Brett Battles - The Silenced

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Instead of answering, the woman stared at Petra, a knowing smile on her face. “You’re the one who was in Maine, aren’t you?” she said.

Petra tensed.

“And in Los Angeles, too. Right?”

Los Angeles? Except for the watcher on the street, Petra didn’t think she’d been seen in Los Angeles.

“Who are you?” Petra asked.

“I might ask you the same question.”

Petra paused for a moment. There was something about this woman she liked. She got a serious no-bullshit vibe from her. “We are looking for someone we think you might work with.”

“And who would that be?”

“A man named Jonathan Quinn.”

“And I’m supposed to know him?”

“I know you do. You wouldn’t have known where I’ve been, otherwise.” Petra hesitated. “We need to talk to him.”

The woman smirked. “That’s all? Just a little chat?”

“Just talk.”

“Not kill him like you killed David Wills yesterday?”

“We didn’t kill Wills,” Petra said.

“You were there.”

“If I could have talked to him, I wouldn’t be looking for your friend now. But he was dead before I had a chance.”

“So you moved on to Quinn.”

“I have no one left.” Petra knew she sounded desperate, but she didn’t care.

The woman stared curiously at her for a moment. Petra almost felt like she saw sympathy in her eyes. Then the woman looked past Petra, toward the front door.

Petra turned her head to see what the woman had seen. Mikhail was keeping an eye on the other woman, but otherwise there was nothing-

Her gun was suddenly wrenched from her hand. She started to turn back around, but before she could she was flying backward into Mikhail. They both fell to the floor, Petra on top.

“Gun,” the woman said.

She was standing over them, Petra’s weapon in her hand pointing at Petra’s chest.

“Slowly,” the woman said. Mikhail’s gun flew up over his leg and landed on the floor near the woman’s feet.

Not taking her eyes off them, the woman crouched down and picked it up, then stood again. “Now, what exactly is it you want to talk to Quinn about?”

Chapter 38

When Quinn arrived at St. Pancras Station, the inbound Eurostar was already disembarking. Hundreds of passengers were spilling out the doors from the passport control area into the main concourse and mixing with the hundreds of others making their way to and from the domestic trains, or passing through on their way to the Underground at the far end. Barely controlled chaos. If Nate had stuck to his training, he and Liz would have blended in with the departing crowd, being neither the first nor the last to leave. And sure enough, when the exiting crowd was at its height, Nate and Liz appeared.

The look on Nate’s face was all business as he surveyed their new surroundings, while Liz looked tense and tired. Quinn also noticed something else. Not only were they holding hands, but Liz’s other hand was wrapped around Nate’s forearm, keeping him close.

Nate made eye contact with his boss a moment later, but kept walking into the station with no acknowledgment.

Quinn let them pass, and continued to scan the crowd to see if anyone was interested in them. When he was confident their arrival had been unobserved, he joined the flow of exiting passengers.

A minute later he came up to Nate on the side opposite his sister.

“Here,” he whispered as he slipped two Oyster cards into Nate’s hand. “Underground. Piccadilly Line. Southbound.” He then picked up his pace and disappeared back into the crowd before his sister noticed him.

The waiting crowd on the Piccadilly southbound platform was large but off its rush-hour high. When Nate and Liz arrived, Quinn stayed visible just long enough for Nate to spot him, then he took a step back out of sight.

As soon as the next train eased to a stop, Quinn wormed his way through the other travelers and entered the opposite end of the same car Nate and Liz had stepped onto. Again he caught his apprentice’s eye. He held two fingers against the support pole, indicating they were only going two stops. At Holborn, Quinn made his way to the westbound Central Line, making sure that Nate never lost sight of him. From there it was a one-stop ride to Tottenham Court Road, then back outside into the gloomy morning.

Quinn waited, tucked into a shallow recess, until Nate and Liz exited, then he moved beside them and said, “This way.”

“Jake?” Liz said.

“Let’s not talk here.”

“How did you know this was where we were going?”

“Liz, please. Just a few minutes more,” he said, then led them to the apartment Orlando had rented on Charlotte Street.

The moment they were inside and the door was closed, Liz said, “Can we talk here? Or am I still supposed to stay quiet?”

“I’m sorry,” Quinn said. “We had to be careful. We couldn’t risk anyone overhearing us.”

“What the hell is going on?” she asked.

“Everything’s all right now,” Nate said. He reached out to touch her on the arm, but this time she pulled away.

“All right? Are you kidding me?” She looked at her brother. “Have you gotten yourself into some kind of trouble? Is that what’s going on?”

“We don’t have time for this right now,” Quinn said. “I have to get back to Orlando.”

“Orlando? Florida?”

Quinn shook his head. “Not the city. Claire.”

“Claire?” Liz said, surprised. “Your girlfriend? She’s mixed up in this, too?”

“We work together.”

“So she’s not your girlfriend?”

“No, she is,” Quinn said. “But we also work-Never mind. That isn’t important.” He was being drawn into a conversation he neither had time for nor wanted. “I needed to make sure you were safe. And now that you are, I have to go make sure you stay that way.”

“Safe? I had men searching through my apartment building for me. Nate got shot at. Julien’s dead, for God’s sake. I even had to come here using a fake passport. Where’s the ‘safe’ in any of that?”

“Listen to me,” Quinn said. “No one can get to you here. No one knows about this place except the three of us and Orlando.”

“You mean Claire,” Liz said, defiant.

“She prefers ‘Orlando.’ ”

“ ‘Claire’ is actually kind of nice,” Nate said.

“Shut up, Nate,” Quinn said.

“Don’t tell him to shut up,” Liz said.

Quinn took a deep breath and tried to say calm. “Liz, please. We can talk about all this later.”

“So you can tell me another lie? No thanks, Jake. You can live in whatever kind of world you’ve created. I don’t care. I don’t care if we never talk again. I don’t need you. I’m getting out of here.”

She started to turn toward the door, but he grabbed her by the arms. She tried to pull away, but he held on.

“I’m trying to protect you.”

“Like you’ve protected me all these years since you left home?” she yelled, tears welling in her eyes. “I just want you to disappear. I don’t need you.”

Quinn closed his eyes for a second, then looked at her again. “Until I make sure the threat is over, you need to stay here. After that, I promise, you never have to deal with me again.”

She stared at him, her shoulders moving up and down with each breath. “Fine,” she said. She tried to pull away again, but he didn’t let go. “Do you mind?”

“You’ll stay in this apartment until I tell you you can go?” he asked.

“I already said I would.”

“Even if we have to leave you here alone sometimes?”

Her eyes darted away from his. “Sure.”

“Liz, I’m serious. I might need Nate, and that means you’ll be here by yourself. But if you think you can use it as an opportunity to sneak out, then our deal is off, and you’ll never be rid of me. You understand?”

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