Page 5 of Ironman
Chapter Three
The front doors ofthe compound opened as Titus, Boomer and Bouncer came out.
Lily stopped to meet Bouncer’s gaze and raised her chin as if she wasn’t afraid or ashamed.“I’m told my father is dead.Is that true?”
Bouncer nodded.“Yeah your father, your uncle and one of your cousins are all dead.We have four cousins waiting for pick up by the sheriff.”
Lily nodded.“Then this is over.”
“No lady, this ain’t over.”Titus growled.“We’re just getting started in taking down your family.”
Lily nodded.“I understand that more than you realize.It has to happen.This family has it coming.I knew that the moment Ricco blew up that bar.If he tried to convince you that he didn’t know Gabreil was inside that damn bar, he would have been lying the whole time.He knew Gabriel was there, the same way he knew Todd Lawler was sleeping with his wife, Stella.He’s been planning to kill Todd for months now, the only one that didn’t know that was Todd himself.He thought he was smarter than Ricco.”
Titus nodded.“We saw that in the way he shot Todd full of holes.”Then he looked at Todd’s other sons.“You guys knew it too didn’t you?You never even flinched when your dad got shot, did you?No, you bailed before the shooting stopped.”
Lily scoffed.“They bailed long before then, senor.”
Titus snapped his gaze back at Lily.“How do you know that?”
Lily turned to glare at Bredan and Lorance.“Because I was there when they met with my father about deflecting.They told my father what Todd was doing, three weeks ago.Then they swore loyalty to him, not Ricco, my father.”
Bouncer glanced at Boomer then turned his head to look at Titus.
Titus glared at Lily and had to ask, “Why are you telling us all of this?”
Lily shrugged.“Because you need to know what’s really going on here.I may have walked away when the shooting started but those two...”She motioned her head at the Lawler brothers.“They were going to double cross my father.They were never going to join him.No, they came here to get their other brother to hand over the trust fund his mother left for him, then they were going to try and step into their father’s shoes back home.”
“And how do you know that?”Ironman asked with a frown.
Lily shrugged.“I put up a camera in their room and I heard them talking to each other about this plan.”
Bredan growled and tried to push forward.“You stupid bitch, you taped us?In the privacy of our room?That’s illegal.
Ridge held him back.
Lily turned her head and sneered.“Sue me, you little pig.I had to know why you were so willing to trade camps.”
