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Dexter
Five years later
As intrusions go,this one is most surprising and as I look up, my heart starts racing when I see the anger in a certain man’s eyes as he says tersely, “Cut the call.”
I don’t even question the request because I haven’t got a death wish and as I do as he says, he lowers his body into the seat opposite my desk. I’m not even surprised that Helen doesn’t run in after him because everyone knows to keep their distance from this man.
Ryder King, military badass and one of the most violent, deadly men, I think I have ever met and right now he looks as if he wants me dead.
“Dexter.”
He seems angry which is not a good thing – for me and I try not to let the nerves show as I face him.
“What the fuck is going on?”
“I have the same question for you?”
“Regarding...”
He slides a printed sheet of paper toward me and as I look at the image in surprise, the headline tells me I’m fucked and as I read the words, I know exactly why he came.
“What’s this?”
“Tomorrow’s headlines, apparently.”
“Since when? I didn’t authorize this.”
“Then maybe you can explain why it’s ready to go?”
“I can’t.”
I lean back in my chair and tap my fingers on the desk angrily. How the fuck is this happening? Who thinks they can get away with pissing in my factory and not being caught?
I peer a little closer and see an unfamiliar name credited to the story. Holly Bryant.
I tap the name into my computer and it pulls up the details of a journalist who works in the rag I call The Globe. Their offices are in the basement of this building and I say tersely, “The reporter works here so it should be easy enough to find out how she bypassed the usual channels. I’m pretty confident we can trace this one back but what would anyone gain from this, it’s just gossip?”
“Outlined in fact. Wake up, Dexter, news has been leaking from your operation for months now, and are you seriously telling me you know nothing about it because I’m not a fool?”
“I know.”
I swallow hard because Ryder King is the opposite of that and I groan. “I know I surround myself with vermin most of the day? Hell, I’m the biggest one of all but my company has procedures and if they go against them, I show them the door. This woman will soon discover that first-hand if she is trying to make a name for herself at the expense of mine.”
“Or she could be working for someone else. Someone who wants to bring our organization down and stands to gain a lot from it.”
He is staring at me as if I’m some sort of Bond villain and I say angrily, “Stop thinking I have anything to do with that and if you seriously doubt my loyalty to this club, then we have a major problem.”
I glare at him and he nods. “Understood.”
“Then who is it?”
“That’s what we need to find out.”
Ryder looks thoughtful which is always a good thing for us and never a good thing for the person in his sight and he sighs heavily.
“The facts are revealing a picture that spells trouble for us all. The other Kings have been set up and are fighting for survival. All our secrets are compromised and being used against us.”
He shakes his head and fixes me with a hard look. “Whoever is doing this knows more than we are comfortable with, so I need you to crack down on this hard and find out who is feeding information to your reporters and allowing them to bypass your system.”
