Page 187 of One Winter Knight
Please tell me our weepy widow has left the news cycle? I’ve been a bit busy.
Tadgh
Yes. The investigation has been quashed, from what I can tell. Since that mightreveal his extracurriculars.
That’s how it usually went. If you dug too deep into why someone died, you might find unbecoming reasons–and those corrupt enough to not want to be exposed along with him.
Me
If I’d known we were moving here I wouldn’t have done it. I now have a pack of civilians.
I didn’t do local jobs for safety reasons.
Tadgh
Extra caution never hurts. Maybe take a break, then switch to overseas jobs only for a while?
Me
Sounds good. If you need to act, do.
Sure, Tadgh wasn’t my handler. He didn’t work for the Company. But he did fix things for me and watched over me. It was his way of making it up to me for how shitty our parents and sister were.
Also, the Company had been silent since my parents tried to make them fire me, other than when I reached out for information. I’d agreed to go off the duty-rosters anyway, might as well use it to my advantage.
Me
Why are you awake?
Tadgh
Party went all night. Just eating breakfast before I crash. Oíche mhait.
Me
Good night.
I continued my search for Tegan. Down in the basement, I found a teenager and a few others playing video games.
Was anybody else down here?
Dimitri leaned against the hallway wall, frowning at his phone.
“Bad news?” Maybe this was the time to say something that had been bothering me since August when I saw him at the wedding. Especially with how close he and Carlos were.
“Define bad.” His dark eyebrows furrowed.
“I’ve been assured that you’re not Russian intelligence, but I don’t know if I should believe that. This would be an excellent cover,” I said softly in Russian as I casually leaned against the wall next to him.
He eyed me curiously, but I’m pretty sure he’d already clocked me the way I clocked him.
“I assure you that I do not work for Russian intelligence,” he replied.
“Do you work for anyone else?” I asked.
“I work for the New York Knights. Who do you work for? I’m very curious,” he added.
I got no lies off of him, but someone like him would know how to hide that.
