Dealing in Death_A Death and the Devil Extended Novella by L. J. Hayward

Author:L. J. Hayward [Hayward, L. J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romantic Suspense
Publisher: L.J. Hayward
Published: 2019-08-29T18:30:00+00:00

Dejana called the next day and I dutifully returned to the sniper’s nest. The best way of finding Two was to let him come to me and since he’d already found me twice while with Dejana, it seemed the quickest way. It took two sessions in the nest before he appeared.

“You’re losing your touch,” he said as he crawled up beside me, keeping out of sight of the client in the office across the street.

“I saw you on the street.” I didn’t shift my eye from the rifle site. If he’d wanted to sneak up on me he wouldn’t have let me see him or hear him exit the stairwell.

“That’s not what I meant.”

“I know.”

The current client finished her business and left. Dejana sat still, patiently waiting for the next one. She kept variable length windows between meetings and didn’t tell me what they were, expecting me to be on constant watch. While we waited, Two rolled over and clasped his hands over his chest, looking up at the blue sky through his sunglasses, heaving great sighs every now and then. I ignored him.

“Is this what you really want to be doing, One-three?” he eventually asked.

Two wasn’t talking about lying on a roof, covered by a tarp and pointing a rifle at various underworld targets. I didn’t take the bait. The whole point of the exercise was to get Two out of the country, not let him inside my head.

“You’re one of the best,” he continued. “We were always better than the others. That’s why I helped you when we were children. I knew you could be nearly as good as me, but only if you let me show you how.”

The sole of my left foot itched. Two had tried his hardest to possess me back then. He had very nearly succeeded.

“I thought you were leaving once your job was done,” I said as Dejana’s next client entered the office.

“And I will.”

What game was Two playing? Seven had said there were two targets and Jack talked about two victims of the Judge in Sydney. Did Two believe I wouldn’t be able to find out he was lying?

“It’s just that I worry about you, little brother. You never were . . . robust in matters of the heart. Remember what happened with Eleven? You didn’t cope very well at all.” His voice dropped to a pained whisper. “When I saw your back after the whipping . . . You could have died. Because of your foolishness, I nearly lost you. I don’t want to go through that again.”

I locked away every memory of Eleven and the months following his death and focused on the man sitting opposite Dejana. He wore a respectable suit and carried an attaché case, though he left it on the floor beside his chair. There was a small bulge in the top left of his jacket that could be an ill-concealed weapon, or a large billfold. Dejana showed no sign of concern.

Two rolled over and produced a pair of small binoculars.

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