Knight was a solid cop. She would make a great addition to the team. Everyone had nothing but good things to say about her.
“She’ll start training with us next week,” Declan chimed in. “I want everyone on their best behavior.”
“We will welcome her with open arms, like we do everyone when they join us.” Ash held up his beer.
“Hear, hear.” They all raised their beers in the honor of the new addition to the team.
The television screen turned blue, capturing everyone’s attention.
“All right, men. The information you have all been waiting for.” Brodie typed out a few commands on his computer.
The television showed photographs of the four men Myles and Earl had captured on the Sutton farm.
Myles took a long pull from his drink.
“I did as Mac asked and I ran a check on all of them. When I say I flipped them inside out, I can now tell you who they had a crush on in the third grade, what brand of underwear they prefer, and how often they shit.”
“Yeah, I don’t need to know that,” Zain muttered.
“Me neither.” Iker chuckled.
“Go ahead, Brodie. What did you find?” Mac asked.
“Thank you, Sergeant,” Brodie eyed the room.
Even Myles had to roll his eyes. They all wanted to hear what he’d found with his research.
“Anywho, I linked them all together; it all goes back to the Demon Lords which we knew. The Demon Lords haven’t quite bounced back from the last time we hit them hard. There’s been some power struggles, some parts of the gangs branching out on their own while even some are doing for-profit jobs on the side. This is where the bandit of men that was captured came into play.”
The room fell quiet while Brodie spoke.
“They’ve been taking odd jobs here and there and are all wanted on multiple charges. South Carolina and Georgia are going to have a nice little fight. They are wanted in both states. So I had to dig deep to try to trace who the person was that hired them. Of course, I ran their bank statements and didn’t find any deposited checks. That would have been too easy.”
Myles was impressed by the information Brodie had found so far.
“Any validation to what the suspect said? He’s accusing a cop of taking out a hit on another cop,” Ash said. “How many times have we gone up against this gang? He could just be saying that to put blue against blue.”
“I wish I could say that he was lying, but I have reason to believe Whit was telling the truth.” Brodie hit another command on his phone. “I ran their phone records and went through their text messages and found one message to Whit from a burner phone setting a meeting. I checked the address, and it was a small library.”
“Shit, this is intense work, Brodie. Good job,” Declan murmured.
“Thanks. Now this part wasn’t hard at all. I had the address of the library and date, so I hacked into their security cameras. This is where they made their mistake. They met during broad daylight where security cameras can easily capture your face.” He hit a button on the keyboard, and a grainy picture came up.
Myles squinted and froze.
He recognized the man in the picture with Whit.
“Son of a bitch,” someone murmured.
“Hey, guys!” Sarena called out, walking in the room.
Aspen, Deana, and Roxxy filed in behind her.
Roxxy had a wide grin on her face. She was practically radiating. She slid onto his lap and gave him a small kiss.
“I missed you,” she murmured.
He automatically wrapped an arm around her and pulled her closer. Each woman was next to their men, snuggled up close to them.
“Not as much as I missed you.” He pressed another kiss to hers.
“Did y’all have a breakthrough?” Her gaze landed on the television screen.
He tightened his hold on her and brought her back where he could rest his chin on her shoulder.
“Yeah, this is big. You love me, right?” he asked.
“You know I do.” She sighed.
“Well, the road is about to get bumpy.” He glanced back at the screen.
The room was silent while everyone apparently had to process what they were looking at on the screen.
Roxxy turned on his lap and placed her arm around his neck.
“As long as we’re together, I’m ready for anything.”
