Page 266 of G.O.D.S Omnibus

“Where do you think you’re going?” Case asks me.

“To watch Chester fuck that guy up, that’s the fun room,” I reply, pointing in the direction Chester went. I’m not exactly sure why he cares. “Maybe make sure Jolie doesn’t come in for a while.”

Case agrees, and I watch as he walks into the room that runs behind the interrogation ones. Each room is fitted with two-way glass, and Jolie and Davis will be sitting in there to watch this shitshow go down.

I move across the hall and push the door open, letting myself in. Chester doesn’t even look my way. He has cut the kid free, and the poor guy squares up to Chester as if he has a chance against the beast. I lean against the wall and watch as Chester lets him get a hit in and smirks.

“You made a huge mistake. You upset my girl.”

“Oh no! I upset your little girlfriend. I’m so sad... Who gives a fuck?” The kid has one massive set of balls to talk back to him that way.

“I do!” Chester roars. “What you fail to get is I would kill someone just for making her food wrong. Now, we all know you had a hand in our children being taken.”

“Your children,” he spits. “That dark-haired bitch who’s old enough to be my moth—” He doesn’t get a chance to say anything else. Chester’s fist flies out and connects with his temple, and the kid stumbles back, landing on his ass. Oh shit,that had to have hurt. This is getting good. I have to give it to the kid, he has fire in him, especially to get back up and keep going.

Chester’s balled up hand goes straight into the man’s face, and the sound of crunching as bones break is music to my ears. “Tell me where my fucking babies are!” he roars.

The man laughs and spits blood in Chester’s direction. “You’re all fucking idiots if you think anyone knows anything. Why would he tell us shit that could lead you to him?”

Businessmen and criminals respond in different ways. Businessmen talk money, criminals prefer violence.

I push off from my spot on the wall. “But you know something,” I say, eyeing the prick. He looks in my direction, startled that someone else is in the room.

“I don’t know anything,” he throws back. “I just told your friend he didn’t tell us shit.”

“He didn’t tell you, but you’re a smart man. He didn’t take you seriously, did he? Probably sprouting crap about the kids, and how they are more intelligent now as babies than you. You know why they picked you, right?”

“Because I’m the best.”

“Unfortunately not. If he wanted the best, that would be Marlow, or even Jimmie, but they couldn’t be bought. Which made me wonder. Why not bribe any one of the hundreds of other people within Olympia who have exceptional computer skills or whatever skills it is you claim to have?”

“Why me then, since you’re so smart?”

“Because for whatever reason, he is still following the Olympia code of conduct. Which means if he were to use someone from within Olympia, he couldn’t easily dispose of them. You see, we all have tracking devices. Remove someone’s, and our systems are notified.”

“He was going to kill me?” he asks, and I nod.

“Yep. The other men, he needs them. They have money and connections in the right fields, but you have nothing to offer him long-term. You’re replaceable once he has money in his pocket, and believe me, those babies are special. He will hire someone trained to protect them. But you can walk out of here alive today by telling me what you know.”

“And how do I know you’re not just saying that, and once I talk, you’ll kill me?”

I shrug. “You don’t, but we have a drug that can erase a little of your memory, so you won’t remember being here at all. I don’t take you for a snitch, but this is literally down to your life or his.”

“Can you get rid of the ape, and then I will talk?”

I look at Chester, and he nods, completely surprising me. I expected a bigger fight from him. “Send Davis in.” He just nods at me again.

I gesture for the kid to take a seat when Davis walks in, and we both sit opposite him. “Okay, so I don’t know much—he only hired me a few weeks ago. I didn’t have to do much, just set up some security here and there. He moved the lady a couple of times, and then we would have to set up all over again. He made me make some signal blockers, which I thought was weird, but he said what he was doing was top secret. I didn’t care honestly, as long as he paid me upfront, and the cash was good. He barely spoke to me, but told me his wife had recently given birth and the babies were coming home soon. Which again I thought was weird since she had never left the house. I mean, wouldn’t a mother want to visit their baby? But with what he paid me, it wasn’t my business. The last time we had to leave quickly, it started as a regular day, but he got a visit from a lady—she looked rich, the fancy housewife type.” I snort, that’s one way to explain Elizabeth. “He told us he had to leave, but to pack up and be ready when he got back. That he had to go get his children asthey were in danger from the weapons his dead brother created. That he needed to move one last time.

“We were dropped off near the outer city. He told the woman he was taking the babies somewhere safe where no one would ever find them. He also told the men he would be in contact with us soon for his part of the plan, then you guys showed up. I don’t think he planned to go far because the woman with him said the babies were hungry. His reply was, ‘They can wait ten minutes,’ if that helps at all.”

“Stay with him,” I tell Davis, and I push my chair back to go update the others.

I walk out into the dimly lit hall and move across to where Brennan is. I knock on the door and motion for him to come outside.

“Did your guy talk?” I ask, and he shakes his head.

“They claim he hasn’t asked them to do anything yet, but we know they’re lying. We are just trying to figure out a way to convince them.”

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