All Chapters of Wet For Him: Chapter 61 - Chapter 70

The shapes on the roofline did not move again. They did not need to. Their presence alone changed the geometry of the street. Jace directed us into the nearest recessed loading bay without raising his voice. The concrete walls cut the angle from above but also limited our exits.“Two confirmed,” Marco said quietly. “Possibly a third farther back. They are not adjusting position. That means they already have the view they want.”My father checked the opposite side of the bay. “If they are Hale’s they will wait for a clean isolation. If they are Adriana’s they may push sooner.”Emma stayed close to the wall, her eyes moving between the open street and the edge of the roof we could still see. She no longer needed instructions to keep her body out of clear lines.Jace made the call quickly. “We do not stay under them. We break the sight line and force them to relocate.”We left the loading bay in a tight group and cut through a narrow service passage that ran between two warehouses. The p

Tobias did not look at our table. He ordered nothing. He simply sat at the counter with his back partially turned, as if the café were an ordinary stop and not the place we had chosen to catch our breath.The air at our table changed. Jace’s posture shifted by a fraction. My father adjusted his chair to keep a clearer line on the entrance and the counter. Marco’s eyes stayed on the street reflection in the front glass. Emma went very still beside me.No one reached for a weapon. The café held too many ordinary people. A waitress moved between tables. Two early workers spoke quietly near the window. The normality of the room was the only thing keeping the moment from breaking open.Jace spoke under his breath. “He followed the same logic we did. Public space limits the first move.”I watched Tobias’s reflection in the metal napkin dispenser on our table. He remained calm, almost patient.After a full minute he turned just enough to speak without raising his voice. The words carried onl

Hale didn’t step fully into the room. He stayed in the hallway where the angle favored him, with at least two others just out of clear sight behind him. The case in my hands suddenly felt heavier.“You’ve been hard to pin down,” Hale said. His tone was almost conversational. “I respect the effort. But leading me to a second set of records is more useful than another empty chase.”Jace kept his body between me and the door. “You’re not taking the case.”“I’m taking the leverage,” Hale replied. “What form it comes in is flexible.”Ruth stood very still near the cabinet. Whatever she had expected from this delivery, this wasn’t it. My father had already shifted to cover the side angle of the doorway. Marco stayed close to Emma without making the protection obvious.The room had one door and no windows. That fact sat in the middle of every calculation.Hale continued, calm and precise. “Here’s the practical version. You hand me the case. I walk away. Adriana remains your problem, but I sto

The street held its shape like a trap that had finally closed. Tobias stood near the front vehicle. Hale’s man held position at the rear. Neither side advanced immediately. They didn’t need to. The space between them had already done most of the work.Jace kept Emma and me slightly behind him without making it look like protection. My father angled toward the nearest doorway. Marco watched the side gaps between buildings. Ruth stayed quiet, eyes moving between the two groups as if measuring which one would break first.Tobias spoke across the distance. “You’re out of clean ground. Hand over the case and we end the part of this that involves you.”Hale’s man answered before anyone else could. “The case belongs to the party that paid for the sister. Everything else is secondary.”The two men didn’t look at each other when they spoke. Their attention stayed on us. That was the most dangerous part. They hated each other, but they still shared the same immediate target.Jace’s voice stayed

The man in front of the vehicle didn’t lower his hands. He also didn’t step aside. Behind us the sound of the other two cars carried through the side streets, still adjusting, still closing.Jace placed himself a half-step ahead of me without making it obvious. “You’re not with Tobias. You’re not with Hale. Identify yourself.”“I don’t need a name for this part,” the man said. “I need the case. Both of the others will burn the street to take it. I’m offering a cleaner version. You hand it over. You walk. They keep hunting each other.”Emma stayed close to my left. Ruth had gone very still. My father and Marco held the wider angles, watching for the moment the other groups completed the box.I kept my voice steady. “You’re asking us to believe you came alone and unaligned.”“I’m asking you to recognize when a third option is the only one that doesn’t end with you on the ground.” His eyes flicked once to the case under my jacket. “That record makes you the center of the oldest claim. Ev