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Blue had a meeting there earlier, him and Tati…

Fucking Tati...

I knew she had her issues with me, didn’t trust me, but damn.

“You made her suspicious,” Alicia said, as if she’d heard what was going through my head. “A woman like that gets answers, one way or another. With the right training, she would have made a goodRose, honestly.”

“So she ratted me out?” I asked, my mind racing with unknown information.

“No,” she answered. “She asked a certain question to a certain person. A questionyouput on her mind. So you kinda ratted yourself out.”

“Yeah,” I scoffed. “If you say so. Where is she now?”

Alicia raised an eyebrow. “Why? What are you going to do? It’s notherfault you got caught. The blame for that rests solely on you.”

I huffed. “What? You think I’m going to do something to her? You thinkthat’swhy I’m asking where she is?”

“Isn’t it?”

“No,” I insisted. “I’m trying to make sureyoudidn’t do anything toher.”

She shook her head. “We have a policy against harming innocents around here. Which is part of why, again, I’m going to need certain assurances from you before I let you walk out of here. I know Brandon Garrett brought you on as muscle for his war with theMarauders.”

I rolled my eyes. “Blah, blah, blah, stop the gang violence, blah, blah, nobody else has to get hurt, blah, blah, blah.I’m guessing your spiel is going to go something like that?”

“Nope.” Alicia laughed. “TheMaraudersare racist assholes; I don’t care if they die or not. WhatIcare about is the collateral damage this little rivalry leaves in its wake.”

“So that’s what you’re on now, some save the world shit?”

“No, not at all. Last year a politician named Tommy Turner put a hit out on his mistress. Who happened to also be the mother of his child.”

I blew out a sigh and shrugged. “Okay. What does that have to do with anything?”

“He used aThornto do it. Isaiah.”

My eyes went wide. “Isaiah as in...”

“Yeah,” she nodded. “Isaiah as in your little rival-slash-homeboy from back inThe Garden. He wants to see you, by the way. He tells me that y’all lost touch a while ago.”

“We didn’t lose touch, we were…” I stopped and shook my head.

Separated,was the word for it.

I clenched my jaw, mentally brushing aside the feelings associated with all that. “AfterThe Garden, I went radio silent, becausethat’swhat we were supposed to do if we didn’t know what the fuck was going on. Not pull together a convent.”

“I called it acompound,” she corrected me, laughing. “Not a convent. But anyway, your friendship with Isaiah is not really why I brought it up. Since that incident, the air in Vegas has just been feeling… ominous. It doesn’t feel like anything I’ve felt around here before.”

“Alicia, what are you saying?”

She was quiet for a long moment, and then looked me in the eyes. “You know who Renard Belrose is?”

My whole body went tense.

She knew the answer to that.

“How could I not?”

I hated the sympathy in her eyes when she nodded. “Right. Well… do you remember when you’d just come toThe Garden? You were probably around nine years old…”

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