Connor ignored him. Except for filing away, in the back of his mind, that he would kill this man, if it was the last thing he ever did. Preferably slowly and painfully, but he would take it any way he could get it.
Gertie looked back and forth between them, simultaneously shaking her head. The result looked a lot like the bobbleheads Connor used to stick on the dashboard of his car. Only not as amusing, under the circumstances.
“No. Not him. Mother? Please, no?”
“Thanks, kid. Francina?”
She smiled enigmatically, enjoying the moment. “Gertie…”
Noecker interrupted, looking at a flashing light on his wrist. “It’ll have to wait. We have incoming.”
Connor checked the filing cabinet at the back of his mind. “As painfully and as slowly and as SOON as possible.”
Justin pushed him further into the kitchen. “Did you say something, old man?”
“Both of them,” Connor promised himself. “Two for the price of one.”
“Mother…?”
God, could that whiny brat really be his?
Noecker held a finger to his lips. “Sssh. No time to talk. Follow me up the stairs. Justin, you and the boys bring our special guest and watch our backs.”
Then he was gone, out of the kitchen and climbing a set of carpeted stairs, weapon held protectively in front as he moved up step by step.
Justin relieved Connor of his gun, as well as the knife in his pocket, before pushing him towards the stairs. One of the others took up position in front of Connor, behind the two women who had followed the leader.
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