Chapter 90

“You don’t know? With all your skills, you must have figured it out.” The man was loony as a bat. In Evan’s experience, loony meant crafty. He was important to the organization he worked for which is why he was protected. If they had to make him unimportant, all they needed to do was prove him to be a liability. Without the protection, he wasn’t half as intimidating. Noah had made that clear. The more tedious part was figuring out how to prove him to be a liability.

“I don’t. I gave up after sixteen hours of watching through different sets of binoculars.” Not a complete lie, Evan had given up because the whole smuggling episode had struck him as a cliche. These people had underground networks which were nearly impossible to penetrate, why would they bother with trucks and black tinted SUVs to draw attention? Unless something had gone wrong, he was desperately counting on it.

“Our usual routines failed, yes. Which I believe you already know.” It was like talking to a robot. Evan was