“OK, well.” Ice paused. “Starting with the good thoughts: in terms of all the s**t with Jo’s ex, I’m actually not worried about Crusher Alcott and his Hellions. I’m not even worried that Fielding was actually staying here in Denver with Dawson Kinney and his Blood Crew, and that there’s a connection closer to us through them. Yeah, by now they’ll all have noticed that Fielding is gone, and yeah, they’ll wonder why. For about ten minutes. Then they’ll either figure that he fled the country to get away from the federal investigation into him, or that he’s dead, maybe courtesy of us. Either way, they won’t worry about any of it too much.”
“But blackmail?” Scars asked. “Isn’t this something they could hold over our heads, that Fielding went missing right at the time he was looking to hurt Jo?
