Page 66 of Last One Standing
“It makes sense he’d team up with her with what was in that factory,” Gabe said, and a collective groan filled the room. “Shit, I wasn’t supposed to say that.”
Carmichael stared unblinkingly at Gabe for a beat before turning back to me. “Anyway, maybe you’ve seen her.” He heldup a photo of a beautiful blond, white woman, slender, in a Chanel suit, and heels for days.
“I’d remember seeing someone like that.”
“What’s this about?” Angel interrupted.
“The reason Brick hasn’t been arrested, why he seems untouchable, is because he is. He apparently cut a deal to help bring Colette Barbier down. This deal basically reads like he won the lottery. They won’t touch him no matter what, which is insane.”
“He killed Darby!” Lizzy yelled. “How can homicide be washed away for this other criminal?”
Four wrapped his arm around her. “Deals don’t allow others to commit heinous crimes, Carmichael.” He glared. “He may be untouchable to you, but not to us.”
“Does the club know this?” I asked. “That would needed to be called to vote, and I can’t see a bunch of outlaws working with the feds.”
“I don’t know what he’s told the club, but the deal is for Brick and no one else.”
“I don’t give a fuck what deal he made with the feds, ATF, the president. We aren’t going to sit by and let him take us out so you all can get your French bitch.” Shep’s face was red and murderous.
“Hold up,” Carmichael roared. “You all called me. I found this out andrespectfullybrought it to you. Don’t attack me, Shepard.”
“Everyone, calm down.” JJ stood between the men. “Damn. You’re gonna do the Kings’ job and kill each other. Have a seat, you testosterone junkies.”
“What I’m hearing is that the authorities won’t step in—not like we care.” Angel inched closer to Carmichael. “You won’t want to be part of how this ends, Carmichael, trust me. But clear our names of the shop shooting, and we’ll owe you one.”
“You think I want to be owed by the Saint brothers?”
Angel’s grin turned feral, and I felt my dick twitch.
“Fuck yes, you do.”
CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX
ANGEL
Carmichael didn’t exactly sayhe would get us cleared of any wrongdoing at Saintly Sweets, but it was implied. He’d promised to see what he could do to push for the authorities to get Brick to back off, but I didn’t give a fuck. Even if he came here today and got on his knees and begged for forgiveness, I’d cut his head clean off and piss down his neck.
As soon as Carmichael had gone, Noel and Nick went straight to the tech room to research everything they could on Colette Barbier. If she was going to be a problem for us, we’d need to know. As it stood, she was a piece of shit for all her trafficking, and maybe if we got lucky she’d be at the same place as Brick once it was time to rid the world of him.
“So, what do we do?” Lizzy’s voice shook. The poor girl wasn’t handling any of this well.
“We have the twins looking into this woman, finding out who she is. From there, we will know what our path to the Dead Kings looks like.” I didn’t have it in me to hold her hand through this. I understood why she was fracturing, but I had to figure all this out.
“If Brick is so important to this Colette lady, why didn’t she step in when we were taking out his guys, or destroying what I now guess were her drugs and guns?” JJ asked.
“We have no idea what she’s been told. Brick may not have told her that it’s all turned to ashes.” Gabe shrugged. “Honestly, right now we need to see if she’s a problem for us.”
“Oh, she’s a problem.” Mason sniffed as he held up his phone. “I went online and found her. She’s been seen with members of the Columbian cartel, Solntsevskaya Bratva, and few other heavy hitters in the underworld.”
“Huh.” Shep grinned. “Maybe she doesn’t know about the guns and drugs because Brick’s afraid of her…that would mean she’d be pretty pissed that he wasn’t gonna deliver.”
“Except, if she goes to him and he points her in our direction, we now have two enemies.” Four sat beside Lizzy, who was resting her head on his shoulder.
“The way I see it is, Brick doesn’t know we have any idea about Colette. Which gives us time to spin something to make her not even bother to believe a word he says.” Kona brushed up next to me. “That’s a big advantage.”
“True.” JJ hooked a thumb over his shoulder. “I’m gonna go clean up in the kitchen. It’ll take the twins some time to come up with something.”
“Can I watch a movie in the theater room?” Pika stood from his seat.
