Chapter 40
Pam yelled that Richard was coming.. and I said “Sounds like a you problem.” And headed down to Nathan’s cell..
He snarled “You better let me go. The colonel will come rescue me.. Blow this place to pieces.” I looked over at Max.. then said “Damnnn, dude! Vicki fucked you up! And what’s with the ‘Gonna be rescued‘ Is that like Chapter One in Slate’s Book of Evil? Teach y’all to claim a rescue is coming?”
I yanked him down from the chains and dragged him over to a chair.. where I chained him back up. Winking.. I said “This is going to hurt you more than it’s going to hurt me.”
I squatted down in front of him “You know the drill.. I say hard way.. easy way.. you choose hard way.. which was where I was heading anyway.. Then I proceed to try and make you tell me what I want to know by varying methods… each more painful than the last.”
I laid a grinder with a small grinding wheel on it beside me “Where is Slate?” He spit on me. Flipping the grinder on, I pressed it into his fingernail.. Burning the nail off.. cutting his skin and cauterizing at the same time.
It took six nails.. I was a little impressed.. He decided he had some useful information to impart. “Slate has a warehouse.. outside Oakville. That’s usually where we meet up. He stays somewhere else. But nobody knows where. He will stay a few days at the warehouse when we have a job.”
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I laughed “You put yourself through all this pain only to tell me you know fuck–all? You think I will accept that!?”
Delaney said “He’s telling the truth. He’s just another lackey. Slate plays his cards close to the vest. He trusts no one. He’s made too many enemies. This last ditch effort was to talk his paranoid ass off the ledge. He’s desperate, now. This failure will push him over the edge.”
Max said “Damn woman! You ever want a job as a criminal profiler, let me know!” She still amazes me every day. I asked “Where do you think Slate is? If you were him… where would you go?”
She grinned and replied “He would return somewhere familiar.. safe.. Someplace he could trust… So! That’s easy! Home!” I mentally facepalmed.
Delaney ~
Venom sent a team of trackers and a team of spotters out to keep an eye on Slate’s mansion. We allowed Captain Unger to take Asbel and his associates back to Washington so the higher
ups
would ease off him a little bit. He was due back this evening.
They are hoping to be receiving intel from the teams Venom sent out. We want to have a battle strategy.. but we can’t plan until we know the extent of the enemy army.
I won’t be able to go on this ride. I am way too pregnant to sit the back of a bike. I would rather not see that man’s face again. Every time I think about him hurting Maddox.. I want to kill him. Seeing his face, I doubt I could hold Iris back.
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Maddox is helping the Sweet Butts paint their rooms.. They have all been so good since Tammy has been gone. Venom is rewarding them.. and they all opted on painting. It became glaringly obvious she was the bad apple.
Venom called me into his strategy room. I didn’t even realize Max was back. “You look different when you’re not in uniform. More approachable. It’s a good look.” He chuckled “Yeah.. Don’t have to wear it when I’m not working.”
Venom pulled me into his lap.. breathing me in. I sighed into the comfort of his arms and he said “I wanted you hear to watch these videos that the teams sent in.. Mrs. Slate is in a couple.. Maybe analyze her body language?” I smiled at my handsome mate “Absolutely.. Let’s see if we can tell what’s going on with her.”
Gizmo started the videos.. and the first two were of the exterior grounds.. We watched as each of them walked into a huge structure.. nearly large enough to house an airplane. I asked what that building was.. and was told it was, indeed an airplane hangar.. Seems Slate owns a Cessna.
Venom was watching.. and said “Rewind.. go back a few minutes. Stop.. am I seeing that right?” I was squinting.. looking at the stilled video.. I was trying to figure it out.. when I noticed it.. “An airplane hangar without an airplane.. But pallets of packaged government issue C–4! Damn.. that’s a lot of explosives.” Max said “What the fuck are you seeing?”
Venom grinned and said “Not too observant.. Look behind the soldier coming out of that side door.. The door is opened just wide enough to see what’s in there.”
