Page 83 of Final Ride

Couldn’t believe how fuckin’ hot it was in the middle of the night in Vegas. Dark and hot and not a breath of a breeze as we walked through the rental lot to pick up the black Hummer Annie rented for us.

“Can I drive this baby?” asked Virge.

“Remember it’s a little wider,” said Annie.

“Yeah, I’ve got it.”

We loaded our luggage into the back and Annie programmed the address of her Vegas house into the GPS.

“Get us there, Virge. I need a cold beer, and I need to think.”

“Copy, Mom.”

Summerlin. Las Vegas.

Virge pulled the Hummer into the driveway and shut off the engine. “Wow, Mom. This is a beautiful house.”

“Neil did the house shopping in Vegas for me, and he picked this one. We all like his choice.”

“Love the way you can’t see the front door from the street,” I said. “Nice and private.”

“Neil loved that feature, Harlan. My son is a very private person.”

Annie unlocked the door, and we carried our bags inside and set them down in the foyer. “I’m going to call Kamps and get information for us. You can put your stuff in one of the bedrooms. The big one with the walkout to the pool is my room.Take any other one and help yourselves to a beer from the fridge.”

“Okay, thanks.”

Virge and I got beers out of the big fridge in the kitchen and joined Annie and Mick out by the pool where she was waking a guy up to find out about the Breed Clubhouse in Vegas.

She put the call on speaker so we could hear.

I lit up a smoke and leaned back in my chair breathing in the dry desert air. The water in the pool sparkled from the underwater lights and made me want to jump in the water and go swimming.

No time right now for that.

“Sorry to wake you up, sugar. Can you get me the addresses for Army Vincente, Chip Maitland and Ronnie Kuzenko?”

“Why do you want the Vegas Breed, Beauty? That will only get you into trouble. Who’s with you?”

“Mick is with me, and Travis’s boys. The Vegas Breed have Travis. Pretty sure.”

“And you’re going to confront them? Not a great idea.”

“Just find the addresses for me, hon bun. I have to get there before they off Travis.”

“Dale Burden payback. Yeah, I get it.”

Annie waited and then wrote down what we needed to know.

“Promise me you’ll be extra careful,” said Kamps. “Those guys are brutal assholes, and they’ll kill all of you.”

“Not if I kill them first.”

Hearing the other guy warn Mom made me a bit nervous, but we had to get Travis back—no matter what.

Before the drive to Boulder City, Annie worked out a plan with Mick. He took the grenades he needed from her stock of ordnance in the Vegas house.

Me and Virge couldn’t believe the stock of weapons she had there locked in her stash.

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