“You leave, I keep it safe, you stay away frommycity, your information and your identities remain hidden from the public.”
“How can you be trusted?”
“I can’t,” I admit, “But are you willing to take the risk?”
“How many people have it?” He asks.
“Enough.”
“They wont like this.”
“That’s a shame,” I say.
Eric waves a hand, disarming his guy but I don’t relax, not yet.
“Ainsley,” I continue, “She comes home.”
“I can’t do that,” he says, “she’s far too valuable.”
“Then we don’t have a deal.”
“I can’t promise you a single thing, Silver but I know yourAinsleyis an asset.”
“Then what can you promise.”
“Your city.” He growls, “We leave, in return you keep the information you have concealed.”
“And Ainsley?”
“She belongs to the Syndicate now.”
“No!” Ryker growls.
I had to think bigger than this. Ainsley was smart. Lethal. She could handle this.
“Fine.”
“Fine!?” Ryker hisses.
I ignore him though I know he’ll be pissed but this is what needed to be done to take the enemy off our turf. I’ll figure out another way to get Ainsley out of this mess.
“Do we have ourselves a deal?” I ask.
Eric pauses but then huffs, “Yes.”
I don’t dare relax, not until I watch the man exit my grounds and then have men follow him until he passes the city limits. I don’t relax until I know he’s far away from Wren and far away from me.
This city remains in the Silver hands and I’ll be dead long before I see it anywhere else.