I make the deal with Kam, finalizing tonight. “I’ll keep this secret, so long as after tonight I can take her away from all this. Somewhere safe.”
“Somewhere warm,” he adds, seemingly agreeing with me. “I’d like to retire from this bullshit as well. You have a deal. Take her away, protect her. Provide for her. She’ll always have a home here and that doesn’t mean we’re going away. But a bit of quiet will be good for her I think.”
“So that’s a deal.”
“It’s a deal,” he says with finality.
Kam said he brought me in because we understood each other, and it turns out he’s right. I’ll do anything when it comes to her.
Even keep this secret.
The uncertainty still plagues me. Kam must see it in my expression as we stand together, a dead body at our feet. “I can tell you don’t like this, keeping it from The Firm, but if they know, they’re a threat. That means other people might come for them.”
“I don’t want to involve them,” I admit.
“Good. Neither do I. Keep them safe. All men like us protect the ones we love. We keep the people around us safe, whether that means keeping a secret or ending a life. That’s what we do.”