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His uncle seemed to consider it. “That’s an astuteobservation. Let’s see where this goes.”
“Has anyone considered the fact that our whispering manthinks someone is close to this bombmaker?” Lou asked. She bit her bottom lip.“He accuses Huber of getting the wrong guy. I think we have to consider thatsomeone is setting up TJ in order to cover their own tracks.”
“And that would mean it’s someone close,” his mother mused.“Maybe someone on his team or someone close to his team.”
“Or someone close to our team,” Lou said quietly. “I don’tlike the fact that someone was wearing a coat Erin bought for Zach in thatpicture. I worry they might be trying to set up more than TJ.”
His uncle groaned. “Shit. Zach… There’s a lot you don’t knowabout Zach. I can’t talk about it right now, but he has some connections thathave always worried me.”
TJ shook his head. “Zach wouldn’t do this.”
“I don’t think so, either, but I have to consider thatsomeone might be setting him up too, and for entirely different reasons,” hisuncle said. “I need to talk to Drake and do some research. Until then, you twostick together and watch yourselves until I get the Canadian back on a plane.Send me what you have and I’ll try to figure out if I can trust MI6 with it.”He stood and turned to TJ. “But you need to be ready to run if the time comes.If I lose control, they might try to take you into custody. The actualauthorities will mean to question you, but…”
His uncle left the threat dangling. But in a holding cell,anything could happen. They’d already talked about getting rid of him once. Ifthey thought he knew something and might talk, they would get rid of him fast.
All of this reeked of an inside job. Things were starting tohappen around him, puzzle pieces flying about, waiting to be put together.
“I’ll go wherever you tell me to.” He wasn’t going to putany of them in danger.
Even if it meant leaving Lou.
“I’ll get everything to you,” Lou promised. “And I’ll workthe logistics in case TJ needs a safe house.
“I’ll be careful until we figure out what’s going on,” TJpromised. “And by we, I mean Lou. I’ll be here getting her lattes andmaking sure she eats.”
And relaxed.
“Then she’s in good hands,” his uncle said. “Come on,brother. Let’s get a couple of beers and let the kids handle this part. Theo,you can come, too.”
His father snorted but he followed his uncle out, and afterhis mother hugged them both soundly, he was left alone with Lou.
She stared up at him as though memorizing his face. “Youmight have to run.”
“It won’t happen,” he promised. “We’re going to figure thisout. I still think this is all one big hoax. I’m not saying there couldn’t be amilitary contact to the bombmaker, but that doesn’t mean someone’s not fuckingwith me.”
She shook her head as though she knew what he was about tosay. “It’s not Dennis.”
“It could be Dennis.” He wanted it to be Dennis. Real bad.
She sighed and leaned against him. “I’m going to prove toyou it’s not Dennis.”
“How are you going to do that?” He kissed her hair andreveled in how close she was.
“We’re going to a reunion,” she announced.
He was sure that was going to be fun.
In an awful way.
ChapterEighteen
“We’re doing this, why?” Kala asked as they walked down thestreet toward the little bar in the middle of Deep Ellum. “Did we want topractice dodging bullets or drunk frat guys?”
Lou kept walking, though her bestie was right. It could beeither. This wasn’t the best part of town, but it also wasn’t the weekend, andwhen she’d texted Dennis to ask where the group was meeting yesterdayafternoon, he’d quickly sent her this address.
Along with a flurry of emojis that had made the veins inTJ’s neck stand out. To his credit, he hadn’t complained, merely tied her upand forced a plug up her ass and blown her mind in ways that had Kenzie andKala calling a house meeting about loud sex.
TJ had been all about the plug the last couple of days. Justthis morning he’d convinced her to sit through a whole meeting with the teamwith a small butt plug lodged in her even smaller rectum. While she’d listenedto Kenzie discuss why Ben Parker couldn’t possibly be a bad guy and Tasha talkabout why her fiancé shouldn’t be used to gather intel, she’d fought the urgeto squirm.
