MISTAKEN - The Complete First Season by Peak Renna

Author:Peak, Renna [Peak, Renna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-11-02T08:00:00+00:00

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He touched a drop of condensation on his beer bottle, averting my gaze. “What is it that you want to know, Jen?”

There were a million things that I wanted to know. “He called you? Tonight?”

He sucked his lower lip into his mouth and gave a short nod. “I’m guessing it was shortly after you talked to him. He was pretty upset. Can’t say I blame him, really.” He twisted his mouth around and bit at the inside of his cheek.

“What did he want?”

He kept his gaze from mine and pulled the bottle to his mouth again. He swallowed the beer and gave a small chuckle. “Something along the lines of asking me to find the bastard that took you away from him and to make him suffer for it.”

I looked down at the table, no longer wanting him to look me in the eye. “That’s what you do?” My voice sounded meek, afraid, even to me in that moment.

His jaw clenched. “No, that’s not what I do.” He lowered his voice and leaned in. “Is that what you think?”

My shoulders shrugged, almost a reflex. I didn’t know what to think.

“What is it you think I do, Jen?”

I finally looked up at him, my voice hushed. “I don’t know now. I guess I thought you were a fixer.”

He drummed his fingers on the table and looked into my eyes. “Not quite.”

I shook my head and took a long drink from my straw, looking back down at the table. I wasn’t even sure I wanted to know the answer now.

“Ask me. Whatever it is you want to know.” He reached across the table and touched my chin, tilting my head up to meet his gaze. “I’ll tell you whatever you want to know.”

I pressed my lips into a line. “What did Daniel do? Why did he have to fake his death?”

He released my chin and grabbed hold of his beer. He took a drink and shook his head at me. “I don’t know the answer to that one. My guess is he knows something he shouldn’t. If I knew what he knew, I wouldn’t be here talking to you about it right now.”

I nodded. “And why would he keep something he knew quiet in Japan? Why did they let him live if he knew something so important that he had to die for it?”

He looked directly in my eyes, not letting me look away this time. “I don’t know. I have my suspicions.” He shrugged again. “But I don’t know the answer for sure.”

I picked up my straw and stirred it around my drink, never looking away from him. “I guess I can’t ask you ‘anything’ then, can I?”

He looked down at the table and gave a little chuckle. “I guess not.”

My lips pressed together again. “What can you tell me?”

He lifted one shoulder in a slight shrug. “What do you want to know?”

I tilted my head up and looked at the ceiling in frustration before looking back across at him. “I don’t know.

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