Chapter Five
“WHY THE HELL did I have to come all the way out here?” Winnie said as she glanced around the dingy motel room. “This place is a dump. Why didn’t you just get a cabin, like I did? I thought the whole point was to get close to these people.” She would never understand Deran’s approach to things. The man seemed to want to achieve certain goals but never wanted to get close to the flames of his own games.
“Because, I prefer a little distance between me and my marks,” he told her as he handed her a bottle of water. “I’ve had to make a run for it too many times to trust to fate too much. I’d be trapped in that backwoods town. They only have one main road going in or out, or did you fail to scout out your surroundings?”
She twisted the cap off her bottle and downed half its conte
