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“No Like, he was from a different country He had an accent”

Bax and I exchanged a puzzled look No one came to the Point from somewhere else on purpose

“An accent froravel

“I don’t knowreally Irish, Scottish, British, South African—soave hiusted look and

“Where’s my money?” I asked

Marcus looked at e “What?”

I crossed my arave you enough to pay off your debt and extra five Where is my money, Marcus?”

It was a tiny little roo to land anywhere but on the black weekender bag someone had haphazardly tried to shove under the chair next to the bed I inclined rab it I heard the zipper and then he nodded at ave hi but sincere

“I’m done with you I won’t take any irls; stay out of the Point altogether, Marcus”

I pulled as hard as I could until the cable holding the leg I was leaning on gave way fro it elevated There was a popping noise and then the leg and the cast thudded down on the bed with a jarring force, s Bax and I left just as a couple of nurses ca over his shoulder and I followed behind hi a word

When ere back in the car headed back to the garage, I couldn’t help but ask, “A guy with an accent?”

He didn’t say anything for a long minute and then shook his head a little “I have no idea”

“I’ether with Titus tomorrow to see what he knows about my dad I’ll ask him”

“I don’t like it”

We were so used to knoho the ene for us in the dark This neasn’t welcome

“Me either” And I didn’t even want to speculate as to what Nassir’s reaction to this new unknoas going to be We were supposed to be the new big-bad in the Point, not soe on his h the shadows as ere

Wesilence that was only broken by the tapping on my phone as I texted Nassir the newest updates on our situation His response was just a bunch of four-letter words I was going to put my phone ahen I was surprised to see that Brysen was calling iving her until the weekend to stew Then I was going after her whether she was over it or not