Lucky Penny (Lucky John Adventures Book 13) by Mark Stone

Author:Mark Stone [Stone, Mark]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sunday Dinner Press
Published: 2022-01-25T16:00:00+00:00

13

“I don’t know what the hell you were thinking,” Mike said, shaking his head as he stared at me from across the hotel room he’d brought Penny and me to after the funeral was over. “Thank God you had my hat on and that idiot didn’t get a look at your face while you were clocking him. Otherwise, all of this would have been for nothing.”

Anger rose up in me at his words. He had a lot of nerve to talk to me like that after how incompetent he and his people had been through this.

“If Mia would have died, it would have been for nothing too. At least, it would have been for me,” I said. “And I was thinking that she was going to die, and that’s because she was. She was about to get shot by some mafia thug, and you and the rest of the crackerjack Marshals we’ve been dealing with didn’t even know it was happening. That’s what I was thinking.”

“That was a mistake. He slipped by us. I’ll own that,” Mike said.

“Oh, will you? Will you own it?” My eyes were wide and angry as I spoke. “That’s very gracious of you. Someone should give you a medal for that act of charity.”

“It doesn’t excuse what you did, Lucky. That was damn dangerous.”

“I don’t care if it was dangerous. It was also necessary,” I replied. “I don’t regret doing it. I’d do it again if I needed to.”

“See,” Mike said, shaking his head hard again as he pressed his lips together into a thin line. “That’s where we’re going to run into some trouble, you and me.”

“Wouldn’t be the first time we did that, now would it?” I took a step toward the man, remembering the last time we’d tussled and how I came out on top. I had little doubt that history would repeat itself today should there be a need for it.

“Let’s everybody pull their zippers up and stop with the pissing contest before all of us drown, okay?” Gil, the Marshal who was helping Mike with us said, stepping between us. “Mike is just saying that if we’re going to continue with your placement, it’s imperative that you follow instructions.”

“Yeah. I’m not sure that’s something I still want to do,” I admitted, looking past Gil at Mike. “You said this would keep her safe. You said that if they thought I was dead, they’d stop coming for her.”

“I did say that,” Mike admitted.

“Well, they were at my damn funeral. A man doesn’t get much more dead than that,” I shouted. “And they still came after her.”

“Just Irving,” Mike shot back. “He’s the only one who came after her, and it had nothing to do with you.”

“What?” I said. “What does that even mean?”

“Irving Slattery didn’t always have a spot near the top of his cousin’s crime syndicate,” Mike said, taking a deep breath. “There was a time when he was a low-level thug for drug pushers down here.”

“In Florida?” I asked.

“In Bonita Springs,” Mike said.

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