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“Because he wants you alive. He’s kept you alive so far.”
Cold chills ran down my spine. “How do you know?”
“Because you’re not dead yet.”
34
Jack
Isleepwalked through the rest of the morning, caught somewhere between reality and a kind of half-waking hell.
First came the hospital.
I found Kade in the waiting room of the surgical ward.
“How is he?” I asked.
“He’ll survive,” my sergeant-at-arms replied. “He’s not out of the woods entirely, but they’re saying it looks good.”
“Thank God… can I see him?”
“Yeah, he’s awake.” Kade looked at me closely. He could tell something was up. “What’s going on?”
I filled him in on everything. On Lou, on Roach, on Fiona. On how I didn’t know what to believe.
When I finished, Kade was characteristically unemotional.
“That’s fucked up,” he said, as though he were saying, There’s some magazines in the waiting room.
“I’m going to need you to keep an eye on her,” I instructed him. “Tail her. Whatever it takes to figure out what’s really going on.”
“I’m on it.”
“After we get out of here, we have to go to the police station and give our statements.”
“Are they pissed I didn’t stick around?”
“No. Dan Peters is our new best friend.”
Kade narrowed his eyes. “He’s back on Lou’s payroll?”
I nodded.
“Watch yourself,” Kade said, a shadow of concern coloring his voice.
“Don’t worry about me. Just find out what Fiona’s up to.”
35
Next up was Benjy.
God, it was depressing walking into that room. He was hooked up to three different machines, with just as many tubes running out of his nose and arms.
I had a dozen flashbacks to times before.
In half of them, brothers were in starched white hospital beds, way worse off than Benjy.
In the other half, they were lying on asphalt in pools of blood.
