Page 12 of Game of Love
He got my attention real good.
Maybe because I was tired of trying and failing. Every time I got close , or what I thought was close, I got nothing. It was shit. A croc of bull shit that cost money I risked my life making.
I’d tracked Balthazar to all corners of the globe, looking for him everywhere, but just like the fucking past he was always one step ahead of me.
Maybe this was the answer.
The way I’d find him.
I didn’t think I could live another five years like this.
I’d been hiding out in South America, bouncing around from one country to the next, never staying too long. Just long enough to hide after I’d emerged to investigate then move on. It was no way to live.
“A team?” I asked, my mind warming to the idea.
Ethan nodded. “A team Xander. That’s just one thing. The offer for this job is eight hundred thousand.”
“It’s not about the money. There’s more. I want that bastard dead.”
“Me too, and I know it’s not about the money. I want this him dead too. Remember you and I were once friends and I don’t know why you didn’t find some kind of way to reach me. For help.”
He wasn’t the only person I didn’t reach out to and should have. In my head it was better if everyone believed I died. I thought it would be easier to find Balthazar. He couldn’t run if he didn’t know I was the one who was looking for him.
“I thought it was better.”
“No. How?” He lifted his shoulders into a shrug. “You guys were as close as anybody ever got. We haven’t been able to get close since. No sightings.”
At least I’d had more than that, but that was because I’d worked with the underground. People who wouldn’t have associated with any kind of government anything. They were the kind of criminals who rose above money. No money on earth would be worth it to them to be linked with government.
“Xander… I need you on this. I really do. It’s the kind of thing where we want to keep it under wraps as much as possible and you’re the man for the job. We get what we want and potentially save millions of people and you get what you want. I don’t mean to be an ass but… I thinkshewould want you to say yes.”
Claire.
Oh yes she would. She was my team leader after all. She would have definitely said yes.
His reference to her pulled on my heart. she was the only woman who could reach me. Right from way back when.
She would have said yes and she would have wanted me to agree to something that could save millions.
I looked back to Ethan and frowned.
“You hit me over my head, nearly fucking killing me, then you bind me to a chair to ask for my help.”
“Sorry about that man. I couldn’t exactly see you agreeing to meet over a cup of tea.”
“Well I’m not much help to you like this… am I?” I raised my shoulders and sighed. “What do I have to do?”
Ethan smiled.
Chapter 4
Xander
Wes glancedat me as Ethan came into the room.
We were sitting opposite each other around a large table in a meeting room at a military base in Nevada. It looked more like an interrogation room for the lack of windows.
Two agents followed after Ethan and took their seats at the furthest end of the table.
