Page 34 of Heartbreak Hero

“What, five months? Not since the yellow file,” Levi said.

“Wait, what?” Rowan frowned. “Yellow file?”

“You were on vacation,” King told Rowan.

“Forced vacation,” Rowan grumbled.

“That’s because you hadn’t taken one in years,” West chided and dodged the hand Rowan swung at his head.

“Where did you go?” Levi asked Rowan.

“To Prague,” Rowan said.

“Oh man, that sounds a hell of a lot more fun than the yellow file,” Levi said.

“We took down a councilman,” West said, taking a sip of water, informing Rowan of the yellow file mission.

“Did you get the bastard?” Rowan asked.

The waiter returned with the tray of drinks, preventing any of them from responding.

It was a busy five minutes more as the finger foods were delivered in large trays with chicken wings and cheesy potato wedges.

Once all the food and drinks were on the table and the staff were gone, Levi grabbed a chicken wing and tore into it.

“Yeah, we got him,” he said around a bite of chicken.

“You know, it’s kind of upsetting that we have to use taxpayers’ money to feed someone like that,” Rowan said, taking a bite of potato.

“Not this time,” Levi returned flatly. “He’s pushing up daisies.”

“Well, that works,” Rowan snorted, and West joined in.

King hadn’t joined in the conversation yet, but he wasn’t the chatty type. King was their leader, West knew explosives and was the one with the endless chatter, and Rowan was their brainiac and techie. Levi and Nash were enforcers. They worked like a well-oiled machine when on missions together, and in truth, it would have gone much smoother if Rowan had been there when they’d taken on the yellow file.

“I have a problem,” Levi said.

That got the attention of the whole table. They didn’t ask, instead, they gave him their full attention, and without any doubts, he knew they would help him.

“Sara was attacked.” The food suddenly tasted like dust, and Levi tossed the half-eaten chicken onto his plate.

“By whom?” King narrowed his eyes, his face going hard.

“I don’t know, but I need to get my hands on the surveillance behind the Velvet Lounge from Tuesday night.”

“That’s easy, give me an hour,” Rowan said and pulled out his laptop.

“So, what do you have on the Velvet Lounge?” Levi asked King after Rowan got busy locating the video.

“I have some good news,” King said. “The suspicion of human trafficking is bogus. The girl was seventeen and dating one of the Velvet Lounge’s waiters.”

“How did that get turned into human trafficking?” Levi shook his head.

“My source overheard some talk about the teenager and made an assumption,” King said and lifted his glass of water to sip.

“I hope you ripped your source a new one,” Levi said.

King smirked.

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