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We sat in the downstairs meeting room as Timothy watched the website. We were talking softly until the timer went off and Timothy started typing on his laptop as he watched the screen on mine carefully. People had started bidding and the four girls’ fate had been sealed. Within the next two hours they would be sold and shipped to their new owners.
“We’ve laced our bullets with nightshade as per Timothy’s advice, it’s lethal when it enters a vampire’s bloodstream. We also have dragon venom and wolfsbane laced bullets for the other species,” I started the meeting as Timothy kept typing.
“Yeah we should kill them all,” Jasper mused with a smile.
“Does Jasper have a hard on already?” Brandon asked as he walked into the meeting room followed by Nate.
“There’s my bitch,” Jasper said as he stood up and shook hands with Brandon.
“Thanks for coming guys,” I said as everyone shook hands and exchanged some small talk.
“Wouldn’t miss this for the world,” Nate said with an easy smile.
“Four girls are being sold today, so we’ll have four possible locations to go to. Jasper will lead his men to one location, Brandon, Nate and Preston will go to another location, Rev, Andre and Jay to the third one and Timothy, me and Sam to the last one,” I said.
“Why do you get the vamp?” Jasper asked me and Timothy smiled.
“You brought half your warriors,” I said to him.
“Fuck off, I have way more than ten warriors,” he said.
“Timothy sticks with me, I promised him a party tonight,” I said and Jasper laughed.
“So we kill the buyers and bring the girls back here?” Brandon asked.
“Yes, Tessa’s ready to receive them and Stella will be here to take care of any injuries,” I said.
“Tessa as in your ex Tessa?” Nate asked raising his eyebrow.
“Yes Nate and she’s still not interested in sucking your teeny dick,” I said as everyone started laughing.
“Last time she said it was bigger than yours,” he said and leaned back in his chair.
“Fuck you,” I said as I laughed.
“Okay if you’re all done comparing dicks I have tracers on the ten buyers, I’ll keep the trace active until the auction ends and we see who wins their bids, we’ll have their current locations and we can go,” Timothy said and leaned back in his seat, “besides it’s a known fact that vamps have the biggest dicks.”
“Shit Timmy my man you’ve never seen me naked, I’ve had a girl faint once when I unzipped my pants,” Jasper said with a laugh.
“Oh please Jasper, we all know you own stocks in that penis pump company,” Brandon said as we laughed.
“Is that what you guys talk about all the time?” Hannah asked and we all turned to face her as she sat in the back of the room.
“How long have you been in here?” Jasper asked her with wide eyes.
“Since the beginning,” she said and I burst out laughing.
“Now this is awkward,” Brandon said and also started laughing.
“Trust me, not as awkward as it was for me,” Hannah said as Rev laughed loudly.
“Well Hannah since you’re now one of the guys, why don’t you be the judge of who’s is bigger,” Jasper said and Hannah had to physically stand in front of Rev as he gave him a pointed look.
“What the fuck Jasper,” I said.
“Whoa Rev calm down, I didn’t mean it like that!” Jasper said carefully.
“We have another hour before the auction ends, let’s get ready so that we can grab what we need to go as soon as Timothy has the locations for us,” I said and stood up.
Martha had been plying us with snacks and coffee and water the entire day and I felt the need to shower before we left. We had already checked all our weapons and Preston had given everyone the liquid bottles of nightshade that we had boiled.
An hour and a half later we were back in the meeting room as Timothy filled us in on the details of what we missed when we all left earlier.
“These guys aren’t afraid of anything. They’re discussing delivery on the main page, saying the seller will contact the buyer within ten minutes and delivery is to take place within twenty-four hours or the buyer will get a refund,” Timothy explained.
“If we had a location on that warehouse we could target the delivery vehicles, that would mean the buyer has no girl and the seller has to refund his money, leaving both unsatisfied,” Brandon said.
“The problem is that the delivery people will recognize some of us, probably all of us and if even one escapes that’ll be the end of everything. We’re not even sure what routes to watch to intercept them,” I said.
“Wait, hang on a moment, delivery is scheduled to take place at these co-ordinates in twelve hours, if the buyer doesn’t pitch up he forfeits the girl, it seems like they randomly choose some small town in Illinois to do the exchange and the buyers aren’t that far away,” Timothy said.
“Where is it?” Jasper asked him.
“El Paso,” he said.
