Chapter 111

Benson held Alita’s trembling hands in his and peered into her eyes. “Are you okay?” his heart almost following the words out too, “you know him?” he squeezed her hands tighter, “What is wrong with you?”

Alita shut her eyes closed and inhaled as she regained her consciousness. “I am okay,” she said, but the words were muffled, so she cleared her throat, “I am okay. Stop looking at me like that,” she faked a smile and then turned her head to Josh, then back at Benson, ignoring the extra curious eyes staring at her.

She wished she didn’t just blurt out his name when she saw him. It would have saved her from the question she was now finding the best way to answer so she would not reveal he was her very close associate when she was something of the chief dealer in Richie’s drug mafia a few years ago. She had no control of the rage that surged through her when her eyes set on him and somehow, through his disfigured face, recognized him after hearing him call her Al.

Nobody had called her t