The criminal's alpha

Chapter 3

When we got to Mesa, we stopped at a hotel and Nicki took out a map of Arizona, and we started talking strategies for the attack on the cartel, and the base south of Phoenix. Jack and Johnny thought it would be a good idea to divide and conquer, the three of us take on the cartel and Nicki and Jade start the fight with the Military, making sure not to kill too many, if any, of them while making their ways towards the trucks. Nicki and Jade thought it would be better if we worked as a unit, taking on the cartel, then storming the military base, killing anyone that got in the way of the trucks. I vetoed both ideas, they were both decent plans, but they both had their flaws that were pretty obvious.

"Priests...and tanks." I mentioned, I was tired, and didn't want to spend more time in Mesa than I had to, so I drew a small battle plan. I'd call Alexandria and find out if she was serious about giving us a hand, and see what we could do from there. I stepped outside and told them to relax a bit, before grabbing a beer and walking towards the edge of the hotel railing, pocketing the beer, and climbing up to the roof. I took out my phone and called her, it went straight to voicemail so I left a small message asking if she was serious about the help offer, and cracked open my beer. I took a swig, and a "door" opened beside me and out stepped Jack, closing the door he sat back down and took my beer and chugged it all. I made two more and gave him one, laughing at him as he chugged the second one and crushed the cans. "Peacekeeper" started playing and I picked up my phone to see that it was Alex's number, I slapped Jack and told him to shut up before answering her.

"Hey, it's that one person."

"Why'd you call me?"

"You sound happy to hear from me."

"Tell me why you called me or I'll hang up." I started laughing and asked for a minute and muted the call, laughing my ass off and clutching my stomach because it hurt so much, Jack started drunk laughing because I was laughing, and we both rolled around clutching our stomachs. I took a couple minutes to compose myself before picking the phone back up and unmuting the call.

"I'm sorry, that was just too funny,  I called because I wanted to know if you were serious about helping us out with the cartel." I said trying to stop any laughter from bursting out.

"Of course I was serious, it'd be funny to watch you try to be intimidating." I growled at that, I'm not cute, and I'm very intimidating, I don't need to fake it.

"Meet us at the Costco on Southern and Sossaman, we'll talk there."

"Fine, see ya there puppy." She said and started laughing, I growled and hung up and it took all of my willpower not to crush my phone, Jack started laughing and poked my cheek.

"Stop growling, Puppy!" He said through laughter and I grabbed him by the throat and dropped him off the edge, I didn't want him to see me blushing. I waited a few minutes to recompose myself before I jumped down and threw him over my shoulder and walked back into the hotel room, I couldn't wait to hear what the others would think of this. I threw Jack, who was clutching his stomach laughing, onto the table the map was on, and it broke under his weight, taking a seat on the couch I turned on the tv and started looking for something to watch when I felt two fingers pull my lips into a forced smile.

"Don't growl...Puppy!" Johnny said and everyone started laughing really hard, so I decided to give him a piece of his own medicine.

"Stop moaning like a porn star around Derek, JJ." I said smirking, as I knew he hated when I called him JJ, it was his pet name from Derek and so it was funny to call him it to watch him start blushing and stuttering. Nicki, Jade and Jack all started clutching their stomachs from laughing so hard, and Johnny, who I guess didn't like being mocked, took it one step further against Nicki.