One Magical Winter

Chapter 27

           Adam and Austin were standing outside when Tim pulled up into the parking lot.

        "So, what's the plan?" He asked, getting out of the car.

        "Get them into the alley, pound on them, tell them that if the don't give us the information on Stephen that we need, we will give that footage to the cops. Then we will tell them to leave town."

        "Ok, that works for me. Here, I brought you a clean shirt and your jacket." Adam sat in the car to change his shirt then put the jacket on. They walked the one block it took to get to the bar. It was pretty sleepy and filthy. Adam scanned the room and spotted the two guys sitting at a table. He elbowed Tim and nodded in their direction. The small group headed to the table. Adam could tell that they had probably been there since the bar opened for the day, considering how drunk they already were. "Mind if we sit down?" Tim didn't wait for an answer. He and Adam sat in the other two chairs while Austin and Chance pulled up two more chairs, sitting backwards on them behind the two guys.

         The one called Drake spoke up. "Do we know you?" They hadn't recognized Adam because of the haircut.

           "We want to talk to you about about a woman," Austin had said from behind them.

          "We know a lot of women," the other one smirked. His name was Josh.

         "This one is short, with blonde hair, very pretty."

          "Hmm. Sounds like the bitch that runs the hotel," Drake said.

         "Oh, yeah, her. Cassie. I was so close to having her last night. At least I got a little touching in. She sure has a body that will rock your world. Or used to, anyway."

           "What do you mean by that?" Chance had asked. Adam looked ready to pounce but Chance shook his head and mouthed not yet.

           "Well, our boss cut her breast, so now she won't be much to look at. That's ok with me because that isn't the part I want. If she is alive, I may have to find her and finish what I was trying to start." Neither one had noticed that Austin was recording this conversation. "Man, to be deep inside that would be something. Even if she is old. I can always cover the upper part of her body." And with that last remark, Adam and Tim stood up and picked up the two men, since they were a bit shorter and took them out to the alley.

         "Nothing to see here, folks," Austin said as he and Chance followed. Adam and Tim were standing on the other side of the dumpster where they couldn't be seen by people walking by. Now that the lighting was much better out side, Drake and Josh recognized them. Fear crossed their features when they got a good look at Adam's face. Josh went to make some snide remark, only to have Adam knock him to the ground, swinging his fists. When Drake tried to intervene, Tim threw him against a wall. 

         "Adam, let him up before you kill him," Chance had said.

        "Thank you. Keep that lunatic away from me," Josh had said.

        Chance threw him against the wall. "Don't be thanking me, boy. We are here for retribution. Cassie is his woman. You are going to tell us where to find Stephen."

         "And if we don't?" Drake asked. Austin walked up to the punk with two different phones.

          "See these phones? One has video footage of what happened last night in the office. All three of you are the main stars. This one is of the conversation we just had inside the bar. After you give us the information we need, you will leave town, never to be heard from again, or these will be on the 6:00 news tonight."