Page 25 of Rage & Paradise
“Hopefully no one we need to worry about, but make sure if you would.” I tap the wall once and he nods. There’s no need to give any more direction. If these bastards even know someone named Sina, AZ and Digger will be able to get the information out of them.
THIRTEEN
Oro
Three hours.
AZ and Digger spent three full hours with the two remaining assholes who tried to do damage over at Seda.
They got everything out of them painfully. I’m sure those jerks even gave up their social security numbers.
In the end, neither was allowed to live. There could be no witnesses.
It was nearly dawn when AZ came to find me in the main room. I hadn’t gone to sleep. I couldn’t. Every time I close my eyes all I can see is the fear and the tears coming from Estrella’s eyes. I don’t know why it affected me so much, but it did.
“They didn’t even know who the hell Sina was.” AZ has a rag and he’s meticulously cleaning his nails.
If I were someone on the outside I would never know that he had just spent a good portion of the night brutally torturing someone.
“Well, that’s good news. One less thing for us to worry about.” I shrug.
“I wish it were that simple. It wasn’t this Sina woman you asked about, but they were part of the Canos. It seems a few of them are straggling around, and they are a little pissed about how we helped to destroy their club.” AZ sighs but doesn’t look up from his hands.
The fucking Canos? Shit, it’s been a while since we’ve had to deal with any of them. In fact, I was almost certain that all of them were wiped out back when Carina first got here. Now we’re going to have to deal with this shit.
“Damn it.” I groan and rub the back of my neck. “Y Vado? What’s he saying?”
“He’s going to want to have church about it in a few hours. He’s already making his calls to check on shit. You know him. Any threat, big or small, needs to be eliminated.”
“Yeah. I know.”
AZ finally looks up at me. “What’s the deal with this Sina woman though? Does she need to be on our radar?”
“I don’t think so. Estrella is stressed about her, but it doesn’t sound like something we need to worry about.” I wave my hand, letting him know that it’s nothing serious, but he doesn’t let it go.
“Obviously we need to be worried about it. If she’s thinking this woman would go as far as sending armed men into her space, then maybe we need to make sure she’s truly not a threat. If she thinks Sina sends hitters, we verify. No surprises. If it’s nothing, then so be it, but I’d hate to be caught off guard by something no one bothered to really look into.” AZ tilts his head once before turning on his heel and walking away.
He’s right. I need to do my due diligence.
I could ask Estrella about it, but then again it didn’t seem like she could give me any real information. Besides, I had already sent her home for the night.
There’s only one other person here who would be able to give me information. Our IT savant. I’m going to need Pooh for this.
I check my watch and realize it’s close to five in the morning. Still super fucking early.
When I was a prospect, I would never even dream about disturbing anyone with my issues this early in the morning, but I’m a patched member now. He’s here to help the patched members no matter what time it is.
I need him now, early or not.
Making my way toward his room, I knock a few times on his door and I hear some grumbles I misconstrue as him telling me to come in.
When I push the door open I’m surprised to see that he’s not in bed alone. For a second I’m stuck in shock.
Coca is there lying next to him. Thankfully nothing is going on. It looks like they were just sleeping, but this is highly irregular. Still, it doesn’t look like this is a one-off thing, like she just came in here because she was rattled by what happened at Seda earlier on. She’s comfortable, like she has slept in this spot many times before. I would have never thought that something was going on between Coca and Pooh.
“Give me a second, please.” Pooh grumbles as he heaves his large frame up from the bed. I nod and close the door, but I don’t leave. I simply lean against the doorjamb.
Just as he said, a few seconds later Pooh is out of his room. His hair is pointing in every direction, a wrinkled oversized shirt and boxers on.
