Burning Midnight by Will McIntosh

Author:Will McIntosh [McIntosh, Will]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2016-02-02T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 18

Sully heard footsteps on the stairs at exactly ten a.m. He opened the door before Hunter could knock.

“Everything okay?” he asked.

“Relax, Yonkers. I got it right here.” She unslung her backpack and followed him into the apartment.

“Where’s your mom?” she asked, looking around.

“CVS. She got a part-time job.” Doing her part to keep them in Yonkers until the school year ended. But she wouldn’t have to work for long. Sully was going to see to that.

Hunter dropped her pack on the coffee table, produced a key, unlocked and unzipped a side pouch, and took out the Gold.

“Where did you keep it while you slept?” Sully asked. Just the sight of it set his heart thumping.

Hunter laughed. “Sleep? I didn’t sleep. But while I was trying I had the pack tied to my wrist, plus I was curled around it like it was my baby.”

Sully would have been happier if it was in a safe-deposit box, but what Hunter had described wasn’t as bad as what he’d imagined.

“Hey, you remember Dom, right?” Before they got talking, he wanted to call Dom and get him to come over.

Hunter nodded.

“I think we could use his help. And we’ve got a friend, Mandy, who—”

Hunter leaped from the couch. “You told them?” She made it sound like something obscene.

“Not yet, but of course I’m going to tell them. They’re my friends. Plus, we could use some help.”

“We agreed we wouldn’t tell anyone until we figured this out.”

“No we didn’t!” Sully would have remembered agreeing to that.

Hunter sat. “Well, it goes without saying. That’s one of the things we need to plan this morning: who we tell, if anyone.” She squeezed her temples. “As soon as we tell people, they’re going to tell other people, and pretty soon someone’s going to be pointing a gun at us. Only, this time it won’t be street thugs, it’ll be paramilitary with automatic rifles.”

Sully tried to stay calm. “My friends won’t tell anyone. We can trust them. Plus, I want to hear what they—”

“No. We don’t need any help.”

Sully stood, went to the window. He didn’t like the way Hunter seemed to think she had the final word on this. Yes, she owned sixty percent of the Gold. That didn’t mean her vote on everything counted for sixty percent.

“After all this, you still don’t trust me.”

“I don’t trust your friends. There’s a difference.”

“No there isn’t. I trust them. If you don’t trust them, you don’t trust me.” He turned to face her. “When we lost the Hot Pink, you immediately assumed I had cheated you. You didn’t take one second to consider maybe I’d been cheated, too, maybe I was just as devastated as you. Even after you find out you were wrong, even after I trust you with the Gold, it all means nothing.”

Hunter seemed surprised by the ferocity of Sully’s anger. Good. Maybe it was time she saw he could bite back when he wanted to. “I apologized to you about the Hot Pink,” she said. “More than once.

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