#Chapter316
He waits for a second as I slide it on, limbs shaking and doing my best to compose myself quickly while getting no reassurance from him at all. He pulls me into the light to do a scan of my face and body with serious narrowed eyes and no hint of warmth, no hint of anything at all in fact, in those soulless eyes before he pulls me out with him into the alley again. He frowned, that was about it, but I don’t doubt he is committing the mess of me to memory to take out on kidnapper number two when they catch him. Alexi isn’t one to forget.
Out here my eyes are drawn to the number of black suits moving fast in and out of the crevices of the streets between abandoned four by fours. I recognise all as Carrero vehicles. There are two of his cousins out here that work security on the doors and Alexi nods to them and then back inside the building silently. They obediently nod a quiet communication and duck past us inside. I know what that means.
