The Red Ledger, Book 4 by Meredith Wild

Author:Meredith Wild
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781642630251
Publisher: Waterhouse Press

CHAPTER SIX

Isabel

After several minutes of anxiously pacing the motel room, I decide to call my mother. As soon as she realizes my phone isn’t pinging my location anymore, she’ll worry.

“Where are you?” My mother’s panicked voice cracks through the phone as soon as she picks up.

“Mom, calm down.” I get up and start to pace again. “I’m fine.”

“Calm down? You’re with a man who kills people for a living, and you’re asking me to calm down? I just buried you, Isabel. I endured a wake, a funeral, a burial, and a reception in my home with all of our friends and family. For days I’ve pretended in front of everyone that you were dead and being lowered into the ground. To pull that off, I had to make myself believe it, and then suddenly your phone is off and I can’t reach you.”

The hysteria in her voice is unlike anything I’ve ever heard. “Mom, please. I’m sorry, okay? Please calm down. I promise you, I’m fine.”

“Are you still in New York?”

I sigh, embattled over this tug of war between her and Tristan that I don’t expect will ever go away. He craves anonymity, and she’s going to lose her mind if she doesn’t know where I am.

“Not anymore,” I say. “We’re just outside Philadelphia.”

“What are you doing there?”

“I… We had to see someone. And then I think we’re heading to Florida.” I rub my forehead vigorously because I’m not sure how to explain all of this, but I’m not sure she’ll give me any choice.

“What’s in Florida?”

“There’s a woman Tristan’s been hired to take care of. Obviously he’s not going to do that, but we’re going to talk to her and see if we can maybe figure out who might want her dead.”

I can only hear her breathing on the other end of the phone. Calming down, I hope, though this news could have the opposite effect.

“This is a dangerous game you’re playing, Isabel. Trust me, it almost cost me you.”

“I know that. But it’s a game Tristan knows. This is his playground. His kind of people.”

“Which is exactly why you shouldn’t be along for the ride. I sent you to Martine’s to keep you safe. Not so you could throw yourself right back into danger with him.”

I’m quiet a moment, contemplating what she’s done. Never mind these choices are mine now. None of this would have happened if it weren’t for her vengeance. If Tristan hadn’t left to begin with…

“Did you know about Dad’s involvement in recruiting Tristan into the army?”

She pauses. “What are you talking about?”

“I found a letter that Dad wrote, recommending him for a Special Forces team.” I pause. “Did you know about it?”

Silence stretches between us.

The anger and resentment I felt the night I discovered the letter is compounded now. “I can’t believe it. All this time, you knew. You watched everything fall apart between us, and that was exactly what you wanted.” I bite my lip hard, consumed with disbelief, utterly betrayed.

I hear her sigh through the phone.

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