Rise by Kaye Blue

Author:Kaye Blue [Blue, Kaye]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-02-19T16:00:00+00:00

Fourteen

Aras

“We need to get out of here,” Ezekiel said.

“No,” I responded.

“Aras, we’re sitting ducks here. We need to go,” he said.

“No,” I responded.

“Why not?” Ezekiel said.

“It’s the only place that connects me to her. If I’m to get a message, it will come here. We are going to be here to receive it,” I said.

“A message?” Ezekiel said, shaking his head.

He didn’t say anything else, but I knew what he was thinking.

A message. Vlad had gotten her back, and he wouldn’t have anything else to say to me.

Oh, he might try to find me. In fact, I was banking on it. But as far as Lake was concerned, she was gone, out of the picture.

I knew that, knew that that was how I would have played it, but I couldn’t accept it.

Wouldn’t accept that she was gone, delivered back to Vlad because of my own folly.

I glanced over at Roman, who was hogtied on the kitchen floor.

When I had found the safe house empty, I got out word that I needed to see him, and it was only happenstance that had delivered him.

He’d gone to a mutual acquaintance to get a clean ride, no doubt ready to disappear and not be heard from again until I was dead.

But I’d found him, and now he would give me information.

The urge to rip him apart limb from limb was almost overwhelming, so much so that I had been tempted to ask Ezekiel to handle this.

But I wouldn’t do that.

Lake was my responsibility.

It was I who had let her down.

I who would do everything in his power to see that she came back to me.

So I swallowed down my rage, pushed it into that place deep inside of me, and then got to business.

I squatted next to Roman, stared at him.

His eyes were pleading, and I could see he wanted to speak, so I ripped the tape off his mouth.

He flinched but didn’t say anything otherwise.

He’d probably figured, correctly, that if tape was the worst thing that happened to him, it would be very good day indeed.

“Aras…”

“Roman…”

“It looks bad, but I can make it up to you,” he said.

“How?” I asked.

“I can tell you where I took her.”

“Yes, you should do that.”

“Regency Hotel. Fourteenth floor.”

“And?”

I was aware of Ezekiel in the background, no doubt sending a team to check out the address.

“And what?” Roman said, his eyes wide, panic setting in.

“You gave me an address. You think that makes us square?” I said.

“I…”

“It doesn’t.”

I reached into my pocket and took out my X-Acto knife.

Such a simple tool, but so effective.

There was an audible pop when I pulled off the lid, and I thought I heard Roman whimper.

I stared at the sharp blade, then looked at Roman, his eyes even wider now, the panic in them acute.

But probably nothing like the panic she had felt when he had delivered her to Vlad.

“The address is helpful, but not enough I’m afraid.”

Moving quickly, but with precision, I jammed the X-Acto knife in the corner of his eye, twisted, then popped the orb out of its socket.

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