Page 22 of Kiss the Dawn
“Hemlock is going to look into it.”
“Good.”
“Although I did ask Micah to dig around too.”
“Your mentor?”
“Yes. He called before we left to check on me.”
“And you told him where you were going?”
“Protocol. I’m stationed in Dracul as a watcher, and part of that contract is to keep my Order contact in the loop if I have to leave the territory. I didn’t go into details, just that I had family on the Isle and that my Order parents weren’t my biological parents.”
“And?” He carried two cups of coffee over. “What did he say?”
“He told me not to go. Said it was too dangerous and asked me to hold off until he could find out the truth on his end.”
“And yet you’re here.”
“It makes sense to be.”
He sipped his coffee. “It does, and I won’t let any harm come to you.”
I believed him. “I know you won’t.”
He held my gaze for several seconds, and my face grew warm. He released me with a smile. “Do you believe in destiny, Orina?”
“I’m not sure.”
He settled in his seat and looked out the window. “Interesting.”
“What’s that supposed to mean?”
He sat up straighter, his attention on something out the window that I couldn’t see. “Rodney, do you see it?” he called.
“I see it, boss,” Rodney said.
“What is it?”
“I think we have a tail.”
There was indeeda vehicle not too far on the road behind us. But if Lorenzo was worried, he wasn’t showing it.
I, on the other hand, wasn’t so cool about it. “Who’d want to tail us? Can you check who else left the dome today?”
“They wouldn’t have necessarily come from the dome,” Lorenzo said. “They could have been waiting for us to leave the dome.”
“But who out here would know about our trip?”
“Did your friend Crush kill the bounty hunter and his people or simply beat them black and blue?”
“I…I don’t know. But the bounty is off. The Circle retracted it.”
“Doesn’t matter. The hunters know that you’revaluable to them, and not everyone is averse to blackmail.”
“Fuck.”
“Yes. Precisely. Rodney, how far to the pockets?”
