Chapter 31
ALL THIS TIME
J.D. Stevens
I ran my hand through my hair while going over all the information Rebel and her team where able to uncover on Agent Revels. I still have no fucking clue who this guy was and why he had a grudge against me or the club. From what I could see we had no fucking connection at all.
“Does he have any connection to Dani?” I asked.
As I glanced at Rebel, her eyes grew large, resembling saucers. “I didn’t look into that.”
We’d been sitting in my office for a few hours, surrounded by stacks of papers and files, meticulously reviewing all the information her team had gathered on Agent Revels. Even though he didn’t have the best start in life, something we had in common, he seemed to lead a normal life now. As normal as any law enforcement officer could lead.
He was married with two kids. The bank account showed that he wasn’t crooked, and it also showed that he wasn’t hard up for money either. His wife, a stay-at-home mother, dedicated her time to running a popular lifestyle blog. There were no glaring red flags that showed why he wanted to fuck me over.
Leaning back in my chair, I let out a deep sigh of frustration, tossing the papers I had been looking through onto the cluttered desk. During this entire fucking process, I’d learned my wife was keeping secrets from me. Maybe Agent Revels was the secret. Do I believe she’d ever cheat on me? No way in hell. Did I believe she might have been protecting me from this guy? Fuck yes. But protecting me from what, and why didn’t she just come to me? I wondered, feeling a mix of confusion and frustration.
My wife was loyal to a fault. And if she was keeping something from me, that secret might be what got her killed. Anything was possible.
“Look into it,” I said. “It’s the only way this guy can be connected to me or this club. It has to be through her.”
“Is there anything he may have on Dani?” she asked.
My brows furrowed. “Something he can blackmail her with?”
“Yes. Could he have something on her, and could he have been trying to use it to bring you down?”
I ran my hand down my face in frustration because I didn’t know. I thought I knew everything about her but that was not the case.
“Let’s say she had something in her past, why would he be involved in her death?”
“That’s the million-dollar question, isn’t it?” Rebel asked.
“My wife’s family isn’t one of those rich suburban families. Her mother is dead. Her father is a psycho ex-con. And you’ve met Demon. He’s the founder of Demons United. So, you know the kind of man he is. Despite him no longer being a president, he’s always involved in the club if needed. Could she have been involved in something before we met? That’s very possible.”
“Maybe whatever she was involved with, he threatened to use against her if she didn’t turn on you. The question remains what grudge does he have against you?”
“He could have been using whatever he had on her to bring me down, but what’s the connection with my family’s club? We know they’re involved because of the prospect, Weasel.”
“Let’s go back to the beginning.” Rebel flipped through the papers she’d printed out. “Let’s get some sort of checklist together as we go through all this information on Agent Revels.”
I was getting tired of constantly being in the fucking dark about shit. I had no fucking clue why this guy had it out for me. I had no fucking clue what he had on my wife that would have him involved in her death. There was so much shit I didn’t know, and it pissed me off to no end. I hated not being in the loop about shit especially if he had to do with me.
“Agent Revels was born on February 13, 1986, in Las Vegas, Nevada,” she said tapping her lips with the end of the pen. “His mother’s name was Rhonda Revels.”
“No father?” I asked.
“Nope. There was no father listed on the birth certificate. Apparently, she was a working girl. In and out of jail for prostitution, loitering for the purpose of prostitution, drug possession, and possession of drug paraphernalia. A young Agent Revels found her dead at eighteen.”
“How did she die?” I asked.
She flipped through some more papers. “Death certificate lists the death as an accidental overdose.”
“So, she was a drug addicted prostitute,” I said, and she nodded. “Where was Agent Revel during this time?”
“In and out of the home but mostly staying with her relatives. A sister and a cousin.”
“In Vegas?”
“Nope. In Charlotte. Looks like she may have moved back to North Carolina a year after he was born. He moved back in with his mother at seventeen and by the time he was eighteen she had overdosed. He ended up getting accepted to college at UNC-Charlotte and when he was twenty-four, he joined the Bureau and by twenty-eight, he’d married his high school sweetheart.”
“Las Vegas,” I mumbled, rubbing my temples. “Vegas. He was born in Vegas.”
“What are you thinking?” she asked.
“I don’t know. I’m just grasping at straws and trying to make connections.”
