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Zaq released me and sank onto the mattress. He tugged his fingers through his hair. “He loves us,” he repeated like he was trying to convince himself.
I crouched down and placed my hands on his knees. I had to make him face facts.
“Look, you’re right; the Kral Syndicate does have a traitor. Somebody’s feeding us intel. But if you tell anyone I told you, I’ll call you a liar.”
His whole body went rigid. “Someone’s been feeding intel to SI?”
I nodded. “It’s how we knew exactly when and where you were landing.”
“Who?” he bit out.
“I don’t know.”
His fingers flexed like he wanted to grab my throat and shake it out of me. “Tell me, damn you.” He shoved his face into mine. “Who. Is. It?”
I reared back and pulled out my switchblade, releasing the blade. “Back off, Kral.”
“For fuck’s sake.” He scraped a derisive look over me. “I’m not going to attack you. I just want some answers.”
“I don’t know who it is. I swear I don’t.” I retracted the switchblade and touched the handle to my heart. “I only know it’s someone high up. Someone who knows things only Karoly or one of his top people would know.”
His jaw set. “Doesn’t mean it was my dad.”
“They told us what plane you were taking to New York.”
“Any hacker could’ve found that out.”
“But would a hacker have told us that Rafael was in love with Zoe Tremblay? Or that Gabriel never got over Camila Vittore?”
Zaq blinked. Rubbed a hand over his face. “Not too many people know both those things,” he admitted. “Rafe didn’t even tell Gabriel the whole truth about Zoe. Just me.”
Putting the switchblade on the floor, I set my hands on his thighs again and leaned forward. Hating myself a little for pushing him like this, but it was in both our interests for Zaq to realize Karoly Kral was a callous prick.
“Your father could’ve found out. Rafe’s bodyguards would’ve known, for example.”
“Hell, I suppose you’re right. And ultimately, they report to Father. He’s our primus. But I still can’t believe…” He shook his head.
“What if your father did more than see an opportunity to get rid of you and take it? What if he somehow manipulated things in the first place so Victorine thought Karoly was after her daughter? You know she’s a little crazy when it comes to Zoe. And that summer he was in Montreal, Rafe did go after Zoe like a heat-seeking missile.”
I sat back on my heels, allowing that to sink in. I had to open Zaq’s mind to the possibility his father might be behind this whole thing.
Because I was starting to wonder about it myself.
“It could be his lieutenant,” Zaq said. “My dad tells him everything.”
“Tomas Mraz?”
He heard my doubt because he grimaced. “You’re right. That doesn’t make sense. Mraz is more than just my dad’s right-hand man. Hell, he’s his only real friend. And he’s like an uncle to me and my brothers.”
I turned over my palm in a you-see-what-I-mean gesture. “He could be working with your father. But I don’t see him working on his own. He’s not the type.”
“So I can’t trust my father. I can’t trust anyone.” His mouth twisted. “Even you.”
I rose to my feet, my mind a cloud of conflicting emotions. I’d been honest with him, telling him nearly everything I knew about this situation, but here we were, back to trust again.
“We’ll be fine as long as you’re straight with me.”
He stood up too. “Yeah? What about those vials of tranq?”
