chapter 159

word count: 1374

as gil and frank tried to make head or tails out of the incidents surrounding what had taken place in the parking lot of the recovery room,, a letterbox size opening in the wall that separated them from the cab of the cargo van slid open,, allowing whoever was in in the cab to peer ominously into the rear of the van, yet remain indistinguishable to the two of them.. no sooner did it slide open,, it was just as quickly slammed shut.. 

“we got us a bit of a problem rudy,,” remarked the thug that was riding shotgun to the driver once he was sure the slider was securely closed and their privacy was secured in the sound proofed cab. “the two of ‘em,, their commin’ around..”

“eh, no biggie, ray“ replied the driver as he reached under his seat and flipped a hidden switch.. “that oughta take care of it.. the two of them ought to sleepin’ like a couple a babies in no time.. and don’t be opening that slider,, ya dimbulb,, or you’ll knock us all out..”

“got ‘cha.” responded ray,, disinterestedly.. “what da ya say we should pick up a sammich or somethin’ while we are waiting to hear back from boa.. i’m starvin’..”

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meanwhile,, in the private office of mr. big located just off the noisy kitchen at silk, the big guy was busy giving boa the adulterated version of the situation surrounding the whereabouts of the precious gem.. he had already caught wind of her personal involvement in this little caper, as it were,, and was waiting for her to come off with the goods.. if she failed to do so,, although it would sadden him greatly,,  seeing as how she had proven herself to be much to valuable a commodity to have around,, if he had to eliminate her over a fricking chunk of pressure treated coal,,  so be it.. after all,, business was business..

“ok, “ boa  spoke up after mr. big had said his piece.. “let me make sure i have this straight.  as far as we know,, the last know whereabouts of the kids that shook the salami and his sidekick was new albany memorial hospital.. you had frank the skank on surveillance detail over there, until he was called away by british intel,, and at your suggestion that he maintain his cover with them,, he accepted their spur of the moment assignment,, thereby being taken into their confidence and was made privy to the  possible whereabouts of the stone.. seems they sent him over to subdue some nurse they had in their sights, and do a thorough rip through of her place, which unfortunately  came up empty..”

the big man remained silent as he nodded and with a circular motion of his hand encouraged boa to continue. he was generously reeling out the line,, hoping she would have the common sense to pull herself in,, but on the ready to hang her with it if the situation presented itself. 

“ so,, the team that followed up the skanks run through of the nurses apartment,  extracted any pertinent intel from the nurse, once she came too,, and then proceeded to clean up that little loose end.. fortunately,, before her untimely demise they were  able to extract from her the name of the last known possessor of the gem, which just happened to be, the one and only doctor kevin collins,, chief of surgery, at new albany memorial, who, as you well know,,  just so happens to be a personal friend of mine.. and as fate would have it, he had contacted me soliciting my help and advising me that a cleaner may be in order,, which is what brought myself and my posse to the parking lot of the recovery room in the first place..”

“go on my dear..” admonished mr. big,, quite pleased that she had thus far come off with the lead in to the information he was resolute in extracting.. 

“i believe it will please you to know,, that i have already received confirmation that the good doctor has been gathered up,, and is awaiting my presence in a secure location..”

“always one step ahead..” a pleased mr. big congratulated her on her foresight.. “i rest assured i can count on you to follow up on this in a timely manner and report back to me as soon as the location of the object in question has been secured..”

with that,, he motioned for her to stand up,, kissed her elegantly outstretched hand,, and dismissed her without so much as another word..  she had no sooner stepped out of his office when he motioned for leonardo, his top enforcer to step out from the cleverly disguised emergency escape door behind which he had been standing at the ready in the event boa was not forthcoming with the information mr. big came into this meeting expecting her to disclose.. 

“don’t let her out of your sight.” he commanded, as leonardo jumped at his command and exited thru the hidden passageway that would lead him directly to the rear entrance of the club undetected. once there,, he pulled his care around front,, took a parking space where he had an excellent view of the vip entrance,, and waited for boa’s car to pull around and pick her up. 

checking the time on her cell,, and realizing she had some time to kill,, boa stepped up to the bar in the vip room and ordered up a celebratory glass of their most expensive champagne..  all had gone incredibly well with mr big. she had not only lived up to,, but seemingly exceeded his expectations and felt secure in the fact that he would only be further pleased with her once she was able to get her hooks into kevin and secure the whereabouts of the diamond.  she took her flute of champagne and retired to one of the soundproof private dance rooms,, as she had a number of calls to place before her driver returned for her.. 

the first call she placed was to rudy, the van driver.. she had to make sure that frank the skank had been delivered to the appointed meeting place,, and they were successfully keeping that pesky detective that had most unfortunately been in the wrong place at the wrong time, adequately sedated until she figured out what to do with him.. 

“go!” rudy barked into the phone in lieu of a proper greeting. 

“update.” boa retorted knowing no introduction was necessary.. 

“we dropped the skank off at the loft.. had to let loose the la la juice on him and the dick as they started to roust before we had reached our destination,, so he’s still sobering up.”

“and the dick?” boa inquired.

“still out of it.. gave him another shot when we dropped the skank off, so he should be under the weather for quite some time..”

“excellent. stand by for further instructions.” boa disconnected the call before the driver even had time respond.

next she placed a call to her driver. “update!” she once again barked into the phone.. 

“the sweet breads have been successfully delivered into the hands of the butcher. they are currently being packaged for shipping..” the driver snickered into the phone,, finding humor in the fact that he had cleverly referred to that hot little brunette number they had offed in the rear seat of the escalade as ‘sweat breads’..

“just get to the fucking point!!” boa, not at all amused, was quickly losing patience.. 

“yeah, yeah,” the driver sputtered,, “just finishin’ up the cleanup.. outta be there in i’d say about twenty minutes.”

“make sure you are.” boa concluded the call abruptly,, and returned her attentions to her glass of champagne.

the only loose end at this point in time was kevin.. and she knew he would pose no problem.. after all,, it was he who had originally requested her help in this matter.. as it stood he had no way of knowing that she was any he wiser as to the existence of the diamond,, and she fully intended to keep it that way.. she would allow him to inform her,, to take her into his confidence,, and she had no doubt he would.. as she had seen to it,, that he had nowhere else to turn..