Page 5 of Echoes From Within
“For the past few years,” Jacobs starts. “I’ve been undercover trying to make my way into DS.”
“The Death Skulls?” Blaze asks. “Why the fuck would you want to do that?”
“Because they’ve been kidnapping women, impregnating them, and selling their babies.”
Say what?
“And you know this how?” Ghost asks.
“Like I said, I’ve been working this case for three years. Shortly after the latest woman vanished, this chapter’s leader, Malachi, finally hired me as clean-up. It’s taken most of the past year to move my way up the chain but I’ve finally hit a position where I think the bastard trusts me.”
“We are not getting involved with DS,” I say. “Malachi is one demented fuck.”
“They’re raping women,” Jacobs says, his voice raised. “Not only that, but they’re also kidnapping men and forcing them to rape women as well. They have to be stopped.”
“What do you expect us to do?” I ask. “I understand wanting to free those people, but we’re a club of eight men, detective. DS is a gang of hundreds.”
“Malachi’s chapter isn’t, though,” he tells us. “There are twenty members at the most.”
“Venom is right,” Ghost says. “As much as I hate to say this, there isn’t anything we can do to help. We would get ourselves killed within minutes with our numbers.”
“That’s where I come in,” Jacobs says. “Malachi has instructed me to go out and find a new, strong, young male to bring in.”
What the fuck?
“If he’s already made his way inside the gang, why the fuck isn’t he and the other detectives burning that place to the ground?”Xander growls.
I raise my brows waiting for Jacobs to answer only to remember that only I can hear Xander.
“You’ve already made your way up the chain of command,” I say. “You’re an inside man. Why not contact your boss and take down the whole operation?”
“Because I don’t have enough to put the bastard behind bars.”
“Explain,” Steel demands.
“I’ve never seen Malachi face to face,” he admits. “No one I work with has. He’s always barking orders over the phone or in some dark corner of the room. The second I tell my boss I’m in, he’ll be breaking down the doors. But Malachi will just run free.”
“So, in the meantime, women and men are being raped or forced to rape?”
“This detective is an idiot,”Miles says.“All he cares about is getting that arrest under his belt.”
“Trust me, I don’t much care for the plan myself. This is why I need help. I need to catch the bastard.”
“Malachi may run,” Ghost says. “But many lives will be saved in the meantime. Turn over your information to your boss and save those lives.”
Jacobs sighs, before dropping his head in defeat.
“He’s not telling us something,”Doc says.
“Out with it, detective,” I say. “What are you not saying?”
“My sister,” he starts, leaning back against the sofa. “Two years before I was handed this case, my sister was killed by Malachi and his gang. She was abducted from her room one night and was raped for months before becoming pregnant. Nine months later they stole that baby and sold it only to start the process all over. She didn’t survive the birth of the second child.”
“I’m sorry to hear about your sister,” Pops says. “But, how do you know?”
“I didn’t for the longest time. Her case was still open and unsolved when I went undercover,” Jacobs admits. “Once I had an in with Malachi’s crew, I pretended to thrive in the violence and laughed and cheered every time they told me about the couples they had locked together. I needed to appear genuinely excited about what they were doing in order to climb higher in the chain. Then one day, the men told me about someone they had taken straight from their home. It was unusual because they normally grabbed women that no one would miss. But Malachi took a special interest in her. With a little digging, everything clicked into place. They were talking about my sister. She was only thirteen years old.”
“Shit, I’m sorry man,” Blaze says.