Tommy looked up.
“Excuse me?”
Wolf played cop.
“The people who own this place called the police. They said someone is loitering and acting up out here. They want you to move on.”
He was surprised.
Did they call the cops on him?
A cop?
That was funny since he wasn’t breaking the rules in NOLA.
They.
Were.
Well, he suspected they were. Honestly, it had been too quiet, as of late.
“I used to live here,” he stated. “Do you know who I am?” he asked.
Wolf smiled.
The man lowered his voice, and planned to put the fear of God in him.
“Oh, I know who you are. You’re Thomas Bernard. You were given the role of homicide captain by the FBI. You’re out here causing hell, and I’m here to get you moving along. I think you know who really sent me, and I think you know what that means. Tsk tsk, Captain. One can’t let a man go, now can he?”
Tommy’s eyes went huge.
When his hand went to his gun, Wolf grinned like that was exactly what he wanted.
In fact, he grinned wickedly.
“Oh, please do. You’re in civilian clothes. I’m not. If you shoot at me, it’ll take a while for the cops to figure out who I am, and who you are. I’ll be long gone before they drop your dead body into a body bag.MOVE,” he said.
Tommy started backing up, trying to move away from the man, and as he did, Reaper got into position.
This was exactly why everyone didn’t want this man to go back to being a cop. He might be tenacious, but he had absofuckinglutely no common sense.
He was dancing with the Devil.
Elizabeth.
As Wolf wrangled the man, Reaper moved out of his car and into the alley not far from Chartres.
The man kept backing up, and before long, he was going into the web.
“Leave me alone. You tell her that she can kiss my ass. I’ll get to him and save him. I know she’s holding him there. That’s the only way this could have possibly went down!”
Wolf didn’t care what he said or did, other than to keep backing up. He was feet from Reaper, and the car they’d stashed in the alley.
Fortunately, all cameras were looping and this man never made it to the steps on anyone’s camera.
You know…
In case he had to disappear.
