Disruption by Victoria Johns

Author:Victoria Johns [Johns, Victoria & Johns, Victoria]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-01-17T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

Bailey’s silence in the Uber ride home told me she knew something profound had gone down while she was in the bathroom.

My silence in the seat next to her was something entirely different.

I was in full business mode. Assess the situation, look at every angle, every option, and weigh up the consequences of each decision you make.

No matter how I tried to spin it, there were two things staring me in the face.

Firstly, it was looking more and more likely that Roxanne had to go, and if she didn’t go quietly, then so be it.

Secondly, I couldn’t fucking shake that she’d only verbalized every ugly thought I’d been desperately pushing down since Bailey had arrived at my Hawaii bolt hole.

I knew the reason for this. It was because I wanted it, us, badly.

Finally, she broke the silence. “You want to talk about it?”

“In front of a fucking Uber driver?” I watched as the driver’s eyes slid my way in the rear-view mirror.

“He’s just an Uber driver.”

Uber drivers were never just Uber drivers, especially when I was in town and using them. I’d never discuss my business in front of anyone, maybe Bailey didn’t know me as much as I’d convinced myself. When he pulled up in front of my house, I threw a fifty at him before he’d fully stopped the car. “Keep the change.” But he didn’t move.

“Can’t do that,” he bit out.

I looked at Bailey. “No point in us both waiting for change, you go ahead.”

She climbed out of the car and I waited for what I suspected was coming.

“You need to see the boss before you leave the island,” the driver said, eyeing me again through the rear view.

I knew who he was referring to and the fact that he thought I would answer to another boss was ludicrous, but whatever, if I was expecting the Yakuza to traffic my girls, then I also knew how to play the game.

“You gonna give me my change?”

“Fare’s on the house,” he replied and then looked away sharply, before tossing the fifty back. Like him, I ignored it as it dropped to the floor.

He might have worked for a rival gang in Hawaii, but we had peace, a tenuous one that was built on money and mutual respect. If they didn’t disrespect me, I could kill their fake Uber driver, who happened to catch me on a particularly taxing night out.

But the lesson always remained the same.

No one was ever who they claimed to be, including this guy and I didn’t want a war on my hands. Falling out with my operation’s cargo wagon and having to get rid of Roxanne at the same time was a risk too far right now.

Climbing out of the car, I breathed in the sea air, praying for a calmer approach to the rest of the evening as I walked into the house.

My keys clattered onto the side table in the hall next to the vase concealing my gun and the usual bliss and serenity I felt at stepping over the threshold of sixty-seven steps to heaven didn’t happen.

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