Hero Complex by Margaux Froley

Author:Margaux Froley [Froley, Margaux]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 978-1-61695-321-8
Publisher: Soho Press
Published: 2014-10-13T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 13

A few hours and several bus rides later, Devon arrived at 16th Street in the Mission District. Alone. Cleo and Oz had bailed on her shortly after Zara had, and Devon had let them go. Why involve them, anyway? This was her problem …

She knew that what she was doing was inherently stupid, but it was her only option. She couldn’t face an afternoon of trying to convince Oz that Eli was her attacker. Sure, Cleo might back her story, but then what? Would he go back to his sister? She clearly wanted no part of this … whatever this was. Investigation? Delusion? She wanted to keep her cushy hostess job without her little brother showing up and jeopardizing it. And Devon couldn’t blame her.

Once the bus had pulled away, Devon reached for her phone and brought up the address Bodhi had given her. Isaac Green lived only a few blocks away. She still didn’t know his role in all this. If Eli had been spooked by Devon, maybe he would have alerted Isaac? She knew it was a reach, but this was her only chance to suss him out.

She found the buzzer outside of the Dolores Street address. It had a row of dirty white buttons with names taped across the top of each: apartments A, B, C, and D. I. Green was scrawled in blue ballpoint above apartment A.

Devon pressed the buzzer before she could change her mind.

Now she was committed. If he didn’t respond in thirty seconds, she would leave. Ten, eleven, twelve—buzzzz! The door unlocked.

You asked for this, she told herself. You’re the one that wanted answers.

She wished she had some pepper spray in her bag nonetheless.

Devon made her way up the narrow wooden staircase to apartment A. The building was another one of those old Victorian houses like Huntington House, but this one had fallen on hard times, given the neighborhood, and been split into multiple apartments. Devon wondered how the house originally looked before the chipped white paint outside and yellowing wallpaper. The wooden banister wobbled under her hands. She heard a door open in the hallway above. Last chance to change your mind.

She pressed on, arriving at the second-floor landing.

Isaac Green was standing at the door. She recognized his curly brown hair from the ID tag Bodhi and Raven had pulled from the catering company. Except now he had the beginnings of a mustache on his upper lip. He looked barely older than she was, barefoot and wearing jeans and a green T-shirt.

He raised his eyebrows at her, waiting for her to talk first.

“Hi, um, you’re not expecting me. But you’re Isaac, right?” Devon stayed near the top of the stairs. Best not to immediately walk into the lion’s den.

“Yeah, that’s me.” He crossed his arms in front of his chest. “And you are?”

“Sorry, I’m Nora.” Giving him her real name was a bad idea, right? Or did she just screw everything up?

Too late now. “I was wondering if you could help me with a few questions about the catering company you work for.

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