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“Spill.”
“I can’t,” he responded, but I knew what he really meant. I can’t over the phone. But even if he could, he wouldn’t.
“Fine. I’ll stay out of trouble as always. Now, let me go. I’ll be running late if I stay listening to your unsaid words.”
Viktor huffed. “Stay in touch.”
I ended the call, running my hands over my face and through my short blonde strands. The only thing I got out of our short conversation was the troubled tone of my brother and uncertainty.
And that was never good.
“Ilias Novak, what the hell have you gotten yourself into now?”
With a smug grin, I watched my partner, Allen, sipping on a styrofoam cup as he waited for me. I walked through the entrance of the precinct to where he was standing. He knew I liked keeping a low profile, so I shrugged and greeted him with an arm shake.
“What the hell are you talking about? I just got back from a call,” I asked.
Allen’s brown hair was freshly cut around the edges and his brown eyes shifted to the corner as his head dipped. He opened his mouth, but his words got stuck when we both heard my name loud and clear.
“Novak, my office please.” I hardly got the chance to see the chief before he returned back to his office.
“That,” Allen nodded toward the chief’s office, “was what I was trying to say.”
I looked down at Allen unamused.
“Thanks for the heads up,” I said, and made my way to the end of the precinct.
Allen was the only person I’d ever gotten close to in the Academy. Other than him, I hardly spoke to the others, and that was saying a lot. No one minded. To them, I was just the quiet rookie who kept to himself. When really, I was playing a dangerous game with one foot in the law and the other on a dangerous path.
“Officer Novak, please, come in, take a seat,” Miami’s chief of police said the moment he saw me standing in his doorway. An uneasy feeling crept inside, but I didn’t show it. With a nod, I did as he asked. My thoughts tried to go through anything I might've let slip by, but I was extremely careful. Either way, he couldn’t be calling me due to my extracurricular activities outside of the precinct. If that was the case, I would be in handcuffs and behind steel bars, not sitting on one of the burgundy leather chairs in front of his desk.
My phone vibrated for the third time since I stepped out of my car, and I took a peek on the caller ID while he looked through a thick file. Viktor’s name flashed on my screen, and the call ended, sending him to my generic voicemail. Three missed calls. Lucca, Arlo, and now Viktor. I couldn’t risk answering while inside the walls of my work, so it had to wait until I was done with Chief Pierce.
The sound of the folder closing before me made my gaze meet his brown eyes and peppered hair.
“You asked to see me, Chief?”
His eyes assessed me for a while longer in silence, and I kept mine on his, waiting. His lips puckered in resignation, looking like he was finally going to talk after all.
“I’m pulling you to a special task.”
I was taken aback. I’d never tried to become better than the next officer, always tried to blend with the rest of the men in blue.
Instead of questioning his request, I nodded. There was no point in explaining how there were more officers with the ambition and experience I lacked. Instead, I kept my mouth shut.
“I’m trusting you will keep this information to yourself as it’s completely confidential. This includes the rest of the precinct.”
“Yes, sir.”
“Good, you’ll report only to me,” he expressed, as if I hadn’t understood his orders.
“Yes, sir.”
“From now on, you are in protection of a house that needs around the clock security. There will only be two shifts, you will be taking one of them.”
“Who am I protecting?”
“A young-girl.”
