East Bound by Nana Malone

Author:Nana Malone
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sankofa Girl

East

About fifteen minutes after Nyla finished verbally handing me my ass, there was a knock at the door, and a rush of hope flooded my veins so quickly that I almost choked on it. I yanked it open, expecting to see Nyla, but instead it was Ben. "Mate, what are you doing here?"

"Liv’s with Telly in my old flat downstairs."

"Is that wise? She was attacked in there last year. I wouldn’t think she’d be comfortable waiting there."

"I know. But she's the one who actually said that she'd wait for me there instead of the office or downstairs in the lobby."

"Why, what's up?"

Ben rubbed his jaw. "Listen, mate, I couldn’t go home without saying something."

I braced myself, because for Ben to leave Livy, it was something serious. "Yeah?"

"I know it's none of my business, but the Nyla thing… I know you don't trust her, but she took gunfire, not only for herself, for us. I know you don't trust anymore, and I know that you're likely to turn all your attention toward her and the seventy-five ways she could betray us again. And while I appreciate that, I don't think this has anything to do with her. If it does, her own men shot at her. Which is useless and a quick way to get an agent dead."

I held my breath. "Yeah, I know. I hear you. You came back up just to tell me that?"

"It's bothering me. We're not seeing the picture properly. First of all, what the hell was Interpol doing there? Secondly, who was shooting at us? Because Nyla was right; it wasn’t Interpol. It's someone secondary. But it leaves me to believe that we've had a leak somewhere. It's making me nervous."

I nodded because I was thinking the same thing. I’d assumed our leak was Nyla, but again, it didn't make sense that her own people were shooting at her. "Theroux?"

"Maybe the shooters, yeah, but it doesn't make sense that he’d call Interpol on himself."

"Well, he did tell Nyla he'd turn himself in."

"Maybe, but he would control that situation better, and you and I both know he's not really going to turn himself in."

"Yeah, tell that to Nyla though."

Ben winked. "I'll leave that to you. So now we're stuck."

"I know. I'm on it. We'll figure it out. We always do."

“Yeah, we always do.” As he turned to leave, he gave me a brisk nod. "Just think about what I said about Nyla. You think you're the one outside looking in and that what she did was fucked up. I know that. But maybe you should ask her about it and talk to her. Because otherwise, it's going to eat you up."

The only thought that ran through my head was that I hated it when he was right.

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