“Looking for something to eat.”
“Help yourself. What’s mine is yours.” She had a disgusted look on her face and shook her head.
“For you.”
“I’m perfectly capable of finding my own food.”
I ignored her, took a jar of raspberry jam out of the fridge, and opened cabinets until I found bread, peanut butter, and plates. I made two sandwiches and handed one to her.
While she ate, I explained that I’d put Nick up in an apartment so she was safe and how I’d gone to K19 for help in getting her protection. I also told her how Razor Sharp had somehow gotten enough on her husband to get him picked up and put in jail.
“I have no idea if DeLuca knows anything about it, and if he does, whether he gives a shit. According to Razor, his plan was to set it up so Cadillac believed Caruso planned to turn state’s evidence.”
“What’s your involvement with this woman?”
“I have none. We dated a few times in high school. That’s it.”
Sloane shook her head. “Doesn’t add up.”
“What doesn’t?”
“Why she came to you.”
“Everyone we know, knows I worked for the agency. Some know I don’t anymore. It isn’t a stretch to think she’d come to me, Sloane.”
“Knox thought she was the woman you were talking about when you said you weren’t sure the person you were interested in was as into you as you were them.”
“We’ve covered that. You were that person.”
“Right. And I believe you because you haven’t lied to me before.”
“That isn’t fair. I didn’t lie to you.”
She went into the kitchen and made a second sandwich. She pointed to the bread. “Want another?”
I ate the one I had in four bites. “Yes, please.”
“This is why I was being watched. Caruso knows you helped his wife, and you being around me, puts me in danger.”
“I’m not sure he knows, and I stayed away until I believed there was no longer a threat.”
“Now you think there’s a threat from DeLuca?”
“I don’t know.”
“You need to leave.”
“Sloane, come on. Don’t do this.”
“Until you know whether you’re putting me and our baby at risk by being here, you can’t be around us.”
I understood. I didn’t like it, but she was right. It was the reason I’d stayed away in the first place. “I don’t like you being here on your own with Halo out of town.”
“I’ll go to my parents’.”
“I’ll take you.”
“Good idea. That way, I won’t be safe there either, and neither will they.”