I’m going to be the one to domino his ass and see how he likesit.
Chapter 29—Domino
Unlike before, there’s no music blasting when I come downstairs. Mickey isn’t into his usual mind games. The game’s already won.
As I round the entrance into the room, I’m not surprised to see Henry strapped to a table. The amount of blood pouring out of him doesn’t even phase me. Told the boys to keep him alive long enough for me to ask a few questions, but other than that, they had free rein.
Viv has become more than just the neighbor to most of the guys here. She isn’t only my girl but a friend to the rest. And Hounds don’t react well to someone hurting a friend.
“Anything?” I ask Mickey who took charge of this while I was upstairs with my girl.
He rubs his chin and gives me a shrug. “Haven’t really asked any questions, boss.” The boys snicker at that and I too let out a huff of a laugh.
“You working with anyone?” I ask as I look over at Henry, then the tools on the side table. Some have blood on them, others are clean.
“Define work.” He coughs out. He knows he’s going to die. No way around it. Just depends how long it takes.
I walk to the side of the table and skim my hand over the tools, stopping at the acetylene torch. I raise an eyebrow and look at Lucky.
He smirks. “Thought a bit of Viv should be here for this.”
I grab a tourniquet instead and move toward Henry. With the way we have him tied down, he can’t see what I’m doing, but he can feel me wrapping it around his leg.
“You might have guessed it, but I got my road name for knocking shit down. My friend over there,” I give a chin lift a Mickey and note that Henry follows my line of sight to see who I’m talking about. “He got his name for his love of Mickey Yurco knives. Always carries about three or four of them on him. Guy’s really nuts for them.”
At my words, Mickey pulls one from under his belt and twirls it in his fingers for show. I grin as I watch a bead of sweat flow down Henry’s forehead. Guy might be stupid to mess with a Hound’s girl, but the guy ain’t an idiot. He gets what’s coming.
“Going to ask again. Who else was in on it?” I already figured out he worked alone in the stalking of Viv, but not in the trafficking. Once we figured it was him holding my girl, the boys looked deeper. We found things we might have overlooked if not for so many damn coincidences.
He swallows roughly. “Shovel.”
I chance a glance at the boys and noticed this new information wasn’t what anyone expected. Shovel was a victim in this.Wasn’t he?
“And a girl. One that used to hang around her,” Henry chokes out.
I flick my eyes quickly to Mickey. With a flick of the wrist, he stabs Henry once. Just one time, but in his calf and where it counts. I loosen the tourniquet and watch the fear in Henry’s eyes as he sees I hold how long this will take. I can loosen it and let him bleed out from the artery Mickey hit ortighten it and give him longer to live. It all depends on how I feel. If I like what he says or not.
Lucky is next to cut him. Not in a spot that will have him dying faster, but just enough to cause more blood to flow out of him.
“Who else?”
I count the seconds between the beeps, and then I just count the beeps. I wait. I’ve got time. All the time. They said it would be bad for Link to wake up early, and I don’t want to mess things up. I want him fully recovered. No need to rush something and cause more problems for the guy. He’s already been through enough.
The nurse comes in, smiles at me, and goes to the machine. She checks a few things and then says, “He should wake up soon.”
I nod like the nice guy I am, and she leaves. Sure enough, not a full five minutes later, the guy is blinking awake.
I rise from my seat and go to greet him. It’s the least I can do.
“Hey, man, how you feeling?”
He coughs, and I hand him the water cup withthe straw for him to take a few sips before he leans back against the pillows. “Good, Prez. How are things? Did you ever find Menace? She okay?”
“Yeah, man, she’s good. We got to her before he could move her to another location. Guy had her stashed in her own place. He didn’t think we would find her, but someoneat the plumbing company goofed, and it was pure luck we found her when we did.”
He coughs again and closes his eyes. “Crazy, man.” I can hear the tiredness in his voice, and I feel for the guy. Doctors said he lost a lot of blood. It’ll take him a while to gain his energy back. “I take it the guy’s dead?”
I nod, not that he can see me. “Yeah. The boys got a bit carried away. Just pissed that it wasn’t me who got to put the bullet between his eyes.”
