Dominic nodded. He seemed oddly unconcerned about being arrested, seemed to think Alex would be getting off easily. I almost mentioned it, but then thought better of it. Dominic turned.
“Just a minute,” I said. “I need to speak to him alone for a minute.”
Talon and Ryan nodded.
I walked out of the bar with Dominic. “It’s no coincidence that you ended up as Marjorie’s trainer at the gym, is it?”
“No. My brother’s been watching her, and I’ve been watching him, all while waiting for the order to get her to safety.”
“I see. And when I came into the gym?”
“That’s when I realized the situation was dire,” he said.
I lifted my brow, trying to appear less surprised than I was. “How so?”
Dominic dug his wallet out of his pocket, opened it, and pulled out a white card. “This.” He handed it to me.
The card I’d lost, with the account set up for the Spider.
“It’s my brother’s calling card,” he said.
Chapter Twenty-Eight
Marjorie
Happy people don’t carry razor blades around in their purse.
Jade’s words rang in my mind as I contemplated how to respond to them.
Maybe if I just didn’t respond—
“You going to answer me?” she said.
“You didn’t ask a question.” True enough.
“Let me rephrase, then. Why did you have a razor blade in your purse?”
I bit my lower lip, silently gulping.
“I get it. It’s personal. But this is me, Marj. Your best friend. We don’t have secrets.”
“It’s a security blanket,” I said.
“Why would a sharp blade be security? Do you mean for self-defense?”
“Yeah. Sure.” Even I could hear the lie in those words.
“Try again,” she said.
“It’s over, okay? I just needed some relief from the pain, you know? The fact that I was conceived is why Talon was taken. Gave me a little bit of a complex, which I’m thinking might be normal under the circumstances.”
“That’s very normal,” Jade said. “What’s not normal is cutting yourself.”
I sighed. “It’s over, like I said.”
“All right. Just know you can talk to me if you need to. You know I’d never break a confidence.”
“I know.”