Mick extracted tribute in an unusually aggressive way. One that had sent off alarms among his men.
And he quickly fled the settlement, hitting up the next target on his list of pickups for the day. The entire time none of them knew that their helmets had been tampered with.
But halfway through they stopped for a lunch break.
This was precisely when his men noticed something was wrong. Normally they would stop in the snow, settle down on their bikes and enjoy as share of the spoils they were bringing back to the foundry.
After all, what Aidan, Jack and the others didn't know didn't hurt them right? But for the first time since they began controlling this territory, Mick didn't set out for lunch, he demanded the local residents set up a table for him and his men and prepare a meal for them.
That had caused Mick's second in command to bring up the subject that he and the others were wondering.
"Everything okay boss? You seem a little… agitated."
