Rock Chick Renegade (Rock Chick #4)(142)
They’d got to his house, Cordova still ranting, telling Roam to sit, continuing to talk about Law and how she was just playing with him and she really wanted him and Roam thought it was kinda funny. It’d be a good story, it’d make Law laugh. He liked to make her laugh. She had a good laugh. She was one f**king hot white bitch normally but when she laughed her face was amazing.
Park made her laugh all the time. Park had worked hard at it. He loved to make Law laugh.
Hell, everyone did.
Then Shard had walked right in the front door, as calm as you please.
Cordova turned to him, saying, “What the –” and that was it.
Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang.
Dead.
Roam had been frozen in shock. He should have run.
If he’d been like Crowe he might have had his head together enough to do something, if not to save Cordova then to save himself.
Roam wasn’t like Crowe.
But when Shard turned to Roam he didn’t shoot him, he beat the shit out of him. Roam put up a fight but even all beaten up himself (his face was a swollen, bruised mess) Shard was still stronger, older and smarter than Roam.
So finally, nose bloodied, face cut, ribs burning and after he’d spit up blood the second time, Roam feigned being knocked out and went down.
And he waited.
Shard stood over Roam, Roam felt him there instead of opening his eyes. He listened as Shard called someone and said, “Got Roam. Tell the bitch I’m at Cordova’s. She comes alone or I put a bullet in his brain.”
Then he flipped his phone shut and waited.
Roam hoped Law wasn’t stupid enough to come alone. He’d never seen her in action personally but Martin and Curtis said she was the shit.
Still, Roam hoped she’d send Crowe.
* * * * *
Jules
Hector stopped his car and turned to me.
“Let’s roll,” he said.
I went out my side, he went out his.
He disappeared into the night.
I ran to the house Hector told me was Cordova’s, one block and three houses down.
Hector, still trying to protect his cover, couldn’t be seen. He was running backup for me only if I needed it and while he was positioning himself at the back of the house I was going to the front.
I hadn’t brought my phone and Hector didn’t know who had his tapped. We figured I could call the police or Vance once I sorted out Cordova. It wouldn’t take long.
It was a stupid plan.
* * * * *
Bobby
Bobby watched Vance shoot out of the underground parking area on his Harley.
He had his earpiece in his ear, phone on in his jacket pocket.
Bobby eyes were on the GPS screen and he was going to give Vance directions to Cordova’s house via speakerphone.
By the time Vance made it up to the offices, Bobby had heard Hector telling Jules why he’d broken in. Bobby had already had the GPS directions to Cordova’s house on screen when Vance opened the door and stuck his torso in.
“Keys,” Vance had said, obviously not intent on hanging around, he tossed the keys to Bobby without fully entering the room.
“We got a situation,” Bobby told him after he’d nabbed the keys, “Law.”
Vance’s face got tight and without hesitation he entered the room. Bobby briefed him in thirty seconds.
Vance had his earphone in his ear before the door to the surveillance room closed behind him.
“Turn left,” Bobby told Vance.
Jesus, Cordova’s a f**kin’ idiot, Bobby thought, Crowe’s gonna feed him his balls for dinner.
“Next street, turn right,” Bobby said out loud.
* * * * *
Lee
The phone rang beside the bed. Lee gently rolled away from the soft, warm body of a dead-to-the-world Indy and snatched his cell off the night table, flipped it open and put it to his ear.
“Yeah?” he answered.
“Lee,” it was Darius.
Lee got tense.
Darius went on. “Shard’s in town. He’s got one of Law’s kids. Roam.”
“Fuck,” Lee clipped.
Lee was out of bed, dressed and out of the house in two minutes.
Indy didn’t wake.
* * * * *
Shirleen
Shirleen was pacing her living room.
The phone rang and she pounced on it.
“What?” she snapped.
“He’s got the brother. Kid’s name is Roam,” Darius told her.
Shirleen closed her eyes. “Call Lee.”
“Already did. We need to find Law’s other kid. I need Daisy’s number.”
“I called her. She’s got Marcus on it.”
“I’ll call Marcus.”
Disconnect.
Shirleen sat down on her white couch. She put her elbows to her knees and her head in her hands and for the first time in a long time, she prayed.
* * * * *
Luke
Luke listened to the phone ringing in his ear, it rang twice before connect.
“Yeah?”
“Lee. I got Sniff. He says Shard’s back in town. He’s got Roam. I’m headed to Cordova’s.”
“Why’re you headed to Cordova’s?”
“Sniff says Shard’s there. He looked through the window. He says Cordova is dead, Roam isn’t in good shape. I found Sniff runnin’ down Colfax headed to Law.”