Ain't No Rest For The Wicked
Kendall's P.O.V.
I walked into my office, flicking the light on illuminating everything inside. I smirked at the stacks of papers on my desk and walked to it hastily unzipping my black leather jacker. As I sat down I turned on the monitor for my computer and sat back sighing out. I reached for the top most paper on the stack and yawned looking at the invoice for a new order we were recieving today. I was prepared to sit at my desk for the majority of the day and do mind numbing paperwork. I wanted the numbness to encompass my brain. I didn't want to think about anything especially with anything related to Jessica. Including the crazy mob boss out on the loose. And including the doctors appoitment she had at 4:30 this afternoon. The appoitment that would tell us weather she was pregnant or not. Throwing myself into work would be the only thing that would block all of those thoughts out.
I was barely into my third phone call to confirm an order when Carlos walked into my office. He sat in front of my desk and raised one leg up to his knee bouncing both rapidily. I frowned leaning back in my chair and ended my conversation on the phone. As soon as I hung up he pulled his phone out of his pocket and threw it on my desk. "I just got a call from Robbie. Because you were gone for a while no one really knew what the fuck to do with all this paperwork, and I am 100% guilty of that myself, but Robbie just got a call from one of the new low life assholes we gave a job too. He has been scamming us the past couple weeks, delivering goods, and changing the order to make it look like we gave them too much, when he was just pocketing the left over." I sat up slowly one eyebrow raised and he nodded. "He's been taking booze from us, taking cash from buyers who gave too much...probably fucking the girls running in and out of here too." I shook my head openign the drawer of my desk on the bottom corner and grabbed my gun. As I raised it up, checking the chamber Carlos chuckled standing up pulling a pack of smokes out of his black hoodie. "Like the good ol' days Kendall?"
"Just like the good ol' days Carlos." I grabbed my leather jacket off the back of my chair after slipping my gun into my holder hidden under my shirt on my stomach. As i pulled my arms through the holes of my jacket Carlos's sister Melissa, came walking out of her brothers office holding out one of the office phones.
"Phone call Los. It's Roberto." He sighed out irritated but took the phone from her walking inot his office making me sigh out. I watched Melissa check her phone in her pocket and frown slipping it back in as she made her way into our tiny but reasoniable kitchen. I followed shoving my hands into my pockets of my jacket and cleared my throat.
"How's Logan doing? Carlos told me about the bodies they've found."
"If you're trying to get information on your girlfriends case don't bother. I didn't ask him details cause I don't want to know." I pulled myself up onto the counter by the coffee pot where she was making herself a cup never looking up at me.
"First off...what's with the attitude?" She snapped her head to me and I stuck my tounge out at her making her roll her eyes away from me, but smirk. "Second...didn't even know it was her case. I was simply wondering how Logan was doing." She sighed out and set the spoon down next to her mug turning to look up at me. She bit at her bottom lip and swallowed hard moving closer to me.
"Logan hasn't been sleeping. He has been talking to himself in his office. Most of the time I just go home because he forgets i'm there. Something is eating him up inside. I don't know what but it's tourturing him. It started when they found the first body." I wrapped an arm around her shoulders pulling her into me in a very big brother sort of way. She shoved her body into mine at an awkward angle, but neither of us complained. "I can't talk to Carlos about any of it either because just like every other guy I've dated, Carlos hates him."
"Carlos doesn't hate Logan. Carlos hates your past and the guys in it." She pushed off me eyebrows furrowed and I shook my head brushing hair out of her face. "How many assholes have you been with? How many guys has Carlos nearly beaten to death because of what they've done to you?"
"Logan's not like that. He really cares about me."
"And that's great sweetheart. I think Logan is a great guy for you. But Carlos has been there through every douchbag. He is putting up a gaurd. As much as he'll deny it, he's a giant softie and only want's the best for you." She shook her head and looked down shrugging. "What has he been talking to himself about?" She gave me a confused look as I slid off the counter hearing Carlos's voice come closer to us. "Logan. You said he's talking to himself." She laughed as we pulled away from each other and grabbed her coffee cup.
