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“No!” he screams. “I didn’t mean that… I meant the company…not Luna.”
“You’re a piece of shit,” I snarl. “You made her cry. You know what I’m gonna do to you for every tear she ever cried for you? I’m gonna fuck you up.”
He shakes his head. Fuckin’ suit.
“Not so tough now, is he?” Harlem snickers. “Remind me, dickwad. Didn’t you cheat on Luna with her best friend and leave her broken-hearted?”
Brian’s eyes go wide.
“Yeah, then he left that chick when she had a miscarriage,” I say, disgust on my face. “Seems like you enjoy runnin’ out on women and leavin’ them broken-hearted, Brian, is that what you like to do?”
“I said sorry to Luna,” he cries. “I did… I swear… It was a major lapse in judgment on my part, I admit that. We were both sorry… I never stopped loving her.”
Hearing him say those words makes me fuckin’ furious. Without thinking, I uppercut him under the chin, and his head jolts back from the impact, a harsh ‘oof’ leaving his chest as he jerks in the chair.
“Don’t ever fuckin’ use those words!” I spit, grabbing onto his shirt as he flails around like a fish out of water. “Or I swear to God, I’ll torture you for days, and every time you pass out, I’ll bring you back and start all over again.”
He murmurs, my punch knocking him senseless. I’m almost disappointed that he’s such a fuckin’ wimp.
Harlem gives me a chin lift as I step back. He knows I’m gonna kill him if this continues, and we still haven’t gotten shit out of him.
“Tell us what else you know,” Harlem says. “And let’s not prize it out of you. Tag ain’t kiddin’ and I’m not sure you want what he’s offerin’.”
“I… There wasn’t just me,” he garbles. “Another couple of investors at the firm… The company accountant, Gerard, he was in on it. He hid the money…”
Good. This is good. I need more names. All the names.
“Who else?” I ask, turning away and folding my arms over my chest.
I glance over and see Ryder and Cash have arrived, but they’re staying away. The less chaos in here, the better.
“That’s it, just Gerard and another guy Richard… He was friends with Forger…got him out on parole.”
“He’s a lawyer?” Harlem looks at me.
Crooks all across the board. The whole fuckin’ lot of them.
“Go figure,” I mutter.
“You meet with Forger?” Harlem quips. He shakes his head, and when I turn to face him, he quickly adds, “He’s got traction in the underground fightin’ ring. It’s a well-kept secret because only elites can get access,” he says as I frown. “That’s how they’ve been making big dough, fast. Anything goes. There are no rules. And the payout is huge. Some of his former inmates joined, and that’s how he’s been recruiting, not just for fighters, but for dealers, pimps, you name it.”
“Club members, too,” Harlem mutters.
I shake my head. “How was he hidin’ it? We have eyes and ears everywhere. Nobody said shit to our Prez or to me. I know everythin’ that goes on everywhere in the underworld fightin’ rings…”
“He paid them off,” Brian says. “Wasn’t that hard, and he moved out of the city, to an abandoned underground building… That’s where they hold all the big fights. I don’t know where, like I said, I’ve never been there, but I know that’s how he was gaining momentum and gettin’ drugs moved from place to place.”
“So he’s been operatin’ outside the city,” Harlem mutters to me. “Probably has more than one operation, too. Scumbags usually know a lot of other deadbeats…”
“Which is why he’s flown under the radar,” I murmur. “It also seems like he hasn’t learned any lessons from the past.”
Still, it doesn’t account for the fact that our allies are goddamn traitors. More mess for us to deal with, but we’ll get to that. All in good time.
“Don’t believe you when you say you don’t know where,” Harlem grits. “That bastard took my ol’ lady’s kid, locked her in a crypt, and set it on fire!”
Brian’s eyes go wide. “I don’t know anything about that, I swear to God.”
“Your money gets spent on other worldly things like prostitution as well as trafficking, includin’ kids,” I bark at him. “Did you ever stop to think about that?”
