The Planck Factor - Chapter 27

CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN

Jessica

My mouth must have resembled that of a landed grouper. My lips kept flapping, but I couldn’t find the words.

“What?” Sadly, it was the most intelligent thing I could think of to say.

Flattop smiled and reached into his back pocket. I tensed, then relaxed, feeling stupid as he pulled out a wallet and opened it.

He handed me a card. It read Joseph Cotter, A-Team Security.

I gaped at the card, until I finally found my voice again, hiding somewhere beneath my liver. “Wait. Are you telling me my sister hired you as my bodyguard?”

Flattop (or Cotter, if that was his name) nodded. “Your sister gave us the okay to tell you. She knew you were caught in something bigger than you could imagine.”