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“I haven’t seen her.” Tommy shrugs. “I literally just walked in and he was here alone.” He comes around the bed and places a hand on my shoulder. “You and I need to have a little talk,” he says squinting his eyes.
“I’ll be right back,” I tell Mandy and Tyler before leading Tommy down the hallway to a quiet area in front of Dr. Novacek’s office. We both move down the corridor in silence, each of us knowing that our conversation is probably not going to be pleasant.
Tommy is the first to break the silence after looking around to ensure our privacy. “What the hell do you think you’re doing?” he asks; his eyes grow instantly dark and his nostrils even flaring up a bit.
“What the hell am I doing?” I step toward him and give him an equally intense glare. “After all you’ve done, you have the balls to ask me what I’m doing?” I can almost feel the crash of my tightly clenched fist colliding with his arrogant face.
“What have I done?” He steps back with a puzzled look on his face. “That’s the whole thing… I don’t understand what you think I’ve done.”
“Really? You’re going to play innocent with me?” I ask as my phone begins to buzz. “I’m sorry, but I have to take this,” I tell him, stepping back and answering.
“What the fuck?” he yells at me. “You’re not going to just walk away from this, are you?” He looks completely flabbergasted.
“Sorry.” I mouth to him. “I have to take this call.” I point to the screen, turn and begin walking back to the main corridor. “Hello, this is Trey,” I answer, actually feeling a bit of satisfaction from leaving Tommy standing there with a dropped jaw.
“Is this Trey Addison?” a deep voice on the other end of the line asks.
“Yes, it is.” I pick up my pace back to Tyler’s room, not wanting to have this conversation in the hallway.
“Jack Ryker asked me to give you a call,” he explains. “He tells me you need some protection.”
“Yeah, that’s putting it mildly.” I jog the last hundred feet to Tyler’s room. “Let me get to where I have some privacy before I explain things to you.” I pull the door shut behind me. Both Tyler and Mandy look at me with wide eyes, probably wondering if someone is chasing me. “It’s Anthony,” I whisper to her while heading for a chair in the opposite corner of the room.
“Jack tells me that a couple of people have already died, one of them being your father?” he continues in a very business-like manner.
“Yes, that’s correct,” I confirm, still feeling a pang in my heart upon his mention of Dad’s death. “Today they found my brother’s former doctor dead, as well as the chairman of our board. The chairman’s was made to look like a suicide, but I highly doubt it.”
“So there have been three deaths that you know of in addition to your brother being poisoned,” he recaps.
“Correct. And tonight a black sedan followed us on the way to the hospital and when we slowed down to turn the corner they came up on us and rammed us from behind,” I add feeling a flutter of anxiety in my chest. “It scared the shit out of our limo driver.”
“Okay, as of now, I’ll be your new driver,” he says with a lighter tone in his voice. “Are you still at Bellevue?”
“Yes, we are up in the ICU with my brother right now, but they are moving him sometime tonight.” I glance over at Tyler looking for confirmation. Unfortunately, he simply returns a blank stare.
“We have six men out in the field, so three of us will be there in twenty to thirty minutes,” he replies with a strain in his voice. It sounds like he just threw something heavy into the trunk of his car and slammed the lid. “Just hit me back at this number if anything changes.”
“All right, will do…”
Mandy
Tyler and I both watch Trey as he finishes up his call with Anthony. He keeps pacing back and forth, running his fingers through his hair. I feel the same level of nervous energy coursing through my entire body. Even though we are both sleep deprived, there is more than enough adrenaline to make up for it.
“They’ll be here in half an hour,” he says after lowing his phone from his ear. “Anthony will be our new driver, so Tony can take a little time off. He’s bringing two other members with him, so one can stay here and we should probably keep an eye on Becky, the receptionist, as well. She knows too much to be considered safe.”
