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“Jay.”
He swung back at the name he’d given the gang.
“You’re going on a run.”
“Tonight?” His heart kicked up a notch.
“Tonight.”
He answered Cole with a hard nod. “I just need a minute.”
When he shut himself in the bathroom, he considered taking out his phone and shooting Lexis a text, but he couldn’t risk getting a reply from his boss at any point after this, not if he was on a run.
After he cleaned the wound he’d taken from a broken beer bottle and made sure it was free of glass shards, he stepped out into the main room. Cole stood talking to the tall, greasy-looking guy they all called Bones for his skeletal appearance.
They both looked up at Jennings.
He made his way across the room, circling the pool table and a game that would go on long into the morning hours and continued by the couch where a guy was getting a blow job. Jennings didn’t need to glance down to know he already had several shades of lipstick wreathing his dick from the club girls.
He shouldered his way around a few more guys talking to Mack about the bar fight. When he stepped up to the vice prez and Bones, he nodded to each. “What’s up for tonight?”
“You and Bones are heading out. Bones knows what to do. He’ll show you.”
Again, he nodded. “Got it.”
Cole gave him a solemn look. “I count on that.”
He might be undercover, but Jennings still felt the weight of that statement. Cole was putting trust in him—something that wasn’t easily earned. An unbidden feeling of pride swelled in his chest. Being chosen to contribute to a crime wasn’t something to be proud of, but he’d spent months working toward this.
Bones turned to him. “Ready?”
“Lead the way.”
They left behind the smoke-filled club, boots crunching on the gravel in the parking lot. They bypassed the row of Harleys lined up along the wall, and Bones climbed into a black van.
Jennings took shotgun. During the ride, he knew better than to ask where they were headed. He had to be prepared for anything from raids to violence between the Disciples and a rival gang.
As they drove out of town, his mind moved in a dozen directions. He always had a loose plan in the event that shit went sideways, and this could get deep.
The town of Spring Valley wasn’t large and soon the houses thinned. He knew this route all too well since he’d been traveling it for months now.
They were heading to the outskirts of East Canon where the Sentry headquarters was situated.
A dark thrill hit his stomach even as a realization dropped over him like a sheet.
This was it. He was even closer to the end game than he’d told Lexis.
They were going to the church.
The building looked normal enough. A sign out front invited the public to all services. On the outside, everything was on the up-and-up.
But Sentry and the FBI had been on to the happenings for a while now. It started with Lexis’s wife getting in deep enough to witness some dirty activity there. Then the pastor went off the grid.
Bones’s lighter flared as he lit another cigarette. Smoke filled the van. He held out the pack to Jennings.
“Thanks, man. I’m good for now.”
“I never see you smoke.”
