This is Chapter Six of a book. The characters and situations will be more understandable if the previous chapters have been read. Because it is a book, some of the chapters are more exciting than others, and some situations do not complete until the next chapter. I could have run this through my regular publisher and made a couple hundred dollars, but I am posting it instead because many more people read my posts than buy my books.
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Chapter Six
Wyatt Monty
When I got back to the motel, I sat on the bed for several minutes slowly flipping the black entry chip over and over in my hand. This recycled chip, the poor condition of the building, and the unkept look of the staff all added up to a cheap, slipshod business. Wyatt had signed his email as "Little Brother," and that is probably how he was viewed by the others in his family. I was pretty sure that his older brothers would never trust him to hold any of the kidnapped Inner Circle Masters or Mistresses. The original plan had depended on me being able to convince or force Little Brother to get into the Jeep with me-- or at least to go out the back door with me. I hadn't been sure how I was going to manage that, but now I was pretty sure that I was dealing with a weak bully... a very weak bully.
If he had grown up under different circumstances, he might have ended up as a clerk in a government office somewhere-- like a driver's license bureau-- being an ass to the people who came in and using what little power he had to show everyone how important he was. Instead, he grew up under the tutelage of his psychotic brothers and had become a weak bully who ran a run-down strip club and did sadistic things to powerless people, not because he enjoyed them, but because he thought it showed that he was strong.
In some ways, I pitied him. If it had not been for the intense hatred I saw in Juanita's eyes as she asked me to kill him slowly, I might have passed on Little Brother and gone after the bigger brothers and their captives. But her unexpected plea made me more than pretty sure that, even with the mitigating circumstances of his position in the family, Wyatt Monty was still a sadistic son of a bitch who had been a part-- albeit a minor part-- of a plot to kidnap or kill over a dozen people just to capture or kill me. I was still taking him down.
I spent almost an hour getting Boris caught up with everything. They still had no information about the brother in LA, but we were now ready to go against the brother here in Davenport. Once again all I had to do was wait. I should have grabbed some sleep because after this was over I still had about 27 hours of driving just to get out to Los Angeles. And just because Wyatt Monty was a weak-assed punk bully, that didn't mean that something couldn't go horribly wrong. Hell, this could even still be an elaborate trap. There was no guarantee who was going to come out on top tonight.
I double checked... and triple checked... my weapons and equipment. Finally I said, "The hell with it," and lay back on the bed. The alarm in my phone told me that I had, in fact, fallen asleep and it was now one-thirty in the morning. Time to load up the Jeep and go over to
Colonel Boogie's.
I got there a few minutes before two. What little lighting there had been in the parking lot had been turned off. Even the light that lit the sign on the side of the building was dark, but there were a dozen or so cars in the parking lot parked up close to the front door. I rolled slowly past them and went around the end of the building to the other side. The lot on that side, which only went about a third of the way down the building, was in even worse shape than the one on the front side of the building. I swung around and parked facing out almost at the end of the asphalt which lined me up with what had probably been an employee entrance when the building was a repair shop. Now it was-- or probably should be-- a fire escape door. I quickly made sure the equipment was positioned properly and then walked around the building.
As I reached the front door, a large, mean-looking gent standing guard put his hand in the center of my chest, stopping all forward motion. "Why'd you park 'round back?" he asked in a gravelly voice.
"That damn Jeep is too distinctive," I answered, handing him my entry chip. "I didn't want anyone to see it." I was hoping he didn't realize that my putting the Jeep on the back side of the building actually made it visible to anyone driving by on the Interstate.
"Oh," he said, nodding his head slowly. Then he jerked his thumb toward the door and said, "Go on in."
Just inside the door was a small table with a gallon jar on it. A hand-printed sign on the jar said, "Tip jar for the performers. Suggested tip $50.00." The look from the beefy gent standing behind the jar made it clear that the tip was not a suggestion. I had a feeling that the "performers" never saw a dime of these tips. I also wondered if Wyatt knew that his muscle was shaking down the customers on their way in. If he didn't he was an idiot and a terrible businessman. If he did and didn't-- or couldn't-- do anything about it, he was even weaker than I thought.
The interior of the club was mostly in darkness, but there were a series of small camping-style battery-powered lights sitting on some of the tables. "Just follow the lights," the second muscle said gruffly once I dropped a fifty into the jar. I must have been the last expected customer, because the two goons walked slowly behind me, picking up the lights and shutting them off as we went.
I'm not sure why they were doing this since there were no windows on the front of the building. Maybe it was to prevent unwanted visitors once the show began. Or perhaps it was to prevent anyone from easily leaving. In any case, the club was totally dark behind us as we went through a door that opened up into the back half of the building.
The back half of the building was very dimly lit, but even in the dim light it was obvious that this portion hadn't been changed much from when it was used to repair the big rigs. It was also possible to see that the club itself only occupied about one fourth of the building. I could just make out two semi trailers that had apparently been backed in through the doors on the end of the building. I didn't think they were in there for repair. Juanita was right. Someone was transporting people in those trucks and unloading them in the unused portion of this building.
Tonight one end of that unused portion was being used for Wyatt's Friday night show. A couple of spotlights had been bolted to the rafters and adjusted to shine down against the back wall of the building, forming a rudimentary stage area. A wave of relief washed through me as I saw the back door brightly illuminated by the spots. It was a standard commercial fire door with a flat, recessed breaker bar assembly that would open the door from the inside when you pushed on it. No additional locks had been bolted or welded to the door or to the assembly, which meant that if I hit it hard enough, it would pop open. If everything went according to plan, Wyatt and I would be going out that door before the night was through.
There were nine tables just outside the spots which had apparently been set up specifically for whoever was going to attend tonight. Five tables were in the front row, four in the second. Only one table was vacant when the muscle heads and I entered the room so it was pretty obvious where I was supposed to sit even before one of them pointed to it and shoved me in that direction.
I instinctively scanned the crowd looking for any sources of trouble. As expected, six of the other tables were occupied by solitary men who looked like they could be truck drivers. I didn't expect any trouble from them. Truckers tend to mind their own business in places like this and stay out of other people's problems. The two center-front tables, however, were shoved close together with eight college-aged young men crowded around them. There was a cooler of beer on the floor beside the tables and at least two empty cans apiece sitting on the table. I would have to be careful about them. When things went down, one of these alcohol-fortified young bucks might decide to be a hero.