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“Sure they can,” he said as if it didn’t bother him at all. “Wouldn’t you do the same if it were them down here?”
He had a point. Although, I’d probably do more than just take off. That’s the precise moment I heard a loud bang that rocked the boat. I turned to Percy who listened and then he slunk back against the wall of the boat, defeated.
“What is that?” I asked, panic rising in my throat.
“They’re drilling holes into the boat,” he said. “They’re trying to sink us.”
It was a few minutes later, when I saw the water start to trickle in under the door, that I knew we were in trouble.
Shit.
Halen
I broke the lock to the doors of the town planning office and moved through them with Ren. He’d told me exactly who could break down the walls of Operation Scythe and it wasn’t someone I had ever suspected.
Daniela.
She jumped up, moving away from her staff and heading for the door. Ren moved toward her, and blocked her exit. She stumbled back, knowing exactly what would happen if she pissed us off. She wasn’t an idiot. She’d kept Zane happy all these years, so surely, she knew how to get out of tight situations. Zane wasn’t easy to appease.
“Everyone out,” I yelled. Her staff scrambled for the door but she knew better than to move. “We have a few things to cover, you and I.”
“What do you want?” she asked. “You know the staff you just let run will tell Zane.”
“Zane doesn’t care about you,” I spat back instantly. “Surely, you know that. He’d never wage war on his brother foryou. You’re nothing to him.”
Her lip quivered. She knew the truth.
“What does he need with my side of the city?” I asked her.
“Nothing,” she replied. “It was never about the city. He’s going to blow it to smithereens once he gets clear.”
“Why?”
“I don’t know,” she said. “I just know he’s planning on leaving, taking his operation to a more private place. We’re building a new city there.”
“That means you’ve helped him to build from scratch but it doesn’t mean he’s taking you with him. Why would he? He’s got what he wanted, right?”
She nodded, a twinge of annoyance in her tone. “Yes, he’s always had his eye on Paisley.”
“But she doesn’t want him now,” I replied. “What happens to the women who he no longer cares for?”
“He rids himself of them,” she replied. “Unless they can be useful.”
“Exactly,” I said, as I edged closer to her. “But Paisley isn’t like that, is she? She’s a troublemaker, she has her own mind, no matter how hard you tried to break her.”
“I knew eventually she would fall into line,” she said, her eyes changing from desperate to annoyed.
“But she didn’t,” I said, with an odd sense of pride.
“Only because you got in the way with your cunning ways,” she spat. “Why couldn’t you leave well enough alone? She was on the precipice of it all. She could have saved us all.”
I could kill this woman right here and right now but that wouldn’t get us anywhere.
I closed the distance between us. She looked up into my eyes. I could almost taste the fear coming off her in waves.
Good. This woman needed to fear me for what she did to her daughter.
I grabbed her by the neck, squeezing slightly so she knew I meant business and I pushed her against one of the desks that was nearby.
