Saying it out loud makes my throat feel scratchy.
“Yes.”
“Who was the second?”
“His name was Harry.”
“Do you feel guilty?”
Silence meets my question but then he sighs and answers, “No.”
“You’re evil.”
“Evil has a lot of faces, little bird, what you and I classify as evil are very different.”
“So what happens to him now?”
“He gets cleaned up.”
“He disappears,” I rectify.
“Yes.”
“How long have you done this?”
“Always.”
“And Lawson, it was me he wanted to hurt?”
“Yes.”
“Are you sure?”
“If you need confirmation, Ryker was witness.”
I scoff, “As if I’d believe he would tell me the truth.”
“If I asked him to, he would.”
“It’s too early for this,” I grumble.
“You wanted to talk,” Alexander shifts behind me and then his body is gone. He sits at the edge, scrubbing his hands down his face.
“Well I apologize for wanting to understand how I fit into all of this.”
“There’s more going on than I realized but that’s all you need to know.” He stands and stretches, “You’re safe here.”
“With you.” I deadpan.
His steel eyes trap me but he doesn’t say anything, just stares, making me squirm in the bed. To break the stare, I climb out of bed and go to the bathroom, shutting and locking the door behind me. I lean against the wood, taking a deep breath.
When I come out twenty minutes later, my room is empty. The call for coffee is too strong to ignore and if this is how it’s going to be I can’t ignore it forever.
I dress in one of my favorite summer dresses seeing as the sun is blaring outside. I may not be allowed out the front door but I can sit in the window and pretend. Pulling my hair into a pony tail I rifle through the belongings he had delivered to the house, finding my pill packet.
I’ve missed so many, but I should be okay. I pop one out and swallow it down dry before stashing the packet inside my makeup bag and heading downstairs.
There’s chatter in the kitchen, hushed voices and for a moment I think about hanging back and eavesdropping but the look I’m being thrown by one of Lex’s guys has me reconsidering.