My heart dropped, and my stomach turned in a bad way as my eye lingered on the gun pointed at me. The face clicked in my head, and I gasped. Red beards, blue eyes, and a terrifying demeanour I couldn't forget. I had dreamed many times and seen this face.
This was one of the two men who attacked me over five years ago and later threw me off the Harvard Bridge, hoping to drown me. He was back after five years, hoping to finish what he had started back then.
Ivory probably learned I was behind her arrest a week ago and her pending trial and sent her thug to end me.
How did he get in, though? The apartment was secured, and it was still locked when Oliver and I entered not long ago. He must have gotten in while we were out somehow. I stood unmoved, not wanting to risk getting shot.
"Do not make a sound," he said, stepping forward.
"Whatever she's paying you, I'll double it." I proposed to him, but he looked unwilling to take the offer.