“So what happens if you take that thing off? They come after you and kill you?”
"Yeah, that's what they said" Joanna said about the tracking bracelet that had been locked on her wrist. "They told me someone would always be nearby tracking me, and if they see I took it off, they'll send in someone to get me."
Joanna had gotten herself in some trouble with a mob boss's son, and now they'd found her and she had a few days to find a way to come up with $10,000 or "you're not going to like what we will do to you" was how it was put to her. Her guesses were they'd torture her or ship her off somewhere to do God only knew what to her. Neither was exactly an attractive thought to her. She hadn't wanted to involve Aria, but she needed somebody's help. The bracelet they'd put on her was their way of tracking her to make sure she didn't run off and hide.
"So can you help me out? And not get me in more trouble?"