we’re so time-pressed, we go straight for his cock?’
Joey wailed at this. ‘I’ll answer any questions you have. I swear,’ he cried as snot and tears ran down his face.
I pulled up a chair and sat in front of him. ‘This is how it will work, Joey. I will ask you a question and every time I think you’re lying to me, I will remove something. I will keep going until either your heart gives out because of the pain or I have the answers I want. So how this ends is really all on you, isn’t it?’
‘Yes,’ he sniffed. ‘I’ll tell you whatever you want to know, Alejandro.’
An hour later, Jax and I walked out of the container. I was confident that Joey Ortega knew nothing about my father’s shooting. He had lost three fingernails and two teeth proving that to me, but he was lucky he was walking out of that container. The truth was, I didn’t have time to keep pursuing dead ends and that made Joey a very lucky man indeed.
What he had given me was lots of very useful information about his crew. He had turned his back on every single one of them to save his own skin. While that information would come in useful in the coming months when I had more time to act on it, it didn’t help me right now. I was letting Joey go but I suspected that once his crew found out he had sold them out, he would be a dead man walking anyway. In the meantime, I had his nuts in a vice.
‘What next, amigo?’ Jax asked me.
‘Back to the fucking drawing board,’ I said with a sigh.
CHAPTER 30
ALANA
The car pulled up outside the airport and Kelsey turned to me while Hugo climbed out and got her bag from the trunk.
‘I’m going to miss you, honey,’ she said as she wrapped her arms around me.
I hugged her back tightly. ‘I’m going to miss you too, Kels. I’m so sorry you had to spend your weekend with us under house arrest.’
She pulled back and grinned at me. ‘Will you stop! I would spend a year under house arrest in that beautiful house. Tell Alejandro to get the pool house into shape and I’ll be spending every vacation with you guys,’ she said with a flash of her eyebrows.
‘I’ll get onto it as soon as we get back,’ I smiled. The pool house was under renovation, but work had stalled with everything that had been going on. Alejandro didn’t want contractors in and out of the house right now.
The car door was pulled open by Hugo and Kelsey gave me a final hug. ‘I’ll see you soon, honey.’
‘Hang on, me and Hugo can walk you to the check in,’ I said.
Hank, who was sitting in the front seat, spun around faster than I could even blink. ‘Please stay in the car, Mrs Montoya,’ he growled.
Kelsey grinned at me and I flashed my eyebrows, feeling like a naughty kid for suggesting such a thing.
‘Bye, Jacob. Stay fresh, Hank,’ Kelsey chirped as she jumped out of the car and took her bag from Hugo.
‘Hey, can you at least walk her to the entrance?’ I asked him with a smile.
