Kings of Anarchy (Brutal Boys of Everlake Prep #3) - Caroline Peckham Page 0,205

to listen to him. I truly believed that he was perfect for the position of our final Night Keeper, but sometimes his peasantry grated on me to the point of despair. I’d cut him a check to make him feel better about his lot in life if I didn’t know he was too damn proud to take it. Not that it mattered anyway. I firmly believed in the concept of this unit we’d built which meant my money was his money anyway. He just hadn’t figured that out yet.

"Regardless of my methods, it's safe to say that I'm at least closing in on how the money is processed so it won't take me much longer to figure out who the eventual benefactor is. Has Niall contacted you with information on any of the other members?”

“He managed to track one down but that’s a dead end now,” Kyan replied, looking a little guilty.

“How so?” I asked, irritated to only be learning this now.

“Because he was one of the men most involved with the sex trafficking side of the operation and Niall followed him home and cut his dick off before making him watch it burn in his own fireplace while he bled out,” Kyan said, hiding a smirk beneath his thumb.

“What?” Tatum gasped but her eyes were alight like her shock was happy rather than horrified.

“Well I wish he would have questioned him first,” I snapped, irritated that we’d missed the opportunity.

“I’ll pass on the message for him to do so next time,” Kyan offered. “But you were pre warned that rapists were a sore subject for him so you really shouldn’t be surprised.”

Monroe shook his head like he didn’t know whether to laugh or not and Blake smirked in amusement.

“Fitting as the death may have been, I insist on the next victim of your uncle’s wrath to be fully questioned pre execution,” I said firmly.

Kyan grimaced at the idea of that but didn't outwardly refuse it, so I took the opportunity to strike that matter from my list.

“Don’t go thinking of Niall as some dog you have on a leash,” Kyan warned. “Because he will rip your head off to prove you wrong in the blink of an eye. Anything he does for us on this is because he is choosing to. So offer him the respect he demands because we don’t want him turning his anger our way.”

“Don’t worry yourself about it,” I replied dismissively. “I have plenty of practice in bringing wild dogs to heel.”

Kyan laughed like that was a compliment and I opened my mouth to continue, but instead Tatum shoved some of the fucking pizza between my lips.

Her eyes sparkled with amusement as my obligation to follow the rules forced me to bite and chew and I gave her a death glare over the cheese to which she rolled her eyes.

"So, basically what you’re saying is that you haven't dug up enough info on whoever is running the psycho funhouse yet and we need to keep waiting before we can make any more moves?" Blake interjected while I couldn't speak and my mood darkened further.

"I'd like to see you do half much as I have to track down the members of an elite secret organisation while the entire country is on lockdown," I snarled at him.

"Thank you, Saint," Tatum interrupted like she could see this descending fast and I was distracted from my anger again as her hand landed on my thigh and she held up another slice of pizza for me to eat. "We do appreciate your criminal mastermind ways," she added and I snorted a laugh at that. Not that it was inaccurate, but I hadn't exactly taken on that title officially. I couldn't say I hated it though.

"Fine," I ground out. "I'll keep all of you updated as I find out more. It's also worth letting you know that some of the locations the payments were made threw up red flags for me which I hadn't expected but probably should have."

"What do you mean?" Blake asked.

"Just that a few of the organisations have ties to my father. Somewhat loose ties which I can't easily prove but I'm more than familiar enough with his finances to have spotted the links. It could just be a case of rich old bastards using the same money launderers coincidentally, but after finding his links to Serenity Pharmaceuticals..."

"What?" Monroe pushed, perking up enough to make my intuition take note. He'd been like that when I'd told him about