LauriMike paced outside his bedroom door, waiting for me to wake up. I was already awake, but I wasn’t ready to talk with him yet. I almost died. He could have been killed. Two men were already dead, maybe three. I didn’t know what he meant by Pierre was being taken care of, but it didn’t sound like he was being offered a job at the garage. And all of that happened because I took a job delivering packages.
I could blame Mike. Since it was him I was looking for when I met Tanner, I could say it was his fault. But that wouldn’t be the truth. I wasn’t just looking for Mike when I went into all those bars years ago. I was searching for myself. Who I was, who I could be.
Not an escape artist, that was for sure. I still couldn’t wrap my brain around Dean. Asya was okay, Mike promised me, and h
