“You’ll figure it out eventually,” Parker said, pulling out his laptop. “Now, can we get to work? Some of us have lives to get back to that we haven’t completely fucked up yet.”
This whole thing was fucking ridiculous, but he was right. We had work to do. “I tracked Alicia to a hotel outside the city. It looks like she’s staying with a friend.”
“The mob hasn’t tracked her yet?”
“Well, they still think Krista is Alicia. That’s the one good thing we have going for us.”
“And how do you plan to convince Alicia to go along with this insane plan?”
I pulled out the documents I’d picked up from my buddy. “Papers. New identity.”
“You bought the hooker a one-way ticket out of town?” Liam asked.
“Did you have a better plan?”
“Than any of this? Nope, but that’s not my area of expertise.”
“Well, this is mine. She needs a way out, and I can give it to her.”
“Unless you have a hundred grand to go along with that, there’s no way she’ll take it,” Sinner pointed out.
“This will be enough. It’s life or death. Trust me, if she’s smart, she’ll choose life.”
“Hookers aren’t known for their smarts,” he pointed out.
“I thought you were on the side of the hooker?” I asked, getting irritated with this conversation.
“Oh, definitely. But you’re acting like she’s going to see this lifeline and snatch it up. In actuality, she’s going to pretend to take your offer, then turn on you when she finds a better way out.”
“If she wants to live, she won’t do that,” I gritted out.
“You’d better hope you’re right because if she screws you over, your plan will be blown.”
He was right, but I had to take the chance. There was no other way for us to get out of this alive.
“I’m heading over there now.”
“I’ll go with you,” Sinner said, grabbing his weapon and holstering it.
“I think it’s best if I go alone. Two of us will scare the shit out of her.”
“And sending you alone will end one of two ways. One, you disappear and we never hear from you again. Two, she tricks you into going with her, but in reality, she leads you right into the lion’s den where she feeds you to the wolves. Or three, she gets really creeped out by the large man storming into her room and tries to kick your ass, in which case, you might need backup.”
“That was three options.”
“I know. I added one.”
“And wolves aren’t in a lion’s den.”
“Yes, but you lead someone into a lion’s den, but you feed them to wolves. See how that works?” he asked, grinning at me.
I got the reference. I even got all three of his points, but the whole thing was fucked up. Not that it was worth arguing about at the moment.
“Fine. Stay or come with me. It really doesn’t matter.”
“Oh, it really does if you want to live,” he chuckled, clapping me on the shoulder and leaning in closely. “And I really don’t want to stay here with the cowboy. He creeps me out.”
Glancing over his shoulder, he stared at Liam for a moment before shivering. “No self-respecting man wears pants that tight.”