Page 70 of Marcellus: House of Drakos
Scottie and Oz jumped out of that SUV and ran after him. Marcellus was about to join them, but Alex pulled him back. “They’ll catch him,” he said.
Marcellus and Alex looked into each other’s eyes. And there was affection there one for the other. It was the first time they seemed to acknowledge their brotherly concern and connection. And although it went against his very take-charge nature, Marcellus did as his big brother recommended. And stayed put.
Oz and Scottie ran through the mud-filled woods right behind Bobcat. But given the mud, it was a slog more than a run. But eventually Scottie, the youngest of the three runners, decided to use it to his advantage. “I got this, old man,” he said to Oz and whipped right past him. Despite the mud, he outran Oz and was able to catch up to Bobcat.
But he caught up to him just as Bobcat had taken one more step and fell into a muddy sinkhole. Scottie, running so fast, fell into the sinkhole too.
When Oz got up to both of them, as they were reaching out their hands for assistance, he smiled. “What can I do? I’m an old-ass man according to you.”
“Stop playing, man!” a disgusted Scottie yelled. “Help me out of this sewage-smelling mess!”
Oz laughed as he helped Scottie out and then both men pulled Bobcat out. And then they dragged him to the SUV.
With Johnny and Andre assisting them from the backrow to get Bobcat into the SUV, they tossed him onto the middle row seat. Oz got on the front passenger seat as Marcellus sat on one side of Bobcat and Scottie sat on the other side. They wanted answers. But Bobcat claimed to know nothing.
“Why did your ass run if you have nothing to hide?” asked Marcellus. “Now tell me what you know!”
But when he started playing dumb again, Marcellus had had it. He grabbed him by the throat and repeatedly slam his head against the side window with such force and violence that Bobcat began bleeding. “Remember now?” Marcellus yelled at him as he continued to slam his head against that window. “Remember now?!”
Oz and Alex were surprised by Marcellus’s level of violence. He could see some street in the man, some serious street, but it seemed to be buried deep down. But apparently not that deep.
But Scottie wasn’t surprised in the least. When his father lost it, he went to town. There was no holding him back.
“What do you know?!” Marcellus yelled at Bobcat.
“I told you I don’t know anything,” Bobcat began saying again, but Marcellus grabbed his neck again and was about to shove his head against that blood-stained window again. “Okay I’ll tell you!” Bobcat yelled out.
Marcellus exhaled. About time. “Then tell me.”
“I was paid to do the snatch.”
“Of whom?”
“Your son.”
Marcellus stared at him.
“And your daughter.”
Scottie was surprised by that admission. So was Oz and Alex. But finally they were getting somewhere! “Why you?”asked Oz, who was turned around to the backrow. “You’re an explosives guy.”
“That’s why,” Bobcat said.
They all were terrified.
“What do you mean? My son wasn’t chained to any explosives,” Marcellus said.
“And he got away. They didn’t expect you to find the location since it was his bar. Who would take a kidnapped person to his own place? They thought that was ingenious. I did too at the time. I was preparing the explosives when you rescued him.”
Marcellus’s heart was hammering. So was Scottie’s. “Go on,” Scottie said. The idea that his beloved sister could be in that level of danger had him feeling nauseous.
“Your daughter is a different story,” Bobcat said to Marcellus. “I was already ready. I wasn’t making that same mistake twice.”
“Where is she?” asked Marcellus.
“They blindfolded me. When I got there, it was an empty room. All I had to do was sit the box down, give him the remote, and then they blindfolded me again and took me away again. I didn’t see anybody or hear anybody.”
“Who did you give that remote to?” Marcellus asked. “And I dare you to tell me you don’t know because I know you do. You saw him. Who is he?”
