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“Do you approve?”
“No.”
“Then you will be alone.”
“What else is new?”
“Gideon…” Her soft voice tears at the ravaged soul that resides unwillingly in this prison, aching to break free.
“Go.”
A few minutes pass before she leaves. This confrontation has hurt my heart, but I can’t look at her right now. But I know my sister. She is as stubborn as I am. She will leave now without a word, and I won’t see her for six months.
Six months where I will have to rattle around this old place all by myself.
“Fun times.”
As unappealing as that thought is, I just can’t risk the alternative.
That’s really all there is to it.
8
DANTE
Staring out over the city from my office in the sky, I twiddle my pen.
“Problem.”
Jemima’s voice behind me as she opens the door is curt and to the point.
“What now?”
“The man I hired to look into your old buddy is making headway.”
“So why is that a problem?” I ask, spinning in my chair to face her. She is serious, and a bit pissed off.
“You gave me five aliases, and he already hit up one, Grant Hitchings, through a shell corp in Birmingham.”
“And?”
“That ID has already been killed. Like, literally. A death certificate popped up, and now Grant is no more. Whoever ‘Grant’ has working this from the other side is good. Fucking good, becausemyguy is one of the best.”
“Is there a reason why we haven’t used him before?” This seems like an obvious question, but with Jem, it could be the most complicated rocket science answer known to man.
“He tends to work outside of the law.”
Nodding, I see the predicament, but right now, I couldn’t care less if he broke every law there is to get me breathing the same air as Gideon Hawthorne. “Tends to or does?”
“Does.”
Spinning back to stare out of the window, I say nothing.
“Do we close in on Birmingham?” Jem asks.
“No. He won’t be there. Keep this guy tracking the other aliases, but my guess is, head North of the Midlands. Grant Hitchings is a decoy, an easy find right in the middle of the country. Could go either way.”
“Why North then?”
