“Totally.” I snatchedthe pizza box out of his hands and opened it. “Mmm. That smells like heaven.”
“Not sure heaven smells like pizza, but...” He grabbed a slice.
I took a big bite of my slice and closed my eyes for a moment. “Heaven,” I mumbled.
“Did Jerome go anywhere?” he asked, looking toward the computer.
“Nope.” I devoured another slice of pizza. “Do you have any wine?” I asked after lickingmy lips.
“Yeah. Let me get it for you.” He opened one of his special cabinets and pulled out a bottle. After he opened it, he poured a glass for me.
“Why do you have fancy wine in here?” I narrowed my eyes at him as he handed me the glass.
“I was asking myself the same thing, but now it seems like it was a good idea.” The corners of his lips twitched up.
“No, really. How and whendid you set this all up?” I took a sip, and damn, it was good.
“Four months after...” His smile faded.
Four months after Ingrid’s death? If that was true, then he’d been here longer than I’d thought and even before Ingrid’s will was found. “Were you watching me?”
“Sometimes. I wasn’t always here. I just... I had this place ready in case I needed it. I didn’t have all this equipmentwith me. It took some time to arrange everything. And it’s always useful to have a bottle of wine lying around, don’t you think?” His face was smiling again, but not his eyes.
“And you’ve always been alone?” I bit down on my lip.
“I told you. I work better alone.”
“Well, yeah, but you can’t be alone all the time. Your job isn’t your life.”
“It is for me.”
Something beeped,and we both looked at the computer.
“It’s Jerome,” Theo said, rushing toward it. “He’s on the move again.”
I didn’t go any closer, just took another sip of wine. “If this is like everything else, he’s just going to go to his favorite bar and go back home.”
“Let’s hope this time’s different. Walter is planning something, and I don’t think he’ll manage to do it on his own. He’ll needJerome’s help and he’ll want to make sure they’re still on the same page.”
“If you say so.” I leaned against the table, but as the dot on the screen moved, I wondered if maybe we’d get lucky this time.
Theo opened his jacket and checked his guns, and I knew something was up, so I approached him.
“What is it? Please don’t tell me he’s coming here.” If Walter had hired Jerome’s mento help him with capturing us, then things were going to get a lot more complicated, especially if Jerome had somehow figured out where we were. “That tracker can’t lead back to us, right?”
“No, it’s not that. He’s going toward the Spiders’ area. It might be business-related, but he rarely does that, so it’s worth checking out.”
“Worth checking out? You mean we’re going after him?”
His eyes met mine. “No. I’m going. You’ll stay here.”
“But if...”
“I need you here to alert me if there are any changes. If I stay here to see if he’s really going to the Spiders’ area, I won’t have enough time to get there. And if it turns out he’s going somewhere else, you need to tell me.”
I hesitated. “Should I call the Cobras too? Someone can go with you.”
He shook his head.“I don’t want anyone with me, and it would be too risky. I can make sure no one sees me. You’ll be able to track me too, okay?”
