Page 71 of Cryptic Curse
Damn.
Eagle has never been one to get his hands dirty for no reason.He let his own brother go to prison for his crimes.
“All right.Who else knows?”
“Vinnie does,” Eagle says.“And Raven.”
“No way Ray had anything to do with this,” I say.“But we really don’t know Vinnie very well.”
“We know Savannah,” Eagle says.“And we trust her and Falcon.”
“Right, Savannah.”I rub at my forehead.“She knows, too…”
My mind races.
How welldowe know Vinnie and Savannah?We know they come from the Bianchi family.But Vinnie had most of them effectively taken out.His grandfather has disappeared, and his rival, Declan McAllister, is dead.
Vinnie was gone for seventeen years, though.Raven loves him, and so does Savannah.
What do we really know about him?
Fuck.I’ve got to give Vinnie the benefit of the doubt.After all, he was as surprised as we were that the EPA was already on this.
The EPA contact.Maybe she would know something.I’ll get Vinnie to check that out.
“Then there were the other two,” Eagle says.
“What other two?”
“You know.The two goons that brought Vega.The ones who escaped to the border.Who were never heard from again.”
“Right.”
This doesn’t sit well with me.None of it does.
As I look at my brother once more, I’m not so sure it wasn’t him.
I grab his shoulders, shake him.“It had to be you, E.There’s nobody else.You’ve been fucking with me all night.That way I wouldn’t think it was you.Who did you sell out?What for?A quick hit?One of those times I bailed you out?”
He tries to wiggle out of my grasp.“Let go of me, Hawk.”
“I’ll let go of you when you tell me the fucking truth,” I grit out.
“I swear to God it wasn’t me.I’ve been clean since my last stint in rehab.I swear to God.”He swallows.“But I could sure use a fucking hit right now.”
“Stop lying to me,” I say through gritted teeth.
“I’m not lying.”
I let him go and push him to the ground.
He’s not lying.
And the reason I know he’s not lying?
It’s because if hehaddone it, he would’ve gone straight for the drugs.Certainly he wouldn’t have dug up a body and then left the drugs if he was looking for a hit.
No.
