Conspiracy Girl by Sarah Alderson

Author:Sarah Alderson [Alderson Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781471121975
Publisher: Simon & Schuster

FINN

Nic’s been crying. She turns her head away when I walk in but I see her eyes are red-rimmed. She walks over to the back door as though she wants to put distance between us, and I glance over at my grandma, wondering what the two of them were just talking about.

My grandma isn’t exactly one for subtlety. Did she say something to make Nic cry? Damn. I don’t have time to go there. Maybe I’m being paranoid, maybe they won’t look for us here, but if they found my loft then it won’t be long before they check my known addresses. It’s what I would do. I’ve tried to erase as much of my history online as possible but my name was in the papers following the Cooper trial and has been in them since too. It’s also in FBI files which I can’t erase without being found out.

In my hand I’ve got a backpack containing an old laptop I had stashed here and some other equipment I need, though I still have to grab a few more things. I drop the bag by the door. A sense of urgency takes over. Glancing briefly at Nic, who now has her back turned, I take my grandma by the elbow and steer her out into the hallway.

‘Here,’ I say, thrusting a thick wedge of cash at her.

She glances down at it then up at me, her eyebrow twitching. I shrug. I always keep a large stash of cash on me. I don’t trust banks. I have close to twenty thousand dollars in my bag and I’m giving her half that amount. ‘Find a hotel and check in. I’ll call you when it’s safe,’ I tell her. ‘Don’t use your cards. Don’t make any calls.’

Sighing, she takes the cash from me.

‘I’m sorry,’ I tell her again, though she brushes it off. She took the news just how I knew she would, with stoic acceptance, like she has done every major event in our lives: Rob’s death, my getting kicked out of the FBI, her taking custody of the twins. I told her briefly what was happening, but she knew who Nic was already. I had talked about her when the trial was on.

My grandma is salt of the earth, no fuss, no nonsense. The kind of woman who would have been at the head of a wagon train two hundred years ago. When my mom overdosed she took Rob and me in without hesitation, even though the first she’d known of having grandchildren was when Child Services turned up on her doorstep to tell her. While she wasn’t the type to show much in the way of emotion, we knew from the start that we were loved. Without a doubt she saved the two of us from a much worse fate if we’d gone into care. She took Rob’s death harder even than I did, aging ten years over night. Caring for the twins is the only thing that keeps her going.

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