Bluegrass Undercover (Bluegrass Brothers)

boys on the team to the gym in Keeneston to train with an ex-NFL player by the name of Devon Ross. Furthermore, I’m to be in the locker room sparingly and no longer test for S2. In return, I get a championship team and you get to live.”
    He watched as Annie narrowed her eyes as she took in his meaning. “Well, then you have nothing to worry about. As you know, I can take care of myself.” She smiled at him and his body went weak.
    “It’s not just you he threatened. He also threatened my mother and my dog.”
    “He brought your dog into it? Wow. That’s low.” Annie shook her head and thought about it some more. Cade was right . This wasn’t the boss man. The boss usually kept to the shadows. “We think the boss, whom we call the Scientist, is the actual designer of the drug. Did he say anything that would give clues to the boss?”
    “Trevor did say it was only temporarily illegal, that they were going to present it to the FDA,” Cade eagerly put in.
    “That way he can make two fortunes, one now, while they sell the drug illegally and then a second if it becomes approved by the FDA. That’s why I’m thinking the boss is younger, maybe late twenties, early thirties. It takes around fifteen years for a drug to be approved by the FDA, and my guess is he’s young enough to be able to enjoy both potential windfalls.” Annie knew she was mixing her personal views with what the DEA believed, but it felt like Cade would believe in her theories where the DEA didn’t want to speculate. She looked at Cade and saw him nodding his head in agreement.
    “That would make sense. An older person wouldn’t care about FDA approval . They’d just try to corner the street market. That would also make sense why the boss is keeping in the shadows. When they go legit, they’ll need a figurehead with a clean record.”
    “That’s right.” He got it! Annie almost jumped with joy. Her bosses kept telling her it was too much of a leap to narrow the profile down to younger people . Therefore, they had too many suspects to even make a start in the investigation.
    “But, S2 is not legal now, right?”
    “No. S2 is currently being made with an illegal synthetic steroid that was rejected by the FDA because it caused heart failure. We’ve run blood and tissue tests on all the victims over the past six months, and what we’re seeing is a slight change in the synthetic steroid from victim to victim.” Annie was getting excited now. She was talking about her investigation, her hunches, and her own thoughts on the case.
    “What does that mean?” Cade asked. She watched him cross his arms and take a seat in is black leather office chair.
    Annie started to pace in front of the desk. She wanted to lay out her theory so he could understand, since it seemed like no one in the DEA seemed to. It meant a lot to her to have one person, just one, see reason in her theory.
    “See, I think the Scientist has taken the illegal synthetic steroid and is making tiny alterations to it to try to correct the direct link to heart failure. Why reinvent the wheel? The synthetic was perfect, except for the fact that it caused heart failure. So, if he can fix that problem, he’d have a remark able commodity on his hands. I’m betting that the DEA scientists will find a different chemical makeup of the drug from Corey’s locker than from the drugs we took off the dealer in Miami. Somehow, I hope one of the changes will lead me to him. Maybe through a traceable chemical, something. He’ll make a mistake and I will be there to take him down.”
    “Why go through years and years of drug trials under the FDA rules and regulations when you could make a fortune just selling it as is now?”
    “I don’t know. That’s what I’m trying to find out.”
    Cade listened to Annie and felt the cold settle into the pit of his stomach. This guy was selling to kids, his kids, just to make money, and only found these heart problems to be a side effect. He didn’t like it, but he’d have to delay and play ball with Trevor Gaylen for a while. He needed to find the boss and take him out before any more kids were killed, and he would bet the farm on Trevor Gaylen being the key to taking the boss down.
    He pushed off the arms of the office chair and stood in front of Annie. She seemed so small next to him. He just wanted to pull her to his chest and hide her from any danger she may be in because of his deal with Trevor. He stopped himself from reaching for