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Kenna’s head swam, and she fought to gather her thoughts.
“This is about the spirit of cooperation.” Ramon studied Kart with a dark look in his eyes. “And working together, rather than wasting money destroying each other. That’s why I brought you this.” He dragged the man in front of him, and the guy fell to his knees. “He has information.”
Kart turned to her. “Then I guess it’s time for Kenna to get to work.”
Ramon walked the bound man. Kart dragged Kenna behind them down into the basement of the main building. To a cell previously used for something like this, given the mess on the floor.
Ramon wrinkled his nose and muttered something in Spanish.
Kart said, “I figured I would set the mood for our friend here. So he understands what will happen if he doesn’t tell us what we want to know.” He let go of her and exited the room, returning a minute later with a wooden chair, which he set in the middle of the room.
Ramon sat the bound man in the chair.
“I have things to see to,” Kart said. “But I’ll be back.” He shut the door.
Kenna closed her eyes and blew out a long breath. She heard Ramon move toward her. When she opened her eyes, he stopped right in front of her, so he could look down at her. She frowned. “What?”
Ramon twisted her upper arm around so he could look at it.
She hissed.
“Do you even know what they gave you?” He laughed.
She wanted to quip back that whatever it was made her feel better, but just didn’t have the energy to formulate something witty. Not when she had bigger priorities. “Can I use your phone?”
Ramon shook his head. “They made me leave my weapons and my cell phone at the gate when they let me in here.”
Great.
“Who do you need to call, anyway? The FBI doesn’t care about you. They already got their man out.”
Her stomach lurched. “So it was them?”
She wasn’t sure who else it could have been. But she was a US citizen, and a person of interest to the FBI regarding the death of their director. Why wouldn’t they have waited and extracted both her and Jax at the same time?
Ramon shrugged. “I figured it would curry favor with them if I told them where their guy was. So I left a message that Jax was here, and they came and got him out.”
Kenna sucked in a breath through her nose.
“But you’re like me.” Ramon shrugged. “They don’t care about people like us.” He touched her chin, turning her head one way and then the other. “That punch he gave you is going to leave a bruise. But I don’t suppose he’ll give you an ice pack when he gives you another dose of narcotics.”
“I need you to figure out how to take me with you when you leave here.” She had to get out or she wasn’t going to last much longer.
“I doubt I can make that happen.”
“Which means you aren’t even going to try?” Kenna leaned against the wall. “Why should I help any of you? I’m just hanging out here waiting for some guy I’ve never met to do whatever…I don’t even know.” She didn’t care one bit about Elliot Preston.
“I thought you were all about bringing justice.” Ramon paused. “Isn’t that who you are now?”
“I need to get out of here.” He said nothing, and Kenna stared up at him. “What happened to you?”
If he didn’t tell her, then why should she give him answers to his questions? She had no obligation to tell him anything about her. She didn’t owe any of these people anything, least of all her help with their problems. But they still all thought they knew her.
They didn’t.
Kenna studied his blank expression. “You were undercover, and your handler lost track of you. Now you’re here working for Navarro. Did he make you a better offer than the federal government?”
Ramon snorted. “Like that would’ve been hard.”
