41. Chapter Thirty-Nine
Chapter Thirty-Nine
Noah
My head whips to Derby as I hear Luca taunt a plant. Derby nods her head. How long did they know about the plant? Derby presses her comm and comes to stand next to me doing something.
“I muted our comms.” Derby lets me know what she did so we can speak freely. “Joker found one of our prospects had ties to Richie Jr. She did a family tree and it was his niece. We fed her some bullshit plans. I’m not sure what Luca is talking about because River is currently in a watery grave.”
“Could there be another one?” I ask. “Because all of a sudden they seem to know what’s going on. They showed up at Richie’s apartment fast.”
“Do you have an idea of someone?” Derby looks through her scope at Smitty and Duchess. They seem to be fine.
“I was thinking Fancy. She came in with this sad story about her siblings then all of a sudden her clothes were looking cleaner, newer, and some brand name as well.” Derby pulls out her phone. I lean over her shoulder to see she’s texting Joker.
DERBY: Where is Fancy? Have we checked her out thoroughly? Noah made some good claims about her.
JOKER: What?
DERBY: Luca acted like there was more than one plant. Fancy has brand name clothes and a nanny for her siblings.
JOKER: On it. She’s with Tripline. I’ll send her a text.
DERBY: Thanks
Derby puts her phone away. “Now we wait.” Something catches my attention on the side of the building. I pull up my rifle to look through the scope. Someone is climbing up the fire escape. I don’t recognize the guy. “Do you know that person?” I show them to Derby. She shakes her head no. She hits the button on both of our comms.
“Smitty, your contact isn’t here right?” Derby asks.
“No. I made sure he was safe at my place before coming why?” Smitty’s voice is booming as he’s scoping the street below us.
“You have someone climbing up the fire escape. I didn’t want to take him out in case he was someone you knew.” Derby gets her gun ready.
“Take him out. If my friend is here then he’s stupid. He knows anyone working against us tonight is dead.” Smitty reminds her. I pull the trigger as the man falls and hits the pavement hard.
“Nice shot, lawyer man.” Derby teases. I tense as I hear Amelia’s voice come over the comms.
“Luca, you don’t have kneecaps. Do you want your dick? Tell me what I want to know.” I snicker.
“The vault is open. I finally hacked the son of a bitch.” Joker’s triumph voice breaks through.
“You can’t go in there.” Luca shouts as I hear a thud. I think he might have gotten hit with the butt of the gun or punched. It sucks not being with Amelia through it all. My skills are better on the long range gun I guess. The squealing tires break through my thoughts. It’s another SUV but smaller than the other ones.
“Fuck!” Derby mutters. “Medusa, Michelle just got here. She’s got a gun and she’s wearing a vest. What should we do?”
“Trip, get some girls out there to capture her. She’s going to the shed.”
“Shrink’s on it with a few members.” Tripline’s voice comes through. “She might get roughed up, but she’ll be alive.”
“Alive is the end goal, damaged is fine at this point.” Amelia’s words are so sure. She made her decision on what to do with her sister. I think when we’re done here, Amelia, TJ and Michelle are going to have a long talk in wherever this shed is.
“Does this mean Tommy is in there somewhere?” I ask.
“My Bella!” A voice breaks through and Derby’s spine stiffens. I just got my answer.
“No!” TJ and Bubbles both yell.
“What? What is going on down there?”
“Tommy shut the door. Amelia’s inside with Tommy. I don’t know if he’s alone or not.” TJ is banging on something; I can only assume the vault door.
“I’m coming.” I take off in a sprint to the door to stairs we took to get up here. I’m not losing the love of my life to that monster. “Joker, can you hack it again?”
“No, he had an override code. Fuck!” Joker is typing faster on her keyboard as the ticking is coming across.
Please don’t die. I keep chanting in my head as I run and shoot as I see more men showing up. How many men are under DeMarco?