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I opened my mouth to do just that, but Grey stepped on my foot. The slight shake of his head the only hint he knew what I’d been about to do.
“You’re wrong, Dies,” Lenny said.
“I’m not. I have the proof I need; what I don’t have is a name.”
“I can’t give you what I don’t have.”
“You have ten days to give me that name,” Diesel continued, ignoring Lenny completely. “Give him up and declare peace or you renounce your territory claim and leave.”
“Excuse me?” Lenny scoffed. “We’ve held that territory since my grandfather—”
“I don’t care if you’ve held it since the dawn of time. You give him up, or you better get as far away from northern Cali as you can go.”
Lenny stepped forward, cinching the gap between himself and Diesel. To Diesel’s credit, he didn’t so much as balk at the advance. Actually, he smiled.
It was worse than when he was expressionless. Much worse.
“And if we don’t?” Lenny asked, a muscle in his upper lip twitching as he snarled.
“Then you have chosen the path of violence, and we will not hold back.”
Diesel lifted his hand in a circular motion, and Grey tugged me to follow him from the cabin.
My head pounded with the throb of unspent adrenaline in my veins as we exited back out into the damp night. I stayed by the door until Rook was outside. Diesel and Corvus were the last ones to leave, and I didn’t fall back into step until Corvus tugged me to him, making me follow beside him instead of behind.
I didn’t trust them.
There was a vibe there. I couldn’t explain it, but I knew there was something more to this feud than what it appeared on the surface. If I was right, it wasn’t going to take much more for the tenuous truce to snap.
Before there was all out war on the streets.
A sharp whistle and Diesel’s other men exited the tree line, surprising the small gathering of Aces waiting by the idling vehicles on the left side of the parking lot.
They strode past them like wraiths and the Aces watched as they hopped into the van with Axel, silent.
“Get back to Sanctum. I want you combing over those tapes for anything we can use,” Diesel told Pinkie. “Go with the others.”
Pinkie nodded before going to the van.
“I want the rest of you ready. Wait for my orders at Sanctum.”
“Where you going, boss?” one of them asked as Corvus continued to drag me slowly to the Rover.
Diesel’s eyes found mine, and I stopped short, dragging Corvus to a stop with me.
“I’m following my sons back to the Nest,” Diesel told him. “I need to have a little chat with our newest member.”
The van door slammed and the engine turned.
Diesel held my stare for another moment before his eyes flicked to Corvus and then to Rook and Grey. “You make no stops. We don’t need to give them any advantage or opportunity. Got it?”
“Yeah,” Corvus replied gruffly. “I got it.”
There wereno surprises on the route home, though I half expected an ambush, and by midnight, we were pulling up alongside the Nest with Diesel’s headlights bouncing behind us.
“He’s going to want the intel only Becca can give us,” Grey said solemnly as he shut off the engine. “He’ll want you to get it.”
“I know.”
