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Five minutes later, I had an address. Ten minutes later, Santino was sitting behind the wheel of a stolen car, driving me to Argentina.
Chapter20
Everleigh
The next fewdays passed at a snail’s pace. I couldn’t go outside except to the backyard, where I spent a lot of time. Carter was on babysitting duty today. At least he was a little chattier than the others, but he usually stayed busy on his computer. He’d set his office up at the kitchen table as soon as he came in this morning and hadn’t stopped typing since.
I’d been trying to read a book I’d found on one of the shelves in the living room since arriving at the house but couldn’t concentrate. The days dragged on and on. I stopped asking for updates after a while. Gunner assured me they’d let me know if they had any new information.
The noise of the keyboard that had been my soundtrack all day stopped, and Carter jumped up. The sudden movement startled me, and I dropped my book.
“Fuck me. No way.” With long strides, he went to the back door. “Just have to make a call. I’ll be right back.”
More secrets. Great.I’d give this another few days, and then I was out of there. The one thing they did tell me was that there didn’t seem to be anyone coming after me. I longed to be home in my own four walls. To see Thea. To hopefully get back to my job.
I flopped my head back on the couch with a groan and closed my eyes. I wasn’t great at sitting still. The need to do something was overwhelming.
Maybe I’d leave tomorrow. What difference would a couple days make? If I was gone, they wouldn’t have to spare one of their guys to look after me. I was sure they had more important things to do.
Carter came back in, typing on his phone, a crease between his eyes.
“Problems?” I asked.
He looked at me as if he’d forgotten I was there. He probably had. “I think we might have a lock on Lucius. But we can’t get into any of their accounts.”
“Not sure if it’s helpful, but I did their books for a while. I can remember every account number and access code.”
Carter’s mouth dropped open, and he blinked at me. He started to say something, then stopped, blinking at me some more. Eventually, he narrowed his eyes. “And you didn’t think to mention this sooner?”
I shrugged, putting my book down. “You didn’t ask. And if I remember correctly, you guys said you’d handle it and asked me to stay out of the way. So I did.”
“Women,” he grumbled, then put his phone back to his ear. “Me again. I’ll bring Everleigh in. She has all the account numbers and can access them.”
Carter listened to whatever the other person said, then grunted. “How would I know? Nobody, and I mean nobody, will ever understand what’s going on in a woman’s head. Says she’s fine? That could mean eighty-six different things, from ‘I’m sleepy’ to ‘fuck off.’ She says she doesn’t care that you’re still friends with your ex. Next day, she moves all her stuff out.”
The person on the other end cut off his tirade and, after a few more grunts from Carter, they hung up.
He handed me my jacket. “Let’s go.”
“I take it we’re going to the office?”
“Correct. And we could have saved ourselves a lot of work if you’d told us you have the account numbers in the first place. Why didn’t you give them to Gunner with the hard drive and phone?”
I climbed into the high cab of his truck and sank into the seat. “As I said, you didn’t ask.”
Carter nodded. “At least that explains why they didn’t sell you.”
“Lucius wouldn’t have let them.”
He eyed me while he was waiting at a red light. “You sure about that?”
I glared back at him, standing my ground. I hardly ever stood up for myself, but nobody talked shit about Lucius. “I am. He’s the best man I know.”
“You do know why he was in Guyana in the first place, don’t you?”
“It doesn’t matter to me. All that matters are his actions when we were together. Did you know he jumped off a cliff after me and saved my life?”
Carter kept driving. “I didn’t. But that doesn’t change the fact that he’s a traitor. He sold us out.”
