But that didn’t mean he didn’t intend to take down everyone around him when he flamed out.
And Tyra was around him.
“Got shit to do,” Tack muttered.
“My boys and I are all over this.”
Tack caught his eyes.
“Owe you.”
“No marker.”
“Don’t play it that way, Hawk.”
“You had my woman’s back and in doin’ it, mine. I got yours. We’re even.”
He could live with that.
Tack jerked up his chin.
Then he stalked out of the Compound to his bike.
* * * * *
Two hours later, Chaos cabin outside Golden, Colorado…
Wearing brass knuckles, Hop clocked Gerald “Pipe” Dahl in the jaw with a closed fist and the fat man as well as the chair he was tied to went down.
Naomi, tied across the room in her own chair, shrieked, “Stop!”
Pipe spit out a mess of blood and a tooth, grunting, “I’m tellin’ you! I don’t know shit!”
Tack, standing three feet away, arms crossed on his chest, ordered in a voice cold as ice, “Get him up.”
Boz and High moved forward, grabbed the chair and hauled it up, Boz bitching, “Jesus, man, how’d you get so fat bein’ a cokehead? You’re breathin’ after we’re done with you, lay off the Doritos.”
They got him up, Boz and High stepped back, Hop looked to Tack but Tack shook his head once.
Then he looked at Pipe and demanded, “Talk to me.”
Battered, bloody, his head hanging down because he didn’t have the strength to pull it up, he pushed out a labored breath on his, “I don’t know shit.”
“He doesn’t know anything! Leave him be!” Naomi screeched.
Only Tack’s head turned and his eyes skewered his ex bitch.
“You are in a precarious position,” he told her, his voice low, chill, his words coming slow but his eyes were flaring. “Advice, Naomi, keep your mouth shut.”
Naomi looked into her ex-husband’s eyes and shut her mouth.
Tack’s gaze went back to Pipe. “Talk,” he growled.
With effort, Pipe lifted his head and, expending more effort, he focused as best he could on Tack. “Seriously, dude. I’m tellin’ you. I don’t know shit. I’m into them two hundred K for blow. They’re not gonna trust a cokehead.”
“You do that blow in front of my kids?” Tack’s words lashed out and hit true, stinging both targets.
Naomi peeped but went silent. Pipe winced as if he’d been struck.