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“This is my home!” Joshua told her. “I don’t know anything else.”
“Learn something else!” Anna yelled. “Learn!”
“I’m not leaving.” Joshua repeated. “This is my home.”
“That’s all well and good.” Anna pointed a spoon in his face. “But let me ask you the question again in a different way. How is loyalty going to help you when you lose your head?”
The man and the woman on the screen remain in silence in the kitchen. It was the kind of quiet one lived through when they were waiting for the footsteps of death to wander into their midst.
It was a terrifying sound—and I wasn’t the one on the wrong side of an African goddess.
Just as suddenly as the rain began, it stopped. The clouds overhead didn’t dissipate. Though I didn’t think it would rain again for the rest of the night, an almost supernatural darkness descend over the remote area and cool air seeped through the crack at the top of my window.
We’d cracked them to let out the smell of what we’d done in the back seat.
Shaking myself to refocus on the madness that was happening around me, I inhaled through my nose, held the breath then exhaled out my mouth.
“I have a feeling I don’t want to know the answer to this.” I spoke, staring out my window and off into the darkness. “But I’m going to ask anyway.”
“Sure.”
“What are you going to do?” I asked Kokou. “What’s going on behind those eyes?”
“You’re right. You don’t want to know.”
“Would you stop being so fucking cryptic?” I growled. “Give me a straight answer.”
“I wait until they make their plans.” She replied. “Then make my own.”
“What does that even mean?” I wanted to know.
“Whatever you think it means.” She turned the phone over and placed it on the seat between her thighs. “Don’t worry. I’m aware your name needs to stay out of it. Whatever I do, will never get back to you and definitely not back to Kenny.”
“First of all, that’s not the point.” I growled in a whisper. “I’m worried about you.”
She said nothing. Instead, she stared at me with unreadable expression that seemed to ask a million and one questions all at the same time.
“Shit.” I rubbed my tired eyes. “Leave it to me to catch feelings just because—”
“Feelings?” Kokou asked, a carefully sculpted eyebrow jerked upward underneath her headwrap.
“You’re going to kill them, aren’t you?” It finally dawned on me and gave me a reason to change the conversation from what I’d accidentally admitted. “Is there no other way?”
“Sometimes, all people understand is death.”
“So, that’s a yes on them three dying.”
“It all depends on them.” Kokou told me. “And my mood at the time. It’s not all bad for them though. At least one of them needs to stay alive long enough to tell me who hired them and why. After that, I’ll play it my ear.”
CHAPTER11
Abeke “Kokou” Bolande
A man namedBear came to relieve us.
When Montana suggested it, I had wanted to decline. But the truth was, I was exhausted. My body was now sore from sitting for as long as I had been, and I was pretty sure Daniel wasn’t used to any of this.
I had to put his needs ahead of my anger, my frustration.
