10. Only One Job

[LIZZY]

My mind had blown a million times over by the time I scrambled out of my frozen state of mind and followed him out. But when I found him nowhere in my sight, that was the point, when I really started to panic.

“Joey!” I ran in and out of the rooms, into the kitchen, and out into the garden, calling for him. Nowhere. I couldn’t find him nowhere. Where the hell did he go? That too so fast?

“Joey? Where are you baby?” The ground beneath my feet threatened to split and swallow me down, and the world around me spun as worst-case scenarios raced through my mind. I didn't want to believe Vector would harm a child, but after what I'd seen, after what he'd done to his parents, I wasn't so sure. Something told me he couldn't be trusted. Vector, like Vladmir Perazzo, the boss, had little tolerance to spare. I'd never seen him snap in real life—or kill, for that matter—but I knew what he was capable of. I knew he was the worst.

Ignoring the weird looks I got from the guards standing at th