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Little Toy Bikers and a Woman on the Run
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Chapter 350 Bait and Switch
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It was about time he got a lead. He was just surprised it came from the dumb as a box of rocks deputy police chief David Hale. These small town police departments were a joke. It was no wonder the Sons ran this town. Someone had to do it.
He parked up his current rental car, a silver Nissan in the visitors' parking lot and headed into the police department.
"I'm Josh Kohn. I have an appointment with deputy police chief Hale," he told the woman at the counter.
"Just a moment."
"Glad you were able to make it," Hale said opening the door that led to the detective section of the police department. He escorted him back to a conference room.
"You said you had a lead on the Sons," Josh said. He didn't want to waste a lot of time. He wanted the information and then he was going to run this lead down until he had what he needed to take down the Sons and Jax Teller.
He had barely had time to sit down before a blonde woman poked her head into the room.
"Mind if I join?" she asked. "I'm June Stahl. Senior ATF agent in charge of this area."
That son of a bitch David Hale had tricked him into this. He had been trying to get him to meet June Stahl and he'd gotten out of every meeting. Damn that stupid hick!
"This is a classified secret investigation."
June walked into the room and took a seat across from him and next to Hale.
"You know who else doesn't know about this classified secret investigation?" June purred. "Your boss," she said with a big grin.
That woman was such a bitch. She acted liked she'd slammed some kind of trap closed on him. He had a surprise for her. She would never trap him. He was too smart for her.
"He hasn't been read in on it," Josh said.
"OK," she said shrugging off his comment. "How are you doing on it? Got anything on the Sons?"
"You haven't been read in on it either."
"You know what Joshy?" June asked patting his hand. "You haven't been read in on it because there is no such investigation."
"There are things that happen at ATF that you don't know about," he said calmly, bluffing like crazy.
"I'll tell you what, you're going to lose your career and your freedom," June said. Her face changed. This was the cold, driven, ruthless professional she thought she was. "No one comes into my territory and launches an illegal investigation. No one fucks with me."
"You're corrupt. That's why this is my investigation."
David Hale watched in silence as the two ATF agents held this turf war.
"Enjoy it while you can, baby," June taunted him. "I'm going to get your sorry ass fired. Turns out you've been a naughty boy at work and HR and legal are just reviewing the paperwork. A couple of days and it's all over for you."
"Check your ego bitch. You're not in my chain of command. So is there a lead, Hale?"
"No."
Kohn got to his feet.
"I'm bringing down the Sons and you two can sit and watch and see how it's done."
He left them sitting there, his head held high. There wasn't anything about his posture that showed that he was worried at all. Inside he was consumed with worry. He had to get something on the Sons and he didn't care how he did it.
He drove over to the dog/man's garage apartment and peered in the windows. Not only was the guy not there, it looked like he'd moved. Son of a bitch! How the hell could he take down the Sons? It was the only way he was going to get out of this mess, save his job and get Tara back.