“So I guess that answers the question of whether you were eavesdropping or not.” He exhales and shakes his head. “I gave you such a simple, clear instruction. Wait in my office. That’s all you had to do. Instead, you had to follow me and f**k everything up.”
My blood pressuring is skyrocketing, pumping through my body at an ungodly rate. I can hear my heart pounding, the incessant boom-boom like war drums.
“What are you going to do to me?” I whisper, even though I don’t want to know the answer. Maybe ignorance would be bliss.
“That depends. Are you going to hand over Benjamin?”
I’m ashamed to admit that I consider it for a second, handing over this helpless baby to save my own skin. Exchanging his little life for my own.
But I’d never forgive myself if I did that.
I’d rather die with
