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“They won’t find me.”
“Oh no?” he scoffed. “Shefound you.”
They turned in unison, and suddenly all the attention was back in my direction. Santiago was pointing at me awkwardly.
“I, uh… I just got lucky,” I told them.
“Really lucky,” Santiago laughed. “So lucky she showed up here less than a day afterward. She’s lady luck, this one. In fact—”
“Look, I found you because of your tattoo.”
Silas paused for a moment, looking back and forth from his tattoo to that of his friend. His demeanor changed.
“And it was one of the twins?” Santiago asked. “You’re sure?”
“Yeah.”
“How badly did you beat him up?”
I thought of the man clutching his throat in the alley, choking as he rolled around in pain.
“He’s probably not going to be talking for a while,” guessed Silas.
Santiago’s eyes went wide as two full moons. “You broke hisjaw?”
“No, not his jaw. But—”
In a flurry of movement, Santiago rushed around the room to close the blinds. The window-view of the gym disappeared in an instant.
“Ifshefound you in less than twenty-four hours,” he hissed, “how long do you think it’ll be before—”
“Brynne.”
The guys spun on me curiously. Their expressions would’ve been the same if I’d spoken a foreign language.
“My name’s Brynne Fletcher,” I said matter-of-factly. “Notshe.”
I folded my arms across my chest, summoning a courage I didn’t fully feel.
“And the twin’s name was Aimon,” I paused, my mouth twisting. “Or at least I think it was him. He and Javi look so damn alike it’s impossible to tell. It also doesn’t help that they dress the same, or maybe their mother still dresses them, or—”
“They dress the same intentionally,” Santiago interjected, “so no one can tell them apart. Not their enemies, not the police. Not even their crew.”
“Well I was tailing him all night,” I went on. “Aimon, I mean. He must’ve picked up on it, because the second I followed him into that alley—”
“You weretailinghim?” Silas asked incredulously.
I nodded, holding my ground.
“That’s the stupidest fucking thing I ever—”
“They were the last people to see my brother alive!” I shouted, suddenly angry. “I need to find him. I need to know where he is. And those two—”
“Those are two of the most dangerously-connected men in all of Oakland,” Santiago snapped.
I shrugged. “So?”
“So look at what just happened to you!” exclaimed Silas. “Or whatalmosthappened to you.”
