020: Tailing

Lara

After I tell Ambrose the offer Dexter made me, he’s pensive.

I keep waiting for what he’s going o say because I don’t know where’s this is going to go. How will Ambrose deal with the matter? I know that Dexter said that he’d find out if I told him but that would only be in the case that Ambrose tried something against him.

Which Ambrose won’t do.

“Who would’ve guessed,” he says. “I planted you here to keep an eye out on him and he’s trying to do the same with you.”

I ask, “Is there a reason for him to want to have me spy on you?”

“Not that I know of,” he replies without missing a beat. “It’s confusing, actually. I’m not sure what I’ve done to get the attention of the authorities.”

“But he suspects of something, or he wouldn’t ask me.”

“If you can, I want you to find out what it is,” he tells me. “I hate to put you in this position but it seems Dexter didn’t give you a choice. He’ll kill you either way.”

I shudder at this.

“He didn’t recognize you at all? You’re sure about tha