Sedona Law 6 by Dave Daren (best non fiction books of all time .TXT) 📗

what these guys were capable of. I plastered myself against the side wall and tried to avoid detection.

In the darkness, I made out Tony, a young, short and stocky Hispanic man, with a long, straight ponytail. He glanced around a bit.

“Yo,” he called out. “Somebody there?”

Tony waited a couple seconds, and then went back into the office.

“Nothing,” he told Roy.

“Whatever,” Roy said dismissively. “Look, as soon as I find Montague--”

“Montague’s a fucking fairy ass pussy,” Tony said. “Why the hell--”

I heard Roy chuckle a bit.

“Because we need his fairy ass cover,” Roy insisted.

“It’s a bullshit cover,” Tony said. “After Reba, the whole thing damn near broke wide open.”

“Yeah,” Roy said. “But it didn’t. I’ve got Durant all tied up.”

My mouth dropped open and I almost audibly gasped.

“You sure about that?” Tony asked.

“Why are you so jumpy at the sudden?” Roy asked.

“Look,” Tony said. “My cousin works for this Irving dude.”

Whoa. Tony Sanchez was AJ’s cousin? Why didn’t she tell me? Was she in class the day I went to go see him at Universal Shipping?

“Ah, God Tony,” Roy sighed. “We’re back on Irving? He’s nothing to be scared of. He’s nosy as fuck, but at the end of the day, he’s just another Sedona High School graduate, just with some expensive suits….And a smoking hot Asian girlfriend. I’ll give him that.”

Roy whistled long.

“Nah, man. It’s more than that,” Tony said. “My cousin, she’s been fishing around me asking questions. Really good ones. I’m scared man. They’re onto us. It’s just a matter of time.”

`“Like what?” Roy asked.

“I don’t know,” Tony said. “A lot about Montague, and if I knew where he was.”

“You don’t,” Roy replied.

“No,” Tony said. “I don’t. Not exactly. I know he’s in North Carolina somewhere.”

“So leave it at that,” Roy said.

“But that’s not the point,” Tony said. “These guys have their fingers in more places than the Feds. They know people.”

“Okay,” he said. “So let’s take care of them.”

“Wait, you mean--” Tony gasped. “Dude, that’s my cousin!”

“Your cousin that wouldn’t think twice about turning you over to the Feds,” Roy said.

“She wouldn’t do that,” Tony said. “You remember when that tiger got in our trailer park?”

“Vaguely,” Roy said.

“We had so much shit on us,” Tony said. “We couldn’t risk calling the cops. I mean, there was so much…”

“Yeah,” Roy sounded bored. “You’re a junkie. What’s your point.”

“My point is,” Tony said. “She figured out how to get the people to come get the tiger without getting the cops out there. She’s loyal like that. She wouldn’t turn me in.”

I remembered this story. It didn’t exactly go like that. There was a tiger that escaped, and AJ did get the tip on the tiger’s whereabouts. But, the tiger was my responsibility.

It had been released by some vindictive people that were trying to sabotage me. But in the end, I was still the guy in charge of the tiger. We were out looking for the tiger, when AJ gave me the anonymous tip that she eventually credited to a meth head cousin. She didn’t do Tony any favors.

The cops couldn’t have found the drugs without a search warrant. Considering that the escaped tiger was a public safety concern, even if the cops had shown up, they would have ignored signs of obvious drug use in favor of the greater good of protecting the entire city from a dangerous animal.

“You want to go prison, Tony?” Roy asked.

“No,” Tony replied.

“If you think these guys are onto you,” Roy said. “Do something about it.”

“Right,” Tony said.

“Beyond that,” Roy said. “Give me two weeks. I’ll get that stuff off you.”

“Alright,” Tony sighed with a resigned tone.

Tony walked out of the office and I turned off the recording. Then I stood stock still as he passed through the lobby. He walked outside, but then he stopped and stood on the stoop for a second. Shit. My car.

Tony came back in.

“Roy,” he called out. “Whose Beamer is that out there?”

“What?” Roy mumbled in a preoccupied tone.

I was busted. With tiny movements, I hid my phone’s backlight under a counter, and texted the audio file to Vicki. Then, I scanned the darkness for any kind of weapon. These guys wanted to take us out.

“Did that get dropped off just now?” Tony asked as he crossed back into the office.

“What?” Roy asked.

“A black BMW,” Tony said.

He was in the office now, and I edged toward the door trying not to make a sound. If I could make it to the door, without being detected, I could make a run for it.

“No,” Roy said and I heard his chair scrape the floor as he stood up. I was still too far from the door.

Roy and Tony walked out of the office and Roy casually flipped on the light switch.

And there I stood, staring right at them.

Chapter 16

Roy and Tony didn’t waste much time getting to their point. They knew who I was, they knew what I was there to do, and they knew what I had overheard. As far as they were concerned, it was lights out for me. Unfortunately for them, I wasn’t going to go so easily.

I stood right in front of a crowbar and when Tony came charging at me with a wild eye look, I remembered my childhood days playing Little League baseball, and I gave that thing an award winning out of the park Babe Ruth style home run hit to the jaw.

Tony went down, his body crumbling like an accordian folding into place. He hit the ground with a thud and his mouth bled profusely. I felt guilty clocking AJ’s cousin like that, but he had it for me. I was a little concerned