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“Street justice isn’t a reason to take lives.”
“So you’ll never understand this life.” Ramon shrugged one shoulder. “Doesn’t mean it’s wrong.”
“Great.” She patted the shoulder of the seat. “Hey, drop me in town by that café.”
“You don’t want to see Navarro? He will want to thank you for helping find Javier.”
“I didn’t help. You set me up, and I got kidnapped.” She glanced out the window. He was the one who had called to say that Jax was awake, because someone he knew at the hospital passed on that information. But way more had gone on there than just Jax being awake.
He shifted in his seat. “What are you talking about?”
“The hospital. You said Jax was awake—”
“And was he?”
Kenna blinked. “Well, yeah.”
“So what’s the problem?”
“Something went down there. Kart got in and took out two FBI agents. He was waiting for me. But why would he do that if he had Javier already?” She needed to think this through, but she also couldn’t believe Ramon hadn’t known there was something more going on.
Ramon shook his head. “You think I know?”
“Well, how did you know where to find me?”
“That guy with you. Stairns. He passed on a message that you’d been taken from the hospital and called with your location. Turns out you rescued yourself.”
“Right.” Did that even make sense? “Great. You found me.”
He got out his phone and made a call, speaking in Spanish so fast she switched off listening and instead focused on Javier and the road outside the window.
When they were nearing town, she said, “Drop me off in town, remember?”
He held up two fingers and didn’t stop talking. His voice rose, and the tone shifted. He barked a couple of things, then hung up. “There was an incident at the hospital. Someone put the call out on their phone system that the second floor had a quarantine situation.”
“So he cleared out the floor.” She hadn’t seen any staff or security when she went to see Jax and found Kart with him—or on the way out. “And made sure no one disturbed him.”
“It’s resolved now, and there are feds crawling all over the place now, apparently. So my guy, he works security, can’t get to his station.”
Kenna’s stomach tightened. Feds crawling all over didn’t sound good. “Are they moving Jax?”
“Don’t know.”’
She’d given Jax her phone. “Let me borrow your cell.”
Ramon flinched. “We’ll drop you off and take Javier home. You can find your people yourself.” He spoke to the driver, who nodded.
“Fine.” She would walk into the hotel lobby looking like she’d been dragged through a berry bush with only socks on her feet. No wallet, no phone, and no weapons.Great.“This whole situation has been just great. I’m never gonna want to come back here after this.”
Not that she’d been planning on a Mexico vacation, but still. The dangerous men who lived in Cielo Ardiente had soured her on the whole country.
She just wanted to get her friends and get out before Elliot appeared. Maybe she should get Maizie to use Kenna’s credit card to get them a full security detail, so they had a safe way to leave. Enough with the distractions and the danger. Maizie needed to be back at the trailer in Colorado.
“This town is my life,” Ramon said. “Some of us don’t get a choice whether we like it here or not.”
“Didn’t mean to hit a sore spot. I’m just tired and frustrated.”
He might not have picked this life, but he could have stopped before he made one of the choices that got him in the employ of a cartel leader. He could’ve made his way back to America and done the work to clear his name. Or lived under a fake name and had a quiet life where he didn’t break the law.
