Mad Dog (Angel’s Rebellion MC: #2) (Angel's Rebellion MC), стр. 99
“He made us a deal and at the time, I thought it was the answer to a poor man's prayer. If we each married one of his daughters, he'd sign the law firm over to us in ten years’ time, but his one absolute requirement was that if we didn't remain married to his daughters that we would lose our share of the firm. We were to keep all his clients and he would stay on with the firm until the clients were assured that we would do a good job for them.”
He swallowed hard.
“Bob, would you care for a drink? Beer? Whiskey? Name your poison,” I stated.
“A whiskey neat would hit the spot, and thank you,” he replied.
I nodded to Blood, he opened the door and stepped out.
“So we all married a sister. Unfortunately, what none of us knew was that they were the biggest shrews in Arkansas. And, Alice, the bitch I ended up with, was cold.”
I raised a brow at him.
“She hated sex, wouldn't let me touch her. Said if I did, she'd inform her father that I was being abusive to her.” He sighed, “I'd hoped that I would at least have a companion who would give me children, but she made it very clear the night we married that I would never touch her in a sexual way.”
Blood stepped back into the room with a whiskey for our friend and a beer for Viper and me. After taking a sip, Bob continued, “Until I was forty, I managed to find random companions for sex. On my fortieth birthday, the staff threw me a surprise birthday party and I met Joanie. She was a junior secretary for Joseph.
“We started seeing each other. We fell in love. I was upfront with her about everything. I wish now that I had just walked away from the firm, but I was at the height of my career and trying to start over at my age would have been hard, especially when I knew Anson and Joseph would do everything in their power to stop me.”
He took another sip of his drink.
“After Joanie and I had been together for almost a year, I found out they were buying and selling drugs and confronted them. They threatened to have Alice divorce me if I said anything. I know you're wondering how they could force Alice to do this, but whatever her middle sister told her to do, she did. And Jane is as ruthless a bitch as you'll ever meet.”
We watched as what appeared to be a decent man lay his life out before us. One more family that the bastards Miller and Courtway had touched.
“Joanie quit the firm and moved to Springdale. I thought they would think we were no longer together. I made sure that no one followed me to visit her, well, I thought I did. Joanie became pregnant after we had been together a year and we had a son. Then she became pregnant again the following year and we had a daughter.
“By the time, our daughter was two, I decided it wasn't worth staying with the firm. I decided I would start over somewhere else and informed Anson and Joseph of this. I told them I wouldn’t say anything about the drugs, but they didn’t believe me. They did what you just did and showed me pictures of my family and told me if I ever left the firm or Alice that they would kill Joanie and my children.”
He threw back the rest of his drink then wiped away the tears that ran down his face as he had told us what they had threatened.
“I'll do anything I can to protect my family. By the pictures, you know we have more children, we have two boys and three girls. Our oldest son is twenty-seven and our youngest daughter is fifteen and she has Down syndrome as you saw.
“I'm sixty-eight as I'm sure you have learned, Joanie is forty-seven and will be able to keep Allison with her for a long while, but I would do anything I could before I die to make sure they were never harmed by either Anson, Jr. or Joseph.”
“What happened to Anson, Sr.” Viper asked him.
“Died of a heart attack about ten years ago. His son was in the firm already and Joseph and Jane insisted he take over his father's partnership. I had no say in the matter at all. All I can do now is work and provide for my family. I can't afford to rock the boat.”
“What do you know about their drug trade?”
He grimaced, “Nothing other than I know they do it. As I said, I learned that years ago.”
“Do you know any of the others they deal with?”
“No, I don't. I didn't even know that Anson, Jr. was involved until you said what you did. But it doesn't surprise me in the least.”
Viper and I looked at each other. Fuck, this was going to end up a bust.
Bob cleared his throat and asked, “You said you could help me. What did you mean?”
I studied the good lawyer for a minute. He looked like a man desperate enough to do what he could do to protect his family. I looked at Viper and he nodded at me.
“Bob, I plan to kill Miller for what he did, just like I did Courtway's son.”
He blinked. “I thought that was an accident,” he uttered.
“Let's just say I accidentally killed him because he crashed into my wife's car and killed her and my unborn daughter,” I growled out.
“Good God. You have to want both of them dead as much as I do. What can I do to help you out? If it's in my power, I'll do what I can.”
Viper spoke up, “We were hoping you would have more information than you do, however, there are a couple things you can do for us.