“That’s like an hour and a half from here, plenty of time to check out the lay of the land and wait for them,” I said.
“If we do this right, we can kill the delivery people and the buyers, leave their bodies right there as a message and get those girls out,” Brandon said.
“They’d need at most one van for four girls since they’re all going to the same location, four buyers with maybe an extra man as protection, the driver and maybe two or three guards,” Nate said.
“Twelve people minimum then,” Jasper said.
“We’re fifteen,” Preston said.
“You’ll need to wear masks and polo necks so your dragons doesn’t show,” Hannah said as we looked at her again.
“Yes boss,” I said and she looked at us sternly.
“And no more dick jokes please,” she said as she stood up.
“Who said we were joking? Jasper asked with a laugh.
Hannah left the room as we laughed and Timothy brought up a map of the area and we all discussed possible locations as we looked at the image on Google Earth. The location surprised me as I watched the image carefully. It was on the El Paso Walking Trail about a mile and a half from the baseball field.
There were trees where we could take cover and I was astonished at their brazenness to do an exchange like this in the open. Hannah and Rev walked back into the room and he started unpacking all the guns in silence.
Hannah handed out masks and long sleeved black polo neck shirts. Rev had surgical gloves on as he handled the firearms and we all got a pair as well. I shouldn’t have been surprised at all this because Hannah always seemed to amaze me.
It was only when Rev took out silencers and screwed them onto the guns that most of our eyes widened and I looked at him in surprise.
“Where the hell did you get silencers?” I asked him.
“People,” he said and continued his work.
“He made some resourceful friends in prison,” Hannah said and looked at him proudly.
“Between the two of you we’re not even needed,” Jasper said and Hannah laughed.
“Aww Jasper we still need you as the muscle,” she said and I laughed.
“Now just the masking of our scent,” Brandon said.
“I’ve thought of that too, but I’ll spray you guys outside, there’s no way I’m living with this smell inside the house,” she said.
Preston had brought one of the clubs non-descript vans and exchanged the number plates with a written off vehicle from a few years ago that had belonged to the McIntyre lair. I was now glad that Preston collected all these weird stuff and it came in handy now.
“This is Amorphophallus titanium,” Hannah began and Timothy widened his eyes slightly.
“Ah the sickly smell of the corpse flower,” he said and looked at Hannah, “did you get this from Brianna?”
“Of course I did,” she said and they shared a secret smile.
“Who’s Brianna and what the hell is the corpse flower?” I asked.
“Brianna is another friend, a witch, and the corpse flower is exactly just that, it smells like rotting flesh,” Timothy said.
“Nice,” Brandon said sarcastically.
“Witches and Vampires, I feel like I don’t know who you are little sister,” I said as I looked at her.
“What do you always say Lucas, trade secrets right, you’ll like Brianna,” Hannah said.
“This must have cost you a small fortune,” Timothy said absent mindedly.
“It’s a flower that smells like shit, how expensive can it be?” Jasper asked.
“This flower only blooms every seven to nine years for about thirty hours,” Timothy said.
“Don’t tell me, I don’t want to know how much you spent,” I said as Hannah started spraying us.
There were a series of gag sounds as the smell hit us and it was probably one of the most awful things I’d ever smelled but I kept it in and breathed through my mouth wondering how the hell Hannah knew all of this and why exactly she was friends with witches and vampires.
My phone pinged and I saw I had a message from Brandon. I looked over at him but he had his back to me, speaking softly into his phone. I opened the phone and looked at the image he sent me. It was Charlie Dogwood lying in a bathtub, with a gun lying on the floor where his right hand extended over the rim of the tub.
The bullet wound in his temple was evident and I saw the blood spray on the wall on his left. I had to admit from the picture it looked like he shot himself. Nothing else looked disturbed, just the spray of blood against the white tiles.
“Brandon, who’s this guy?” I asked him as he walked over to me.
“He goes by the name of Hawk, but he’s crazy good right,” Brandon said with a smile.
“As long as it holds up in the police investigation,” I said.
“Oh it will, I’ve used him before,” Brandon said and I felt like I was seeing a new side to people that I had known for years.
“Time to leave guys, keep to the speed limit and we’ll meet up within the covers of those trees in El Paso,” I said.
We climbed into the two vans and started the drive to El Paso. I kept playing different scenarios in my head about the outcome of today but I wasn’t nervous or worried. I was just focused on the girls.
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