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“No, Jaci,” she says.
Her breath stinks like a warm ash.
“No, what?”
“You can’t do anything for me,” Fay says. “This is my life. I’m not like you. I’m not like everyone else, okay? I’m not…”
“Connected?” I ask.
“Exactly.”
“So you knew?”
“It doesn’t matter what I know or what I don’t know.”
“I really am anHeir, aren’t I?”
Fay nods.
“That means my family is mafia. Please just tell me one thing. Do you know who my parents are?”
Fay tightens her lips.
Her jaw just slightly flexes.
A cellphone begins to beep.
Fay backs away from me and picks her phone up off the table.
“That’s Tocky calling,” she says. “He’s going to want to know if you’re gone yet. If I tell him no, then he’s going to come back here with other guys. And it’s going to get bad. For you. For me. For everyone on the street.”
“In other words, I have to leave right now.”
“Yes,” Fay says. “Right now, Jaci.”
“Fine,” I say.
I don’t even get to hug Fay goodbye.
She hurries to call Tocky.
The fear in her voice breaks my heart.
She tells Tocky I’m leaving right now.
Which I do.
I step out onto the porch and find Marty curled up on the porch, sleeping.
The bag of ice next to him, turning into water.
I step over him and walk to Birdie’s luxury SUV.
I feel like the more I try to figure things out, the less I know.
One second Archer wants to kill me, the next second he’s kicking down a door to save me from a guy like Tocky.
I think about Cullen.
