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Seems easy enough. “Then tell her she needs a new starter.”
Another couple of muttered curse words before the audible scratch of his fingers over his beard. “Whatever, asshole. I’ll take care of it. But you owe me after this.”
The words are familiar. Priest is sounding more and more like the Inferno every damn day.
“What’s the price for the favor?” I ask, only because it’s amusing to have the game turned around on me for once.
He thinks it over. “I don’t have one yet. Just know that you owe me, and it will come due eventually.”
Yep. He’s just like us.
Laughing at that, I end the call and push to my feet to grab a shower and get dressed.
Within a half hour, I’m walking off the private elevator onto Tanner’s floor of the office, ignoring Lacey when she tries to stop me passing her desk. Why she’s here on a Saturday is anybody’s guess, but I’m sure it has something to do with Tanner not giving the first fuck about what he does to that poor woman.
Then again, for the amount she’s getting paid now that Gabe has given her several ridiculous raises to keep her as an employee, I’m sure a few Saturdays in the office here and there are totally worth the new yacht she can afford on our dime.
I don’t bother knocking before bursting into Tanner’s office, my steps a rhythmic thump against his stone floors as I approach him.
From where he sits with his feet kicked up on the desk, he turns his attention away from the computer screen to plant it firmly on me.
“It’s about time you finally get here, I called you over an hour ago.”
I drop my weight into a chair facing his desk. “Why the fuck are you here so early in the morning?”
Sighing, Tanner taps a few fingers over his keyboard before relaxing back in his seat and pinning that moss green stare on me again. “Because Jase has been losing his shit all night, and I needed to get away from him before I fucking killed him.”
Remembering the text we’d received about Everly while we were at Myth last night, I nod in understanding. “But why come here?”
A silent laugh shakes his chest. “Because it’s the last place anybody would think to look for me. I fucking hate it here.”
He has a point.
When it comes to the daily activities of the law firm, the Inferno member firmly in charge of the grind is Gabe. How he accomplishes it is anybody’s guess, but perhaps it has everything to do with him feeling comfortable in a business that runs on a web of lies.
“So why am I here?”
Tanner taps a pen against the surface of his desk. Hair disheveled and dressed in a simple black shirt, he looks like he just crawled out of bed.
“I’m sick of hearing Jase’s fucking voice, and you…”
He points the pen at me.
“Are exactly who I need to shut him up.”
It’s not like I haven’t thought of strangling Jase before and putting him out of his misery. So far, this conversation is headed in a good direction.
“Should I kill him first, or save myself the trouble and just bury him alive?”
Dark green eyes narrow on me. “We’re not killing him, Shane.”
“It would be the easiest solution.”
He taps his pen again. “And you’re right. I’ve considered it myself when he acts like a whiny, little bitch, but he’s family, and we don’t kill family.”
Like I said earlier, Tanner and Gabe have rules.
Fuck rules.