"At first I was worried. He kept saying Jessica's name." I felt my stomach do a billion flips just as Carlos walked in. "And because of my jealous nature I listened a little more careful." Carlos stopped next to me and Melissa smiled. "He was saying 'they look like Jessica', almost as if he was in a trance. It was like he was trying to peice something together out of nothing." She shrugged it off giving her brother a kiss to the cheek and walking out of the kitchen leaving me completly confused.
I got in Carlos's car watching him order a car to follow us, never leaving our sights. When he finally got in the driver seat he turned the heat on full blast making my frozen face start to defrost. I watched him as he put on his seatbelt and typed an address into the GPS on his dash. When he finally had everything in order he looked in his rearview mirror and laughed. "What's on your mind kid?"
"What did Roberto want? He usually only calls when it's something bad." Carlos nodded to me pulling out of our driveway in front of our huge office.
"They have been keeping a track on Don. Ever since we found out he was in Mexico with you and Jess...staying at the same hotel as you guys we've been watching him." Carlos relaxed a bit in his seat and rolled down his window as he lit a cigarette. He offered one to me and I gladly took it letting him light it for me. "Well when I first heard he was there I wanted Roberto to take him out for us. But the amount of secruity this guy has on him is fucking stupid. At least two guys with him at all times." I nodded knowing all this information since Carlos told me all of it this morning. "So I asked him to just watch him. Tell me if he leaves. Tell me when he makes a new business deal. That sort of shit." I nodded again as he pressed on the gas going through a green light. "Don got himself a plane ticket back home to us in Minneapolis." I felt my throat swell thinking about it and looked away from him inhaling sweet smoke from my cigarette. "Now normally, I wouldn't even consider doing what I'm about to do because of who I am and what i've been doing almost my whole life. But..." I watched as Carlos turned down a street I had never been down and sat up a little seeing red and blue flashing lights about 100 yards in front of us. I snapped my head to him quick and watched him shake his head. "I know you don't want Jessica to know all this yet but I think you need to give her the benefit of the doubt. She's a cop man. I think we need to let them deal with it. Let Logan and Jess and James take him down." He turned his head to me as he pulled up on a curb and shut the car down quick. "I asked Logan if we could meet him here. You might want to put your gun in the glove compartment." Before I could even ask questions, or yell at him for lying to me, he was out of the car pulling his hood up on his head.
I got out of his car anger oozing out of every pore, slamming the door hard. I let my cigarette hang from my lips as I looked behind the car, noticing the two guys he told to follow us were no longer with us. They probably got to kill the son of a bitch whoes been stealing from us while I have to face Jessica and tell her the mad man who kidnapped and almost killed her was coming back into town. I hated Carlos for the whole thing and glared at the back of his head walking towards him. He was standing by a line of police tape talking to a uniformed officer. They were both smiling. I exhaled the smoke quickly flicking the ashes off my cigarette as I got next to him. The officer gave me a slight nod of the head but I ignored him. Just as I was taking another puff from my cigarette Logan got out of a little sports car putting his phone in the pocket of his long black coat. When he got to us, he excused the uniformed officer and walked underneath the police tape shaking hands with Carlos. "I have to admit Carlos...i'm a little shocked you're filling me in on your information." Carlos laughed but shrugged turning to me. Logan looked at me and frowned. He glanced over his shoulder and I followed his gaze. Standing under a huge oak tree looking down at the ground, writing something in a small notebook was the love of my life. "She's not gonna like hearing any of this. But she needs to know. Just incase he tries something."
"He won't have the chance if I get to him first."
"Kendall..." I looked away from Jessica who was now squatting down, James right next to her, looking at the body on the ground. "He's on his way back here. He got his own private plane and all. He is constantly being protected. I have a lot of faith in my abilities but..."
