got all this stuff about the Roys and Toronto. It’s a good thing too because my UC and the fellas had no idea what the name or location meant,” said Frazier.
Dix grinned. “We needed a break and we got it. Now we gotta figure out one more crucial thing.”
Frazier looked puzzled. “What’s that?”
“We gotta find the third shooter that Petersen and I saw in the Range Rover. He’s probably responsible for the two dead guys from this car.” Dix wondered how Frazier would have forgotten something like this.
“Oh, about that,” he said in an embarrassed tone. “The surveillance cameras on the strip clearly show that the driver of the Range Rover was a female.”
Dix raised an eyebrow. “Well, isn’t that interesting,” he mused as he thought about what it meant that the third shooter was a highly skilled female. “We need to find her ASAP, but I gotta say, based on all the damage she’s caused, we may have our hands full if and when we locate her.”
Chapter 15:
Robert Blass called people he’d trusted and used as part of his criminal enterprise for over twenty-five years. He needed to learn anything and everything about a narcotics detective named Bill Dix, at least more than he already knew. Before Blass saw the man with his own eyes, he’d assumed he was more of an urban legend. Turns out, he was a real narcotics detective and apparently the best of the best. Seeing Dix caught up with Marie and her idiot brothers freaked Blass out. Now he was uncomfortable and it pissed him off. He did not believe in chance and the sighting of Dix made him second guess his entire operation. He considered calling it quits completely and disappearing. He was confident no one would find him and the amount of money he’d stockpiled would allow him to live lavishly until he died.
But then something inside him, a voice really, told Blass he needed to look deeper into Bill Dix, see if he could outsmart him. It was as though Blass forgot about business, about making good, sound decisions, and turned the situation personal. To hell with this Bill Dix guy , no one can outsmart me.
Each person he talked to told him specifically not to toy with Dix, but it only fueled Blass. All his common sense slipped away. A voice in his head told him Dix was better than him. But Blass knew one thing for certain—no one was better than him. No one. He felt an overwhelming urge to crush Dix—but not just kill him, he wanted to humiliate him. Blass shook his head and pitied anyone who would be foolish enough to get in his way. No one messes with a Blass .
Within minutes, Blass had concocted a plan to lure Dix into a trap so he could have his way with him. He chuckled as the plan required using Marie as bait. He was impressed with Marie, but she was, just like all the other women, expendable. He used them for sex and business, and then, when he became bored with them, he’d have them killed or he’d kill them himself.
The G4 pilot’s voice over the plane’s intercom interrupted his thoughts. “Mr. Laurin, we’re descending into Las Vegas. We’ll have wheels down in fifteen minutes.”
“Roger that.” Blass nodded.
The private stewardess sauntered down the center aisle and raised an eyebrow at him. “One more quickie?”
Her offer brought a smile to his face. She was voluptuous and pretty, and had a bit of a wild side. He grabbed her in his arms and began unbuttoning her blouse as she growled at him. Just as he finished having his way with her, the plane landed and Blass became more focused than he’d ever recalled being. Time to hunt Bill Dix , he mused.
Chapter 16:
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