Page 17 of Beneath Deception
I was completely dumbfounded. Jonathan wasn’t making this meeting any easier by acting like this was nothing more than two friends having lunch together. His calmness was beyond me, especially given the fact that he was the one that Colin wanted dead.
Moving my menu aside, I looked towards the door to make sure the hostess was gone. Focusing my attention back on Jonathan, I said in a low, but very agitated voice. “Are you crazy letting the hostess know who you are? Do you know what kind of danger you could be putting her in?”
“Relax, London. I own this place and Shelby has been working for me since she was fifteen,” he stated mildly.
“Another one of your properties you’re keeping under the radar, I presume,” I replied sarcastically.
“Of course,” he responded, pausing for a minute while he took a drink of his water. “So, what is this about and why do you need to change the plan?”
“If I know Colin, he is going to want to watch your painful death himself. So, in order to make that happen, we need to devise a plan that would allow him to see you die, hypothetically speaking. Do you think you can get in touch with your friend and let him know we are going to need the cadaver a little sooner than we thought?” I asked.
“I can do that with no problem, but I at least need to know what you have planned.”
“In order for this to work, I am going to need a little help from you in gathering what we need to make this work. The biggest being the dead body and a self-driven car,” I asserted.
“Wait…. What? How the hell am I supposed to get my hands on a self-driven car? The technology is still months, maybe even years away.”
“Very true, but with your connections, I am sure you can find a way to get your hands on a test model.”
Jonathan was looking at me as though I was crazy, and he was probably right. This had to have been one of the craziest ideas I ever had. I knew that it was close to impossible and given the short amount of time we had to work with, it was going to be next to a miracle if we could pull it off.
