Page 89 of When Kings Fall

“Christ.”

“My girl was also able to tag Tommy when he left the place late last night. The Osiris member never surfaced unfortunately, so there must have been an underground route out of the place. He was surrounded by his muscle too, so she couldn’t even drop him either. So we missed the opportunity to bring him in for questioning and get a real-time location on Lynch out of him.” She ground her jaw. “It would have saved this massive undertaking you’re dealing with of trying to pinpoint his location when he’s always on the move.”

“We can still bring Tommy in. You said he was tagged.”

“He won’t break, Levi. He was trained not to by my dad. A bunch of the club members went through the same training when they were prospects. It was a dark time back then.”

“You’d be surprised what I can achieve.”

“No,” my dad spoke. Well, growled vehemently. “Absolutely not. Remember what we just talked about. Torturing somebody would seriously strain your ability to walk away from this sort of thing. It would taint you, Levi.”

“Yeah, you’re not doing that,” Brianna told me. She walked to me and took my hands in hers. “It would haunt me forever if I knew you’d done that for me.”

“Okay. Besides, we have enough things haunting us, don’t we?”

“Things we’re on our way to cast off now.”

I nodded.

“I recall what you told me about Brianna’s text conversation with Tommy,” my dad said. He looked at her. “Based off of that and his attitude there, I’d reason that he would be filled with twisted delight to tell you all about his illicit activities with Lynch and how he deceived you and your father.”

“He’s right,” I said.

She nodded. “I need to find out for sure. I need to know what happened. I need the closure, Levi.” She pulled away. “I can’t allow him to get off scot-free just because our real target is Lynch.”

“You’re not going anywhere near that motherfucker on your own.”

“I know. I came in here not just to notify you, but to ask you to go with me.”

“If he’s working with Lynch, it’s unlikely he’ll be alone,” my dad warned.

I thought he was going to fight against us doing this, especially with the big strike coming up where we all needed to be at our best, and because he’d already managed to bite the bullet and accept me doing one majorly dangerous thing as it was.

Instead, he told us, “I’ll send one of my units. You can start by trying to handle it on your own, but if things go south, they’ll move in and extract you safely.”

I gave him a chin lift.

“What about Mason and Colt?” I asked, Brianna. “Have you filled them in yet?”

“Mason is immersed in his tattoo designs, I don’t want to upset that now he’s finally back down to it. And Colt is stressed about Mythic Cry and having focusing issues. He’s behind several weeks with his college work. They’ll stay here. We’ll be in and out, back before they know it.”

“Brianna—”

“Levi, this is extremely personal to me. I wanted to go alone, but I’m bringing you in because I know you guys would never allow me to go solo on this.”

“And because you know you couldn’t get this past me.”

The corner of her mouth turned up. “There’s also that, yeah.”

“By the way, I was going to say that I agree with you about keeping it to just the two of us. Just this time, though. We do the rest together as our foursome.”

“Agreed. Just this one time.”

“Good,” I said, walking to the closet and reaching inside for my riding jacket. “Then let’s ride, Wildflower.”

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~Brianna~

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