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“You’re giving him a lot of assignments,” Boise noted.

Heckler was still on the phone, but I turned to him. “He’s been following everyone. He was resourceful in prison, I heard.”

“In and out of prison.”

Yeah.

“He’s still considered a nomad, isn’t he?”

I nodded. “Yeah. Max sent him with me on this trip for a reason.”

“He seems to be working out.”

“We’ll see. He might want to go to Florida.”

“You want me to feel him out?”

That meant Boise would hang out with him, get to know him, ask him the personal questions a national VP might not get the real answers to.

I nodded, giving Boise the go-ahead.

He took off, but headed toward the barn, glancing at Stripes a few times before merging with the crowd around the bonfire.

Machete was up next. “Sisters are together, outside the barn.”

He took off, going right back in the same direction as Boise.

So Claudia had found Kali. I finally spoke into the phone, “How’s Max?”

“He’s going to pull through, and we found who did it.”

I frowned. That got my attention real quick. He hadn’t led with that when I answered. “Who?”

“A dad down here. Max was fucking his daughter. Seventeen.”

Jesus!

Heckler wasn’t done. “She turned seventeen a month ago.”

“What are you planning?” My tone was gritty because damn, this was not a good place to be in right now.

“We grabbed the dad. He says he’s got proof Max fucked her when she was sixteen, a day before her birthday. He could be a problem, but he says he won’t do anything more if we let him live.” He paused. “Most of the guys are with you, so I’m thinking it’s your call. Max is in a medically induced coma. What do you want us to do?”

Max was the national president. There was no question here.

“Get the proof, then kill him.”

26

KALI

I nursed one beer forever.

This was a full-fledged party, so no way would I be able to sleep.

Also, this was a full-fledged party, so no way was I going to get drunk. I didn’t care that Shane had said no one would mess with me if I told them I was with him.

Also, a full-fledged party and my sister was here, so another reason to say hell no to getting drunk.

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