Chapter 41
Cowboy sat at his desk staring into space as he listened to the hubbub around him. A large manila envelope was opened, a stack of papers beside it, and nothing would ever be the same again.
He could hear a couple of the new guys laughing with Hawk. They were just getting their feet on the ground, about to take HERO Force to the next level, and now they were going down. Crashing and burning like the goddamn Hindenburg.
He’d lived an interesting life and made more than his share of enemies over the years, but he never expected anything like this.
His cell phone rang.
Jax.
“You get one, too?” Cowboy asked.
“Yep. What are we going to do?”
Cowboy blew out air. “What the hell are our choices? We’re guilty as fuck.”
“Doesn’t matter. We fight it, Leo. We fight it with everything we’ve got.”
“As soon as the facts come out, HERO Force is done for anyway.”
“Maybe. Maybe not.”
Cowboy shook his head. “I love to agree with you, man, but you are living in a dream world if you think this is anything other than impending doom. If you and me were back in that shit storm again tomorrow, I’d do the same goddamn thing.
But that doesn’t make it right, and there ain’t a court in the world that’s going to let us get away with it. ”
“You might be right, but I’m not willing to let HERO Force and everything we’ve worked for get flushed down the shitter because of one misstep.”
“This could go bad, Jax.”
“It went bad a long time ago. Go home. Get some sleep. Kiss Charlotte for me.”
“Yeah. And you kiss Jessa and that baby.”
“It’s going to be all right, Cowboy.”
Cowboy hung up the phone. He wasn’t so sure.