Page 16 of Bound By Redemption
He didn’t know the half of it. This was nothing from what it could be. Before I’d left Sumner, I’d had my fair share of crazy shit happen in this small town.
“Yeah. Pack yours too. I’m gonna see if you can crash here. Before you come, though, I need you to go to the grocery store.”
“Bro. Seriously? I do not shop,” he said before I could finish.
“Shut the fuck up and listen.” Silence came from the other end. “Ensley’s sister works there. Her name’s Katie. I got no fuckin’ clue what she looks like, but need you to follow her to her place and then to the clubhouse. Can you do that?”
“She gonna know I’m tailin’ her because I do not want to be arrested any time soon?”
I chuckled. “I’ll talk to Ensley here in a few and make sure she tells Katie you’re comin’.”
“Alright. I’ll play babysitter,” he joked. Dryerson had a very easy-going nature about him. Not a lot ruffled his feathers. It was one of the main reasons he was great to work with out in the field. There was a problem, he compartmentalized it and figured out the solution. Calm. Cool. And Collected.
“Good. See you at the clubhouse.”
“Do I even know where this clubhouse is?”
Fuck me. How the hell would he know? After giving him the directions, I pulled into the clubhouse behind the brothers who went left to their parking spots as I went right to park in the spare spaces that were becoming few and far between.
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I sawBuzz coming up to my SUV, so I rolled my window down. “Need those computers. Park this behemoth under the shade tree by the new buildings for now.
The clubhouse had changed a bit from what I’d remembered. The other day, I didn’t think really to look with other things on my mind, but now pulling my SUV out and parking it next to the building Buzz said, I noticed changes everywhere.
One of the main changes was the large structure off to the right of the clubhouse. When I was a kid, it was a wide-opened grassy area. Now the grassy area was cut to about half, and in its place stood a two-story concrete brick building. It was about as wide as the clubhouse, but it was damn long.
It went almost to the pit which was pretty far out on the property. There were several windows spread throughout it and it was painted in a light gray. It wasn’t anything fancy, but it appeared strong and sturdy.
There were three roll-up garage doors spread throughout. What the thinking was behind them, I had no clue. But something told me I’d find out as Buzz led me to one of them.
Buzz came up to me again after leaving Cruz’s side. “Back it in. I’ll pull the door up and need you to drive it down the ramp and into the basement.”
My brow quirked. “Huh?” I’d thought I was parking.
Buzz smirked. “Trust me. You’re one of the few who will appreciate what’s down there. Now head on down.” Buzz left me and hit something on his phone. The white doors began to roll open.
I looked to the left and saw Ensley standing next to a picnic table with Austyn by her. No matter what was down here, my ass was going to her as soon as possible.
Pulling in, a large contraption lifted, and underneath it was a tunnel. Wondering what the hell I was getting myself into, I pulled my SUV through the opening and down the ramp.
Bright lights shone from the ceiling, and what awaited me was something I’d only seen in my Marine days.
It was a fucking bunker. Full out something I’d be in if we were in the desert, but here it was in Sumner. Darkness fell behind me as the ramp and doors began to shut with Buzz following me down.
I pulled the SUV into an open space, not going in to far, throwing it in park, shutting it off and jumping out. “What the fuck is this?”
Looking around, banks of computers and equipment littered one wall. There were several chairs at a long desk that housed all the equipment.
“My paradise,” Buzz said, slapping my shoulder. “This shit istheshit.”
“It seems so. Do you have any feeds of Austyn and Emery’s houses?”
Buzz clicked his tongue. “I’ve been thinking of that on the ride here. The other day we had a disconnect, but it was only for a brief time, and going through and checking everything, we didn’t find anything amiss. I’m wondering if that was the time this shit was done. I’m gonna go through and check it out.”
“Sounds good. I’ll come help, but I gotta go check on my girls.”
