Chapter 156

Katie's POV

At some point, my kidnapping had become a musical number or two short of a full-scale production. “I… how long have you been coming up with this plan?”

“Just while we’ve been sitting here,” said Cephus. He met my eyes and seemed to bristle a little. He could probably tell I didn’t believe him. “You have to be agile in this business, Katie.

There was this one time, I went to this scumbag’s house to collect on a debt, but I was just the first guy who decided to take care of that business that day… and the one who showed up after I was packing.”...