23. Delve deeper

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".... Archie are you okay?... you've been real quiet..."

"Your sister wasn't there?." He said to her.

She shook her head. "And there seems to be nobody that can tell me where she is..."

"Hmm... I would say that that wasn't good news aside from the fact that her son's gone too... he wouldn't have them both killed...

She looked at him with her brow furrowed. "Thanks for putting that idea in my head.... Someone has been watching too many true crime documentaries..." she said and then she paused. "But it's the main reason I came back home because if she managed to slip away from him, she could be heading back here to me and I need to be here for her... by the sounds of it there is so much shit going on around Eli at the moment she's best off out of it.."

Archie got up and looked out of her window

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Archie got up and looked out of her window. He shook his head when he saw that Milo Bennet was sitting in his car just across the street from Cara's apartment. He knew what this meant, he had been dealing with Eli and his organisation for long enough to know when a hit had been called on someone. "Listen, I want you to come and stay at my place tonight..."

"Didn't you hear what I just said to you, I need to be here in case my sister comes back.." she reiterated.

"And I don't want to scare you but it seems like you're being watched..."
She walked over to the window.

"Oh god... who is it?."

"I don't know." He shrugged whilst lying. "But I would prefer you to be safely away from here... looking at what we saw in Rockaway and the people that your sister is messed up with...I would say, you need to come with me

Cars sighed and sat on her sofa, she held her head in her hands. "She could be anywhere and in real danger... and that asshole Eli has her phone..." she sniffed back her tears. "I told her.... I told her time and time again...but she just doesn't want to hear..." she looked at him. "Archie will you stay here with me tonight instead.. I would feel safer and at least I will be here if she does come back..."

Archie smiled. "Okay... but I'll take the couch...

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".... Jay... I've been waiting to hear from you... where is my girl... I know she's with you?."

"Eli man... it ain't like that." Jay laughed. "I ain't fuckin' her...

"Man you wouldn't even dare try it... she got more sense than to let you that close..."

"Oh really!.. so why is she stayin' at my place then... cos that's what's happenin' what are you fuckin hiding man... cos all this chasing and cheating... and almost losin' Tia... there has gotta be something else and I will find out what it is..."

"You keep thinkin' like that... I can trip yo ass up in business any time I want to .. jus' remember that.."

"Look she doesn't wanna see you man... she didn't like the way you talked to her.. plus she knows you're not gonna leave yo wife... so she's questioning everything, but that's just how it is..." he said.

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