Consume Me by Geneva Lee

Author:Geneva Lee [Lee, Geneva]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ivy Estate

Chapter 15

ALEXANDER

Nothing was out of the ordinary. At least that was the takeaway from a five minute debriefing the next morning. By the time, Brex had finished walking through what they hadn’t found, I was yawning.

“You need to sleep,” Georgia chastised me.

“I need to find my wife,” I snapped, rubbing my eyes. I’d resorted to coffee to keep myself awake for most of the night. But it wasn’t quite enough to keep my mind sharp. No matter how much I drank.

“And when we do,” Georgia said firmly, “and we will, you can’t be a zombie. She’s pregnant. The baby could come any time…”

“That’s exactly why I don’t have time to sleep.” I was tired of arguing this with them. “I’m doing the best I can.”

Brex and Georgia shared a look that suggested they thought my best hadn’t shown up recently. It was no use calling them out on it. They were right.

I wasn’t at my best, because I couldn’t be without Clara. She was my best. Without her, no matter how much I tried, I was simply half a man. How long had I wasted keeping her out of certain parts of my life? How much time had I spent denying her all of myself? And for what? To protect her? I’d failed at that.

“What about our new leads?” I asked wearily, steering the conversation away from me and my faults. After Smith’s and my meeting with the Ghosts, we’d arranged a tail for both Sarah and Anders. The results were frustrating.

“Sarah is barely speaking to anyone,” Georgia said, sinking into a chair with a frown. She knew she was being guided to a new topic and she wasn’t happy about it. “She’s ignoring Pepper’s calls. She isn’t leaving the house. There’s been no unusual activity on her mobile.”

“Maybe she’s waiting for instructions,” Brex said in his usual clipped and direct way. Unlike his partner, he was former military and followed unspoken commands easily.

“We don’t have any proof of that,” Georgia added quickly. “It’s just something we should consider.”

No one—not even me—was sure how I would react to proof that my sister was the one who betrayed us.

“Keep watching her,” I said after a beat. “What about Anders?”

“Well…” Brex and Georgia looked at one another.

“What?” I demanded. Had I been duped twice? I’d opened my home and my heart to new family—a task I hadn’t found easy. Had I been trapped by my own sentimentality?

“It’s not suspicious,” Brex said swiftly even as my mind spun. “But we think he caught on that he’s being followed.”

“Fuck,” I muttered. “What gives you that idea?”

“He, uh, signaled our guy,” Brex said uneasily.

“Signaled?” I frowned. “How?”

“You know.” Brex made a lewd gesture at me.

“Oh.” So he knew we had someone following him, and he wasn’t hiding that he knew. In truth, I hadn’t suspected him. Norris had run thorough checks when we’d discovered his existence. They’d been clean. I’d met his mother. If his life was a cover, even he didn’t know it. But the ghosts had spooked me.

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