Page 44 of Kill Me Sweetly

He looked up from his food, eyes guarded. “Yes?”

“I know this is a hard conversation, but it would help us all out a lot if you could explain what we have coming for us? These men, what their behavior is like, anything at all you can share to help us.”

Four’s gaze shifted from me to JJ before he answered.

“The ones on your screen, they are Investigators. They are sent to find the pattern and location of the target or targets. Then they will send out the Weapons.”

“These Investigators, only they do that?”

Four nodded. “Everyone has a job, and everyone must follow the protocols.”

“Once they know everything, these Weapons, they’re boys like you?” JJ asked, his eyes soft and sad.

“Yes.”

“If they’re just investigating, they don’t know where we are yet,” Gabe shifted in his seat. “Their cars, did the cameras pick up license plates? Maybe we follow them a little bit.”

It wasn’t often a thought struck me like a head-on collision butboom, there it was. “We might not have to follow them.” I smiled at Four. “Do you know where they are? I mean you are sent as a Weapon, correct?”

“I am.”

“Was,” JJ interrupted with narrowed eyes.

“Was. Sorry, dear.”

Everyone but Four snorted.

“Anyway, you leave the facility or wherever you are, right?”

“You want their address?” Four tilted his head. “I am sometimes driven if it is too far. But I must return on my own. I do not know the address, only the way to get there.”

“No.” JJ stood and pointed a finger at me. “I know what you’re thinking.”

“It’s an idea.”

“You want to send Four that way, and we follow him?”

I pinched the bridge of my nose. “He’ll be in a car with us; I don’t want him walking there.”

“That’s damaging. Aziza would hate it.” JJ wasn’t having it. “No. Maybe we can show him a map or something.”

“Get to main, go to tenth, make a left and then a right five streets down, count two thousand steps then make another right. At the building that’s gray, take the narrow road named Day. Count the fifteen houses on the left, then up the driveway where the angels wept. Knock three times and wait for entrance.” Four’s eyes were closed as he repeated it three more times.

“That’s enough.” JJ was beside him and placed his hand on Four’s. “Thank you.”

“We can work with that.” Nick nodded.

“That’s a priority,” Angel stood. “I’m going upstairs to go over security feeds.”

“I’ll walk the property.” Gabe left, and Mason cleaned the table.

“I think we need to do schedules and have someone on alert at all times. The alarms are all well and good, but we need extra,” JJ said.

“Agreed.” I kissed his lips quickly and took the plates from his hands. “I’ll wash up. Go with Four; I’m sure he needs his pill and stuff.”

“Okay.”

“He’s very protective of Four.” I started filling the sink with water to rinse and Mason would put them in the dishwasher.

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