Can I Trust You? by Alexander Romeo

Author:Alexander, Romeo
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-01-18T00:00:00+00:00

SEBASTIAN

I hated long car trips.

“Christ,” I muttered, reaching to snap off the radio. “Do we need all that noise in here?”

This was the fourth car we’d grabbed in the past five hours, and I was well past dealing with him trying to make the radio in each vehicle work. This SUV was our best find yet, in the best shape, and the least likely to cause us trouble for a while. The owners were in the Bahamas for another week, meaning they wouldn’t notice it was gone until long after we’d rid ourselves of it.

If the SUV managed not to end up like the last one Leon had interacted with, the owners would probably be thrilled when they got it back. The first thing I did was get into the vehicle’s systems and improve its security. Honestly, people had no idea how easy it was to crack the ‘smart’ systems of their vehicles, potentially giving up personal information or making their vehicle easy to manipulate from the outside. After about ten minutes installing a few programs, however, both problems were taken care of.

Now, if only my problems could be taken care of so easily.

“I was listening to that,” Leon complained from the driver’s seat, reaching to turn it back on.

“Stop!” I snapped, slapping his hand. “My headache is bad enough as it is.”

“And whose fault is that?”

“Yours! Just be glad I’m allowing you to drive after that spectacularly horrible driving earlier!”

“Allowing me,” he sneered, smacking my hand back and turning the radio on again. “I’d love to see you force me to let you drive, Mr. Concussion.”

“It’s mild at worst,” I countered with a roll of my eyes. “I’m sure you’ve had a few in your time.”

“Enough of them to know they’re not to be fucked with,” he growled. “And here, in a few minutes, you’re going to go into this fucking clinic, and you’re going to be looked over.”

The problem with even attempting to argue with him was that my own plan essentially trapped me. I had, after all, agreed to allow myself to be looked at once we were reasonably free of danger, which it appeared we were.

I had been wire-tight with tension when we’d made it down that back road to the farmhouse. A bit of browsing a map of the area, along with some reasonable assumptions, meant I found a place to hide the van, hopefully keeping it from being found for a few days. With that done, Leon had been the one to insist on going to the farm half a mile down to get a vehicle for us, leaving before I could protest.

With him gone, I’d been forced to acknowledge just how helpless I was as I stayed in the frozen van. Without Leon at my back, I was unable to do anything but twiddle my thumbs and imagine the worst. It was obvious which of us was the more capable combatant, and if I had been found while he was away, there would have been little I could have done to help myself.

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