Chapter 39

“By yourself?”

“Yeah.”

“No. You need to stay with the client. If we were going to send you after him, we’d have someone watching your back.”

One-Mile scoffed. “You sent me in with Trees last time. Look how well that worked out.”

“Without a heads-up from him, we wouldn’t have known you’d been captured for days.”

“But how do you know he wasn’t the one who set me up? I won’t say his escape was convenient but…”

Hunter didn’t have a comeback for that, which told One-Mile that possibility had crossed his mind.

“Let me try,” he pressed again.

“It’s too risky.”

“Are you fucking kidding me? Risk is what we do. Once Montilla figures out that Valeria and his son are gone, he might slink back over the border and it will be a shitload harder to reach him. She will never be safe until that fucker is dead or behind bars. We can make that happen. I can take care of him. Just give me a green light.”

“No. You want revenge, and that’s not you