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“No wire,” I announced, but as my fingers dipped into her pockets I found something else and winced. Her phone.
Diesel would’ve seen the shape of it sagging in the pocket of her baggy pullover, so I drew it out. “Phone,” I announced.
“Check it.”
I did, flipping the screen to her first. “Password?”
“Fingerprint,” she replied without a lick of trepidation, but her face betrayed what her voice wouldn’t as it paled when I pressed the digit to the fingerprint reader.
I flicked through the main screen as Diesel waited, his trigger finger twitching.
Bile rose up the back of my throat as I flipped through to videos and found not one, but two.
The dots connected in my mind, seeing Billy Parker trussed up like a pig in his cooler. We’d heard he was found dead, now we knew why.
She’d killed him.
But she’d also saved the video.
I wasn’t sure what that meant.
And the other video was of tonight. I didn’t watch more than a few seconds of either before deleting them, my mouth going dry.
“Well?” Diesel prodded.
“Nothing,” I gritted out, giving AJ a loaded look as I handed her phone back to her. I didn’t let go straight away when her fingers curled around it, making her have to tug it out of my grasp. If she survived tonight, she had some fucking explaining to do.
I wasn’t even sure why I deleted the evidence of her crimes. Why the fuck was I trying to save someone who so clearly was trying to blackmail us?
Were you not blackmailing her first?The traitorous thought echoed back to me, bouncing off the recesses of my skull.
Something told me there was more to it than what it appeared to be.
“Then she’s collateral,” Diesel snarled, raising his gun.
I blocked his shot, lurching into the line of his bullet at the same time Corvus made a move to disarm him.
“Don’t,” Rook growled, and all eyes turned to him, no longer lounging easily against the pallets but standing like a hulking shadow, his arms tense at his sides, shoulders heaving. “No one touches her.”
“Just what the fuck is going on here?” Diesel shouted, his carefully constructed mask crumbling as betrayal flashed across his eyes. It cut deep to see it, making me shudder, but I didn’t budge. I wouldn’t.
What the fuck was wrong with me?
“Dies,” I managed, able to keep my voice level despite the chaos raging within. “A word?”
Corvus whirled on me, his brows drawn as if to ask what the fuck I was playing at.
If he wouldn’t do it, then I would. AJ was worth at leasttrying,wasn’t she?
Diesel glanced between the three of us, calculating. Studying.
His upper lip curled, and he dropped his gun, stepping back with a hiss. “Don’t let her out of your sight,” he spat at Corvus and Rook as he shouldered through them both and vanished back out into the night.
“What are you doing?” Corvus asked as I turned to follow him, giving AJ’s arm a squeeze, an apology unspoken on my lips.
“What we should have done from the start.”
“What?” Diesel snapped as I walked out of the warehouse, going to where he was pacing near the Rover. “You want to tell me what the hell is going on, Son, because I’m two seconds shy of—”
