Page 27 of Medusa's Revenge

“DeMarcos enforcer Richie.” Joker pulls up his photo.

“Bring up the picture of the men from the day before, can we do a comparison?” Joker does as I ask. “Bingo! They’re father and son.” Joker’s fingers fly over the computer and I see she’s looking up information on Richie. “Didn’t he die about three years ago? If I remember right, it was a car accident. He was drunk.”

“Or so they say.” Bubbles comments. “Look!” She points to the screen. “There are three properties in Richie’s name. There’s a Junior, who is the spitting image of Dad. Should we get some surveillance to the three places?”

“I would, but the ones we need are stoned or drunk.” I sigh. I pace the room with my hands on my head. “Tomorrow at the meeting, Joker, can you write this down for me?” She nods as she gets her notebook ready. “We need to set up at these three places to get some cameras or see if there are street cams we can hack into to watch. I want to make sure he’s there before we kill him. This is confirmation that Luca Rossi is in the DeMarco organization. Hopefully we will know once DaVinci gets the DNA results.”

“Speaking of Luca Rossi or should I say Lucas Thomas Rossi.” Joker spins in her chair to look at me. “Lucas and Luca are the same person. His mother is deceased and she went to high school with Tommy. I bet anyone in this room a thousand dollars he is Tommy’s kid.”

“I’m not taking that bet.” Tripline, Bubbles and I say all together. We all laugh.

“How did he find Michelle? Was it because of me?” I ask.

“Since I can easily hack her phone because you gave me permission since she’s on your account. To me it seems like she pursued him, not the other way around. Just so you know, she doesn’t know he sent someone to kill you. I saw that on a text thread between Luca and D. I’m still going through those textmessages. I’m assuming D is DeMarco by the way he’s obsessed with you.”

“I wish that man would just die.” I mutter. “We need to figure out who is who in the organization. I think if we start taking out some of the soldiers, some of the higher ups and make it look like accidents we might be able to get Tommy to come out and play with us.”

“Why not go after their businesses like they did with us?” Tripline mentions as she stares at the screens.

“We will but first we need to even the score a little bit. He’s first.” I point to Richie Jr. “I want him in the shed by the weekend.”

“Let’s get some sleep. Joker, do you have alarms set to wake you up if anything goes amiss on your screens?” Bubbles teases. “I think we all need some sleep.” I nod because I’m so tired I could fall asleep standing.

When I make it to my room, I shower and throw on one of Noah’s t-shirts that he left here when he stayed here one night. I want him to be with me in all aspects of my life, but I don’t know if he could handle it knowing I’m a murderer.

The banging on my door wakes me from my sleep. “Whoever is banging on my door is dead!” I yell as I pull open the door. My hair is wild and eyes are barely open. Derby is standing there with my coffee order from Starbucks and some breakfast from McDonald’s. “It’s too fucking early.”

“It’s seven and the meeting is at eight. If you don’t get your coffee and fully wake up, then we all might die today.” she chuckles, shutting the door with her boot.

“It must be nice to get some sleep.” I growl at her taking the coffee and food from her. “I didn’t get to sleep until almost five. I don’t know if I can do another day like I did yesterday.”

“Take today off. I can cover you at the bar. TJ and Noah are meeting with the architect. They have my input. Until the garage is fixed, I’m free.”

“It’d be nice to get some sleep and then go see my boyfriend. I think my brother has seen him more than I have in the last few days.” I sit down on my bed covering myself up and eat. “I’m mentally drained right now.”

“You have a whole club to lean on.” Derby stares at me. “I noticed the Duchess is doing inspections.” I explained to her what I walked into last night. Derby’s eyes widened. “I can’t believe they would do shit like that.” I shrug. I finished eating and drinking my coffee. I get dressed in black jeans, white tank top with our Valkyries logo on it, and throw my cut on top of it. My hair is in a bun because I’m not going to try to tame it right now. This meeting is too important.

Chapter Twenty-Four

Noah

Sleeping in the hospital is like driving down a dirt road and getting no dust flying behind you. It's unlikely to happen. They keep checking my vitals, asking if I need anything and how I’m feeling. I wanted to yell at them that I was fucking sleeping. Why would I need anything? I’m yawning as TJ walks in with some coffee.

“Rough night?” He smiles at me.

Nodding, I take a sip of the coffee he brought me, “They kept waking me up all fucking night. I think when I get home, I’ll probably sleep for two days straight.” We laugh. “Thanks forcoming by. Mom and Dad were running errands this morning. Physical therapy is going to come before lunch so I’m awake for them.”

“No problem. I wanted to go over the plans for the body shop with you since I’m having the architect meet us here. He’s coming at about nine so we have about two hours to get this thing rolling. Ruby gave me her wants and needs for the new place.” He rolls his eyes. “I want to go bigger than just the two bays. What do you think?”

“I think that’d be great. I also think if we could buy the store next to us, we could have a parts store. We can show them where we get our parts and it will all be under your umbrella. I noticed the other body shop doesn’t have that so we could branch out to it.”

“I didn’t think about that at all. I’ll send a text to my realtor to see if it’s available for sale. If it is, I’ll check it out.”

“I have money to buy it if it’s not crazy.” He nods.

“I don’t want you to buy everything. I have money too.” He sounds upset.

“I was saying that, but I also know how insurance companies can be when it comes to giving money out. There’s an investigation going on.” He seems to relax with that. “I don’t throw my money or my trust fund baby status around. I don’t like using it unless a friend needs help. We are going to be business partners after all.”

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