“How is this any different than when we protect scumbags?”
“Uh…we don’t do that.”
“Come on. Not every client we take on is innocent.”
“Name one.”
I thought about it, trying to come up with a single name that fit the bill. There had to be someone. “Okay, maybe we don’t protect them, but we also don’t hand them over to be killed.”
“This woman stole from the mafia,” he said slowly.
“I know.”
“The mafia came after you.”
“I’m aware.”
“And you want to protect her from the men who would kill you and Krista?”
“Yes, because killing is bad.”
“Only when you’re killing innocent people!” he exclaimed. “This woman had to know what she was walking into!”
“I know that!”
“She has this coming, Rob. Get Knight to send over the intel, and move on with life.”
“That doesn’t mean we’ll be off their radar. I work for a security company. Do you really think they’re going to take any chances that I won’t tell?”
I was taking a long shot on that one. They very possibly could walk away and leave us alone. But Cap didn’t like leaving anything to chance, and I was banking on that.
When he sighed heavily over the phone, I knew I had him. “So, in this plan of yours, how exactly do you propose we get everyone out alive?”
“Easy. We get information on DeLuca. Threaten him with it. Return the case Alicia stole. Then everyone gets out alive.”
“Just like that.”
Yeah, it sounded easy, right?
“Just like that, Cap.”
“How sure are you that you can get information on DeLuca?”
“He’s in the mafia. There has to be something on him.”
Cap sighed again. “Find it. We don’t make a move until we know for sure we have something to blackmail him with.”
“No problem.”
He scoffed on the other end of the line. “You’re gonna eat those words by the time this mission is done.”
Grinning, I hung up the phone, but when I turned around and saw Knight glaring at me, I knew this wasn’t over by a long shot.
“So, get information on DeLuca. That’s your big plan?”
“I’m in tech. You’re in tech. Hell, between the two of us, we can come up with something.”
“Don’t you think I already looked into that? While you were playing games, fucking your friend’s sister, I was actually working. And guess what? There’s no fucking way to get anything on DeLuca through the system. It’s the mafia. They don’t keep anything online.”