“I really believe the next step is to find out what Dani may have been involved in before you met because it’s not like you can just ask Agent Revels.”
I didn’t even think about that. I might just need to walk up to the motherfucker and find out what the hell was his problem with me.
“Don’t do it,” she said, and I smiled at the horror on her face. “J.D. do not approach Agent Revels. We need to know what his problem is first.”
“But why not just ask the motherfucker straight out what his problem is?” I asked, shrugging. The idea sounded even better with me saying it out loud. “That will cut out all this wondering about shit. We’ll know.”
“Because we don’t know how you’re going to react to whatever he says. We don’t know what he knows about Dani.”
I exhaled. She was right. If he said something I didn’t want to hear about Dani, I might kill him.
“Call her brother and see what he knows about her past.”
I picked up my cell phone then dialed Demon. I put him on speaker phone so Rebel could hear what he had to say. Hopefully he knew something.
“You need to talk to Siobhan?” he asked as soon as he picked up after the fourth ring.
“Nah. I’ll call her back later. I want to get this took care of today. I have some questions about Dani.”
“You found something out?”
“Well, I’ve got an FBI agent looking to take me down.”
“That’s nothing new. They’re always gonna sniff around.”
At first that was what I thought, but now Rebel had me questioning everything when it came to Dani’s death. Now the FBI could be involved. But what would the reason be for a federal agent to be involved in a woman’s death. It made no sense, but Rebel insisted something was there, so I was going to prove it to be true or rule it out.
“Rebel believes it’s something different.”
“Did I tell you how much I like her?” he asked.
As I looked across the desk at Rebel, I couldn’t help but notice the rosy blush that colored her cheeks, which made me burst into laughter.
“You did, and she’s sitting right here with me.”
“Oh, hey darlin’. Glad to see he hadn’t fucked it up.”
She laughed. “Hey Demon. No, he hasn’t fucked it up.”
“Well, that’s good to hear.”
“Okay, D. Can we get back on topic. This agent may have been blackmailing Dani in order to get to me.”
The phone went silent.
“Demon?”
“Yeah, I’m still here. I don’t know if she went through anything when she was away at school. While she was here, we only dealt with Kira’s bullshit then you met her. But if she did Kira would know. Hold on a sec.”
“I hope she can tell us something,” Rebel said.
“Me too.”
It had to be something bad if the FBI could hold it over her head.
“Here’s Kira, J.D.,” Demon said.
“Hey J.D.! Austin said you wanted to ask me something about when me and Dani were in school?”
“Hey, Kira. Did she get into some trouble up there?” I asked.
“Define, trouble? You know how she was.”
“Trouble that would have the FBI after her,” I said.
“If you know something sweetheart, say something,” Demon said, after a few moments of silence from Kira. “It may have something to do with her death.”
“She dated a guy. He was abusive, and he ended up going missing.”
“Missing as in never to be seen again?” I asked with shock in my voice. “As in dead?”
“I don’t know,” she said. “She wouldn’t tell me anything. Said it was best that I didn’t ask questions. All I know is that he came from money. They questioned her for weeks and then she heard nothing else about it.”
“What was his name?” Rebel asked. “Maybe I can find something on him.”
“I don’t know,” Kira said. “She would never talk about him, and I never met him. I only know that he came from money because of the lavish gifts and trips they’d take. It was just something we never spoke about. Look for her diary. It’ll probably be in there.”
Fuck! I was such a damn idiot. I forgot all about her diaries. She kept every diary she ever had in boxes in the attic. And when she died, I felt weird about reading the last one she had so I just tossed it in one of the boxes with all the others. It didn’t feel right invading her privacy like that. But they could hold all the answers we need.
“Thank you, Kira.”
“I wish I could be more help to you.”
“No, you’ve been a big help. I’ll let you know what I find out. And tell Siobhan, I love her, and I’ll call her later.”
“Will do,” Demon said. “Make sure you keep me in the loop.”
“I will,” I said, then ended the call.
“Did you keep her diaries?” Rebel asked with her eyes wide.
“Every single one. Let’s go.” I stood and reached out my hand to her. “The answers to everything have to be in those books.”
The damn diaries that my wife never missed a day writing in could hold the answers to all this shit. I can’t believe I forgot about them. I can’t believe I might have had the answers all this time.