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“What the—”
Avery used the fabric of her shirt to swipe it clean before moving to the next which was just as bloody.
“From the moment I figured out what she was doing here, I just knew she wouldn’t be able to distance herself,” she said with a tsk. “What did she do? Come here from a job?”
“What are you talking about?” I asked, my voice low.
Avery sent me a sickly-sweet smile that caused goose bumps to break out across my skin.
“Oops, did I say something I shouldn’t have?” she asked with a laugh. “My bad.”
She dropped my hands before stepping away and motioning for me to follow them. They were almost at the end of the hallway now, and I knew for a fact I didn’t want to be left alone with Avery.
“You’ve known her since high school,” I noted. “Does she often have blood in her hair?”
Avery sent me a shrug. “I guess that’s something you’ll have to ask her. Though I’m sure she won’t open up until you spill something as well. My suggestion is to tell her the truth about why you have people following you.”
Her words caused the blood in my veins to freeze.
“What did you just say?”
But she didn’t answer. Instead, she turned on her heels and bounded down after them.
Who the fuck is Avery?
Quinn
This is where I die.
Not in a shootout. Not while I slit some bastards’ throats.Here.Sitting in a comfy room where the couch squeaked when I sat on it and the carpet smelled like something died on it.
’Cause it probably had.Most likely multiple someone’s. People who were just like me. People who Rolf had groomed from a young age to be the perfect monsters for him.
I’d like to think that I was unlike them because Rolf had saved me.Raisedme from when I was but a child until I was ready to go out on my own. That he had done this because he saw a poor and struggling family willing to sell their child to the highest bidder.
It could have been much worse, and I should have been grateful that he had saved me from whoever else wanted to do me harm.
So why was I feeling so angry?I should understand that this was his job. Understand that he would do this to any one of his projects. But instead, I feel betrayed.
I had conflicting feelings about Rolf. The child inside me looked at him as a father. Saw him as someone that I should have been close to. Someone who protected me.
But the adult in me knew he was just as flawed as the rest of us. That he was just looking out for himself. And no matter what, I shouldn’t trust him as much as the child inside me wanted to.
Rolf was across from me, not sitting at his desk but standing right in front of it. It made it so he was towering over me. Something he had done on occasion to remind me exactly who was in charge here.
I had only been invited to his office a few times before this. All of them were when he was reprimanding me for something I did. Though this time, I couldn’t tell what I had done. Which made me all the more angry.
I had been getting close to Blake like they had asked. It was taking a long time, but for a job like this, I needed to move with caution. Rolf should understand that.
But this felt more serious than all those other times. He hadn’t once opened his mouth to speak since telling me to sit down.
Which meant he was waiting for something.Or someone.
My phone vibrated in my pocket, the loud, harsh sound cutting through the quiet.
Rolf’s gaze shot to mine, watching my reaction. I kept it as cool as possible.
“Are you going to get that?” he asked.
