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As Kenna watched from the passenger seat of the car, they circled the truck. One of the men went down. Gunfire sounded like a conversation in the night. She knew they’d be yelling to the others to get down. Drop the weapons and take arrest positions.Hands up, don’t move!
They sat there and watched it all go down. Maybe these were feds after all.
“You knew they’d be coming?” Kenna frowned. “You knew the feds would be here to intercept, and you didn’t do what it would take to get the money out before then. You just cost my friends their lives. I’ll lose all three of them.” In horrible ways. “And their blood will be on your hands.”
“Calm down.”
Kenna sucked in a breath.
“That’s not our delivery.”
She glared. “Start talking, Ramon. Before I kill you where you sit and go fix this myself.”
“Take a look over there.” He pointed to the right.
She followed the line of sight and gasped at what she saw.Elliot.She’d seen an image on Maizie’s computer of Sheriff Elliot Preston. If he was here, did that mean Kart wasn’t far?
“Kart must have told his cousin that the delivery would arrive tonight.” Her mind assimilated ideas faster than she could process which was wrong and which was right. “But did he really tip off the feds? Why would he do that?”
“To get a deal for Kart. Or secure Elliot’s position as a law-abiding sheriff.”
“After Kart distracted Navarro by kidnapping his boy and took me to the same house?” Did Kart really consider his biggest threats right now to be Kenna and the cartel leader? If he was trading information to the feds that was one thing, but why do it this way?
Finding him in Jax’s hospital room might’ve been because he’d been there making a deal. But why take out the guards only to kidnap her? Or had someone else called in the contagion on that floor? Maybe he had to make it look like he was still doing what Elliot ordered him to.
She wanted to wring the guy’s neck. Then ask a hundred questions, figure out what was going on here. There was no mystery here she wanted to solve. But neither did she want to further Navarro’s criminal empire.
If it wasn’t for her friends, she would make Ramon let her out. Then find Kart before he got away with all of it in exchange for talking—and securing a win for the FBI.
No matter which way she sliced it, he was betraying his cousin and covering his own fate with safeguards, so he had a shot at getting out. If she was to take a page out of his book, she might get further than she had so far with this.
But would she like the person she became?
“And you knew it was going to happen.” She shook her head. “What are we going to do about the delivery now? It’s being seized.”
“Yeah, but watch.”
She was about to burst out of the car, just to try and release some of the tension. “This is unbelievable. You could’ve told me.”
“You weren’t gonna risk messing up your job. And now we know there is someone in Navarro’s operation sympathetic to Ian Kartom, or working with him and Elliot Preston, who handed him the information about tonight’s shipment. Just a case of figuring out who it was.”
“Maybe there’s no one. Or it’s you.” She shrugged, trying not to give off how she felt about Elliot being here. “You don’t know how he found out about the information.”
“We knew he was going to intercept.” Ramon glanced at her. “How else did he get the info than someone who knew about the delivery told him?”
“Maybeyou’rethe leak. Or someone else got sloppy.”
Ramon chuckled. “Now you’re getting it.”
“Navarro knows about this?”
“I’ll be reporting in. Keeping him posted about the status of the delivery.”
“By the looks of things, the status is that some of his money is going into the pockets of those feds. If that’s who they are.” Kenna shook her head. “I’d have thought they’d be recuperating after Navarro hit the hospital to get Jax out.”
Ramon shrugged. “Maybe they don’t care about justice…and it’s your job now.”
“If it’s up to me to keep him safe, then give me that gun you brought for me so I can go get the delivery back and we can get Navarro his money.” If he didn’t let her and her friends go free, they were going to have serious words.
