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“Okay, so if it’s not him, and it’s the partner of Rachel’s… How much digging have you done on him?”
“All I know is that he’s in bed with the Las Vegas mob. I don’t know the connection beyond that. He’s covered his tracks, and that’s concerning to me.”
“Me too.” Gunner downed the rest of his beer and tossed it into the trash. “You think they still have the hit out on you?”
I didn’t have an answer for that. “I have no fucking clue, man. I got the hell out of Dodge, and I never looked back. I lived paranoid for a long time, but everything died off once the accident was published in the paper and they ran the story on the news.”
“They made up a crash?”
“Yeah, well,someone elsecrashed, and they used the footage. It was really ingenious, though I don’t know if I still believe that if I’ve been found out.”
“We have to tell Viper as soon as they get back.”
“I know that,” I said, my voice dropping. “And things are already bad enough between the two of us.”
“I don’t think he’ll give you the boot,” Gunner said, though his words lacked confidence. He just might strip you of your position—but I can’t be sure. We can’t be sure that the name was on purpose either.”
“Right,” I grumbled, knowing that he was just trying to destress the situation. That’s what Gunner always did, and sometimes it worked for me. Tonight, it didnotwork for me…
And itreallydidn’t fucking work for me when the motion sensor went off.
He jumped to his feet, racing over to the monitors, which were taking up most of my kitchen cabinets at the moment. “Oh shit…”
“We have company, don’t we?”
“Oh yeah, yeah, we do.” Gunner gestured to the far-left screen, which was the camera angled at the farthest north corner of the place. It was the most densely wooded area, and the motion sensor had gone off for deer and other wildlife… But honestly, my gut instinct hadn’t failed me.
Someoneknew where we were.
Andsomeoneknew who I was.
“I don’t recognize this guy,” Gunner said, his eyes glued to the screen. “That’s not Rachel’s partner.”
“Victor Sanchez?” I offered, standing to my feet to join him. “I don’t know why the hell Chaz would set him loose, but I guess that wouldn’t be that farfetched.”
“No…no, I don’t think so. Isn’t he Hispanic? This guy isn’t.”
I joined him, watching averylight skinned man move through the backwoods of my place. He looked to be alone from what I could tell, and he carried a pistol in one of his hands. The guy crept with precision, though I had to admit that it seemed a little hasty.
“Who the hell is he?” Gunner muttered, leaning down and squinting at the screen.
I reached into the kitchen drawer, pulling out my gun. “I don’t know, but we’re about to go find out.”
Chapter 15
Rachel
I didn’t have the time, but I knew that it was close to the pick-up time for the money. I felt more nervous than ever before. I had heard some of the men leave, and honestly, I had expected Ghost Eyes to come and visit again after the way he had left so angrily, pissed off at me for telling him how it was.
But nope.
In fact, I hadn’t heardanythingat all above me for the last few hours. It had remained dead silent. Once the guys had left there had been some muffled conversation, some shuffling around, and then silence.
Lots of fucking silence.
“Guess he’s sleeping,” I muttered to myself, picturing him up there, sleeping away on the couch while all this shit went down at the bus station. I flopped down on the bed, my feet aching from all the pacing I had done.
Maybe I should shower.
