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“It’s always dark out.”
“You don’t like it here, do you?”
I’d liked it plenty until I’d had to kill two people in the open air in a tiny buttfuck nowhere town.
I’d liked it plenty until I’d gotten a call from contacts I didn’t want to deal with, who shoved my face in my past like they were giving me a swirlie.
“It’s okay,” I lied.
She patted my stomach. “We can go back early.”
“No,” I countered. “It’s fine.”
“It’s not if it makes you unhappy.”
I shook my head and reached over to cup her cheek. “You’re too good for me. Do you know that?”
“Wouldn’t say that,” she said sleepily. “We fit nicely together, don’t we? You’re the grouch and I’m cheery. Consider me your bodyguard.”
My lips twitched at her logic. “Why my bodyguard?” If anything, I protected her.
“I’ll save your food from being spat in by servers you’re mean to.” She pressed a kiss to my arm then patted my stomach again. “Bodyguard, see?”
Grinning in the dark, I flopped back on the bed. “I can see the use in having protection like that.”
“Better than a condom, that’s me,” she slurred before she fell back asleep.
I felt her drift off, turning slack at my side. She cuddled up to me before she rolled over. I almost pulled her back, liking the feel of her so close to me, but my phone’s screen flashed on from the nightstand.
Reaching for it, I hissed out a breath and carefully climbed out of bed once I saw the message.
Unknown Sender:**This is a secure line**
Jaw clenched, I strode toward the bathroom and tapped the number. A few clicks, and I heard a soft voice greeting me:
“Whistler.”
“Dead To Me,” I said grimly.
“Eagle Eyes,” she continued. “I’ve brought us onto this call to discuss what occurred the other day.”
“What’s to discuss?” Eagle Eyes snarked. “Two fuckers are worm food, and we all got paid for the same hit. Sounds like good business to me.”
I scratched my chin as I plunked my ass on the toilet. Though the others on the line were two of the best sharpshooters on the planet, I knew I’d killed the man. They used different bullets to mine, and I’d seen the aftermath.
Having studied their kills in the past, I got the feeling Eagle Eyes had made the other hit because Dead To Me’s shot had gone a little wide.
And by a little wide, I meant a half-inch.
In our business, that could have been a mile.
“You don’t think it’s weird that there were three snipers on two hits? This isn’tGrosse Point Blank.”
“Shit, I need to watch that movie again. I loved it back in the day,” Eagle Eyes said with a chuckle. “And no, we don’t have a union of snipers. Although that wouldn’t be a bad thing. Would stop us from cluttering up tiny Irish towns in the future, wouldn’t it?”
“My contact told me they were ECD.”
Dead To Me hummed. “Mine did as well.”
