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I smiled. “You sound like you care, Zion.”
“I’ve met with Fred many times. He’s not a bad person. He’s brilliant, and he’s stuck. They could have just let him walk away. Why kill him?”
“If it’s his family that is trying to kill him, that’s easy to answer. You simply don’t just walk away from the mob, Zion, you know that.”
He tutted. “Ridiculous.”
“We’ve dealt with many oddities; this one is actually tamer than most.”
He shrugged. “Perhaps.” He gestured to his laptop. “We need to go over what Eden discovered.”
“I’ll head to the pool house and ask Fred to meet us in the sitting room when he’s done.”
Zion spun on his heel and left, and I made my way to the pool house.
I was about to knock on the door, but Aiden’s raised voice stopped me.
“So you’re just going to believe that Lex Talionis isn’t behind this?”
“If they can’t be trusted, why’d you bring me here to recover?”
I couldn’t see their faces, but Fred’s voice was full of that brattiness I adored, and Aiden was clearly upset.
“I didn’t have a choice. At the time I didn’t think they were responsible, but now I’m not sure.”
“Why, Aiden? What’s changed?”
“Just a feeling.”
There was a pregnant pause, and then Fred responded. “Even more reason to leave this place and for me to get home.”
“You’re not one hundred percent.”
Fred chuckled. “That’s why I have you. You’ll watch my back, right?”
“Of course,” Aiden answered without hesitation, and that was the moment I knocked.
“Come in,” Fred shouted.
I opened the door and saw Aiden and Fred standing across from each other.
“Pardon the interruption. Zion has news and is waiting in the sitting room. Whenever the two of you are done, meet us in there.” After eavesdropping, I realized how suspicious it would be to ask Fred to come alone. If they thought me and my people were behind this, I had to convince him we weren’t.
I didn’t wait for an answer. I left, wondering so many things. Why was I uneasy letting Fred leave? Was Aiden to be trusted? Who’d done this, and if he wasn’t in my line of sight how could I prevent it from happening again? And why did I care so goddamn much?
Zion had linked his laptop to the large TV in the sitting room. Fred and Aiden entered and took the two seats on the opposite side of the room. It was telling, how he consciously or maybe subconsciously drew a line between me and him.
Before he began, Zion glanced at me. He really didn’t want Aiden in this meeting and while I understood, it was far riskier to discount him. I nodded to Zion, and he began.
“Eden and Thomas were made point on digging into the shooting.” Zion clicked a button, and a photo of shell casings appeared on the screen. “As you know I explained that nine millimeter, forty caliber, and forty-five caliber shells were found in the SUV.”
Fred waved his hand in a “Get on with it” gesture, and I couldn’t help the smirk that adorned my face. Fred noticed and simply narrowed his eyes.
“Right.” Zion clicked another key. “These are the autopsy reports for Sean and Aine.”
Fred sat up straighter and visibly swallowed. “That was done quickly.”
“Connections.” I shrugged.
