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“Good. Watch the vandalism shit again, and pay attention this time. Tell me what you see.”
Doing as he asked, I pull my phone from my pocket, thumb through my camera footage and find the videos I’d saved.
Just as I’d seen last time, it’s four guys all in black, breaking windows and damaging whatever else happened to be around.
I tell Tanner that, and he scowls. “We all thought we saw the same thing, but after reviewing it again, I noticed we missed something.”
“Like what?”
He waves me over to his desk and turns the screen for me to see.
“This is the footage from four of the houses. I was trying to figure out how four men managed to not only get to each one in such a short time, but also cause the damage they did.”
Four different playbacks are running simultaneously on his screen. Not seeing anything different than mine, I ask, “What’s different?”
“Look closer,” Gabe instructs with his typical drink in hand.
Tanner runs the videos again, and that’s when I notice it.
“One of them is female.”
Once you see her, it’s impossible not to notice. But you have to look close to catch the different shape of her body compared to the rest of them.
“Exactly,” Tanner answers, “but only at four of the houses. The other four were hit by an all-male team.”
Understanding hits me.
“There were two teams.”
“Yep,” he agrees. “Seven guys and one female. Who do you know that fits that description?”
When I don’t answer immediately, Tanner clicks his pen in frustration.
It’s Damon who answers the question.
“Probably seven guys we beat the shit out of before going to jail and one female you fucked who started the fight in the first place.”
My body goes stock-still. “Paul.”
“Bingo,” Tanner says, drawing my attention back to him. “And I assume it was one of them who messed with your car. Not here because my cameras showed they hightailed it out of here as soon as they set shit on fire. So where was your car after that?”
I replay that night in my head, and my teeth grind together to realize what he’s saying.
“It was at Myth. We went there so Brinley could talk to Ames.”
It makes sense. Beauty is a recognizable car, and everybody knows I drive it. Perhaps after not finding it at any of the houses, Paul and them went to Myth that night to celebrate their supposed win against us.
They probably saw it in the parking lot and used what was available to screw with it. Almost every car has a lug wrench, so it would have only taken a few minutes for them to grab one out of their trunk and loosen the nuts on my tire.
“I’ll fucking kill him.”
“No,” Tanner answers, “you won’t. This time, we’re going to do things the right way and decide how the entire Inferno will handle this.”
He doesn’t have to elaborate on his answer for me to catch the admonishment. I’ve been running ahead this entire time, taking care of problems my own way and only causing more in the process.
When I lock eyes with him, he arches a brow.
“Before you run off half-cocked, why don’t you stay here and listen for once?”
