Tribal Ways (25) by Alex Archer

Author:Alex Archer [Archer, Alex]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-01-12T07:00:00+00:00

“You think this is the first time I’ve lived by the maxim ‘if you don’t dare cal the cops, cal the outlaws’?” she asked. “Anyway, isn’t that a funny question for an outlaw biker to ask? Especial y one who just hit number one on the FBI’s Most Wanted list?”

“Not so much, Annja,” Angel said earnestly. “I think what we’re al wondering is why you made that choice,” Angel said. “It’s not the same as advocating it ourselves, right?”

Annja reminded herself that what looked like a sweet high-school girl playing at running with the pack was a woman who was probably older than she was, and an attorney to boot. “Al right,” she said, “fair enough. I don’t trust law enforcement.”

Johnny frowned. “Consider the blatantly obvious question asked.”

“I trust your father,” she told him. “That doesn’t mean I trust everybody around him. There’re too many ears in that Department of Public Safety office. Not just his fel ow officers. Dispatchers. Clerks. People from other divisions walking by the door. The UPS dude. They don’t even have to be moles themselves. Al they have to do is tel the wrong friend or family member something exciting they heard. Or even say it in front of the wrong random person.

”

Bil y turned his somewhat scary grin on his chief. “She’s a smart one, Johnny. Admit it.”

“When did I deny it?” He sounded more grumpy than growly.

“Plus,” Annja said, her conscious mind suddenly dredging one of the subconscious warnings that had stopped her last night to the surface, “the Feds are almost certainly monitoring his cel phone.”

“You do realize that would be il egal, Annja?” Angel said.

“That doesn’t mean they’re not doing it—right?”

“Right.” Angel shrugged. “Another reason I quit.”

“So what do you plan?” Johnny asked, standing and stretching.

Annja shook her head. “I don’t know yet. Hang with you guys if you’l let me. Use this as a base. And—”

She drew in a deep breath and sighed it out. “Wait for some kind of opportunity.”

Johnny looked to his comrades.

“I like her, Johnny,” Angel said.

“Fine with me,” Ricky said.

“I think she’s a keeper,” Bil y said.

“What about the rest of the club?” Annja couldn’t help asking.

“They’re not here,” Johnny said. “Okay. Make yourself at home.”

“Do you have a better plan? Anybody? I’m asking that seriously,” Annja asked.

Johnny shook his head. Then he flashed his dazzling grin. “But opportunity’l break somewhere,” he said. “It always does.”

Annja might have made some flip, ironic comeback. But she wasn’t that person.

She believed opportunity always broke, too. Somewhere.

I just hope it breaks in time, she told herself, before there’s a lot more heartache.

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