Quicksilver by Elise Noble

Author:Elise Noble [Noble, Elise]
Language: eng
Format: epub

The wait for Rafael and Marisol to arrive from the airport was the longest hour of Black’s life, and considering some of the torture sessions he’d endured as part of his “education,” that was saying something.

“You okay, buddy?” Nate asked.

“No.”

Finally, the front door opened, and he heard voices.

“You said we were going to meet the investigator. This is just a house. What kind of outfit is this man running?”

Three figures appeared in the doorway. A wiry man with a salt-and-pepper goatee, a dark-haired woman who looked to be in her fifties, although Black knew Dores was no older than him, and Marisol da Silva. Even grey-haired and sitting in a wheelchair, she had a commanding presence. Her gaze locked straight onto his.

“Are you the man looking for Corazon?”

“Yes.”

She didn’t take her eyes off him and wheeled herself closer, closer, until she was two feet away. Now she didn’t look quite so confident, and she glanced back at her grandson before closing her eyes for a second. When she opened them again, the hardness was back.

“My apologies. For a moment, you reminded me of somebody I lost.”

Now Rafael stepped forward.

“Grandma, he is somebody you lost.”

“What are you talking about? Ramiro died.”

Ramiro. The other, older brother Black never got to meet.

“Not Ramiro. I don’t even know where to start with this story. Neither of us does. We hadn’t planned on telling you until we found Cora, but now you’re here and—”

“Just spit it out.”

“He’s one of the twins. I don’t know which.”

Marisol looked back at Black, and if he’d thought her stare was intense before, now he wanted to wither like a seedling in the desert.

“How did…” Her words trailed off, and a tear rolled down her cheek.

Black did the only thing he could. He knelt before her and opened his arms, and then she was crying, he was crying, everyone in the whole fucking place was crying.

Only Emmy managed to speak.

“Reckon this breaks the record for the most assassins in one room?”

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