Chapter 47
From within the shadows he studied the family. There appeared to be three men and one woman. 'Make sure you know which is the girlfriend. I want her.' His boss had said before he left. He assumed that the girl sitting at the table was the girlfriend. He had been told to befriend them or somehow get close enough to know everything about them. He didn't know what the plan was or why he was hired to get close to these people. He knew about the package that had been send to them, but didn't know what it contained. Now he stood there like every other night watching what this family did.
He had followed them to some illegal street racing where what appeared to be the man that runs the family won. Then he had followed him to a building that looked like a garage. He wondered what these people had done to anger the boss so much. He watched them as they laughed and enjoyed the cool night. He had yet to create a plan to get close to them. He walked back to his car, which was a block away. Another end to another day.
Lance looked over at Coney feeling sorry for the young girl. Then it hit him he was feeling sorry for her. 'Great time to grow a conscience Lance' he thought to himself as he looked at the young girl sitting in a corner gagged with blood coming out of her cuts. He walked over to her squatting down next to her. She looked at him with fear and tears began to pour out of her eyes. He lifted his hand to her face making her flinch in fear. "Shh…it's ok. I'm not going to hurt you, I just want to dry up the tears and clean your face up." he soothed her. "Will you let me clean your face?" he asked her. She eyed him carefully then nodded. He took a small rag drowning it in water and squeezing it out. He slowly and carefully began to wipe off the dried blood and cleaned up her cuts. She watched him with wide eyes wondering why he was being nice to her. Once he finished he left to get a bottle of water, he returned and looked at her. "I'll give you water if you promise not to scream when I take the rag out of your mouth." she looked at him then decided that she was thirsty and would comply with his demand, she nodded. He carefully took of the rag and opened the bottle giving her a drink.
"So you're Letty's sister? You look nothing like her." he questioned her. "She's my step-sister." She took another drink of water, it felt refreshing and cool against her dry and scratchy throat. "Why do you do this?" she asked him cautiously, she didn't want him to get mad at her. "I don't know." he looked at her for a moment. "I guess I let other people tell me what to do. Actually you're the first I've actually regretted doing this to. Are you done?" "Yeah." she watched as he grabbed the rag and gagged her again.
"Yo Lance!" Johnny called as he walked into the room. "Yeah?" Lace got up and walked over to Johnny. Johnny eyed him then looked over at the girl. "My dad is calling us." "Ok, I'll be there in a moment." Johnny nodded and walked away. Lance turned to take on last look at Coney then walked away locking the door so no one could get in.