Austin looked around the table before nodding to John.
“Nina, it’s possible one of the people who helped your parents set up their accounts could be involved in their disappearance and death.”
Right. Because my life was one seriously fucked up spy movie now, and lawyers and bankers plotted to kill CIA officers.
It was all too much. My chest rose and fell too fast to be normal or healthy.
“I need some air,” I said, standing.
Austin and John stood with me. “We’ll walk you out the back. Jay?”
“On your six.”
Austin leaned down and whispered, “That means he’ll follow us and make sure we’re safe.”
How can we not be?I didn’t bother asking; not only would I probably not understand, but I didn’t really want to know what might go wrong.
The cool June breeze brushed my face as I inhaled deeply. Needing something to focus on, I stared at the half moon in the bright evening sky.
“Do you want to walk, or just breathe in the fresh air?” John asked.
“This is fine.” Too afraid of what might be hiding in the shadows, I hadn’t stepped more than two feet from the door.
When I shivered, Austin wrapped an arm around my shoulders.
John and Austin left me alone with my thoughts, despite standing on either side of me.
Only the last thing I needed was to be left alone with the chaos swirling around in my mind.
I’d gone most of my life, twenty-six—twenty-seven—years, without knowing my parent’s names or even my real fucking birthday and in the last few days I’d gained so much information that I thought my head might literally explode.
Or maybe my heart would stop from the shock.
Or maybe the bad guys would kill me before the shock could.
Chapter 44
Austin
Iwatched emotion after emotion cross Nina’s face while we stood in the warm sunlight.
Fear. Anger. Shock. Confusion.
One thing for certain, Nina Novak, née Singer, was overwhelmed.
“I’m ready to go home now,” her small voice cut through the night air.
“Let’s go upstairs and talk about it.” John saved me from having to deliver the bad news.
Nina could leave SSI, but she couldn’t go home.
The mercenaries were getting bolder, and by now they’d realized we’d duped them and still had the Singer’s treasure.
A million dollars was nothing to the two corrupt officers paying several times that to have shadows in Weatherford twenty-four-seven.They never knew the value. But that wouldn’t stop them from killing for it.
Before Nina arrived, we’d decided the best course of action was to hide Nina away safely while we worked to take down Kane and Gable.
Cate was working with an FBI contact to get us a safe house.
