Ox (The Italian Cartel Book 7) by Shandi Boyes

Author:Shandi Boyes [Boyes, Shandi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-04-01T18:30:00+00:00

24

Maddox

“I followed the script.” When Warden Mattue’s jaw twitches in preparation to deny my claim, I scream, “I followed the fucking script to the wire! I told him every lie written on that fucking sheet of paper.” I point to the crumbled piece of paper the warden ripped out of my hand a nanosecond before he raced out of his office like his ass was on fire. “I did as you asked.”

“There was no mention of Demi on any part of the dossier.”

I work my jaw side to side while shifting on my feet to face Agent Moses, the interrupter. He rocked up at the hole hours after Dimitri left, acting as if he didn’t have a front-row seat to our earlier festivities. His act would have been more convincing if I didn’t hear his ramblings during my guided walk back to the hole. He was pissed he had lost a bargaining chip in his endeavor to rule the underworld. I was relieved.

“I know… but Warden Mattue gave me free rein. His terms, which I’m reasonably sure you’re aware of since you’ve got nothing better to do than listen in on our conversations, was that I was not to mention you, him, or the operation you’re running out of Wallens Ridge at any time.” I hold my hands out palm side up, all pompous like. “I did exactly as asked.”

“You’re a fool, Ox—”

“Why? Because I found a way to stop you using Demi to manipulate me?” I don’t give him the chance to answer. I step right up close to him until our chests compete for space. “I’m not playing your games anymore, Arrow. To get to me, you’ll need Demi. You can’t get to her without going through Dimitri, and we both know you won’t do that because you’re too much of a coward.”

Like a fool with no wish to live, he laughs in my face. “You saved yourself by handing the safety of your girlfriend to the man who almost killed her, yet you call me a coward?”

I’m about to scoff at his claims, but the blown-up surveillance photographs he shoves into my chest freeze both my words and my heart. The first image is of the canister I saw on the vanity sink in the cabin. It’s behind Demi’s three positive pregnancy tests. The second zooms in to reveal Demi’s name printed on the label, and the third shows the pills inside. They’re not the size nor shape of a vitamin tablet. They look remarkably similar to the images my google search popped up when I put misoprostol into the search bar alongside Dr. Franklin’s name.

“You didn’t save Demi, Ox. You pushed her straight into the firing zone.” The knocks keep coming when he removes a final Bureau-certified surveillance image from the breast pocket of his suit jacket. It shows Rocco placing down a pharmacy stamped bag onto the front porch of the cabin. Since the sun is bright and the paper bag is thin, you can see flecks of an orange canister inside.

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