Chapter 65

NINA MEYERS

I was seated in the living room, watching an opera, when Alejandro came into the house. The little fucker had a key for himself. Unmoving, I watched him enter the house until he was right in front of me, obstructing my view of the TV. I lowered my gaze to the black suitcase in his hand and then to his face. He stared at me for a solid eight seconds without as much as a word.

“Are you going to just stand there and not talk? What’s in the bag?”

Evil wasn’t just in his eyes, but in the smile that curled back like a predator ready to snap. “A gun.”

“A gun?”

“Why, I believe I just said so.” He sat down on the coffee table. “I got it for you.”

“Why would I need a gun?”

“I didn’t bring you here to watch movies and eat. I brought you here because you have a lot of things to do for me. One of which includes killing Levi Del Campa.” I opened my mouth to speak, but he put out his index finger, asking me to be quiet. “And before you complain and say, ‘but he is the f