“I assume that he didn’t listen to you?”
“Of course not. You know him better than I do, and even I could have told you that listening to me was the last thing that he would have done.”
I lowered the cell phone that I was holding, staring at the device for a moment or two while I tried to figure out what I was going to do from here on out, what I was going to do next, because at the moment, I was out of ideas.
“Would you like me to talk to him?”
I shook my head in an instant, even before he had finished speaking, because I knew that it would be a recipe for disaster. If Alaric and I spoke to him about the same thing, then he would make the connection. He wasn’t dumb. He would know that the two of us had been in contact with one another, that the two of us had spoken ab
