Page 64 of Assassin's Mark
Levi pulled into a darkened parking lot and put the SUV in park before turning to face me. “What?”
“Derrick is covering up,” I said again. “You saidthe press conferences and leaks were tips to establish his own alibi, throw suspicion on others.”
“Yeah.”
“That’s why he came after you. Not only because you refused his contract, but you also held a valuable piece of information—Anthony Clark’s name. Think about it. How many people know, or could figure out, his secret? The most valuable players are all disappeared or dead—Caroline, Camilla,Anthony. Assuming only you and Axe had my uncle’s information, only one of you is left. Whoever comes to take you out doesn’t even have to know about the previous hit. You are the only person still alive who knows what Derrick did. He’s about to make a run for governor, and I assure you, that’s only a stepping stone. He’s eliminating anyone who could connect him in any way with his—”
His secretpast. My mother.
Except there was one connection with his past that didn’t have to do with the hit on Anthony, wasn’t there?
Me.
And he’d tried to make sure I couldn’t talk either, when he’d sent Axe’s team to kill me.
I turned my head, glaring fiercely out into the rain in an attempt to stave off the tears threatening to overtake me. Levi didn’t push, didn’t talk, simply put the car in motionagain. It was as if he could sense how close I was to the edge. One step and I might fall, but I couldn’t. I had to be strong—for me, for Caroline, wherever she was. Because I was the linchpin connecting all the pieces of the puzzle. And the one with the smallest target on my back if Derrick thought I didn’t know.
That made me the only one who could prove what he had done, and take him down onceand for all.
