Trick of Silver by Jamie Craig

Author:Jamie Craig [Craig, Jamie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: JMS Books LLC
Published: 2019-09-28T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6

It had never occurred to Aden that Darren might steal his car. The young man was too shaken by what had happened to do much of anything but take orders. If they hadn’t had to get out of the house as soon as possible, Aden might have tried snapping him out of it with a good fuck, but time was not on their side. For some inexplicable reason, Ray Giessen had survived the fall. From what Aden had seen, he probably hadn’t even broken a bone, and he was most definitely still conscious. There was no telling what kind of stories he was going to concoct.

Going to his house was dangerous, taking Darren there even more so. For all his argument at the Giessen house, Aden knew there was no other alternative. Darren was as much a victim in this as he was, and no other place would be safer. Better to keep an eye on him and ensure his personal longevity, than to drop him off and have him run off to the bitch who’d set him up in the first place.

To be safe, however, Aden made a last minute change in his plans. He steered the car out of town and called Domingo, his personal assistant, to have the house on the reserve unlocked by the time he got there.

“Just in case,” he said when Darren questioned him upon disconnecting. “Plus, better security.”

“You’re still letting an Argenti agent into your home. Decide you can trust me?”

“No.” He smiled. “But I can beat you, if it comes down to a fight.”

“Yeah. Well, I don’t intend to start a fight. I hope you aren’t planning on one.”

“Not with you,” Aden promised. Though when not even that drew a positive response from Darren, he added, “You’re worrying about this too much. We stopped the ritual. That was the hard part.”

“That was the hard part for you. I don’t think the hard part for me has started yet.”

“You’re alive, aren’t you? And you know you can’t trust that Jasmine. What else is so hard to face?”

“Jasmine isn’t just my superior. She’s my mentor and my friend. Now I have to face…never mind. You’re right. Everything’s great.”

“No, not never mind.” Aden reached across the distance between them to shove at Darren’s shoulder, as if the physical jolt would snap him out of this mood. “You have to face what?”

“Being an Argenti agent isn’t something you do in your spare time. It’s twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. It’s my life. The other agents are my family. And now…look, the alpha just kicked me out of the pack, okay? I don’t have anything else.”

The analogy worked for him. He hadn’t even considered how much Darren might be losing, the possibility it could be more than a job. He knew Argenti agents were devoted, the best trained operatives out there. That’s what made them so dangerous. But he hadn’t considered just how insular they really were. And with Darren cut off…

“Maybe I’m wrong then,” he tried.

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