I’m decided to complete this case. However as I stroll again to my desk, his mentioning working with the International Group and having enterprise ties with Dae nonetheless rings in my head.

CHAPTER 31

Kennedy

A shiver of worry rolls down my backbone. I peer over my shoulder and make out a few vehicles on the one-way avenue. There are a couple of teenagers hanging out on the entrance porch of one of many properties throughout the road from the place I’m strolling.

I’m in a comparatively quiet lower-class neighborhood on the outskirts of Williamsport. I left my automotive at work and caught a cab to this facet of city. I took the cab to pay in money with out leaving an digital path.

I additionally left my private telephone on the workplace. I solely have my burner telephone with me.

As I proceed to stroll to the spot the place Nicole informed me to satisfy her, nothing apparent seems to be out of the odd.

But, it looks like there’s an invisible shadow that I can’t shake.

I look over my shoulder once more, and after I flip again, I virtually crash into a man strolling in the other way.

“Sorry,” I inform him.

He nods and retains strolling.

When my telephone buzzes, it makes me soar.

“Hey?” I reply.

“Are you there but? I’m about 5 minutes away,” Nicole says.

“I’ll be there quickly. I simply have to take a detour.”

I select to dip right into a nook retailer for a couple of minutes. After hanging up with Nicole, I purchase a pack of gum and a bottle of water earlier than exiting the shop.

As a substitute of heading towards my assembly level with Nicole and her boyfriend, I flip in the other way and make a proper on the subsequent block.

Since my burner telephone doesn’t have GPS functionality, I mentally monitor every flip I take to ensure I understand how to guide again to my unique vacation spot.

As soon as the sensation of being watched subsides, I test over my shoulder once more. No acquainted vehicles or passersby stay behind me. With reduction, I begin for the proper assembly level.

It takes me a further ten minutes by foot to reach, however understanding I’m not being adopted is price it. By the point I get to the car parking zone of the comfort retailer, which is instantly throughout the road from a two-story motel, Nicole and her boyfriend, Michael, are there.

“Kennedy.” She waves me over.

“Did you simply get right here?” I ask.

“A couple of minutes.”

“Do you assume anybody adopted you?” I ask, trying between them each.

Michael snorts. “Who the fuck would comply with us?” His phrases aren’t laced with anger however extra of a dismissal tone. As if my query is past ridiculous.

I look him over. He’s at the least ten years older than Nicole, who’s twenty-two. His eyes are barely bloodshot, and he appears to be like like he’d moderately be anyplace else than right here.

“Kennedy, that is my boyfriend, Michael. Who I informed you about,” Nicole introduces.

He murmurs, “Yeah, good to satisfy you.”

“Pleasure is all mine.” I nod at him. A fast look between her and this man tells me she’s too good for him. There’s a candy high quality about Nicole that he doesn’t deserve.

“It’s getting darkish, so they need to be right here quickly,” Nicole says. “Proper?” She appears to be like over at Michael.

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