Page 109 of Always Salty

I called Keely and got her voicemail.

I called her again and the same thing happened.

On the fourth try, with her non-answer, I called my brother. “I need your help. You’re at your office, right?”

He was the closest, at just under ten minutes away.

“Yeah, what’s up?”

I sent him there, then started gathering my things.

I’d need my wallet, keys, and computer.

Only when I got the call from my brother to say that her phone was there, and nothing else, did I call Lev and Apollo.

Something was very, very wrong.

And the feeling in my stomach told me I didn’t have much time.

“I followed the movements from here.” He pointed at our house where the cameras had caught her getting into the car. “To here,” he said. “She gets out of the car, and there’s a man with her. The man pulls her with him to the driver’s side window, he hands the woman a stack of cash and the woman takes off.”

“I’m already looking that up,” Apollo said as he started typing away at his computer.

Lev was doing the same thing from the other end of the table, but he was focused on watching the movement of the car through traffic.

The two of them had gone from the Uber to the black SUV with paper plates, and then Chester had taken off heading toward Irving.

“Got her,” Apollo said. “Look.”

He pointed to the screen at the head of the table and we all watched as the Uber driver had picked up Chester earlier. They’d talked for a long time in front of his house, and then they’d taken off.

“Chester,” I said.

“That’s the FBI agent, right?” Chevy asked.

There were a ton of us in the conference room of Castanon Enterprises.

Chevy, Copper, Cutter, Shasha, Apollo, and several other Truth Tellers, along with a few of Shasha’s guys.

“Fast forward to now,” Apollo said as he switched to another screen.

“Is she going to a police station?” I asked.

“Sure is,” Apollo grumbled.

Shasha pulled his phone out and placed it to his ear.

He said a few words in it, and then Haze was outside as he met the terrified Uber driver.

They spoke for long moments, and all the while, Shasha listened on, his brows furrowed.

Haze brought the Uber driver inside, and then Shasha hung up his phone. “He’s taking her to his office.”

Meaning we could do what we needed to do without the cops getting in our way.

“Got them!” Lev cried out in excitement. “They’re here.”

He shot the feed to the screen that Apollo had just taken over, and side by side we watched the Fort Worth police department parking lot, and the quick shift of street cameras as we followed the SUV that Chester had led Keely to.

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