He didn’t give a f**k about this, bottom line, he wanted her. When she gave him his shot, he took it.
He’d been furious when, close to the point of no return, she’d walked away leaving him hard and aching for more of her.
At the time, he thought she was playing games. When he had time to think about it, he decided, in her drunkenness, she’d lost control too but she’d found hers and, in the end, the games she was playing were games she needed to play so she could end up alive and breathing after he took down her father.
That was much better than dead, like her mother was assumed after eighteen years ago Elizabeth Townsend approached Indy’s father, Tom Savage, a cop and the widower of Elizabeth’s close friend, Katherine.
Elizabeth Townsend had wanted to be free of her husband, her life and wanted it for her daughter too. She didn’t want Sadie to grow up the daughter of a drug dealer. Therefore, she started to inform on Seth who had yet to make the big time, giving Tom information.
Until one day, she just disappeared.
* * * * *
Although Hector had been furious when Sadie had walked away from him, he’d waited and not approached her even though he wanted to. He knew he was close to closing the operation.
It was just over a week later when the DEA moved in.
He kept firmly detached from the process after. He demanded that other agents interrogate her and he didn’t get involved when they investigated her assets. He wasn’t surprised when she’d walked away and didn’t look back when the Agency froze the accounts and seized all property.
She’d done her job and she was moving on.
When they told him they were going to transfer him to DC, he quit. He’d had enough. Although he got off on the hunt, he’d never been big on rules and policy.
Furthermore, Sadie couldn’t get to him in DC.
He bought a house, went to work for Lee who also was not big on rules and policy and waited for her to come to him.
He didn’t think it’d take long. He’d never had a sweet piece go that hot for him that quickly nor had he ever lost that much control. He had no doubt that when their lives were no longer on the line she’d make her approach. She was a trust fund princess who walked away leaving him aching, it was going to have to be her that made the next move.
Sadie and he had unfinished business, he knew it and he knew she knew it and Hector intended to finish it.
However, by the time she made an appointment with Lee, he was losing patience.
* * * * *
He’d heard about Ricky Balducci and his brothers. Word on the street was Sadie was marked. The Balducci Boys had an unspoken deal, win Sadie, win the throne.
It was insanity and it was talk. The Balducci brothers were known for being both insane and entirely full of bullshit.
He was surprised that Sadie had come to Lee and he knew when she asked for protection that she’d been getting pressure from the Balduccis. Why she didn’t share this information with Lee, he didn’t know but he didn’t care either.
He didn’t want Lee involved. He could take care of it on his own. When Sadie left he told Lee he’d look into it. By this he meant deal with the Balduccis and deal with Sadie.
Her time was up. He was done waiting.
That night, he followed her from her gallery to her apartment and waited outside in case she went out.
She stayed in.
He left her thinking she’d be safe in a high rise with security. He had an assignment with Luke that night and he decided he’d come back in the morning. He’d planned to return, make sure she got to work then he’d take Luke, Mace, Darius or Vance and go have a word with the Balducci Boys.
After that, he’d go to Sadie.
He didn’t have that chance.
* * * * *
“You waited?” Eddie asked.