Watts by Kate Dawes

Author:Kate Dawes [Dawes, Kate]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-02-23T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Seven (Catherine)

I was sitting sideways on the couch, legs crossed, my knees touching his thigh. Watts sat facing forward. As he told me his story, he would occasionally turn his head to make eye contact with me. But most of the time I watched him in profile.

I listened with rapt attention as Watts told me everything. Parts of it made me want to cry. Others made me want to cringe. Some of it made me want to scream that he couldn’t be telling me the truth, and run out of there.

But I did none of those things. I granted him his wish—that I hear him out—and by the time he got to the end, I felt what can only be described as an interminable bond with him.

It was an odd feeling…like we were two puzzle pieces that I knew fit together, I just didn’t know exactly how yet.

And I had questions.

“What was that night like? Weren’t you scared?”

Watts shook his head. “No. I was so focused on what we were doing, I don’t think I had one second’s worth of time to spend on being scared or nervous.”

I wasn’t sure how far I should go with the questioning. I thought of asking him how many people he has killed, but thought better of it. I didn’t want to know.

“I want you to know something,” he said. “I don’t do it directly anymore.”

“What do you mean?”

He turned to face me. “I set it all up. I get the intel, scout the location where it’s going to take place, gather as much information as I can on the targets, and then someone else does the takedown.”

“Why don’t you?”

He stared at me intently. “This is getting into details, Catherine.”

“You said you would tell me.”

He nodded. “I need to be one step away from it, so I recruit people to do the hits. I have someone—a contact—who puts me in touch with groups of people who are, shall we say, less than desirable. Mob guys, drug lords, guys like that. This way, if they’re caught, I’m at least one step away from the investigation and it will give me time to get out of here.”

“Out of Baltimore?”

He looked down, then back up. “Out of the United States.”

That wasn’t what I wanted to hear. “So that could happen almost anytime, right?”

He nodded.

“Why,” I asked, “doesn’t the U.S. government or the British government do this instead of you having to do it? And this guy you told me about, Mr…?”

“Atherton.”

“Right. So why don’t they do it?”

Watts rubbed his face, like I was annoying him with the questions, maybe. Or maybe it was just the stress of it all. “The British government isn’t going to send anyone to kill people on American soil, just like the Americans wouldn’t go to Britain and do that. Americans would attempt to arrest any potential terrorists here in the country. And that’s not what we want. It’s that simple. So we get the intel before they do, take quick action, and that’s that.

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