Fox and Wolf by Julia Talbot

Author:Julia Talbot [Talbot, Julia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: gay romance
ISBN: 978-1-64080-971-0
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2018-12-27T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

THE SIM card was from a number Rey didn’t know, but the texts they found on it were odd and enlightening.

<he’s going to kill me>

<I don’t know how to get out of here>

<he’s sending his men>

He blinked at the screen James had pulled up. “Gracious. I think my contact sent this. About Patel? I need— How do I find out if Victor is still alive?”

“What was the last name?” James asked, reaching for another laptop, rather amazing in tech mode, all signs of lazy cat gone.

“Mills.”

Rey grabbed his phone and started doing his magic too. Surely together they could figure this out.

“Uh, is this him?” James showed Rey a small article in what looked like a local newspaper.

He squinted and nodded. “Yes. Here he is on his Instagram, so they’re the same.”

“Crap.” Mick blew out a breath. “He’s dead, kiddo.”

“Oh.” Rey sat hard. Everyone was dying around him. He should get in his car and drive away. The hamburger and fries sat like lead in his belly, because this was all his fault.

“Rey? You can’t run off.” Dylan took his hand. “Promise me you won’t run off.”

He squeezed Dylan’s fingers, but they both knew what he needed to do. He couldn’t stay here. Oh, he didn’t want to leave Dylan at all.

“Rey. Stop and think.” That was Mick. “Why did they think you would take this to a PR firm?”

“I don’t know. I didn’t even know they were sending something to me.” So… what was the connection? Where did the lines of information cross between his clients and Patel and all this?

“Right. No running off in all directions without more information. Any of us.” Mick spoke as if his word was law.

“See, Rey? Us. You’re not alone. Not anymore.”

He looked at Kit, who was so sweet to say that. Dylan smiled, nodded, encouraging him.

“Come on, Rey. Help me do this.” James poked him, hard. “We don’t have time for bullshit. I want to figure this out.”

“Ow!” He sighed. “What do you need?” Rey hated the idea of leaving these guys, and who was to say the crocs wouldn’t keep coming after them if he was gone? So he would stay.

“Let’s figure out whose phone this is, first. What number do you have for your contact?”

Rey tugged out his phone and called up Victor. “Here. See. Not the same.”

“Okay, so burn phone? Another person? Other options?” James rattled off stuff.

“Downloaded info onto a random SIM card? Duped info?” Rey shot back.

Brock snorted. “Too much information for a burn phone. Contacts?”

“All jumbled info,” James muttered, so Rey suggested looking for image files.

“Good one.” James tapped away at his keyboard like a mad musician. “Nothing weird except this one. It’s too big.”

“Can you extract it and copy it? I’d hate to ruin it.”

“Yeah. I can pull it over here. Quarantine it to make sure it won’t blow up, then… boom.” James opened the file.

It was a movie file of a wild-looking man with white hair, tipped with bright red. He roared and stomped, and a half-dozen dire crocs moved around him.

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