Delirious || Bozari

Chapter Twenty-Seven: Boze

"So you believe that Ericka Bozeman is using Mari Takahashi as a soldier?"

"We have evidence that suggests that she's performing tasks for Bozeman, yes," Agent Bereta replied. "Footage from the jail she broke into along with an unnamed accomplice places her on the scene, and we believe that she helped with the disappearance of Anthony Padilla."

"What happened to Anthony Padilla?" the news reporter asked. He was an attractive young man, with carefully combed black hair and a sharp jawline.

The interview was taking place in the news station, with the desk and greenscreen and teleprompters. Both of the men were wearing pristine black suits, which was a stark contrast to the white wall behind them.

Agent Bereta sighed. "He did something to make Bozeman mad. They have an entire world, people like her, with their own politics and rules. That was uncovered over a year ago. He did something to offset the balance of power, and she killed him for it."

"Padilla's been off the radar ever since the prison break. How do you know that he disappeared?" 

"We had some men in his organization," Bereta explained. "We had a long-term plan to try and take him down from the inside, but Bozeman took care of him for us."

"Why do you think that Takahashi had anything to do with his disappearance?"

"The bodies we found at his estate had arrows in them, a weapon she showed she had a preference for when we arrested her. There is no reason that Bozeman or anyone in her organization would use a bow as a weapon besides her; it isn't effective enough as a weapon to be preferable."

"What do you know so far about her organization?"

"I cannot disclose that. We cannot risk her knowing how much we know about her. It would make her start-"

Boze turned off the bar T.V with a sigh. So much had happened in the past few weeks that she'd completely forgotten about Agent Bereta and the plan she and Pamick had concocted to get rid of him. It seemed like that idea might have to be revisited. If he knew anything about her girls, then she was already swimming in dangerous waters.

Breaking out of a prison here was easy; she knew enough people inside the system to get her chains taken off as soon as they were put on. The only reason she stayed in prison for as long as she had was because she wanted to manipulate Wes. That had been the reason she'd used to justify 'helping' him with Mari. In reality, he hadn't uncovered a ring of corrupt cops that everyone else used to escape. He just thought he did. She'd been well aware of those corrupt cops for a long time; they worked for her, after all. They'd only been waiting for her signal to show themselves to him, giving him a false sense of accomplishment to stop him from seeing how suspicious the situation he found himself in really was.

But if she got busted by the FBI? That was an entirely different story. They'd ship her off to some maximum security prison in the middle of nowhere. There'd be no one to help her there. Breaking out, while she was sure she could do it, would be a bitch.

She needed to get rid of Bereta. Fast. Along with his entire team and everything he had on her. She'd get rid of the entire FBI agency if she needed to. He had no idea what he was dealing with here. Doing T.V interviews, provoking the most dangerous woman in America? What a fool.

Boze rested her head on the counter of the bar, reaching into her pocket and pulling out the tape recorder. She didn't care about the women surrounding her seeing her like this; they knew better than to say anything about it.

She brought the recorder to her ear and pressed play, letting the tape roll, replaying exactly what had happened in that room between Atomic and Courtney.

"It was Wes, Ma-Atomic. he electrocuted you. He gave you those scars."

"No. No, he didn't."