“The files on Kovit have been shared with him.”
Gold stilled. “Oh.”
“What?”
She hesitated. “Check Henry’s emails. You need to see if he put a failsafe in.”
“A failsafe?”
“Henry is—was—careful. Anytime he blackmailed someone or did something, you know, that would make someone want to kill him, he’d send the files to Nathan and get him to release all the blackmail if anything went wrong.”
Fuck.
Nita went to the inbox and scrolled through.
There. Yesterday. Henry emailed Nathan and told him to leak all the photos and videos of Kovit.
To INHUP.
After Kovit came back to him. After Kovit agreed to work for Henry in exchange for not having those files leaked.
Henry had lied.
She skimmed the message, eyes snagging on one line: This time, we’ll make sure he has nowhere else to go.
Nita stopped reading.
Kovit’s name, picture, and identity had been disclosed to INHUP. They knew he was a zannie. His face would be going up on all of the most wanted lists, news shows, everything they could think of until he was found and killed.
She checked it again, following the chain of mail. This Nathan person had emailed Henry INHUP’s response.
Thank you for making us aware of one Kovit Sangwaraporn (alias; real name unknown). We’re looking into the evidence you’ve given us. If the evidence proves that he is indeed a zannie, his name and photo will go up on the public listing of dangerous unnaturals in one week, and a global manhunt will begin.
Rest assured, INHUP will eliminate this monster.
Nita looked back toward the room where Kovit was making Fabricio scream. Her plans began to fall apart, crumbling in the absence of Kovit’s presence, and through it all, the image played over and over in her head of Kovit’s body, riddled with bullets, falling to the ground, lost forever. Of mobs celebrating his death, of his beautiful eyes darkening into silence.
Nita clenched her fist around the phone.
She wouldn’t let that happen.
No one had survived being put on the Dangerous Unnaturals List bulletin. But no one had ever escaped from Death Market, and Nita had destroyed it. She’d blown up her enemies, murdered those who sought to kill her. She’d kidnapped INHUP agents.
Nita would do whatever it took to get Kovit off that list before it became official.
She wouldn’t fail him.