8
Team Player
Last time Manu was alone with Jaantzen, he wasn’t standing on his own two feet like a man. He wasn’t armed. He was at Jaantzen’s entire mercy.
Maybe he still is, but at least he feels like he’s got a better control of his destiny right now.
They walk out onto the balcony. Manu hasn’t had a chance to evaluate it by daylight, but it looks like his initial examination from last night still stands: There’s no way off this balcony without a fifty-foot drop to the pavement below. Kai and Gia are back in the warehouse, and neither of them will hesitate to take him out if they think he killed Jaantzen.
The only way he makes it back through that warehouse and out the door into freedom is by doing Jaantzen’s job, or through some pretty fancy lying.
Fortunately, Manu’s a pretty go
