“Here.” He handed me a small device. “Put this in the tote.”
I did and came back. “So, how did that go?”
"Can you take that laptop and drive out? The plugins are below the rear panel,” Micah said, and I got busy while he talked. “I pulled over, rolled my window down, and put my hands on the steering wheel. Since we know shit about the fucker, I didn’t want to give him any reason to fuck with me.”
“Were you speeding or somethin’?” I asked, lifting a hidden panel and pulling out the wires.
“Fuck no. No way I’m gettin’ fucked over for speedin’ in Sumner.”
“What’d he say?” Disconnecting the machine, I took it to the tote and placed it inside, and then got back to work.
“Get this. He didn’t ask for my license or registration. He told me what my name was, my address, my license ID number and my date of birth. Off the top of his head, without a thought.”
“So he knows about us, and we know shit about him.” Great.
Micah lifted the large computer screen out of the Tahoe and walked it over to the long table where Deke was still working. He now had the back off the laptop.
When Micah came back, he stated, “The fucker asked me if I would give him permission to search my vehicle.”
My head whipped to his. “What the fuck?”
He grabbed the keyboard and put it in the tote with the other smaller items. “Yeah. I told him not without a search warrant. That I fought for this country, and if he thinks I’ll give away my rights as an American citizen, he’s got another thing comin’.”
I smirked. “What’d he say to that one?”
“Fucker said, ‘oh yeah. You’re the Marine.’ I said, ‘fuck yeah I am. Now and forever.’ The asshole actually chuckled at me, and I wanted to reach out and punch him, but he had a partner with him who was resting his hip on the cop car waiting.”
No one fucked with four things in Micah’s world. His woman, child, Ravage and the Marines. He didn’t put up with any shit. It probably took every bit of his willpower to keep his restraint.
“The satellite is over on the left side in the seat. The button to open it is on the right,” Micah told me. See what I meant about the bat mobile?
“Get this. He flat out asked me about the computers I had inside the Tahoe. I didn’t fuckin’ answer. And the motherfucker gave me the evilest smirk. He knows stuff he shouldn’t, and we need to figure out where in the fuck he’s gettin’ his information from and cut it off at the neck.”
Micah pulled out cords to the computer on the right, the lights slowly going out.
“Any ideas how or what he knows?” I asked. I finished unhooking the satellite and took it over to the table, placing it by the monitor.
“Nope. Not until that algorithm gets finished to run the ex’s info. Deke’s been workin’ and is almost done with it.”
“And why are we pulling everything out of here?” I asked.
“Because he knows about it and will be coming for it. Have no doubt that if that other cop wasn’t with him, he would’ve searched the Tahoe anyway, and I’m not givin’ him shit,” Micah spat out. “So it gets out before he gets another opportunity because if he has another, he’ll take it.”
“In other words, he’s not a partial threat to Ravage, but a major threat if he knows all the ins and outs. Considering we don’t know what he knows, we have to assume he knows everything and plan accordingly.”
Micah had a screw gun and unscrewed the tower that was near the backseat. “We need to put a bullet in him as soon as fuckin’ possible without anyone knowin’ it’s us.”
“We need the info on that flash,” I told him.
“No fuckin’ shit there.”
“What about the system? Is it safe now?” I asked, pulling the handle on the side door. It popped off only to find flash drives. Why the fuck he needed that, I didn’t know.
“We’re good for the moment, but we need to encode stronger layers of security. They got too fucking close,” he responded. “I put a few measures in place to get us through the night, but was gonna work on it today. Then this shit happened.”
“On it,” I told him. “I think that’s all your secret hiding places.”
Micah smiled and pulled the smallest of circle pieces out. “It’s a camera. We’re leavin’ this in. If the fucker messes with it, I’ll know.”