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“I was hoping you’d do a little research for me.Look up someone and see what you can find on him.”
“Is this personal or club business?”Gizmo watched him with one brow lifted.
Demon took a deep breath and thought about it for a moment.
“Mostly personal, but if I don’t get it taken care of, it could leak over onto the club.I don’t want that.”Demon held both hands up in front of himself as if warding off an attack that wouldn’t be coming.
Gizmo sighed then motioned to the chairs across the table from where he sat.
“Better have a seat and tell me what’s going on.”
“So you know about the car following me yesterday,” Demon said as he stepped up to the table, pulled out one of the wheeled chairs and sat.
Gizmo nodded as his gaze went back to the computer screen.“I’m listening.”
“She was a bounty hunter.”
Gizmo’s gaze snapped from the screen back to Demon.
“Relax, she’s not after me.She mistook me for the guy she’s really after.”Demon took a deep breath.He hated this part.He hated admitting how stupid his cousin was.He wasn’t sure if he was afraid that they would think he was the same or that maybe it was somehow his fault.Demon knew both were absurd, but he had a hard time convincing himself that these were his brothers, or he hoped they would be soon, they wouldn’t assume the worst.
Gizmo’s posture eased as some of the tension drained away, but he didn’t look away from Demon, as if he could tell there was more to what he was telling him.
“She’s looking for my cousin.”Demon rolled his eyes.“My dad and my uncle were always in this stupid competition with each other.My cousin and I have very similar names, we’re only a month apart in age and our socials are the same except the middle two numbers are flipped.It’s been a pain in the ass before but from what I learned yesterday, it could become more troublesome if we don’t address this head on.”
“What do you mean?”
Demon pulled out his phone, unlocked the screen and slid it across the table.
“That’s me and Jim Bob during senior year.”The picture was a little over ten years old, but it was the last time he knew they’d been photographed together.And it would get his point across or at least part of it.
“I can see why she would have confused the two.”Gizmo slid the phone back over to him.Demon put it back in his kutte pocket and pulled out the piece of paper he’d stuck in there earlier.
“There’s all of Jim Bob’s information.From what I found out yesterday, he was arrested for car jacking, and he’s skipped on his bail.That in itself is bad enough, but I suspect there’s more.Can you see if you can find anything?The last thing any of us need is for this bounty hunter to go looking and discover that the Souls aren’t all they appear to be.”
Gizmo let out a chuckle.“I’ll look, or maybe I’ll set Krissi on it.Either way we’ll figure out what your cousin is into.In the meantime, don’t worry too much about what the bounty hunter finds.If our covers can’t stand up to a bounty hunter’s scrutiny, then we’re all dead anyway.”Gizmo chuckled again.
Demon wasn’t sure if it was at the idea of a bounty hunter blowing their cover or something else.Gizmo was a bit of an odd duck, but weren’t they all?
“Let me know if you find anything I need to be aware of.I’m going to be trying to find him.I think getting him off the streets will make things easier all the way around.”
“How are you planning to do that?”
“First, I have to find him, then I’m going to let that bounty hunter take him in.Other than that, I’m not sure.I want him, and the rest of his crazy family, to stop causing problems for me and mine, but that’s about it.”
Gizmo nodded slowly.Demon wasn’t sure if he was thinking about something or just nodding because Demon had quit talking.
“All right then.If you have no other questions for me, then I’ll go do my thing.Try to find him the old-fashioned way.”He stood and pushed his chair back into place at the table.
“What’s the old-fashioned way?”Gizmo asked, proving that he was listening to Demon after all.
“Through the family.I guess the first call will have to be to Nan.She knows most of the family gossip and might know where he’s hiding.I’m not holding my breath though.Nan and Aunt Chastity never had much use for each other.”He shrugged.“She won’t tell me if she thinks I’m looking to have him put in jail, but I can play it cool until she gives me what I need.”
“Won’t that put you on her shit list?”
Demon shrugged.“I’ve been off and on her shit list so many times I get a frequent guest discount in the doghouse.He even stocks beer for me.Why do you think I live here?”
Gizmo chuckled and shook his head.
