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“Like you protected my cousin?” I sneered.
“If you don’t do anything stupid, then you don’t have anything to worry about.”
“I’d say that trusting you might just be the stupidest thing I could possibly do.”
He sighed again. “I don’t care why you do it, Fiona. You can do it to help yourself, you can do it to put bad guys behind bars, you can do it for your country. You can do it to bring your cousin’s murderer to justice, or you can do it to save your own skin. But I need you to do it.”
“Do I have a choice?”
“You always have a choice.”
I narrowed my eyes. “Is this the kind of choice you gave Ali?”
“More or less.”
“Fuck you.”
“Is that a yes or a no?”
Before I could answer, though, his cell phone rang. Eddie checked it, and answered immediately. “Yes? Okay. Jam everything for the next five minutes and send backup. NOW.”
Eddie hung up and turned towards me.
“NSA is monitoring the cell network since my phone call for Lou earlier. Seems somebody within a tenth of a mile of here tripped the wire,” he said in a hushed voice.
“What does that mean?”
“It means there’s somebody outside this room who knows we’re here.”
24
Jack
Suddenly the phone beeped.
I checked the screen.
CALL FAILED.
“What the fuck?!” I swore.
There was a little green circle down in the lower right-hand corner. ‘Retry Call.’
I pressed it.
“You goddamn sonuvabitch…” Lou griped as he staggered backwards.
I ignored him and listened to the phone ring… and ring… and ring.
Suddenly Roach’s country twang drawled, “This is Roach. Leave a fuckin’ message.”
My heart contracted with fear as I imagined what might be happening – if Roach had actually broken into Fiona’s motel room –
“Roach – you stop whatever the fuck you’re doing and call me or Lou, NOW.”
I hung up the phone. Lou and I both looked at each other.
“Well… either he’s getting the information… or something happened,” Lou said as he sat down in his chair and lit another cigar.
