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The thrill quickly morphing to something else as I spotted one of the Aces slip a gun from the back of his jeans and press it to the side of his thigh. His black hair was slicked back, giving a fully unobstructed view of his face. The way his upper lip was twitching into a snarl.
He was at the very end, closest to me. The light from the battery-powered spotlight hung off the back of the rusted metal warehouse wall didn’t quite reach him. The only one who might’ve been able to catch his movement, or the glint of his gun in the moonlight, was Corvus, and he was clearly distracted as fuck.
Look,I wanted to shout.Pay attention, you fucking idiot.
I had to reposition my phone, having lowered it while I, myself, was distracted by everything they seemed to be missing.
“I can assure you, Diesel,” Lenny replied after a moment. “None of my men would have acted so recklessly. They wouldn’t dare go against my orders.”
...unlike yours...Lenny seemed to be implying and a small fissure formed in Diesel’s perfectly crafted facade. That struck a nerve. So the king didn’t have full control over all of his men, then. Though I doubted any gang leader did. It came with the territory, didn’t it?
There was clearly a history between these two, one I wasn’t privy to.
The man with the greasy black hair fixed his sights on Corvus and my lips parted in wordless alarm as his thumb pushed the safety off.
Oh god.
Why wasn’t anyone noticing?
I raced to check all the other Aces, checking to see if they were readying weapons, too, but none seemed to be. Just this one. The one at the end looking like he had an ax to grind.
Fuck.
Fuck. Fuck. Fucking fuck.
“You wouldn’t lie to me would you, Lenny?” Diesel asked, his tone one he might use on a child who’d misbehaved. Trying to tease out the truth with the promise of accepting it without punishment.
Something told me Diesel would, too. If Lenny admitted one of his men had acted without his permission, Diesel would have demanded that life in exchange for Randy’s and no others.
A fair trade if you asked me.
People had to pay for their mistakes or else they’d just keep making them.
Blood for blood.
It was the one adage of theirs I could get behind.
But Lenny wasn’t going to budge, I could tell by the way he was standing. Defensively. Chin raised.
It had to be this clown at the end, the one still looking at Corvus like he might want to carve out his eyes. Maybe?
Ugh.
If Corvus would just fuckinglookthen...
The Ace’s hand moved to rest beside the trigger and I couldfeelhis readiness from here. Like a strain in the air I was breathing. Making it harder to inhale. Thicker.
He’s going to shoot him.
“No,” Lenny told Diesel. “I wouldn’t lie to you.”
“You know I don’t like being lied to.”
“And you know the Aces own their shit. I’m telling you we had nothing to do with it.”
Diesel bristled. “Very well. If you had nothing to do with it, then might you know whodoes?”
Lenny opened his mouth to reply, but I wasn’t paying attention to him anymore. My body flooded with heat, flushing my cheeks as a fresh wave of adrenaline pulsed through me, narrowing my focus.
