The Ghost Syndicate by K R Hill

Author:K R Hill [Hill, K R]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-12-08T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20

They walked down the marble steps of police headquarters, shook hands with their attorney, and walked to the corner.

“This isn’t fun and games anymore,” said Bartholomew.

“Don’t sweat it. Self-defense. We have five witnesses to confirm our story. Let it go. It’s not the police we need to worry about.” Connor stopped beside a trashcan, dropped his cell phone onto the sidewalk, smashed it with a heel of his shoe, bent down and picked up the pieces, and dropped them in the trashcan. “Give me yours.”

“Mine?” Bartholomew pressed his phone to his chest.

“Yes, yours. How the hell did that Zakai find us so quickly? Do you know that he doesn’t have some tracker on your phone? Do you want to run into him again?”

Bartholomew handed over his phone.

Connor dropped it onto the sidewalk the same way he had his own, stomped on it, kicked some of the smaller pieces into the gutter, and picked up the large ones and tossed them in the trash.

“I guess I won’t be getting my upgrade.” Bartholomew looked in the trashcan.

“Get your car and meet me at pop’s. Park it a few blocks away. I’ll swing by a shop and pick up a couple of burner phones. Everything we do from now on, we pay cash. Don’t get caught. I’ll see you there.”

Forty-five minutes later, they met at the condo above the garage in Signal Hill.

Connor waited on the terrace beside the old wooden staircase. He hadn’t been there long when Bartholomew came walking up the driveway.

The staircase creaked as they climbed.

“Hey,” said Bartholomew. “I remember Artie, dad’s old partner, wasn’t very tall, but had super wide shoulders.”

Connor stopped. “Yeah, he’s not the kind of guy that blends in. Why?”

Bartholomew flipped a thumb over his shoulder. “Well, either I’m going crazy, or Artie was trying to follow me. There can’t be two guys in the world built like that.”

Connor looked past Bartholomew to the Street. “You’re kidding. He said he had our backs, but he wouldn’t actually follow us, would he?” He knocked a couple times and heard steps inside the condo.

Ashley pulled him into the kitchen and rolled her eyes. “You got to get me out of here. She’s been asking me the same thing all morning: where’s my shining stars? Where are Connor and Bartholomew?”

Connor held Ashley’s face in both hands and moved his nose an inch from hers. “I need to talk to you, but please, let me speak to Tia Alma first. She relaxes when we talk.”

Ashley took ahold of his wrist. “Tell me you can fix all this,” she whispered.

“I can. Let me talk to her, then I need to explain so much.”

Connor sat beside Tia Alma’s bed and held her hand. He reminisced about the time she had marched down to his elementary school and shouted at the principal because he had administered a spanking to Connor. That story made Alma laugh, and when she stopped laughing, she asked for ice cream. Five minutes after she finished the ice

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