Chapter 6Something isn’t adding up.
“Why?” Vince rasps into his mobile, resting with one elbow propped up on the warm bed. “I mean, I appreciate the offer, but—”
“You’re good at your job, Bennett,” Hyde cuts in through the line. “We’d like to keep it that way.” The man grunts out a sound like a cough before continuing. “Can’t do that if you’re having a mental collapse.”
Vince shifts a little. He keeps his voice low in the early gray of the day. “Right,” he says slowly, “but I’m not. Having a mental collapse.” Though this conversation does, as it happens, make him a bit less sure.
“Call it heading it off, then,” says Hyde. “Whenever someone voices a concern, it’s policy to review the situation. You know.”
With a frown, Vince takes that in. So there was a concern, whatever the f**k that
