CHAPTER 81

Audrey’s POV

“Just about how you both grew up together and all…” I remained vague with the details.

“Okay…well, the first thing you need to know is that I am a hired assassin.”

At the drop of her flat-bottomed glass on the round table, my ears were instant airy. Fading everything else into a background noise as a distant siren went off in my ears. I felt sick to my stomach but I couldn’t throw up, not here. It felt like a thousand eyes were watching me all at once, and with hers staring in my direction so subtly…it was a thousand more.

“Be cool. Act cool Audrey—”

“What??” I found myself muttering. What was happening?

I could see her lips moving. I could kind of hear the words too but my body had been so overstimulated by the information that I started to think to myself. I got myself into this, and Cynthia warned me to be careful.

She also urged me to go with it.

“Audrey.” She called my name so clearly, that all I could do was turn to face her green eyes.

“Yeah…” I answered we