Page 109 of Five Fingers of Death

“What shot?”

I ignored Fox and stared at Rae. “Did he take the shot or not?”

“Oh, he took the shot,” Rae grinned.

“What shot?”

Again, I ignored Fox.

“If he took the shot, then why are you smiling?”

“What fucking shot?” Fox shouted.

“I’m smiling because Cash is still Cash.”

Johnny shook his head. “That doesn’t make any fucking sense. Cash doesn’t shoot his own people.”

“Cash shot someone?” Fox said, shock lacing his words.

Rae sighed at Fox. “Can you keep up? Cash shot Kavanaugh.”

“What? How the fuck do you know this?”

“Because we confronted him and he didn’t deny it. I saw it in his eyes.”

“And that makes you happy?” I asked. “Did we wake up in the wrong world? Since when is Cash acting like Rafe a good thing?”

“You’ll see,” Rae grinned. “Trust me.”

“That’s the fucking problem,” I snapped. “Everyone wants everyone else to trust them, but without any fucking reason!”

“Can we back the fuck up for one minute?” Fox snapped. “Are you telling me that you confronted Cash and he admitted to shooting Kavanaugh, and while you were there, you didn’t think to tell The Kamau that he owed me a visit?”

I turned to Fox, wondering which part he was upset over because from where I stood, I didn’t have a fucking clue.

Rae walked over to him, handing half his sandwich back. “It wasn’t exactly a friendly chat. If anything, he seemed rather pissed that we were there at all.”

“But he showed up,” I pointed out. “He took the risk, which means there was a reason he decided to join us.”

I glanced at Johnny to see he figured the same thing. “But he might not have been there for us.”

“How do you figure?” Rae asked.

“Because he was in the IT room before we made it there,” I surmised. “Did you notice how Knight stayed in the doorway?”

“Like he was blocking it,” Jack nodded. “He didn’t want us to see inside.”

“Or…” Rae said in an exaggerated tone. “He was there because he trusted us enough to meet us.”

I didn’t want to burst her bubble, but Cash wasn’t there for us. Maybe it was convenient for us to meet him, but something else was going on, and now that we were already away from the facility, there was no figuring out what he’d been after. There was no way we could risk going back there.

“I still can’t believe you let The Kamau walk away without so much as promising a visit to his brother,” Fox sighed. “What the fuck good was it to meet him if you didn’t extract a few promises?”

“Believe it or not,” Rae grinned, “not everything is about you.”

“Well, it should be.”

“But it’s not. Now, the sooner we get back, the faster I can run down all the locations they’re headed and figure out what Cash is up to.”

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