Ruined With You by J. Kenner

Author:J. Kenner
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781940673882
Publisher: Martini & Olive

Chapter Sixteen

“I think it’s time for you to take a little trip,” Ryan says to me. “On paper, anyway.”

I look at Liam, alarmed. “What? What does that even mean?”

“It means it’s time for Leah to be on point,” Liam says. “Unless Ryan has something else in mind.”

“Nope, you read me perfectly.”

“Ditch and switch?” Leah grins as she winks at me. “I’m game.”

“What’s that?”

“We want to distract anyone who might have traced you back to LA,” Leah says.

“But we were careful,” I insist. “There’s no way they could have followed us from the cabin.”

Ryan slides back into his chair at the head of the table. “Not disagreeing, but even without Liam in the picture, it makes sense you’d come here. You live here, right?”

“Yeah. I rent the garage apartment at Ella’s place.”

“So if you left the concert because of the attack, the odds are you’d go home. That’s what they’d likely assume, anyway, and we’re going to let that play out.”

“But I’m not there.” I shoot a frantic look at Liam. “I don’t want to go back there. If they’re watching it—”

“You won’t,” Liam says calmly. “You’re staying with me.”

“Tonight,” Ryan amends, “she’s staying with Emma.”

“But—”

He holds up a hand, silencing Liam. “Let me finish.”

I glance at Liam, who’s looking warily at his boss and friend. But he’s letting Ryan continue without argument. For now, anyway.

“Go on,” I say.

“I want you to call Ellie. From your phone,” he adds, sliding my phone across the table to me. The SSA already gave me another to use while this nightmare is in play, and now I don’t even want to touch my old one, in case Noyce and his men really have been tracking me with it. “Not from here. And don’t turn it back on yet. Liam can take you to the beach later before he drops you at Emma’s. Find a dive where you might have grabbed something to eat, understand?”

I look at Liam and nod.

“Then call Ellie. Thank her for the cabin and tell her what happened—don’t mention that you know who’s behind it. But tell her that you need to get out of LA since they’ll be looking for you there. Tell her you’re—”

“Going to Paris?” With Liam, I silently add.

I’m being silly, of course. I don’t even have a passport, although I bet the SSA could manufacture one for me if need be…

“Seattle,” he says.

“Oh. It’s not Paris, but that’s cool. I’ve never been there.”

“And you aren’t going now.” Once again, Ryan is making my head spin. “Tell her you know where you’re going to hole up, and you’ll call her when you get there. Meanwhile, Liam, you call Ellie, too, and tell her to mention the call and Xena’s plans to someone on her staff she’d normally confide in. But to do it near some other crew members. Where she can be overheard.”

“Why?” I ask.

“You told me that no one followed you to Ella’s cabin,” Liam says. “That means someone told them you were there. Which means

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