Page 2 of Malverde 5
Chapter Two
Hondo looked over athis sons and ordered, “Better get the cameras on your screens and start watching them.If those Hounds are coming, we need to know when they get here and where they are.We can’t be caught unaware.Los pillamos desprevenidos.Let’s surprise them instead.And get armed too.Muévelo...muévelo!”
His sons all disappeared and when they came back, they were all armed.Walter went to the security office to take the first watch of the cameras they had set up all around the property.
Andriea along with Sinclair, Roni and Adlyn were busy in the kitchen making enough food to feed everyone.
Hondo had taken Sergi, Misha and Felix into his den to discuss the plans for the defense of the compound.He even took the time to pour them all the wine the farm and Inn had a label for.This had been something he always wished to do.Make wine.Now he had a label just for the inn they ran.
Sergi took a glass to sniff the red liquid then he sipped.He nodded at Hondo.“Izyskannyy.Exquisite.”
Hondo smiled.“Adios!You have no idea how much it takes to produce just one bottle of that.”
Sergi and him chuckled.
“It is really good,” Misha said.
Felix nodded.“I don’t usually drink alcohol, but this is really special.”
Hondo now sat down behind his huge oak desk and stared at Sergi before he said, “I think we should let Hawkins and his crew know what’s going on here.”
Sergi agreed, “As do I but there is something else we have to consider here.”
“Qué es eso?What’s that?”Hondo asked.
“That Sean Evert might be the person behind all of this,” Sergi voiced the thought in everyone's mind.
Hondo nodded as he shifted in his chair.“I think there is no doubt about his involvement in this shit show.”Shaking his head he added, “From the little Sinclair has told us the only thing that connects everyone here is Sean Evert.But we also need to know if someone else might be pulling the strings here.I get the feeling that perhaps there is a hidden player here.”
Misha looked confused.“Someone else?What are you talking about?”
Hondo sat back in his chair and explained his theory.“I lived in that City long enough to know that there is someone bigger with much more to lose than the main man in many ways.Sean may be in charge of the Grimm Brothers and this street gang, the Diablo Hounds but who is the man behind Evert?That’s the one we have to find.We also have to find out how Jessica Dannison really died.Did she really drink herself to death or was there more to her story as well?”
“Da,” Sergi growled.“We also have to find out what kind of household they ran.Why did they not care about their daughter?What kind of parents ignore their children in that way?”
Hondo nodded.“When I think about what she’s told us so far I want to bring her mother back to life only to tear her limb from limb for the coldness in her soul for the daughter she gave little more than birth too.I do not care about her but that girl should have had someone in her corner all those years.”
“She did have someone in her corner,” Misha pointed out.“Evert’s own housekeeper did show her as much love as she had in her life.Most would not consider that parenting, but she made it sound like she was loved.”He shrugged.“Maybe that’s all she could show her in order to keep her safe.”
Sergi nodded.“At least she had that much.”
“Sinclair said this woman Bethany was her real salvation,” Hondo explained.“The two of them had each other and that’s why after her beating, Sinclair came here with murder on her mind.”