"Not the arsenal." I saw both turn to me as I flicked the cigarette out of my hand and sighed out shoving my hands into my jean pockets. "She's real fragile rigth now. She keeps having nightmares about the sick fuck and she won't like hearing this." I saw Logan open his mouth but I beat him to the punch. "But she's a cop. And I know she is more than capable of taking care of herself. And the fact that James is her partner doesn't hurt." Logan sighed out and smiled small turning slightly to look over his shoulder.
"Benson. Diamond." When I saw both of them stand and turn, my heart skipped a beat. The wind blew hard, making her hair only pined back by a black claw clip, whip around her face. I saw her smile as she started walking towards us, James right behind her. Jessica looked down at her notepad, flipping it closed, which scent her pen flying. I couldn't hear them but he said something making both of them laugh and she bent donw picking the pen up. What really seemed to make a bomb go off in my head was as soon as she was bent over in front of him, he stopped walking and let his eyes wander down. I know because I watched her dress herself, that her ass looked exceptional in her black slim dress pants. That didn't make it okay for James to stare at her like she was a peice of meat hanging in a butcher shop. "The corener wants to take the body in before the rain destroyes anything." James and Jessica walked out from under the police tape and stood next to all of us nodding.
"I think we got eveyrthing we need. He can take her in." Logan nodded to James while Jessica walked right up to me. One of her hands rested on my chest, right over my heart as she got on tip toes and kissed my lips softly. She pulled away quick but kept her hand on me.
"What brings you two here?" I smirked tucking her hair back behind her ear as Carlos cleared his throat.
"We know where Don is." Her head snapped quick to Carlos but I was just as quick. I put one hand behind her, resting it genetly on her lower back, right above her butt. My other hand held her neck softly as I pressed my lips into her temple. "We also know he was in Mexico when Kendall and Jessica were. He was right there with them. No one knew at all." I felt her start to push at me but I just held her closer and tighter to me. "Usually I don't go to cops but the stakes are a little higher. Were gonna give you guys all the information we have, and let you deal with him. I'll still have my guys track him even while he's here but you'll have a better chance at getting him than us." This time Jessica used more strength than I was prepared for and shoved me off her.
"Is that what you two were talking about this morning?" All eyes fell on me as she shook her head clenching her fists down at her sides. "How many secerets are you going to keep from me Kendall? When are you going to start being honest with me?" I tried to walk to her, to hold her but she turned quick, to face Logan. "Anything you hear, i want to hear. I don't care if it's not my case. You will tell me everything." Logan opened his mouth but she was already gone, under the police tape walking back to her crime scene. We all watched her walk to a black pickup truck, James's, and get in slamming the door shut behind her. James whisteled low and it seemed to piss me off and remind me he was staring at her ass. It also reminded me he gets to spend everyday with her. Working close with her. Telling her jokes to make her give her beautiful little laugh. I clenched my jaw hard.
"Well we have some work to do. Let us know if you need anything captain, about Don. And we'll keep you updated on the case." James patted Logan's shoulder and gave Carlos and I a big toothy grin. I glared at him the whole way he walked to his truck and got in. I turned quick and started to walk away fast.
"Kendall she's going to eventually get over it. Just be patient." I rolled my eyes hearing Logan's plea at the same time I heard Carlos say hello. I glanced over to him as we stopped by his car and he gave me a worried look with his phone pressed to his ear. It wasn't until he said, we'll be rigth there, and hung up I gave just as a worried look. He looked panicked which panicked me.
"What's wrong?" He shook his head and leaned forward on his car looking at Logan who approached us slowly from the front of the car. "Los?"
"Melissa just called...she said there is a women there looking for you." I frowned and shrugged making him shake his head at me. "She said her name is Natalie Benson." I froze, with my hand on my door handle just as he spoke to clarify. "It's Jessica's mom."