With that, Zed yelled loudly, “Leroy, get in here.”
There were two loud clicks of locks opening and the gentle giant was suddenly standing in the doorway... only now he didn’t look very gentle. He was standing in a wrestler’s pose as if he were about to attack, and his face was contorted almost as if in anger.
“It’s okay, Leroy,” Zed shouted quickly. “It’s okay. I’m okay. Everything’s okay. Everything’s fine. I just need to talk to you.”
“Okay boss,” he responded, and suddenly the gentle giant was standing there, listening patiently.
“Leroy,” Zed began. “I love Christie and she loves me. We have loved each other for a long time. She has agreed to be a mole for us in her office. She will tell us everything we need to know. But in order for her to do that, I have to take her back to her bike before morning. I don’t have time to explain this to the whole club and get their permission, but if you say it is okay, I’ll do it.”
“I don’t know, boss,” Leroy answered slowly. “Some of the guys wanted to do her last night… I mean kill her... well, both, but it was ‘cause she’s a Fed. She’s a cop. They won’t like me letting her go.”
“That’s why I’m asking your permission first,” said Zed softly.
“I’ll be your drone, flying over the ATF,” Christie said. “They use drones to watch you, and now you’ll have one to watch them.”
Leroy’s smile was all the answer Christie needed.
“I’ll leave the doors unlocked,” he said. “If anyone says anything, I’ll explain it to them.”
I’ll bet you will, thought Christie.
As Leroy left the room, Zed said quickly, “Get dressed. We don’ t have much time.”
Christie suddenly realized that she had been lying there naked and uncovered the whole time. She reddened with embarrassment. When she realized that if Leroy had been just outside the door, he would have heard everything, her blush deepened even further.
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Soon she and Zed were hurrying up the stairs and out into the back parking lot of the club. “Get on,” he said. Then he gave a slight laugh and added, “On back.” Christie’s old Zed was back.
The sky was just beginning to turn from black to purple when they reached the split in the rocks where she had first been captured. Her weapon and phone were still sitting on the large rock. The battery and bullets were still on the sandy ground beneath it.
Zed stopped a hundred yards or so away and said, “You can walk from here. That way, if you change your mind, I’ll be gone before you can get your gun put back together.”
Christie got off the back of the bike. She turned to give Zed a kiss, but he gunned the bike and, spinning gravel into the air, rapidly left. She gave a deep sigh and walked over to where this all had started—was that just hours ago?
The first thing she did was to wrap her pistol belt around her waist and place her Glock back in the holster. She did not risk putting the now sand-contaminated clip back into the weapon. That, and the loose cartridge, she put in her pocket, along with the battery from the body finder. She screwed the two pieces of the beacon back together and it went into a different pocket. The last thing she did was to pick up her cell phone and replace the battery in the case. As she walked back to the motorcycle which she had concealed a short distance away, her phone beeped and chirped several times as it rebooted.
As she was rolling her bike out of its hiding place, her phone message alert chimed indicating that she had just received a text. She unlocked the screen and tapped the message icon. A text appeared on the screen. It was from Zed and said simply, “Promise me, Christie...”
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