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I picked my head up to look at him and sighed. ”What did you just say?”
Victor furrowed his brow. ”I was just talking about the supply chain op next week,” he said. ”What you called me about?”
I rubbed my temple, leaning back on the sofa. ”Right.”
”Do you want me to just email you about it?”
I nodded as I looked at him. ”Yes.”
He was sitting upright in the chair across from me, his eyes narrow, his elbows on his knees. ”Do you want to talk about it?”
”Talk about what?” I asked, glaring at him.
He opened his hands, waving me off. ”You know what, it doesn’t matter,” he replied.
”It’s her,” I said. ”Is she making progress?”
”Hard to say,” he replied. ”Maybe ask Jace? He can hack into her devices if you want him to.”
”No, I just wanted to get a feeling. I want to give her space to work, but I guess I thought she’d be further along by now.”
”Why? It’s taken us months, we have a ton of resources, and we don’t know jackshit,” he said quickly, then cleared his throat. ”I mean. Respectfully.”
”I know, but we’re used to this. If someone comes after us, we know how to deal with it.”
”So as long as she’s with us,” he said. ”Nothing should happen to her.”
”Okay. And then what happens when she’s not with us?”
He shook his head. ”You can’t worry about that, Teo.”
But I couldn't help but worry. Sofia was a liability, a weakness in our carefully constructed organization. But she was also a person, someone who had been through so much already. I couldn't bear the thought of her being hurt again, especially not because of us. Every night as I drifted off to sleep, I closed my eyes and saw the way her face was bloodied and bruised when I picked her up and it made me feel sick to my stomach.
”Just keep an eye on her,” I said finally. ”And Grayson too. I don’t want anyone getting too close to her.”
Victor cocked his head, his eyes trained on me. I'd always trusted Grayson with my life, so the fact that I was even mentioning this would definitely come as a surprise to him.
”Got it,” he said. He went to stand up, but I spoke before he could.
”Has she...”
”What?”
”Said anything to you,” I said.
”About what?”
”About the case,” I said. ”About herself.”
He thought about it for a second. ”Nothing I haven't reported, boss.”
”And what do you think?”
”Of what?” he asked. I could tell he was being careful. Victor liked confrontation, as a rule, but he’d been with us for years and I could tell that he appreciated being with the organization. He was careless, sure, but he didn’t like to piss me off. I could tell that he still felt like his place in the Blades was not a sure thing, even though it most certainly was.
There were three men I trusted with my life, and three men only, and they were Grayson, Jace and Victor. Victor had been the latest addition to the group and he still, every now and then, seemed to have issues thinking we would want him around.
Because Victor was absolutely fucking insane.
