“You keep saying that, Agent Lawrence,” he sighs. “You keep saying you dropped the investigation, that I have nothing left to be concerned about. Just like you insist you came alone.”
“Because I did drop it. And I did come alone,” he says.
But I don’t miss the way his eyes go wide. It’s slight, but it’s there. And a strange feeling spreads through my chest, like a cold breeze only I can feel.
Aleks exchanges a glance with Demyan and then shakes his head. “Then why are there ten unmarked FBI vans in a quarter-mile radius? Why have they formed a circle around us? Why are you using private government radio channels to communicate with them?”
I turn white as a ghost. “Rob, you… you brought backup?”
I can see the truth on his face: he’s not here alone like I thought he was. Like he swore h
