Page 192 of Allegiance

He looked scared, but not because of what she’d said. He had other issues.

His face was bright red.

Immediately, she began rummaging through the desk and taped to the bottom, there was a little black journal. Inside, she found her answer.

“Asshole,” she said, as the man was desperately fighting for air. His eyes were bulging, and his lips were blue.

She jiggled his mouse, and when it came to life, she pulled up a word document.

Then wrote his suicide note.

Because why not?

‘My fellow cops,

I’m so sorry. I’ve betrayed the people I’ve been sworn to protect. Check my bank account. I work for a drug dealer by the name of Chevy Chesary. He was El Gato’s right-hand man. I’ve been stealing and I’ve let people take evidence. I couldn’t live with myself anymore.

I had to pay.

Tate.’

She turned off the monitor and knew what she needed to do. Tate was not breathing, and he was on his way to meet his maker for judgment.

Only, she knew how to set up a crime scene.

She’d done plenty of them.

Without hesitation, Jinx jumped onto his body, grabbing his shoulders to pull down. She heard his neck break.

Well, at least a coroner would think it was suicide.

That was that.

“Rogue, I’ve got the book. Are the guys back to you yet?”

“Yes. Go out the back. We’ll pick you up there. I’ll also lock down the evidence locker and deprogram it so no one can get into it until IT shows up in the morning. They’ll think it’s a tech issue.”

That was sneaky.

She liked it.

“Perfect.”

She put the man’s gun back into his holster and headed toward the back. As she went there, she grabbed even more guns and some more cash. She wiped the place out, tossing it all into the vehicle that had been stashed by Aiden and Tate.

A thief had to steal.

Then, she headed out, the mission done.

When she pushed the back door open and stepped outside, her husband’s blacked-out Charger pulled up, and she hopped into the back with Tommy.

“Let’s roll. We don’t have time.”

They headed out the back way, missing all the traffic and cops pulling in the front as they returned with the media following them.

That had been close.

TOO.