Chapter 15 Diesel #2
I strode over to Rock and put the phone down on the table. I reached for a pen and a piece of paper and began to scribble things down. Warehouse. Large rooms. By a set of train tracks.
I slid the piece of paper into Rock’s vision and he started typing away on his computer.
“I want you assholes to turn yourselves in,” Rex said.
“To the feds, I’m assuming,” I said.
“You claim this is your town, but you have no idea the seeds we’ve planted.
You don’t give a shit about this area, but we do.
We always have. The Black Hornets pushed my gang out of Redding for no other reason than they could, and I was more than willing to move on to bigger and better things once Brynn had died. ”
I heard boots falling against hardened flooring before I heard her voice. She whimpered, and my heart stopped in my chest.
“When I caught wind that she was alive, I didn’t believe it.
But once I saw her racing down the highway into Redding blasting Matchbox Twenty from the speakers of her car, I knew that was my Brynn.
She had come home to me. She had somehow survived the assault and she had come back for me. I was happy. Until I saw her with you.”
Another crack resounded over the phone and my hands began to quiver.
I couldn’t wait to wrap my hands around that motherfucker’s neck and snap him in half.
I watched Rock’s computer screen as a flood of dots popped up on a map.
And with each parameter he entered in, they slowly faded away from the screen.
They blacked out and faded into nothingness until ten dots remained.
Then, the triangulation of the phone call tightened, getting rid of four more.
Six possible locations for where Brynn could be. It still spread us out too thin.
“Keep talking,” Rock mouthed to me.
“Once I saw her with you, I realized how much she meant to you Diesel. How much this pretty little thing had you wrapped around her finger.” Rex said.
“Leave Brynn out of this,” I said. “This fight is between you and me.”
Rex out a laugh. “It is so much more than just me and you now, Diesel. Now that I know she is alive, it is time to teach her and her father a lesson. And as an added bonus, I get to hurt you in the process, now that I know how much she means to you.”
“Brynn is innocent in all of this. This fight isn’t with her. It is between our clubs.”
“Fine!” Rex yelled. “If you want your precious piece of ass back, then your club and Dean’s will need to take the fall for everything that the feds are building.” Good, I got him focused on the feds. That would take his attention away from hurting Brynn and keep him talking.
“So, what? You started colluding with the feds to push us both out?” I asked.
“Don’t act like you don’t know. I know you know about Mick.
I know your guys were the ones that blasted him away in the woods a couple of weeks ago, after you figured out what he was doing for us.
Now that our source is gone, the feds have turned up the heat on getting them information.
They told me that either way, one of the clubs is going to jail.
And there is no way in hell it is mine.”
Then, a beautiful sound happened again.
Yet another train passed by on the other end of the line.
I watched Rock pull up another window and he began hacking as fast as he could.
He pulled up train schedules and sifted through information, trying to see which track had two trains so close together barreling down the same damn track.
My eyes widened as his fingers flew. The Black Hornets and my club were gathered around us as we worked as diligently as we could.
And the second Rock pulled up the schedule, he entered the last parameter.
And only one dot remained.
“So, what’s your endgame?” I asked as I rose up from the table. “What do you expect to get out of all this?”
“Turn yourself into the authorities and get the fuck out of Redding. Trust me, I’ll know when you do it.
And once you do, I’ll return Brynn to the Black Hornets.
Maybe Dean and I can negotiate for Brynn’s hand on a different set of terms. One that doesn’t require her protection.
It was very easy getting to you, Diesel.
Who knew that out of all the people in your pathetic club, it would be you who wouldn’t lock your front door? ”
My eyes panned over to Dean and I saw his nostrils flaring.
I reached down to Rock’s computer and turned it around to him.
Showing him the one little dot blinking on the screen.
His eyes danced between mine and the computer, then he put his finger in the air and circled it quickly.
And like lightning, the Black Hornets were silently maneuvering around us, gearing up and heading out to their bikes.
“How about I think about your offer?” I asked.
“What?” Rex asked.
“Yeah. Let me make a cup of coffee and sit on it. I’m sure Brynn will still be alive once I call you back. I can call you back, right?”
“The fuck are you talking about? She’s dead if you hang up this fucking phone.”
“No, she’s not. Because she’s your only bargaining chip. We don’t agree to this, and the feds come after you.”
The phone call went silent as Rock pinged our phones with the location of that warehouse.
“Exactly what I thought, mother fucker.”
Then I hung up the phone and shoved it into my pocket. We were headed to find Brynn.
Once we got her I would kill Rex myself.