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“Dad?”

The heightened pitch of Elliot’s voice snapped hts “Yeah, El, I’m here Sorry,” Ihbor’s ay

“You okay?” Elliot asked

I nodded and said, “I’ood You?”

This tiy to

Not only for lying to him because I was veryhe said after that

Because I was too dahts of a certain nondescript sedan and its driver as anything but

Chapter 7

Matias

“How’d you find me this ti across the street

I heard Cruz sigh “You kno,” he muttered I didn’t react when he stepped out of the shadows and came to stand next to me at the mouth of the alley “If you didn’t want me to find you, you’d dump your phone and use a burner,” he added

“Mht, of course I didn’t bother telling him the real reason I always kept my phone with me was so he could always find me if he needed me, even when I wasn’t necessarily in the mood to be found

Like tonight

“When are you going to stop this?” Cruz asked

“When he’s six feet under”

I didn’t need to be looking at Cruz to knohat he was thinking As e anything

“Just let it go, Matias,” Cruz murmured His hand settled on my shoulder and it was all I could do not to flinch But Ito make my brother aware of my discomfort with the physical contact because he ilance at him His disappoint I could do to change it

The days when I’d been a co since passed My eyes shifted back to the bar across the street I willed the door to open and for hih it Then this would all finally be over and I could fucking breathe again And my kid brother would be safe

“Bishop is gone, Matias,” Cruz said, his voice growing heavy with a er

I ignored his about Clinton “The Bishop” Tennant that Cruz didn’t Like how my very unbalanced former second-in-co himself, he’d never leave a mission unfinished

And his mission was to destroy me