WRATH OF ELIJAH WEST

I AM NOT A FOOL

He remained at a standstill, hoping that his grandmother was not talking about what he did. She knew him better than anyone else did. His weaknesses and inability to keep a perfect lie were not strange to her, and for that reason, she forced him to spill the beans.

“I know you did it for us, but where is he?” She asked one final time, building on the damage her first set of questions had done to him.

Daniel swallowed his lies, “If only you knew who he is,” he said subtly, and then voiced out, “I never intended for it to get worse.”

“I know that. Where is he?”

“Grandpa’s old warehouse outside the city,” he mentioned, his face down at the table.

Mrs. Greene could not conceal her dissatisfaction and disappointment in Daniel, however, getting everything out of him was what proved to be the most important thing at the moment.

If the police were on to them, she has to keep them off their tails. Her image is seemingly worth more than just a fool who ruined her birthday.

“Since