8: Diya to the Rescue
IF SHE HELPED HIM AND got sacked from the job she loves she would have deserved it. But potentially going to prison was something else altogether. Any prosecutor worth their salt could easily conjure a criminal offence.
Nevertheless, she asked, ‘Are you sure nothing will happen to me?’
Then, phrasing it another way, she asked again for the nth time.
‘I promise. If we get caught, I’ll tell everyone I threatened and held you at knifepoint.’
‘Put this on,’ Diya said as she handed White a covered hat and suit to protect him against biologicals like blood and tissue.
As he was putting it on, someone knocked on the door which Diya had locked earlier.
‘Ready?’ she asked.
White nodded.
Diya went to open the door. It was her assistant.
‘It’s okay, Britney, take a bre
