Free Whispered Truths (God's Reapers MC Book 2) by Kara Parker Page B

good enough; each one ended with people in jail, or worse. They all had the potential to be dangerous. He could go and grab Rick himself, but then what? How much would it take to get Rick to talk? Would he have to beat the information out of him?  That wasn’t something David was looking forward to having to do. He could see it easily enough; Rick tied to a chair in a basement somewhere, and David, his fists covered in the other man’s blood, getting the information the hard way. But thought made David feel sick. He knew that sometimes it had to be done, but he had never enjoyed it and had always sought to find another way. Plus, Rick was tough; he might not talk. It might have to get worse and worse, nastier and more violent, in order to get Rick to admit his guilt. David had seen that, too. If he had to, if it came to that, if they went after Olivia, then David wouldn’t hesitate. But it hadn’t come to that yet. There needed to be a way to do it without anyone getting hurt.
     
    There was also the very simple fact that Rick was smart. He was a planner; this entire time he had been working behind the scenes to replace the Reapers. To move the gang out of his way so he could create an empire with one man on top. He had done all of this with none of the members, not even Mike, aware of it. In fact, at this exact moment, Mike trusted Rick more than David. So even if David were to grab him off the street and take him somewhere, Rick no doubt had a contingency plan. He wasn’t the type of man who sat waiting for things to happen. Rick planned things, and he planned them well. 
     
    David could have Olivia arrest him, but the cops would want to know how she had figured it out. She would have to tell them that she had worked with David and had taken a lot of liberties with the precinct's technology. They had discovered Rick’s plot in an after-hours investigation; they had trespassed and spied on people. What they had discovered hadn’t been found within the confines of the law, and the law might not back them up if push came to shove. Then, there was the entirely novel concept of a cop and biker working together. Neither the cops nor the members of God’s Reapers would be willing to look past that.
     
    They could take a page from Rick’s handbook and send the cops to raid the basement where the drugs were being processed. It was the best plan they had, but in the end, they would lose Rick. They would have to time the raid for Rick to be there and be arrested, but so far Rick hadn’t taken one step into store or the basement. If Rick wasn’t there when the raid happened, then he would just get away again.
     
    David needed the Reapers on his side. He needed to convince the last few members of Rick’s guilt. It would be hard. None of them were ready to see their brother as a traitor; it was one thing to see David as the incompetent guy who had messed up and set the cops on them. But it was a totally different story to know that someone was actively betraying them.
     
    Night was falling. He still hadn’t called Olivia. He didn’t want to disappoint her. He didn’t want to have to call her and tell her that Mike hadn’t believed him; that the leader of God’s Reapers had chosen a rat over a true brother. He didn’t want to disappoint her. He would have to tell her that their long nights of spying were far from over. But he had seen how tired she had been the other night. He couldn’t keep asking her to spend all day in the squad car and then all night tracking down Rick with him. It was too much; she would break under the strain.
     
    Once out of the shower, he dressed, putting on his jeans, a t-shirt, and shoes, and he sat down at his kitchen table, phone in hand. He needed to dial the phone. He had her number memorized, not stored. He was still worried that a member of the Reapers would see them together and think that the two of them were colluding to do the Reapers in. He didn’t want anyone getting hold of